Centrality Of Communication Research Articles

Searching in the "Unsaid Seen": McLaughlin's Unfinished Reflections on the Place of the Body in Psychoanalytic Discourse

The meanings of bodily experience and nonverbal communication were subjects of intense interest and speculation to James McLaughlin throughout his writings. In spite of his decades-long challenges to psychoanalytic orthodoxy, he was never able to move fully beyond the theoretical biases toward the body promulgated by the classical and ego psychological cultures in which he was trained and practiced. This paper explores this unfinished aspect of McLaughlin's clinical work and his foreshadowing of the growing interest and understanding in contemporary psychoanalytic models of the centrality of nonverbal communication and sensate experience in psychic organization and interpersonal relations.

Psicologia Social e comunicação publicitária: uma análise crítica

In this paper, the authors bring to the foreground the centrality of communication as an object of Social Psychology. They focus on the analysis of advertisement’s communication practices, departing from the exposure of some of their models of signification. They first explain the model for subliminal advertisement followed by the analysis of the model for advertisements based on myth (connotation), underlying the specificity of publicity. In addition, the authors discuss their modus operandi and analyse communication practices approaching the dimension of ethics, which had been placed in the background by the scientific project of modernity. They consider ethics in relation to the concept of consciousness. The authors suggest that a critical analysis of communication through the perspective of Social Psychology should include both the dimension of ethics and its relation to consciousness. Key words: Social Psychology, Communication, Semiotics, Advertisement, Ethics.

Psicologia Social e comunicação publicitária: uma análise crítica

In this paper, the authors bring to the foreground the centrality of communication as an object of Social Psychology. They focus on the analysis of advertisement’s communication practices, departing from the exposure of some of their models of signification. They first explain the model for subliminal advertisement followed by the analysis of the model for advertisements based on myth (connotation), underlying the specificity of publicity. In addition, the authors discuss their modus operandi and analyse communication practices approaching the dimension of ethics, which had been placed in the background by the scientific project of modernity. They consider ethics in relation to the concept of consciousness. The authors suggest that a critical analysis of communication through the perspective of Social Psychology should include both the dimension of ethics and its relation to consciousness.Key words: Social Psychology, Communication, Semiotics, Advertisement, Ethics.

Getting on Top of Oneself: Comments on Self-Expression

This paper is a critical review of Mitchell Green’s Self-Expression. The principal focus is on Green’s contention that all expression is at route, a form of signalling by an agent or by some mechanism of the organism which has been evolutionary selected for signalling. Starting from the idea that in some but not all expression an agent seeks to express his or her self, I question the centrality of communication to the idea of expression.

Psychological and organizational variables associated with workplace learning in small and medium manufacturing businesses in Korea

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between workplace learning and psychological variables, such as learning competency, motivation, curiosity, self-esteem and locus of control, and organizational variables, such as centralization of power, formality, merit system and communication. The studied population consisted entirely of workers in small and medium manufacturing businesses in Korea. Totally, 685 workers were sampled and 388 of them were used for the analysis. The level of workplace learning in small and medium manufacturing businesses was higher than the expected average. All the variables in this study had significant positive low or moderate relationships with workplace learning. Lastly, about 50% of the variance in workplace learning was explained by communication, learning competency, merit system, motivation, centralization of power and curiosity.

Negotiating power: community media, democracy, and the public sphere

Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to business ventures resulting in Habermasian ‘refeudalisation of the public sphere’ is worrying. Community media re-engage communities on the periphery, opening possibilities for social change. The dominance of mainstream players in media governance, complicated by sustainability concerns of grassroots enterprises, result in legislation that impedes the potentiality of community media access and participation – as mapped in this paper with the case of community radio struggle in India.

Breaking the connection: Why is it so difficult to talk about discharge with our clients with aphasia?

