Analysis Of Digital Communication Research Articles

Dynamics of Social Interaction in Virtual English Classes: A Virtual Ethnographic Approach

During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual learning has been applied in the field of education until now. Virtual learning is a new method of learning that certainly provides significant impacts and challenges in English language learning. The impact of virtual learning certainly facilitates the interaction between teachers and students in English classes. As online learning environments become increasingly prevalent, understanding the nuanced social interactions in these settings is crucial. However, virtual learning also provides obstacles in the teaching and learning process. This research employed a virtual ethnographic approach to investigate the dynamics of social interaction within virtual English classes at Esa Unggul University. Through an ethnographic lens, this study delves into the multifaceted nature of interactions among students and lecturers in virtual English classes. Utilizing qualitative data collection methods such as classroom observation, questionnaires, interviews, and analysis of digital communication, shaping social dynamics in the virtual classroom. The findings illuminate the complexities of social interaction, highlighting the role of technology, communication styles, and cultural influences in shaping virtual learning environments. This study's insights contribute to a deeper comprehension of social dynamics in online educational settings and offer valuable implications for optimizing engagement and fostering meaningful interactions in virtual English classes.

Effect Analysis of Digital Communication of Social Media from the Perspective of New Media

At a time when everyone is using social media, new media gives people a new form of communication, digital communication. In the present digital communication, it has completely different characteristics from traditional media and changes peoples lives imperceptibly. People are no longer focused on the content of newspapers or magazines but more focused on global and personal content. Media is no longer something only professionals can use. Everyone can become a celebrity on the Internet. This essay analyzes the characteristics of digital communication brought by new media and what impression and harm it brings to creators, users, and advertisers, respectively. According to the research findings, social media has the characteristics of diversity, real-time, globalization and personalization. It gives creators a wider range of creative space, makes it easier for advertisers to find their target audience, and allows users to improve their Internet experience. While providing internet convenience, there are also risk of network security.

Design and Analysis of Digital Communication Within an SoC-Based Control System for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing

Design and Analysis of Digital Communication Within an SoC-Based Control System for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing

"Boundary Formation" Within Mutual Aid Assemblages.

As grassroots user/survivor movements gained traction across the Global North, mental health activists have provided mutual aid for those who consider themselves to be negatively affected by their psychiatrization experiences and for those in search of alternative (non-biopsychiatric) frameworks for understanding mental diversity. In addition to in-person support groups, digital communication has become an integral organizing mechanism for mutual aid actions to support those in mental distress. However, activists have often found both digital and face-to-face communication to be quite taxing to their own well-being-as they negotiate personal capacity to respond to collective needs and practice self-care through limiting their engagements in radical mental health communities. While engaging in an ethnography with a mutual aid community in the United States, I explored the use of "boundary formation" to set parameters for social engagement within digital support and face-to-face encounters. Semi-structured interviews with 14 participants, focus group discussions, participatory observation, and an analysis of digital communication revealed that group members often discussed setting personal boundaries as an act of self-care, a recognition of the pitfalls associated withengaging in group dynamics during times of mental distress, and as a practice to ensure communal longevity. The ways that participants discussed and enacted boundary formation are analyzed in this paperas a way of blocking, redirecting, and restructuring digital and in-person engagements within mutual aid assemblages.

In Pursuit of Theoretical Ground in Behavior Change Support Systems: Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Communication in a Health-Related Online Community.

