Categories Of Communication Research Articles

Tires, Cigarettes, Tampons, and the Gendering of Instructional Comics

ABSTRACT Comics-based how-to instructions have historically figured into a gender-aware category of technical communication. Studying such comics-based literature for gendering is a promising endeavor that has not garnered much scholarly attention to date. This analysis attempts to do so within the critical framework of comics studies. Through close examination of examples of gendered instructional comics past and present, this article argues that the comics medium is well suited to inform and persuade readerships through gendered means.

A Combination of Self-debriefing and Instructor-led Debriefing Improves Team Effectiveness in Health Science Students.

Debriefing is considered a critical component of simulation-based learning, but the differences between different debriefing methods remain unclear. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the debriefing assessment, problem-solving process, and team effectiveness among students who received instructor-led debriefing, self-debriefing, and combined debriefing. An experimental design was conducted with 250 students (nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy). Differences in the Debriefing Experience Scale (DES), Problem Solving Inventory (PSI), and Communication and Teamwork Skills (CATS) assessment between the groups were measured. In nursing students, the combined debriefing group had the highest scores for the CATS assessment (P < .001) and for the coordination (P < .001), cooperation (P = .012), and communication (P = .002) categories. No significant differences were observed between debriefing groups for DES or PSI. Combined debriefing improves communication and team skills in students. Educators might promote combined debriefing after simulation sessions as it seems to improve team effectiveness.

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD): An Updated Review and Analysis Case Study

Abstract Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is introduced as a new delivery system that fosters high efficiency by delivering accurate information and new technologies in a collaborative team environment. In this sense, the research aimed to review the IPD principles and their main categories, such as contract, process, information &amp; modeling (I&amp;M), team and communication as well as perform a qualitative analysis to illustrate the current research trends. The qualitative analysis performed was made through a series of collected articles from 2001 to 2018 in 08 different scientific database websites. In terms of the results, the contract category illustrated a strong trend, where the studies are focus on collaborations and frameworks to enhance high efficiency in construction. In the I&amp;M category, demonstrated an increasing trend applying the Building Information &amp; Modeling (BIM) subject as well as team category, where showed the importance of a wellstructured team and their impact on the project., The process and communication categories illustrated a weak trend, allowing opportunities in the field. Finally, the current study reviewed and analyzed the IPD and its main categories allowing a solid basis for future research.

Penerapan Pembelajaran Psikologi Warna untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Mahasiswa Dalam Memilih Warna pada Desain Kemasan Produk Prodi Manajemen FEB UNISMA

Provide Color is the fastest method of delivering messange and meaning in the non-verbal communication category. The use of color in packaging design is very important. Good product packaging requirements are as a place, attractive, can protect, practical, cause self-esteem, accuracy of size, and transportation. Color selection decisions on student product packaging design can be analyzed from color psychology. The purpose of this study is to analyze the application of color psychology learning to improve students ability in color selection in product packaging design. The research includes an assessment of the understanding of color psycology and the ability to choose colors that are implemented in product packaging design. Total population and sample of 30 respondents with saturated sampling technique. The method used in this research is experimental and ex-post facto explanatory nature. Data collection techniques using questionnaires, observations, evaluation result (score), and interviews. Data analysis using descriptive qualitative analysis and t test. The result showed satisfactory understanding of the color psychology of students, the suitability of product packaging design with color psycology, packaging design assesment is very good and good. The effectiveness test of the application of color psychology learning to the color selection ability in packaging design by 56,2%.

Addressing Family and Genetic History in First Obstetric Visits [30J

INTRODUCTION: The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology states asking pregnant patients about family history (FHx) of genetic disease plays an important role in identifying and managing pregnancies with higher risk of genetic conditions. Few studies have assessed these conversations between pregnant patients and their obstetric care providers (OBS). METHODS: IRB approval was obtained to collect audio recordings and to transcribe conversations between pregnant patients and OBS during the first obstetric visit. A formulated codebook identified conversation segments containing FHx and genetic disorders and labeled the content of conversations. An independent coder reviewed transcripts to insure intercoder reliability, validity and accuracy. We identified communication patterns, categories, and themes. RESULTS: Of 152 transcripts, FHx was discussed in 93% of conversations. Genetic disorders most commonly mentioned were Down Syndrome (89%), Cystic Fibrosis (78%) and Sickle Cell Disease (75%). These were often discussed in the context of genetic screening tests. OBS asked patients to identify their ethnicity in 40% of visits. The father of the baby was present for 32% of visits, father’s ethnicity assessed in 51%, and father’s FHx discussed 48% of the time. Father’s presence at the visit was not associated with likelihood of OBS asking about their FHx. In 10% of visits OBS conveyed assumptions that if the patient did not recognize a disease, this represented a negative FHx for that disorder. CONCLUSION: While OBS assessed FHx in most first obstetric visits, communication approaches used in these assessments may not elicit complete information given that specific disorders and father’s FHx were not consistently discussed.