This paper, drawn from a study into experiences of treatment termination in chronic aphasia, discusses why communication, between speech-language pathologists and clients with aphasia, breaks down so frequently during discharge negotiations. Considering our role as communication experts and our awareness of the barriers faced by people with aphasia in sharing decisions about their care, this is a concern. Eight general reasons for communication breakdown are discussed: the presence of aphasia; inadequate explanations or shared understandings of therapy in general; discharge reflecting other aspects of professional-client communication; discharge as “bad news”; discharge and the limits to negotiation; discharge as an unclear phenomenon; discharge documentation; and discharge evaluation. These reasons are illustrated by several real stories gathered from in-depth interviews with 30 speech-language pathologists, 21 people with aphasia and 16 family members. This paper aims to help speech-language pathologists reflect on how they break the connection, so important in therapy, between themselves and their clients with aphasia at discharge and how this is communicated. This issue is important, not only because of the centrality of communication to our work, but also because it has implications for the overall success of therapy and for our clients' wellbeing.

Existential Communication and Leadership

The aim of this article is to introduce and explain a number of important existentialist philosophers and concepts that we believe can contribute to a critical approach to leadership theory. Emphasis is placed on understanding the nature of communication from an existentialist perspective and so Jaspers' conceptualization of existential communication is introduced along with important related concepts that may be regarded as important facets of leader communication including Being-in-the-world, the Other, intersubjectivity, dialogue and indirect communication. Particular attention is paid to Buber's ideas on communication as relationship and dialogue. Throughout, reference is made to contemporary, and what is often regarded as orthodox, thinking regarding the centrality of communication to leadership practice as a means by which to highlight the salience of an existentialist analysis.

Why Communication Education is Important: The Centrality of the Discipline in the 21st Century

This study provides a rationale for the claim that communication instruction is critical to students’ future personal and professional success. Thematic analysis of 93 journal and newspaper articles, reports, and surveys provide evidence of the centrality of communication in developing the whole person, improving the educational enterprise, being a responsible social and cultural participant in the world, succeeding in one's career and in business, enhancing organizational processes and organizational life, and, addressing several emerging concerns in the 21st century including health communication, crisis communication, and crime and policing. The results of this study are compared to the themes identified in a similar study published in 2000.

Systematic Design Methods and the Creative Performance of New Product Teams: Do They Contradict or Complement Each Other?

Can organizations exert control and provide structure for NPD activities while at the same time encouraging and managing creative performance? Any new product development (NPD) project requires some level of creative effort. In new product development, creative performance is of preeminent importance. Most NPD projects are executed with the NPD team as the organizational nucleus. As a result, managing creativity in NPD thus implies managing the creativity of NPD teams. Besides having to manage creative performance, companies are generally also concerned with improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the NPD process. Modern NPD projects therefore have the need for an approach that can be planned, optimized, and verified. As a consequence, systematic design methods have become widely used in NPD. In this article conceptual model is developed of the effect of modern design methodology on the creative performance of NPD teams. First, it is argued that the effect of systematic design methodology on NPD team creativity is mediated by the communication patterns of the NPD team. It is then proposed that four principles underlie modern design methodology: hierarchical decomposition, systematic variation, satisficing, and discursiveness. These principles affect NPD communication by, respectively, influencing the establishment of subgroups, the frequency of communication, the level of agreement or disagreement in the team, and the level of centralization of communication. Next, arguments are presented of how each of these four communicational characteristics shapes the creative performance of NPD teams. This second part of the conceptual model is tested empirically. This is done by studying the communication patterns in 44 NPD teams, employing social network analysis tools. These patterns of communication are then related to team‐level creative performance through a set of regression analyses. The main conclusion of the article is that the design principles work together and need to be considered as an integrated whole: the creative performance of NPD teams can only effectively be managed by using and aligning all four of them.

