Search results for "mediated communication"
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The first cyber summit - Clinton-Yeltsin Helsinki Summit 1997 : providing content for short time news events using Internet technologies
1997
Communication à caractère émotionnel dans l'espace virtuel : questions quantitatives sur un corpus tchaté
2015
The enormous development of new communicative technologies, among which electronic communication plays a prominent role, is one of the main characteristics of life today. Nowadays, computer-mediated communication has become so common and easy that it is no longer possible for us to ignore it. Although the communication in chat rooms is never produced face-to-face, it could preserve some of the characteristics of real communication. This type of communication, in the absence of sense contact and para-verbal features, adds another scale of features to the "spoken" theme that are largely able to replicate spontaneous oral communication. It is advisable to make it clear that these features may …
The effect of topic on word formation and the frequency of neologism use on Internet forums
2013
Internetin englanninkieliset keskustelupalstat ovat merkittävä osa nykyaikaista kielenkäyttöä, ja niiden tutkimus tulisi nähdä osana ihmisten kielenkäytön tutkimuksen kokonaisuutta. Keskustelupalstoilla sekä luodaan, että käytetään myös paljon uudissanoja, joista moni siirtyy käytettäväksi myös keskustelupalstojen ulkopuolelle. Tässä tutkielmassa selvitettiin, millä eri sananmuodostusprosesseilla keskustelupalstoilla käytetyt uudissanat on luotu ja vaikuttaako englanninkielisen keskustelupalstan aihe palstalla käytettäviin uudissanoihin. Tutkielman pohjana oli englanninkielen sananmuodostuksen tutkimus sekä tietokonevälitteisen kommunikaation tutkimus. Tutkielma toteutettiin vertailemalla s…
Technology-Mediated Communication in the Workplace
2019
Technology-mediated communication has become an integral part of work and the workplace. Since the early days of digital communication technology, views of both the affordances and uses of communication technology have become more varied and complex. Understanding the reality of communication technology at work means taking into account its ubiquitous and ever-changing nature as well as the interpersonal relationships and social networks in which it is used. This chapter explores the ways in which communication technology relates to building mutual understanding and trust as well as managing networks and coworker relationships. Knowledge of these key issues is used to present ideas about ho…
Dealing with missing participants in the opening phases of a videoconference
2023
Abstract The paper explores the social interaction that takes place during the initial phases of videoconferences. The focus is on the problem of absent participants, which is often considered a reason for delaying the official beginning of the meeting. One of the resources that the participants have is to reach the absent participant by cellphone. We observed a recurrent pattern of action whereby one of the participants disengages from the video meeting to reach the missing person by phone. This negotiation process moves through four steps: (1) the detection of the problem, (2) the offer to call the missing person by one participant, (3) the acceptance of this offer by the moderator, and (…
A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English. The role of (in)formality and (in)directness
2013
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicative (in)directness – within broader politeness orientations – of speakers of different languages, specifically an orientation towards directness in Peninsular Spanish vis-à-vis indirectness in British English. The aim of this paper is thus to invest…
Openings and closings in Spanish email conversations
2011
Abstract Despite the increasing interest scholarly research has shown in the study of computer-mediated communication, there is still a need to investigate the empirical validity of assumed homogeneity of language usage over the net and focus on the social diversity and variation that characterizes any communication. With this in mind, the present paper is an investigation into the stylistic choices that a particular group of email users made when engaged in a specific activity type. More specifically, it explores the variation in the discourse practices employed to open and close emails in conversation alongside the institutional power of participants and the interactional position of each…
Career practitioners' conceptions of competency for social media in career services
2014
This article reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into career practitioners' understanding of competency for social media in career services. Sixteen Danish and Finnish practitioners with experience using social media in career services were interviewed in focus groups. Competency for social media in career services was conceived as (i) an ability to use social media for delivering information, (ii) an ability to use social media for delivering career services, (iii) an ability to utilise social media for collaborative career exploration and (iv) an ability to utilise social media for co-careering. The findings can be used to develop pre-service and in-service training of …
Estudio exploratorio de las estrategias de encuadre discursivo en memes humorísticos publicados en Twitter durante las elecciones generales de noviem…
2020
La presente investigación se basa en el análisis de un corpus de 115 memes humorísticos difundidos en la red social Twitter, durante las elecciones generales celebradas en España en noviembre de 2019. Para su recopilación se han consultado los tuits publicados haciendo uso de los hashtags que se convirtieron en trending topic, en el transcurso de la campaña electoral que tuvo lugar entre el 1 y el 10 de noviembre de 2019. En ellos hemos podido identificar los principales rasgos que caracterizan al discurso pseudopolítico y determinadas estrategias de encuadre discursivo utilizadas para movilizar el voto y orientar cognitivamente los mensajes. This research is based on the analysis of a corp…
Current communication technologies in language processing
2015
Even the most cutting-edge communication-mediated technology like satellite navigation for orbit positioning, pedestrian movement recognition systems based on inertial sensors, 5G systems, let alone medical devices for coordination of human organs functionality would not be invented without technologies for language processing as an information source between humans and communication systems. Regardless of the way we communicate that is via emails, website short tweets, video conferencing systems, social networking, blogs, instant messaging through websites or mobile applications, or texting only, we use a language that is processed by computer system. Thus, the keynote paper discusses lang…