Communication Paradigm Research Articles

The beauty of Volendam city and its culinary issues for Indonesian tourists

Volendam in the Netherlands is a popular tourist destination with its beautiful attractions and diverse traditional culture. However, for Indonesian tourists visiting the city, finding halal food and Asian specialties can be a challenge. The limited selection of restaurants serving halal and Asian specialties, such as Indonesian food, may affect Indonesian tourists' satisfaction and desire to return to Volendam in the future. This research discusses the beauty of Volendam's marine tourism and its culinary issues for Indonesian tourists. The study was conducted using a qualitative approach, by collecting data through exploration of literature studies and direct observation through visits and interviews with travel business practitioners who have visited there more than 2 times. The study results show that marine tourism is the main attraction for Indonesian tourists when visiting Volendam City. In this study, the relevant communication paradigm approach is the constructivistic paradigm which can give strength to the correlation between the solution of culinary issues and the needs of Indonesian tourists, but this approach tends to be subjective and more difficult to measure objectively. Therefore, the constructivistic approach must be balanced with other approaches such as the positivistic approach to provide a more complete understanding of the culinary issue. It is hoped that this research can provide benefits in the form of useful information for Indonesian tourists visiting Volendam City and local tourism stakeholders in improving culinary choices for Indonesian tourists in this city.

Form Habermas’s Communicative Paradigm to Honneth’s Recognition Paradigm

From Huberman’s Communicative Paradigm to Honneth’s Recognition Paradigm Habermas, through the communicative action paradigm, which is relying on a linguistic structure and intersubjective principle, trying to provide a solution for oppression and suffering in the social life. He thinks dialogue ethic and linguistic communications are suitable mechanisms for solving the social oppression and injustice. The main question of this research is; Is recognition an appropriate theory for the treatment of social oppression and can it open our eyes to social oppression more clearly?, Axel Honneth, as a third generation of Frankfurt school, criticizes Habermas’s paradigm and constitute a recognition paradigm. He thinks, if individual experience recognition, through socialization process and in three spheres and three forms of (love, right and solidarity), so he makes a good self-relation and world-relations. But if in three spheres experience three forms of (hate, denial of rights and neglecting), then he experiences a deep oppression and collapse his relation with himself and world, and this collapse it is a social oppression. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to introduce confession as an appropriate theory for the treatment of social oppression and an appropriate social life and present the scope and forms of confession. Finally, the study reached several conclusions, the most important of which are: The deprivation of the individual of the right to self-realization is a profound social oppression, which can be recognized in three important spheres (such as family, state and society). Provide a more favorable environment for self-realization. Therefore, both the experience of recognition and the experience of non-recognition have an impact on one's identity and personality.

Economic processes and foreign languages: results of interaction

Language is the main vector of communication, in turn, communication develops languages throughout the history of mankind. The natural need of people is communication in their native language, the most convenient means of self-expression and understanding of others. However, modernity has changed the global paradigm of communication, indicating a reassessment of the role of languages by both official and informal communities, including native speakers of various languages. Moreover, the choice of a common communication language is influenced not only by the context, but also by the social, cultural, and economic characteristics of the communicants. In an intercultural context, there is a problem of adaptation of communication participants, closely related to the mastery of the language of the receiving party, ignorance of which is a barrier to successful communication. To develop the skills of tolerant communicative behavior, it is necessary to create special programs equipped with the necessary teaching materials available in international communication languages. Some of these workshops are offered in the presented article. Purpose of the article is to determine the influence of language on the development of economic processes that unite people of different linguistic and socio-cultural backgrounds, as well as to describe the influence of interacting languages on various aspects of professional activity and the role of education in introducing new generations into an intercultural context. To achieve the purpose, the following tasks were put forward: presentation of the main provisions of the economic theory of language; highlighting the controversial role of translators when working with companies in an intercultural environment; identification of problems and the role of teaching foreign languages to students for their successful adaptation in an intercultural professional context. The theoretical and methodological basis was the concepts, hypotheses and theories presented in the works of domestic and foreign researchers. The methodology is based on a systematic approach, in which methods of comparative, structural-functional, and statistical analysis were applied. To obtain empirical data, the methods of questioning and interviewing respondents included in the system of intercultural communication were used. Based on the results obtained, it can be said that, as a rule, in most cases, preference is given to the common language of communication, which is either one of the international languages or the language of the titular nation. Ethnic ties, trust and tolerance are often associated with the possession of a common language of communication.

