International and Intercultural Communication Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2011, pp. 246Á251 (Re)conceptualizing Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society Damien Smith Pfister & Jordan Soliz We offer four theses about how intercultural communication is altered in a digitally networked era. Digital media shape intercultural communication by (1) producing new public fora capable of (2) hosting rich, multimodal ‘‘spaces’’ of contact on (3) a scale of many-to-many communication that (4) challenges
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Pop art. It could be argued that the Abstract Expressionists searched for trauma in the soul, while Pop artists searched for traces of the same trauma in the mediated world of advertising, cartoons, and popular imagery at large. But it is perhaps more precise to say that Pop artists were the first to recognize that there is no unmediated access to anything, be it the soul, the natural world, or the built environment. Pop artists believed everything is inter-connected, and therefore sought to make
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of a goal or solution to a problem. <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/strategy.html#ixzz3HEfLx32k> this assignment aims to clearly address key strategic issues from any government department strategy and from that I will develop a communication strategy and plan that will address those key issues. Theory models will be used as a framework. The government institution chosen is the Gauteng provincial government.
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media depends on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. It introduces substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals Social media differentiates from traditional/industrial media in many aspects such as quality,[4] reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence.[5] There are many effects that stem
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Studies, and Media Michigan State University ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Abstract Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of
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Paper 25 - 1 Management of conflict Bob Dick (1987) The management of conflict: a systematic approach to team building and mediated and unmediated conflict resolution . Chapel Hill: Interchange (mimeo). A 1987 revision of a 1981 paper, written to support workshops in conflict management. More details of the paper’s provenance are given in the preface. Some of the references to earlier documents have been updated Preface This document 1 describes fairly robust (or “do-it-yourself”)
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Communication Theory Nine: Two Robert T. Craig Communication Theory as a Field May 1999 Pages 119-161 This essay reconstructs communication theory as a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as metadiscursive practice. The essay argues that all communication theories are mutually relevant when addressed to a practical lifeworld in which “communication” is already a richly meaningful term
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The effect of online service quality factors on internet usage The web delivery system of the taxation department ´ Jose Carlos Pinho, Maria de Lurdes Martins and Isabel Macedo School of Economics and Business, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Abstract Purpose – This study aims to examine online service quality factors as main driving forces in the degree of intention of using the Taxation Department web site expressed by certified accountants. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on a quantitative
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information, it is important to remember that this information is filtered, watered down and often manipulated before reaching its audiences. After all, “one apprehends reality only through representations of reality... there is no such thing as unmediated access...” (Dyer 1993, p. 3, as cited byO'Shaughnessy & Stadler, 2005, p. p.77) This is done by ruling classes of society in order to ingrain dominant ideologies into cultural knowledge and thus maintain their governing status- the process of “hegemony”
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social network among people, for instance, people who share activities, interest, posting information, comment, and images (Carrington, Scott and Wasserman, 2005). Teenagers are among the most prolific users of social network sites. This kind of communication is seen very common with teens as they perceive it as a network for them to improve some aspects in their life or even in their studies through information provided in the internet. However, social networking sites are not a wholly positive influence
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