Silence as a Specific Kind of Communication in Legal Discourse

The article is devoted to the description of modifying reality through non-verbal speech acts. The subject of the study are non-verbal signs referring to the category of legal communication. This study included acts of legal communication that are expressed or can be expressed using various forms of silence. The first aim of the study was to determine whether silence can be classified as a speech act in the strict sense. The secondary aim was to determine the usefulness of silence in legal communication. The methodological basis of the analysis was the assumptions of pragmatism in the approach of W. James and the concept of performative acts of speech by J. L. Austin.

Otherness as a form of intersubjective social exclusion

PurposeThis study aims to review the theory based on «otherness» as a form of social exclusion and symbolic violence from the constructions of realities of the media, with particular emphasis on the ethics and aesthetics of language and its role in materializing identity differences.Design/methodology/approachA search for specific criteria andbooleanalgorithms is carried out in Web of Science and Scopus on «otherness» [AND] «social exclusion», to then submit the emerging results to a co-occurrence matrix by citations with VOSViewer v. 1.6.13. From the relation tree of the most cited documents [min = 7] of the downloaded articles, a critical/analytical reading is made.Findings«Otherness» is reviewed to a greater extent from a Western perspective, and more specifically, from a Eurocentric one. This implies that the study of «otherness» is not sufficiently analyzed by Asian or African authors, who are excluded from the analysis. In this sense, «otherness» is understood as a theoretical construct and as any symbolic construction of the other (phenotypically, but also in ideology, values and customs), but which carries a load of stereotypes that can become polarization, demonization, ergo and violence.Originality/valueRevisiting «otherness» as an informative construct becomes imperative in light of the emergence of extremist groups and xenophobic parties, as well as separatist policies such as Brexit or the Catalan split in Spain. Few articles contribute to elaborating a complete conceptual construct on «otherness» as an epistemological category of communication and information, so this research effort attempts to compile its theoretical discussion.

COMMUNICATIVE TOLERANCE AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM

The article analyses theoretically the psychological concept of communicative tolerance and examines the performed empirical study on the traits attributed by respondents to an “ideal” interlocutor. The article authors note that quite a large number of different definitions of the phenomenon of communicative tolerance by scientists actually do not help to create a deep, generalized, holistic understanding of this concept, so searches for the optimal interpretation of this concept are permanent. Therefore, it is important to identify common content of these definitions. Various author's understandings of the term “communicative tolerance”, its main features and structure were analyzed, as well as its two main directions: the interpretation of communicative tolerance as a speech, communicative category, and understanding it as a psychological phenomenon were distinguished. The article authors state that depending on the approach to the analysis of communicative tolerance, scientists in psychology focus mainly on the content characteristics of this concept, while linguists are more interested in the formal side of the manifestation of this phenomenon. The article demonstrates that two groups of personal traits appeared the most often at students’ estimation of prerequisites for optimal communication: 1) the ability to communicate, namely: sociability, interest, attentive listening, hearing and understanding of an interlocutor, appropriate jokes and cheering up; respect for an interlocutor without violation of personal communicative boundaries; accurateness and clearness in statements; 2) moral development / personal morality: responsiveness, openness, empathy, tact, politeness, reliability, tolerance. The authors argue that communicative tolerance is an attitude to an interlocutor as an individual who has the right to be themselves, to express their own opinion and defend their convictions, to show their own individuality in communication; communicative tolerance is also a positive readiness to the perception of everything said in order to solve possible problems through mutual agreements based on common goals, values and interests. &nbsp

COMMUNICATIVE ILLOCUTIONARY ACT ON STUDENTS’ CONVERSATION VIDEO IN ONE OF THE ENGLISH COURSES IN BANDUNG

Speech acts are divided into three categories – locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary. Each speech act can be investigated based on the researcher’s need what it is done in this research purpose of this study aiming to find out the context meaning of communicative illocutionary act categories on students’ conversation video. The spirit of the speech act can be called as illocutionary which becomes a central concept. Regarding to the definition of speech acts, several numerous options related to illocutionary have some kinds of acts such as promising, ordering, and bequeathing. This research uses Austin’s book as a grant theory strengthened by Yule. This research result is the researcher has found communicative illocutionary acts on students’ conversation video including constatives, directives, commissives, and acknowledgments.Keywords: Illocutionary, constative, directives, commissives, acknowledgments

РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ СТРАТЕГИИ НЕГАТИВНОЙ ВЕЖЛИВОСТИ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЙ Б. ДЖОНСОНА И Д. КОРБИНА)

Цель. Статья посвящена актуальной теме – языковым особенностям реализации стратегии негативной вежливости в политическом дискурсе. Предметом анализа выступают речевые тактики, позволяющие реализовать указанную коммуникативную стратегию в английском языке.Метод или методология проведения работы. Основу исследования составляет – теория вежливости в сочетании со стратегическим подходом к изучению коммуникативно-прагматических характеристик современного политического дискурса.Результаты. Результаты работы заключаются в том, что автор, исходя из понятия вежливости как национально-специфической коммуникативной категории, дифференцирует феномены «позитивная вежливость» и «негативная вежливость». Автор приходит к выводу, что реализация стратегии негативной вежливости в современном англоязычном политическом дискурсе осуществляется посредством специфических речевых тактик (соблюдения речевых формальностей и коммуникативной дистанции; намеренной неопределенности и расплывчатости высказываний; противопоставления собственных достижений негативным ожиданиям оппонента; демонстрации успеха в выполнении своих обещаний; самопрезентации).Область применения результатов. Результаты исследования могут быть применены в разработке языкового инструментария, позволяющего эффективно доносить политические идеи.

UNIFIED: Understanding New Information from Emergency Departments Involved in the San Bernardino Terrorist Attack.

IntroductionEmergency departments (ED) are on the front line for treating victims of multi-casualty incidents. The primary objective of this study was to gather and detail the common experiences from those hospital-based health professionals directly involved in the response to the San Bernardino terrorism attack on December 2, 2015. Secondary objectives included gathering information on experiences participants found were best practices.MethodsWe undertook a qualitative study using Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) guidelines by performing semi-structured interviews with physicians, nurses, and incident management staff from multiple institutions responding to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. We coded transcripts using qualitative analysis techniques and we delineated and agreed upon a refined list with code definitions using a negotiated group process. Final themes were developed and analyzed.ResultsA total of 26 interviews were completed; 1172 excerpts were coded and categorized into 66 initial themes. Six final categories of communication, training, unexpected help, process bypassed, personal impact/emotions, and practical advice resulted.ConclusionOur study provides context regarding the response of healthcare personnel from multiple institutions to a singular terrorist attack in the United States. It elucidates several themes to help other institutions prepare for similar events. Understanding these common experiences provides opportunity to prepare for future incidents and develop questions to study in future events.

The Professional Behaviors New Nurses Need: Findings From a National Survey of Hospital Nurse Leaders.

The purpose of this study was to survey hospital nurse leaders throughout the United States to determine which professional behaviors they believe are essential for nursing students to learn in the classroom. This study was part of a multiphase study. The survey was revised from a previous survey administered to nurse leaders in the Midwest. Participants were surveyed using 46 items in the categories of Change, Communication, Conflict, Leadership, and Self-Awareness. The highest ranked category was Communication, followed by Self-Awareness, Change, Leadership, and Conflict. The highest rated items in each category were communication with patients, accept constructive criticism, manage change, prioritization, and conflict resolution techniques. Nurse educators and leaders can use the findings to continue to refine nursing education.

THE CONSTRUCTION LEARNING MEDIA AND LEVEL OF STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION ABILITY

This study aims to look at the effect of the use of instructional media on student learning achievement in terms of students' mathematical communication. The learning media in this study are textbooks with a constructivism approach that has been validated and tested previously. This study will compare the learning achievements of students who learn using constructivism learning models with constructivism media, constructivism learning models without media, and direct learning. This is a quasi-experimental research with a 3 × 3 factorial design. It involved junior high school students in Malang district as the research population. Based on the hypothesis, it is revealed that : (1) students who learn using constructivism approach with constructivist media had better performance than other groups, (2) students with high mathematical communication had higher learning achievement than students with moderate and low communication skills, ( 3) based on the category of high, moderate and low mathematical communication, students with constructivist learning and constructivist media gained better achievements, (4) in the constructivist learning group using constructivist media, constructivist learning without media, and direct learning, students with high mathematical communication gained better achievement than students with moderate and low mathematical communication