SNUX2.0: A Social Network Model for Cohort Behavior Analysis as Support for Purchasing Tourism Products and Services

One of the major communication paradigms for corporations and organizations consists of understanding which is the best format in which to communicate, and the effect that each type of content has on the different generations that coexist in the digital ecosystem. Tourism is one of the industry’s most sensitive to this ecosystem, as, nowadays, all stages of the travel decision process are mainly processed digitally. Products are researched, disseminated, and often acquired on digital platforms. This paper uses social media to analyze the online behavior of potential tourists from different generations when searching for commercial and detailed information concerning tourism products. A survey was prepared based on the experience economy theory and disseminated online through social networks. A Social Networks User Experience model, SNUX 2.0, was proposed to analyze the experiences of users from different generations, associated with the use of social networks as a medium through which to find information about tourism products and services. Structural equation modeling using SmartPLS 3.0 was used to analyze the proposed model. The study concluded that social networks can contribute to influencing the purchasing intent of the different generations, mainly when commercial information has an educational nature for all generations, accompanied by different dimensions depending on the consumer’s generation.

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Secure Communication with Federated Learning

Applying federated learning into the covert communication can not only ensure the communication reliability, but also reduce the probability of enemy detection. The use of airspace resources is an effective way to achieve covert communication. However, most of the existing works on the airspace covert communication represented by MIMO need to adapt to the channel state and cannot improve the channel, resulting in the performance bottleneck of covert communication. The intelligent reflective surface (IRS) provides a new perspective for the covert communication by flexibly adjusting the reflection phase shift of the incident signal and intelligently configuring the wireless channel. However, the potential of IRS in the covert communication is far from being fully exploited. To solve this issue, this paper firstly performs a comprehensive literature review on the secure communication with the aid of federated learning, and then gives some challenges on the secure communication in poor channel state. In further, this paper provides some solutions to the challenges on the secure communication, where some results are provided to show the advantages. The research results have important theoretical and practical significance for forming a new research paradigm of airspace intelligent and controllable covert communication and promoting the application and popularization of covert communication in various fields of security.

Using a Nominal Group Technique to Develop a Science Communication Curriculum for Health Professionals and Clinical Researchers

Effective science communication is fundamental to closing the gap from research and innovation to clinical implementation. Existing paradigms of science communication are often challenged by a lack of skill and engagement, particularly from those who progress the science. Currently, a standardized curriculum on science communication, with global applicability, does not exist. The purpose of this project is to address the gap in training by health professionals and clinical researchers through the development of a globally relevant curriculum for science communication. The nominal group technique (NGT) was used whereby a convenience sample of eleven science communication experts from across the globe generated, discussed, and arrived at a consensus on topics that should be included in a standardized science communication curriculum. Experts represented diverse backgrounds within the health sciences. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and geographical constraints, the NGT was conducted virtually. The consensus-building methodology allowed for each expert to equally present ideas and collaborate with one another to create a robust and comprehensive curriculum for effective science communication. Expert panelists reached a consensus on 10 essential components of a standardized global science communication curriculum. Following the refinement of the curriculum topic areas, a virtual meeting with project co-investigators was held to review the topics and discuss relevance, applicability, and appeal to the local contexts. A standardized science communication curriculum is needed for health professionals and clinical researchers. The NGT achieved expert consensus on the core topics. The next steps are to develop the course ensuring optimal participation from learners across the globe.

Internalization of Nationalism Values as A Pattern of Communication in Balinese Hindus' Religiosity

The aim of the present analysis of the internalization of nationalism values as a pattern of communication in Balinese Hindus' religiosity is to identify the understanding and appreciation of Balinese Hindus towards Nationalism through state symbols in their religious practices a medium of worship to God Almighty. The data for this study were obtained through observation, interviews, and literature study using primary data sources from 15 informants as well as secondary data sources. The approach herein focuses on the communication paradigm by interpreting the meaning of the phenomenon of society using symbols. The Symbolic Interaction Theory, the Theory of Religion, and the Theory of Symbiosis Mutualism as the analysis tools. Data analysis concluded that Hindus in Bali highly uphold the values of Nationalism through transcendental communication and religious communication with various religious attitudes and state symbols as a medium of worship to God, who has blessed their struggle to achieve independence. For this reason, Hinduism and the State formed a symbiosis mutualism because they complement and reinforce religious values, human values, unity, consensus deliberation, and values of social justice.