Tracing One Teacher’s Approach to Communication Throughout a Semester of Spanish 101: Belief Meets Practice

Approaches to second (SL) and foreign (FL) language teaching in recent decades have emphasized the centrality of communication both as an end and a means. Both the quantity and the nature of communication that occurs in a language classroom ultimately depend on the beliefs and practices of language teachers. The present self-analysis, focused on one teacher/researcher, traces her experiences with the challenges of classroom communication over the course of an entire academic term. This longitudinal approach exposed contradictions that surfaced over time in three areas: the use of the L2 for classroom interaction, the assumption of truthfulness in the exchange of information, and learners' voice or control over their own messages. the findings have implications for language teaching and highlight the role of thoughtful reflection as a first step toward minimizing the gap between what teachers believe and what they actually do.

The centrality of audiovisual communication in the digital environment: proposals based on experience in training

La nova centralitat que la comunicacio audiovisual ha guanyat en les darreres decades en l'entorn digital de nou encuny hauria d'estimular els estudis de comunicacio a promoure amb un emfasi i un interes especials les investigacions, les analisis i les reflexions que els permetessin, a ells i a altres estudis, adequar-se a la nova societat-xarxa, aprofundir en l'aplicacio de les tecnologies de la informacio i la comunicacio (TIC) en el proces d'ensenyament-aprenentatge i promoure noves metodologies docents, cada dia mes necessaries i reclamades. Els estudis de comunicacio, sobretot pel que fa al seu vessant de comunicacio audiovisual, tenen una llarga tradicio en l'us de les TIC i el treball en col·laboracio, i podrien tambe fer interessants aportacions al proces d'alfabetitzacio digital, a la seva definicio i al seu abast, com tambe al proces d'universalitzacio tecnologica, proces en el qual adquireix un paper mes destacat el caracter multiplataforma i multiregistre del llenguatge audiovisual. Si s'aposta clarament per un constructivisme vygotskya, sociocultural i de construccio del coneixement, l'article proposa alguns canvis que haurien d'afrontar, amb mes responsabilitat i empenta, les institucions educatives universitaries i els seus equips docents, i ofereix algunes propostes en una primera aproximacio que seria desitjable que interessessin a docents i investigadors i els animessin a iniciar amb mes seguretat aquest cami sense retorn.

The Centrality of Education and Communication

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommentaryNEXTThe Centrality of Education and CommunicationBruce E. Bursten View Author Information College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1320Cite this: J. Chem. Educ. 2006, 83, 10, 1453Publication Date (Web):October 1, 2006Publication History Received3 August 2009Published online1 October 2006Published inissue 1 October 2006https://doi.org/10.1021/ed083p1453RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views213Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (76 KB) Get e-Alerts Get e-Alerts

Validating the Interpersonal Communication Assessment Scale

Despite the centrality of interpersonal communication in nursing, there are few psychometrically sound instruments to measure the communication competencies of undergraduate and graduate nursing students. This article reports on the development and testing of the Interpersonal Communication Assessment Scale (ICAS), which was designed to assess the communication competencies of students in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Retroductive triangulation, using both deductive and inductive methods, and the Model of Relational Competence guided the measure's conceptualization and development. We used responses from 531 (24%) undergraduate and graduate clinical faculty from 246 American Association of Colleges of Nursing member schools for the psychometric testing of the 54-item content-validated and pilot-tested ICAS. Exploratory-factor analysis resulted in a three-factor solution labeled as advocacy, therapeutic use of self, and validation. These factors accounted for 60% of the variance. Items that loaded .60 or higher were retained, resulting in a 23-item scale with a Cronbach's alpha of .96. The ICAS significantly differentiated the communication competencies of beginning and graduating students in both undergraduate and graduate programs. The ICAS was found to have construct validity and internal consistency, underscoring its potential as a formative and summative tool to assess the interpersonal communication competencies of nursing students.