DETERMINANTS AND OUTCOMES OF MOBILE APP USAGE INTENTION OF GEN Z: A CROSS CATEGORY ASSESSMENT

The objective of this study is to identify the determinants such as usefulness and ease of use as well as the behavioral outcomes of mobile app usage intention among Generation Z consumers. Three mobile app categories, entertainment, communication and networking, are included in the study. The results of the study confirmed that perceived ease of use plays an important role in determining the intention to use the app while perceived privacy, perceived security, perceived design and perceived compatibility are the factors which shape both perceived ease of use and usefulness depending on the mobile app category. Higher usage intention is found to be effective in generating willingness to pay in all mobile app categories. In contrast to the entertainment category, increasing usage intention is also found to lead increasing intention to engage into the WoM activity in communication and networking categories. Based on these findings, some practical implications are provided.

Fascination as a communication category on the Internet with reference to the Russian portal Rambler.ru

The subject of this article is fascination as a type of communicative influence exerted on the addressees, the purpose of which is to attract or to retain attention to the message and/or its source. In public communication, fascination serves to activate the processing of semantic information, to create a positive image of the source of information and its preferences in the face of increasing market competition, and to prolong communicative contact as an opportunity to distribute advertising copy. Fascination is one of the characteristics of modern media culture. Fascination as a stylistic phenomenon is based on different means, which fall into four categories: the language code, the cognitive system mental thesaurus, world view, the system of social relations, and the physical environment. On the Internet, semantic information is subordinated to the principle of attractiveness. This concerns such characteristics as preference for events in the sphere of politics, occasionality, sensationalism, dangerous traits, and an intracultural attitude. Fascynacja jako kategoria komunikacji w internecie na przykładzie rosyjskiego portalu Rambler.ruTematem artykułu jest fascynacja jako rodzaj komunikatywnego wpływu na adresatów, którego celem jest przyciągnięcie lub zwrócenie uwagi na przekaz i/lub jego źródło. W komunikacji publicznej fascynacja służy aktywacji przetwarzania informacji semantycznej, stworzeniu pozytywnego wizerunku źródła informacji i jego preferencji w obliczu rosnącej konkurencji rynkowej oraz prolongacji kontaktu komunikacyjnego jako sposobu emitowania reklam. Fascynacja jest jedną z cech współczesnej kultury medialnej. Jako zjawisko stylistyczne fascynacja jest realizowana za pośrednictwem różnych środków, które dzielą się na cztery kategorie: kod językowy, system kognitywny tezaurus mentalny, światopogląd, system relacji społecznych i środowisko fizyczne naturalne. Informacja semantyczna jest w internecie uwarunkowana zasadą atrakcyjności. Dotyczy to takich cech, jak preferowanie wydarzeń w świecie polityki, okazjonalność, sensacja, drażniące treści oraz priorytet treści wewnątrzkulturowych.

Проблема правди в журналістиці на зламі епох

The present article presents the results of a historiographical study of truth in Ukrainian journalism in the transition period from Soviet to post-Soviet journalism. The research relevance is associated with the growing crisis of truth as a communication category and the advent of the post-truth era globally. In order to solve the complex problem of truth in social communication and journalism, the study aims to clarify the components of the truth problem in Ukrainian journalism at the change of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras and to identify causal patterns of truth transformation as well as social consequences of this process. Methodologically, the study is based on analysis of research on the truth phenomenon within the framework of the social communication approach. I reveal four components of the truth problem: “understanding the truth”, “establishing the truth”, “telling the truth”, “perceiving the truth”. Attention is drawn to a theoretical error regarding truthfulness in journalism and its social consequences. The study makes conclusions about the need for: recognizing truth as the key axiological and communication category; ; inquiry into the spiritual discourse of truth as one of the ways of scientific cognition of truth in order to extrapolate the results in the social communication and journalism; formation of a truth-oriented position of the journalist through journalism education.

Правда як поняття в історіографічному дискурсі з позицій соціальнокомунікаційного підходу: категорійні властивості й функції, співвіднесеність з поняттям «істина»

