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Towards Next Generation System Architecture for Emergency Services

2011

European Union has decided that all emergencies can be reported to authorities by European citizens by calling 112 or sending a text message to 112. Distributing warnings and alerts of authorities to citizens currently happens through national TV and radio channels, but telecom networks are also used now in some countries for this purpose. During the last ten years there have been attempts to develop new system architectures for various emergency service provision phases. Some of them are already deployed in special cases, like in ambulance services. Multimedia emergency alert messages can be delivered to citizens over fixed and mobile telecom networks and commercial systems are already in …

Gender differences in internet addiction: A study on variables related to its possible development

2023

Internet addiction and its related variables (i.e., internet gaming addiction, social media addiction, fear of missing out, phubbing) have mostly been investigated in the general population without considering possible gender differences. The present study aimed to investigate the specific characteristics of men and women in the possible development of pathological behaviors related to internet addiction. A total of 276 participants (of ages ranging from 18 to 30 years old) were recruited in the study (46.7% were males) and responded to online questionnaires on variables related to internet addiction and psychological traits. The results showed that gender represents a key factor in explain…

Combining social media affordances for organising collective action

2020

Business Communication and Social Media: Tendencies, Problems and Future in Latvia

2013

Such internet social media as blogs and micro-blogs, social networks, content communities, forums and wikis in Latvia are gaining more popularity among users. It also motivates companies to communicate in this environment. Brands are creating their profiles in social networks, blogging and communicating in forums and publishing video. However, crucial issue here is whether all Latvian companies use social media in their communication pursuant to the specifics of this environment.

Sociālo mediju lietošana korporatīvajā komunikācijā Latvijā (2009-2011)

2014

ANOTĀCIJA Promocijas darba „Sociālo mediju lietošana korporatīvajā komunikācijā Latvijā (2009- 2011)” ietvaros tika izstrādāta jauna teorētiskā pieeja korporatīvajai komunikācijai sociālajos medijos, kas palīdzēs uzņēmumiem veiksmīgi organizēt savu komunikāciju ar mērķauditorijām sociālajos medijos, bet pētniekiem piedāvās jaunu sociālo mediju pētniecības instrumentu. Jaunas teorētiskās pieejas ietvaros ir izstrādāts Pievienotās komunikatīvās vērtības modelis komunikācijas izvērtēšanai sociālajos medijos. Darba teorētiskā bāze balstās uz uzmanības ekonomikas un korporatīvās komunikācijas teorijām, kā arī sociālo mediju teorijām, savukārt empīriskā daļa ir izstrādāta, izmantojot Pamatoto teo…

Listening understanding and acting (lung): focus on communicational issue in thoracic oncology.

2019

Background: In the field of oncological assistance, nowadays we have to deal with a complex scenario where patients got used to obtain a huge amount of information through internet or social media and to apply them in performing their health-related decisions. This landscape requires that clinicians become able to handle therapeutical approaches and adequate skills in communication tools to satisfy the current needs. Our project aimed to build a communication model based on clinical oncologists’ real experiences in order to find a simple way to share with patients all the innovative therapeutical opportunities today available in lung cancer. The final goal is to design a flexible and person…

LGBTQI+ icons between resistance and normalization: looking for mediatization of emotions in hashtags

2020

The mediatization of emotions emerges as an affordance of social media, the study of which involves paying attention to digital practices and to the construction and expression of public affection. This happens both for the great events and for the daily demonstrations of support or its denial. In this article we work on the phenomenon of the mediatization of emotions linked to two LGBTQI+ icons and expressed in hashtags on Twitter. Placing it in a specific context – the one of well-known television characters who have declared their homosexual orientation or transgender identity. The objective is to understand if the cloud of feelings they have created on Twitter is to be attributed to a t…

Strategies of Eliciting Young People’s Affective and Quick Participation in a Youth Magazine’s Instagram Community

2022

Traditional media have merged with social media and pursue to produce engaging content and form relationships with online audiences. At the same time, social media has allowed young people a venue to practice their basic needs of interaction, identity, and self-expression, and provides communities of shared issues and social/political aspirations. By analysing the Instagram post caption data of the largest Finnish (girls’) youth magazine, this case study investigated what posting strategies used by the magazine elicited youth participation, and how do the strategies and participation align with young people’s media and online communication preferences. The study found the magazine to use va…

Community Resilience in Crises : Technology and Social Media Enablers

2014

Technology can contribute greatly to disaster resilience, especially by enhancing the interconnectedness between the authorities and the public and by facilitating the rapid exchange of information. This special issue of Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments is focused on technology and social media enablers of community resilience. Crises take on a variety of shapes and forms—natural or health disasters, terroristic and criminal acts, technology malfunctions, and large-scale accidents—at the local, regional, national, and global levels. Crisis management plans, created and implemented at the organizational level, typically involve public service and i…

Consumers’ acceptance of information and communications technology in tourism: A review

2017

The review provides a conceptual framework on e-tourism research.Research on e-tourism is grouped into three classifications.Research on these three groups are uneven.Synthesis of theories, theories and frameworks provided. The impact of information and communications technology (ICT) in tourism (e-tourism) has altered the ways tourism services are accessed and consumed. Ubiquitous and highly innovative ICTs provide different channels for consumers to use tourism services; thus, studies on e-tourism are numerous and fragmented. Different factors account for how consumers embrace these channels. The purpose of this study is to review studies on consumers acceptance or adoption of e-tourism i…