Internalization of Nationalism Values as A Pattern of Communication in Balinese Hindus' Religiosity

The aim of the present analysis of the internalization of nationalism values as a pattern of communication in Balinese Hindus' religiosity is to identify the understanding and appreciation of Balinese Hindus towards Nationalism through state symbols in their religious practices a medium of worship to God Almighty. The data for this study were obtained through observation, interviews, and literature study using primary data sources from 15 informants as well as secondary data sources. The approach herein focuses on the communication paradigm by interpreting the meaning of the phenomenon of society using symbols. The Symbolic Interaction Theory, the Theory of Religion, and the Theory of Symbiosis Mutualism as the analysis tools. Data analysis concluded that Hindus in Bali highly uphold the values of Nationalism through transcendental communication and religious communication with various religious attitudes and state symbols as a medium of worship to God, who has blessed their struggle to achieve independence. For this reason, Hinduism and the State formed a symbiosis mutualism because they complement and reinforce religious values, human values, unity, consensus deliberation, and values of social justice.

KINESIC Communication in the Qur’an (Research of Kinesic Verses in the Facial Region in the Qur'an)

This research will develop a new understanding for scholars and the Muslim community regarding nonverbal communication from the perspective of the Qur'an. The claim to be a holy book causes the Qur'an to be seen as the word of God, which should talk about various things, including nonverbal aspects of the human face and things related to them (postures and gestures that accompany facial muscle dynamics). On that basis, this research was conducted to answer questions related to kinesic or non-verbal communication from the perspective of the Qur'an. Using the primary data source of Al-Qur'an texts and al-Farmawy's thematic interpretation (mauḍū'i) research method, the results of this study show that, different from conventional secularistic nonverbal or kinesic communication paradigms, the Al-Qur'an paradigm is based on religious ideas that are sacred, futuristic, and emphasize the inseparable relationship between social and transcendental aspects. The verses of the Al-Qur'an not only affirm the positivism and functional aspects of conventional communication science but even express ideas that conventional communication science does not have namely, about the nonverbal of the human face before death and in the second life after death.

Semantic Communications With Discrete-Time Analog Transmission: A PAPR Perspective

Recent progress in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has led to a new paradigm of semantic communications. Two salient features of DeepJSCC-based semantic communications are the exploitation of semantic-aware features directly from the source signal, and the discrete-time analog transmission (DTAT) of these features. Compared with traditional digital communications, semantic communications with DeepJSCC provide superior reconstruction performance at the receiver and graceful degradation with diminishing channel quality, but also exhibit a large peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in the transmitted signal. An open question has been whether the gains of DeepJSCC come at the expense of high-PAPR continuous-amplitude signal, which can limit its adoption in practice. In this letter, we first show that conventional DeepJSCC does suffer from high PAPR. Then, we explore three PAPR reduction techniques and confirm that the superior image reconstruction performance of DeepJSCC can be retained while the PAPR is suppressed to an acceptable level. This is an important step towards the implementation of DeepJSCC in practical semantic communication systems.

“Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology”: On Habermas’ reflections and hypotheses on a further structural transformation of the political public sphere

“Ideology and simultaneously more than mere ideology”: On Habermas’ reflections and hypotheses on a further structural transformation of the political public sphere

5. Visual Communication in Cultural Media. The Rashomon Effect in the Image Globalization Paradigm

Abstract The nowadays communication paradigm shifts in the context of new media emergence, as we consider the internet and social media as sovereign communicative mediums. From cinema to press, advertising, art, or new-mediatic context, we assist to a global communication process which encompasses both the technological virtues of digitality, and the subjective truths of a collective cultural memory process. Based on the active principle of “the Rashomon effect,” we will investigate the advertising patterns, the news dissemination, and the everyday culture of images, and we will attempt to summarise the outcome of our position as (inter)active players in this globalised media environment. Since we are both creators and consumers of cultural information in the “global village,” we work with a wide array of communication supports which define our very identity as “information matrix processors.” We are creating both the context and the vehicle of this paradigm where the information is the main currency, and the visual communication become a medium by itself which opens a variety of directions of analysis for critical understanding of today’s cultural phenomenon

