Search results for "GROUP COMMUNICATION"
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Vuorovaikutus hallinnollisissa ryhmissä
2020
This article aims to analyze international research on social interaction in administrative groups in the 2000s on the basis of a systematic examination of 62 peer-reviewed empirical research reports. We examined the data through a qualitative content analysis and organized the results into three sections: 1) defining an administrative group, 2) the used research methods and data, and 3) the focus of research. Our results showed that administrative groups were mainly defined on the basis of the employed research approach and data. Group conceptualizations were seldom based on specific theoretical group definitions or approaches. In the context of research methods, there were no specific tre…
Identity and Online Groups
2017
Questions related to identity have been central to discussions on online communication since the dawn of the Internet. One of the positions advocated by early Internet pioneers and scholars on computer-mediated communication was that online communication would differ from face-to-face communication in the way traditional markers of identity (such as gender, age, etc.) would be visible for interlocutors. It was theorized that these differences would manifest both as reduced social cues as well as greater control in the way we present ourselves to others. This position was linked to ideas about fluid identities and identity play inherent to post-modern thinking. Lately, the technological and …
Intercultural Workplace Communication
2017
The workplace is a highly meaningful context for intercultural communication where persons who come from different countries, identify with different ethnic groups or speak different languages get to collaborate and develop relationships with one another. Needless to say, interpersonal communication in the workplace has always been a primary area of interest for intercultural communication research. Early scholarship focused on the preparation of U.S. military personnel, diplomats, business people, and missionaries for overseas assignments. However, the increasing pluralization of the social landscape has bolstered research endeavors. These days, the scope of intercultural workplace communi…
Logical Key Hierarchy for Group Management in Distributed Online Social Networks
2016
Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have recently been proposed to shift the control over user data from a unique entity to the users of the DOSN themselves. In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of privacy preserving content sharing to a large group of users of the DOSNs. Several solutions, based on cryptographic techniques, have been recently proposed. The main challenge here is the definition of a scalable and decentralized approach that: i) minimizes the re-encryption of the contents published in a group when the composition of the group changes and ii) enables a fast distribution of the cryptographic keys to all the members (n) of a group, each time a new user is …
A Logical Key Hierarchy Based approach to preserve content privacy in Decentralized Online Social Networks
2020
Distributed Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have been proposed to shift the control over user data from a unique entity, the online social network provider, to the users of the DOSN themselves. In this paper we focus on the problem of preserving the privacy of the contents shared to large groups of users. In general, content privacy is enforced by encrypting the content, having only authorized parties being able to decrypt it. When efficiency has to be taken into account, new solutions have to be devised that: i) minimize the re-encryption of the contents published in a group when the composition of the group changes; and, ii) enable a fast distribution of the cryptographic keys to all the m…
The Effect of CMC in Business Emails in Lingua Franca: Discourse Features and Misunderstandings
2018
The paper argues that everyday exchange of business emails produces a development in the work-group relationship, which, in turn, makes new communication styles possible and acceptable by the users' habit to computer-mediated forms, even in unbalanced professional exchanges. The focus is on the (spoken) discourse features of email messages in a self-compiled corpus of selected computer-mediated business emails, produced by five participants over three months (October 2015 – February 2016). The exchange, involving the use of English by non-native speaker interactants (in particular, Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF)), as well as language adjustments in a computer-mediated exchange, …
Puheviestintätaitojen arviointi : näkökulmia lukiolaisten esiintymis- ja ryhmätaitoihin
2003
Vuorovaikutustaidot ovat keskeinen osa yleissivistävän koulutuksen tuottamaa viestintäsivistystä. Lukiolaiset ovat myös voineet osallistua valtakunnalliseen puheviestinnän päättökokeeseen vuodesta 2000 lähtien. Yliassistentti Tarja Valkosen väitöstutkimus on ensimmäinen laaja-alainen selvitys siitä, miten lukiolaisten esiintymis- ja ryhmätaitoja ohjataan oppimaan ja arvioidaan. Se osoittaa, että päättökoe ja sen kehittelytyö ovat vaikuttaneet myönteisesti lukion puheviestinnän opetukseen. Lukiolaisten puheviestintätaitojen taso osoittautui tutkimuksessa keskimäärin hyväksi. Puhe-esitysten rakentamisen ja johdonmukaisen esittämisen taidot sekä esiintymisvarmuus kaipaavat kuitenkin kehittämis…
Decentralized Lightweight Group Key Management for Dynamic Access Control in IoT Environments
2020
Rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices dealing with sensitive data has led to the emergence of new access control technologies in order to maintain this data safe from unauthorized use. In particular, a dynamic IoT environment, characterized by a high signaling overhead caused by subscribers' mobility, presents a significant concern to ensure secure data distribution to legitimate subscribers. Hence, for such dynamic environments, group key management (GKM) represents the fundamental mechanism for managing the dissemination of keys for access control and secure data distribution. However, existing access control schemes based on GKM and dedicated to IoT are mainly based on ce…
Facilitating Team Reflexivity About Communication
2016
This article explores how team facilitation can promote team reflexivity about communication. We present a case study that was conducted within a participatory action research framework with a Top Management Team for an international manufacturing company. We identify and analyze five key interventions that promoted team reflexivity. These interventions included activities such as (a) framing the facilitation, (b) inquiring into the key issues, (c) role modeling feedback, (d) positive storytelling, and (e) reflecting on concrete communication actions. The findings suggest that reflexivity can be enhanced through positive storytelling and emotion, framing and contextual sensitivity, and add…
Yliopisto-opiskelijoiden näkemyksiä etäopetuksen pienryhmätilanteista
2023
Koronapandemian myötä ryhmäkeskustelut tulivat osaksi opiskelijoiden etäopiskelun arkea. Opiskelijoiden asennoitumista sekä ryhmätyöhön että teknologiavälitteiseen vuorovaikutukseen on tutkittu, mutta tutkimusta etäopiskeluaikaisista ryhmäkeskusteluista ja niiden herättämistä tunteista ja asenteista ei vielä juuri ole. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään, millaisena yliopisto-opiskelijat kokevat etäopiskelun reaaliaikaiset ryhmätilanteet ja millaisia asenteita ja tunteita ne heissä herättävät. Tutkimusaineisto kerättiin verkkolomakkeella, jossa oli avoimia kysymyksiä. Kyselyyn vastasi keväällä 2021 yhteensä 59 opiskelijaa kolmesta suomalaisesta yliopistosta. Aineisto analysoitiin laadullisella …