Building Community Through Communication: The Case For Civic Communion

This essay makes the argument for the centrality of communication in studying and developing community. Following a discussion of general theoretical arguments affirming and advancing the case for communication's connection to community building, the essay moves to an examination of a specific type of community, communicative event: "civic communion." Civic communions are communicative and performative community events that function to draw people into a shared identity, shared visions of community, and codes of conduct. Civic communions are episodes of community interaction that function as rhetorical and performative civic sacraments bonding citizenry around the social and political structures of a specific locale. These powerful community moments offer community development practitioners a pragmatic and scholarly vehicle to assist and study the construction and maintenance of community.

Rapport‐building activities in corner shop interactions

This paper examines a range of interactional activities participants carry out in the course of corner shop transactions in Quito, Ecuador. These activities include: phatic communication exchanges as traditionally conceived, that is, conventionalized forms such as how‐are‐you and health inquiries; individualized exchanges in the form of conversational work around a range of topics (e.g. politics, health, school); and creative language play activities (e.g. wordplay and linguistic play with names). These activities are described as reflecting participants’ orientation to the maintenance of positive rapport or friendly relations (Aston 1988a) with the effect that the service transaction becomes a pleasant and even an entertaining encounter. Such orientation is described here in relation to the familiarity existing between shopkeepers and customers as a result of frequent contact in the context of the barrio(residential neighbourhoods) in Quito. As such the study lends support, from a different socio‐cultural perspective, to recent work in the area that highlights the centrality of phatic communication in task‐oriented interactions in English (cf. Coupland 2000a, 2000b, 2003), and brings to the fore a wider range of activities which appear to be employed for rapport‐building purposes in service encounters.

Mergers and Acquisitions Review 2002

The centrality of communication in international business (IB) is undeniable; yet our understanding of the phenomenon is partially constrained by a cross-cultural comparative focus as opposed to intercultural, process-oriented research designs that capture the dynamic nature of communicative interactions. Our brief review of studies at the intersection of culture and communication in the context of global work interactions reveals the dominant research trends that guided IB scholarship to date in this domain. We propose eight shifts in perspective to advance the field’s theorizing and create avenues for further research.

Interdisciplinary Health Care Teamwork in the Clinic Backstage

A long-term ethnography of an interdisciplinary geriatric oncology team at a regional cancer center revealed the existence and importance of backstage communication that occurred outside of team meetings to the enactment of teamwork. Seven inductively derived categories describe the communication involved in backstage teamwork in the clinic: informal impression and information sharing; checking clinic progress; relationship building; space management; training students; handling interruptions; and formal reporting. The centrality of backstage communication to caring for patients is explored, and a view of embedded teamwork is proposed, extending upon the bona fide group construct. The study provides a valuable complement to controlled studies of group decision-making through its focus on dynamic communication outside of meetings among dyads and triads of team members in a web-like organization and extends bona fide group theory.

Advancing communication as a science: Research opportunities from the federal sector

The centrality of communication in health promotion is described in Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health, which noted that "health communication can contribute to all aspects of disease prevention and health promotion." In this paper we build on this argument by suggesting that communication science can be advanced by pursuing a "big-science" strategy where important and challenging questions about the role of communication in modern life are studied through rigorous research designs and research findings are applied to addressing significant social issues and problems. A significant dimension of a "big-science" strategy is the pursuit of programs of research using longitudinal designs and large samples with adequate controls. Given that such large-scale studies necessarily involve funding, we review some major funding initiatives and programs in different agencies of the federal governmental.

Mediating with Heart in Mind: Addressing Emotion in Mediation Practice

Given the centrality of emotion and emotional communication to conflict interaction, the lack of attention to emotion in mediation is particularly surprising. This essay suggests that mediation practice can – and should – be informed by the wealth of existing theory and research on emotion in the social sciences. The authors define emotion and argue the centrality of its place in conflict. They address issues germane to the cognitive, expressive, and physiological aspects of emotion and their relevance to mediatio practice. Within each area, they discuss the implications of the emotional experience of the disputant and the emotional experience of the mediator.