Dynamic Transmission Mode Selection for Multi-Modal Services

Multi-modal services, which integrate emerging haptic signals with audio-video signals, are expected to further improve user’s immersive experience. However, traditional audio-video communication schemes fail to simultaneously meet various transmission requests of low latency, high reliability, and high throughput. To resolve this problem, based on the existing communication paradigms, a dynamic multi-modal service transmission mode selection strategy is proposed. Firstly, according to different types of multi-modal services, three transmission strategies are proposed to satisfy different transmission requests. And a rule for mode selection and resource allocation is designed. Secondly, an improved multi-objective optimization algorithm based on NSGA3 is proposed to select modes and allocate resources, which improves communication performance as much as possible, and achieves better resource utilization efficiency. Finally, simulation results show the effectiveness of proposed method.

How Can Geoscience Communication Foster Public Engagement with Geoconservation?

Geoscience and geodiversity, two sides of the same coin, deal with very poor social visibility and recognition. Ensuring the protection of geodiversity is not only in the geoscientists’ hands and all of society needs to be involved. Therefore, public engagement with geodiversity demands new solutions and a change of paradigm in geoscience communication. Most of the science communication activities undertaken by geoscientists, even when they use modern approaches and technologies, are mainly designed based on empirical experience, laid on didactical approaches and assuming the public’s knowledge deficit. In order to engage the society with geodiversity, it is not enough to focus on scientific literacy and deficit models in which lack of knowledge is considered to be the main obstacle between science and society. It is fundamental to establish a commitment between society and science based on dialogue where lay public is not seen anymore as a single entity with a knowledge deficit. Non-experts must become also protagonists in scientific decisions with social impact and integrate their knowledge and concerns in public participation and decision-making. Engagement with geoscience and geodiversity would benefit from more effective and targeted communication strategies, with different approaches to engage with communities, local stakeholders, media, students and teachers, scientific community, tourists, politicians or policy-makers, and groups with different concerns and distinct relations with science. In the last 20 years, science communication research has made many relevant contributions in order to promote more participatory processes with which society is asked to engage. Regarding geoscience communication as a discipline, it is a very recent Earth science branch that also incorporates social science, behavioral science, and science communication, but still lacks a clear and formal definition. This study provides a comprehensive review of the literature in order to develop a conceptual framework for geoscience communication research, identifying the main challenges and opportunities.

Semantic segmentation-based semantic communication system for image transmission

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the widespread use of the Internet of Things, semantic communication, as an emerging communication paradigm, has been attracting great interest. Taking image transmission as an example, from the semantic communication's view, not all pixels in the images are equally important for certain receivers. The existing semantic communication systems directly perform semantic encoding and decoding on the whole image, in which the region of interest cannot be identified. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic communication system for image transmission that can distinguish between Regions Of Interest (ROI) and Regions Of Non-Interest (RONI) based on semantic segmentation, where a semantic segmentation algorithm is used to classify each pixel of the image and distinguish ROI and RONI. The system also enables high-quality transmission of ROI with lower communication overheads by transmissions through different semantic communication networks with different bandwidth requirements. An improved metric θPSNR is proposed to evaluate the transmission accuracy of the novel semantic transmission network. Experimental results show that our proposed system achieves a significant performance improvement compared with existing approaches, namely, existing semantic communication approaches and the conventional approach without semantics.

Spatiotemporal Acoustic Communication by a Single Sensor via Rotational Doppler Effect.

A longstanding pursuit in information communication is to increase transmission capacity and accuracy, with multiplexing technology playing as a promising solution. To overcome the challenges of limited spatial information density and systematic complexity in acoustic communication, here real-time spatiotemporal communication is proposed and experimentally demonstrated by a single sensor based on the rotational Doppler effect. The information carried in multiplexed orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) channels is transformed into the physical quantities of the temporal harmonic waveform and simultaneously detected by a single sensor. This single-sensor configuration is independent of the channel number and encoding scheme. The parallel transmission of complicated images is demonstrated by multiplexing eight OAM channels and achieving an extremely-low bit error rate (BER)exceeding 0.02%, owing to the intrinsic discrete frequency shift of the rotational Doppler effect. The immunity to inner-mode crosstalk and robustness to noise of the simple and low-cost communication paradigm offers promising potential to promote relevant fields.