The relevance of the research is caused by the growing trends of post-truth and post-journalism in the global communication context and the need to investigate the problem of truth as a social communication category of journalism. The study considers the concept of ‘truth’ and its correlation with the concept of ‘verity’, which is necessary for the relevant categorization of truth in social communication contexts (SCC). The object of the research is truth as a category, the subject is the semantic and functional field of the concept ‘truth’ which forms the category of truth and its social communication functions. The objective of the study is to identify the essential characteristics and functional properties of truth for its categorization and determination of the place and role in SCC and journalism. The source base consists of lexicographic sources and scientific researches. Methodologically, the research relies on the sociocommunicative approach, in the framework of which the method of historiographical analysis (with elements of semantic, conceptual and comparative analysis) was applied to explore the concepts of ‘truth’ and ‘verity’ in Ukrainian and Russian lexicographic sources and to compare them with relevant interpretations in English. Additionally, the method of synthesis was applied to identify the categorial characteristics and communicative functions of truth. The paper concludes that the concept of ‘truth’ primarily reveals natural ontological, axiological, and communicative characteristics that correlate with its metaphysical nature and has a broader variety of semantic and functional characteristics than the concept of ‘verity’. The evolutional transformation of the concepts ‘truth’ and ‘verity’ has been traced within ideological, historical, and social paradigms applaying the synchronic and diachronic analysis. The study emphasizes on the necessity to distinguish between Truth and different kinds of truths in social communication and journalism. It reveals that due to the loss of primary meanings and the priori functions, Truth has ceased to be an effective moral and value criterion as well as a choice criterion in social communication. The paper notes, however, that Truth continues maintaining its priori categorial meaning, which establishes its fundamental value as a basic category of social communication and a metacategory of journalism. Several hypothetical statements have also been made that require additional scientific researches; among them there is the assumption about the crucial role of spiritual communication in the self-discovery of Truth and its place in social communication.

Педагогічні умови особистісно-креативного розвитку молодших школярів у процесі навчання музики

Pedagogical conditions for the personal-creative development of elementary school pupils in the process of teaching music. The purpose of the article is to isolate andsubstantiate the pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of personal-creative development of elementary school pupils in the process of learning music. The theoretical (analysis, synthesis, generalization of scientific and pedagogical sources)and empirical (pedagogical observation) methods of research were used to reveal the topic. The article deals with the issues of personal-creative development of elementary school pupils as a component of their personal development, which is carried out during musical creative activity. The author’s understanding of the personal-creative development of the elementary school pupils is presented in the context of determining the creativity of the elementary school pupils. The author summarizes the understanding of creativity in the context of music education, highlights the main aspects of this concept in scientific research of recent years. The category of communication regarding the musical creativity of elementary school pupils in the process of teaching music, which includes verbal and non-verbal communication, application of collective and group forms of work, has been modified. The peculiarities of the elementary school age, which create psychological preconditions for artistic-creative, in particular, musical creative activity of children and the effectiveness of their personal-creative development are considered. On the basis of the analysis of scientific literature the author generalized understanding of pedagogical conditions in research works on creative development of students. The concept of creative interaction as a key in defining the pedagogical conditions of creative activity in the learning process is covered. It is determined that creative interaction is based on the principles of personal approach and individualization. It has been found that developing a music-creative environment is a complex, capacious concept. A number of additional conditions must be implemented in order to create it. The pedagogical conditions of the personal-creative development of elementary school pupils, which ensure its effectiveness in the process of teaching music are substantiated.

DIALOGISM AS A BASIC TEXT CATEGORY AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TEXTS

The article investigates dialogism as a category of English scientific and technical texts, ways and means of its interpretation. Being a communicative category, dialogism becomes an object of linguistic analysis due to the development of text communicative paradigm and discourse investigation. The topicality of the paper is determined by insufficient investigation of the category of dialogism in scientific and technical texts, its significance for their comprehension and interpretation, as well as by absence of works devoted to considering the ways and means of their interpretation. The article aims to identify units and means of rendering the abovementioned category in the process of dealing with English scientific and technical articles of electronics. The multi-dimensional, complex nature of dialogism is determined in a number of dialogic relationships: inter-subjective (between the author and the reader), interdisciplinary (between the author and other authors) and intrinsic (within the same text between its parts). Dialogism is an integral category of scientific and technical texts not only due to the purpose of their creation which consists in spreading certain scientific and technical information among specialists, but also in communicative intentions of these texts’ authors by establishing contact with the addressee and attracting their attention to the most important information.

Outspoken Objects and Unspoken Myths: The Semiotics of Object‐Mediated Communication

This interactionist study draws on the semiotics of Peirce and Barthes to theorize object‐mediated communication, a nonverbal interpersonal technique in which individuals signal new information by using and orienting themselves to symbolically endowed material objects. Examining the case of door‐mediated communication, it proposes that objects lie symbolically dormant until their deeper collective significance is activated through their use in interaction. The article expands the scope of interactionist inquiry on human–nonhuman relations by moving beyond the dominant scholarly focus on identity. The semiotic approach foregrounds a distinct human–object phenomenon, a novel category of nonverbal communication, and important meaning‐making dynamics.