BackgroundResearch studies involving health-related online communities have focused on examining network structure to understand mechanisms underlying behavior change. Content analysis of the messages exchanged in these communities has been limited to the “social support” perspective. However, existing behavior change theories suggest that message content plays a prominent role reflecting several sociocognitive factors that affect an individual’s efforts to make a lifestyle change. An understanding of these factors is imperative to identify and harness the mechanisms of behavior change in the Health 2.0 era.ObjectiveThe objective of this work is two-fold: (1) to harness digital communication data to capture essential meaning of communication and factors affecting a desired behavior change, and (2) to understand the applicability of existing behavior change theories to characterize peer-to-peer communication in online platforms.MethodsIn this paper, we describe grounded theory–based qualitative analysis of digital communication in QuitNet, an online community promoting smoking cessation. A database of 16,492 de-identified public messages from 1456 users from March 1-April 30, 2007, was used in our study. We analyzed 795 messages using grounded theory techniques to ensure thematic saturation. This analysis enabled identification of key concepts contained in the messages exchanged by QuitNet members, allowing us to understand the sociobehavioral intricacies underlying an individual’s efforts to cease smoking in a group setting. We further ascertained the relevance of the identified themes to theoretical constructs in existing behavior change theories (eg, Health Belief Model) and theoretically linked techniques of behavior change taxonomy.ResultsWe identified 43 different concepts, which were then grouped under 12 themes based on analysis of 795 messages. Examples of concepts include “sleepiness,” “pledge,” “patch,” “spouse,” and “slip.” Examples of themes include “traditions,” “social support,” “obstacles,” “relapse,” and “cravings.” Results indicate that themes consisting of member-generated strategies such as “virtual bonfires” and “pledges” were related to the highest number of theoretical constructs from the existing behavior change theories. In addition, results indicate that the member-generated communication content supports sociocognitive constructs from more than one behavior change model, unlike the majority of the existing theory-driven interventions.ConclusionsWith the onset of mobile phones and ubiquitous Internet connectivity, online social network data reflect the intricacies of human health behavior as experienced by health consumers in real time. This study offers methodological insights for qualitative investigations that examine the various kinds of behavioral constructs prevalent in the messages exchanged among users of online communities. Theoretically, this study establishes the manifestation of existing behavior change theories in QuitNet-like online health communities. Pragmatically, it sets the stage for real-time, data-driven sociobehavioral interventions promoting healthy lifestyle modifications by allowing us to understand the emergent user needs to sustain a desired behavior change.

Dynamic Key Distribution Scheme Based on Complex Network Synchronization

As a low-consumption, low-cost, distributed self-organized network, wireless sensor network communicates as a self-similar, small-world and scale-free complex network. Based on the defects analysis of digital communication and sufficient necessary condition of analog signal synchronization, we proposed a novel key distribution scheme in this paper. While some performance analyses as well as some prospects are also given in the end.

Fiber optic pressure sensor based on a single-mode fiber F–P cavity

In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a pressure sensor based on birefringent single-mode fiber F–P cavity using optical heterodyne. The proof of concept device consists of a light source, a polarizer controller, a modulator, a RF generator, a single-mode fiber Fabry–Perot cavity, a strain inspector, an erbium doped fiber amplifier, a filter, a polarizer, an optical spectrum analyzer, and a digital communication analyzer. The dynamic range of the proposed sensor is explored. The results demonstrate the new concept of fiber pressure sensors and the technical feasibility for pressure measurements.

Optical Microwave and Millimeter Generation by Using Birefringent Fiber FP Cavity with Pulse Laser Injection

A novel optical microwave and millimeter generation by using single mode fiber FP cavity (SMFFPC) with pulse laser injection is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The frequency of output signal is determined by the birefringence degree of the SMFFPC, a general relationship between output signal frequency of SMFFPC and birefringence degree of single mode fiber is derived. The proof of concept device consists of a light source, a polarizer controller, a modulator, a RF generator, a single mode fiber Fabry-Perot cavity, a strain inspector, an erbium doped fiber amplifier, a filter, a polarizer, and a digital communication analyzer. The results demonstrate the new concept of optical microwave and millimeter generation and the technical feasibility.

A unified performance analysis of digital communication with dual selective combining diversity over correlated Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading channels

Using a simple finite integral representation for the bivariate Rayleigh (1889) cumulative distribution function previously discovered by the authors, we present expressions for the outage probability and average error probability performances of a dual selective diversity system with correlated slow Rayleigh fading either in closed form (in particular for binary differential phase-shift keying) or in terms of a single integral with finite limits and an integrand composed of elementary (exponential and trigonometric) functions. Because of their simple form, these expressions readily allow numerical evaluation for cases of practical interest. The results are also extended to the case of slow Nakagami-m fading using an alternate representation of the generalized Marcum (1950) Q-function.

A unified approach to the performance analysis of digital communication over generalized fading channels

Presented here is a unified approach to evaluating the error-rate performance of digital communication systems operating over a generalized fading channel. What enables the unification is the recognition of the desirable form for alternate representations of the Gaussian and Marcum Q-functions that are characteristic of error-probability expressions for coherent, differentially coherent, and noncoherent forms of detection. It is shown that in the largest majority of cases, these error-rate expressions can be put in the form of a single integral with finite limits and an integrand composed of elementary functions, thus readily enabling numerical evaluation.