Using publish/subscribe for message routing in mobile environments

Publish/subscribe is a mature communication paradigm to route and deliver events from publishers to interested subscribers. Initially conceived for large scale systems, e.g., the Internet, it has been used more recently in new scenarios, e.g., wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), where mobility and dynamicity are the norm. The loose-coupling and asynchronicity of publish/subscribe makes it an interesting choice for IoT scenarios, i.e., each node in an IoT network can choose a different role depending on its location, capabilities, etc. This paper presents MFT-PubSub, a fully mobile and fault tolerant content-based publish/subscribe protocol. Our proposal is a purely reactive solution for mobility in a publish/subscribe system without any kind of limits on the mobility patterns of the nodes. A wireless ad hoc network is created without the need of any previous connections or knowledge on the nodes. Handling the mobility, be it physical or logical, of both clients and brokers. We prove the validity of our solution by experimentation, and compare it with AODV, a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networking. The simulations show an improvement on message delivery rate over previously used protocols.

Signal Processing Techniques for 6G

6G networks have the burden to provide not only higher performance compared to 5G, but also to enable new service domains as well as to open the door over a new paradigm of mobile communication. This paper presents an overview on the role and key challenges of signal processing (SP) in future 6G systems and networks from the conditioning of the signal at transmission to MIMO precoding and detection, from channel coding to channel estimation, from multicarrier and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to optical wireless communications and physical layer security (PLS). We describe also the core future research challenges on technologies including machine learning based 6G design, integrated communications and sensing (ISAC), and the internet of bio-nano-things.

Collaborative Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Service Internet of Vehicles

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a recently introduced paradigm aiming at extending the Internet of Things (IoT) toward the vehicular scenario in order to cope with its specific requirements. Nowadays, there are several types of vehicles, with different characteristics, requested services, and delivered data types. In order to efficiently manage such heterogeneity, Edge Computing facilities are often deployed in the urban environment, usually co-located with the roadside units (RSUs), for creating what is referenced as vehicular edge computing (VEC). In this article, we consider a joint network selection and computation offloading optimization problem in multiservice VEC environments, aiming at minimizing the overall latency and the consumed energy in an IoV scenario. Two novel collaborative <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -learning-based approaches are proposed, where vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication paradigms are exploited, respectively. In the first approach, we define a collaborative <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -learning method in which, through V2I communications, several vehicles participate in the training process of a centralized <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$Q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -agent. In the second approach, by exploiting the V2V communications, each vehicle is made aware of the surrounding environment and the potential offloading neighbors, leading to better decisions in terms of network selection and offloading. In addition to the tabular method, an advanced deep learning-based approach is also used for the action value estimation, allowing to handle more complex vehicular scenarios. Simulation results show that the proposed approaches improve the network performance in terms of latency and consumed energy with respect to some benchmark solutions.

Where is ‘the political’ in the journal Political Communication? On the hegemonic articulation of a disciplinary identity

ABSTRACT Critical scholars have long critiqued the circumscribed theoretical boundaries of political communication research in its dominant disciplinary identity. This identity is usually attributed to the hegemonic authority of a functionalist paradigm of political communication anchored in the use of positivist epistemologies and quantitative methods. This article revisits these old debates from a post-foundational discourse theoretical perspective, drawing on arguments about the ontological implications of ‘the political’ to examine political communication’s hegemonic disciplinary form. The primarily theoretical argument is supported by an elementary empirical method that examines how the signifiers ‘ontology’ and ‘the political,’ and theorists associated with that vocabulary, are cited in a 24-year archive of articles from the journal Political Communication which we frame as a proxy for the dominant disciplinary identity. We argue that the relative invisibility of an otherwise influential political ontology literature in the journal supports our argument about the lack of theoretical pluralism in political communication research and suggests the enduring authority of a dominant disciplinary habitus that, even when it recognizes paradigmatic differences, sees methodological virtue as the guarantee of scholarly rigour. We end by reflecting on the politics of how different (inter)disciplinary identities are articulated in communication studies.