Aspects Of Digital Communication Research Articles

Digital daydreaming: Introducing the spontaneous smartphone checking scale

AbstractSmartphones are a ubiquitous part of many people's lives, but little is known about their impact on everyday thought processes. Here we introduce the spontaneous smartphone checking scale (SSCS)—which measures the tendency to direct attention toward one's smartphone, unpreceded by external prompts (e.g., notifications, or alerts) and with no specific conscious goal in mind, as a parallel to mind‐wandering directed toward internal thoughts. The SSCS showed good psychometric properties and construct validity. It separated from measures of daydreaming and mind‐wandering by not loading on dimensions related to self‐consciousness, reflection, and rumination, but instead loading highly on a factor associated with other aspects of digital communication and concerns about public appearance on social media. This suggests that spontaneous smartphone checking serves different mental and social functions than internally generated spontaneous thought processes. We discuss possible long‐term effects of spontaneous smartphone checking taking up time for internally generated spontaneous thoughts.

Digital communication in primary care: A qualitative descriptive study of patient interviews considering person-centred care

With the growing demand for primary care, provision needs to be efficient, yet retain person-centred and integrated care. Digital communication is suggested as a way to settle these aspects, although there is insufficient knowledge regarding the end-user's perspective. The aim of this study was to describe patients’ experiences of digital communication in their primary care contact, while considering aspects of person-centred care. A purposeful sample of 16 patients (aged 28–85 years) was interviewed via telephone in a qualitative design, and verbatim transcripts were analysed using inductive thematic analysis and a subsequent deductive approach in relation to a person-centred care framework. The study was reported following the COREQ guidelines. The findings indicate that, from a patient perspective, digital communication enables independent contact where one crafts one's medical history at a time and place convenient for oneself, providing opportunities for the primary care triage to consider one's individual input. These aspects of digital communication serve person-centredness, although they were less suitable for certain health issues, but a human interaction was most appropriate when health concerns were ambiguous or complex. Thus, digital communication may serve patients in primary care, but the development and implementation of such services must move beyond technical and professional perspectives. In order to facilitate integrated care, further emphasis is needed on both patients’ experiences, and the principles of person-centred care.

Tourism in the Age of Digital Communications

The article considers various aspects of digital communication in tourism marketing, the intensive modern development of which has become a reflection on the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By analyzing and synthesizing the study of various scientific sources and statistics, the purpose of the work was achieved – to understand the phenomenon of innovative forms and manifestations of digital marketing in the field of tourism. The novelty lies in the study of prospects for further interaction and development of digital communication in marketing and tourism.

A review of articles in the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science (JGSMS) special issue on Marketing Management in International Contexts

ABSTRACT This is a review of four articles published in the JGSMS 2019 special issue on Marketing Management in International Contexts. All papers published in this special issue were peer-reviewed, with oversight from the authors of this document in the role of Guest Editors. Three articles examine aspects of digital communication influences on behavior and attitudes, while one studies consumer preferences in the context of differing cultural and technological backgrounds. Generational cohorts and cultural clusters are examined through these studies. Overall, the articles in this special issue contribute to our knowledge of how younger persons use and are shaped by the digital world they have been born into, but also to the persistence of underlying cultures.

A Novel Approach in Determination of the Appropriate Spatial Averaging Signal Length

Information about the spatial mean signal values is used as the control information in many practical aspects of digital communications (e.g. handoff, adaptive coding/modulation). That raises the question: How long the appropriate averaging length $${2L}$$2L should be in order to enable us to accurately estimate these spatial mean signal values? Lee was the first who gave analytical recommendations for the choice of the averaging length ($${2L}$$2L should be between $${20 \lambda }$$20? and $${40 \lambda }$$40?) and to date, his recommendations are being used as a reference for the averaging process. Although Lee's recommendations give accurate mean signal estimations in some outdoor environments, the results obtained using Lee's methodology are not applicable for indoor averaging, due to lack of their consistence with empirically obtained results ($$2L \le 10\lambda $$2L≤10?). Moreover, Lee's recommendations cannot be used to explain much larger $${2L}$$2L values adopted in the processes of averaging in suburban/rural outdoor environments ($$2L \approx 100 \lambda $$2L?100?). In contrast to Lee, who treated multipath variations as a dominant factor that affects the choice of the appropriate averaging length, in this paper it is shown that shadowing variations, beside multipath, play a crucial role in the process of $${2L}$$2L determination. Thus, considering also shadowing variability, a novel approach in determination of the appropriate mean signal's averaging length is proposed in this paper. According to herein proposed approach, the appropriate averaging length should be determinated not just as a length at which the multipath is smoothed sufficiently, but also as a length at which shadowing can be considered as a highly correlated process. In contrast to existing analytical results, the results obtained following herein proposed methodology coincide well with all above mentioned empirical results and enable us to unambiguously determine the appropriate values of $${2L}$$2L for all types of wireless environments (both indoor and outdoor).

Regulatory Aspects of Digital Communications (Radio Frequency Considerations)

This paper describes the domestic and international rules, regulations, reports, and recommendations that have an impact on the design and operation of digital systems. The emphasis is on the technical and the radio frequency (RF) aspects, but nontechnical and baseband matters are mentioned briefly. Organizations discussed include the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the International Telephone and Telegraph Consulatative Committee (CCITT), the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the Office of Telecommunications Policy/Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (OTP/IRAC).