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De interactie tussen gender en homofoondominantie bij dt-fouten in de informele online communicatie van jongeren Universiteit Antwerpen
We examine unintentional spelling errors (“dt-fouten”) on regular verb homophones in informal social media writing of Flemish adolescents. Our study reveals a high overall error rate: 28 percent of all target forms were spelled incorrectly. In addition, we found some clear patterns with regard to gender and the psycholinguistic variables that played a role in previous experimental research. Boys made significantly more verb spelling errors than ...
Dees is egt zooo nice! Oude en nieuwe vormen van substandaardtaal in online communicatie Universiteit Antwerpen
De potentiële impact van informele online communicatie op de spellingpraktijk van Vlaamse tieners in schoolcontext Universiteit Antwerpen
Meeting online: do we disclose more personal information towards same-sex or cross-sex partners in online interpersonal communication? Universiteit Gent
Online neighborhood networks : the relationship between online communication practices and neighborhood dynamics Universiteit Gent
This article builds upon communication infrastructure theory and investigates how communication practices on online neighborhood networks (ONNs) relate to the social cohesion of neighborhood communities. Specifically, we study the hyperlocal social media platform Hoplr, which provides ad-free ONNs in which neighbors can communicate with one another. Local governments can subscribe to Hoplr to communicate with their residents and engage them for ...
The Internet: an open communication network? Studying online copyright enforcement policy from a communication science perspective Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of online copyright enforcement policies on the democratic potential of the Internet to be an open communication network.
First, we gain and test insights from theories of open communication networks, surveillance studies, and particularly political economy of communication. The Internet has democratic potential as an open communication network to empower ...
First, we gain and test insights from theories of open communication networks, surveillance studies, and particularly political economy of communication. The Internet has democratic potential as an open communication network to empower ...
Online communication predicts Belgian adolescents’ initiation of romantic and sexual activity KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
Online communication is associated with offline romantic and sexual activity among college students. Yet, it is unknown whether online communication is associated with the initiation of romantic and sexual activity among adolescents. This two-wave panel study investigated whether chatting, visiting dating websites, and visiting erotic contact websites predicted adolescents’ initiation of romantic and sexual activity. We analyzed two-wave panel ...
Word level language identification in online multilingual communication Universiteit Gent
Multilingual speakers switch between languages in online and spoken communication. Analyses of large scale multilingual data re- quire automatic language identification at the word level. For our experiments with multilingual online discussions, we first tag the language of individual words using language models and dictionaries. Secondly, we incorporate context to improve the performance. We achieve an accuracy of 98%. Besides word level ...