Communication Discipline Research Articles

The Communities of Inquiry pedagogy in higher education

This paper argues that the Communities of Inquiry pedagogy provides valuable guidance for the design and implementation of higher education learning environments. The paper outlines the essential features of the pedagogy and its alignment with social constructivist approaches to education. The pedagogy can help students to understand how knowledge develops in their discipline and to take their own place as members of a disciplinary community. It can be helpful in the online environment in suggesting ways that digital tools can support collaborative, knowledge-building discourse.

Materialising semiotic repertoires: challenges in the interactional analysis of multilingual communication

ABSTRACT This article takes the inquiry into semiotic repertoires beyond their classifications and inventories to analyse their interactions with each other and the way they gain indexicality in situated communication. As previous theorisation suggests that semiotic repertoires are deployed by agentive individuals, this article draws from New Materialism to focus on how social agents, semiotic repertoires, and material ecologies work together in distributed practice for meaning making. Expanding sociolinguistic constructs for this purpose, the article defines the relevant units and objects of analysis, and illustrates the framing of activities in indexing the values, meanings, and relationships of semiotic repertoires. The role of these repertoires in the interaction of an international community of scientists is analysed through the research group meeting of a team of microbiologists. The article demonstrates that though the focal participant from Korea claims limited English grammatical proficiency in his personal repertoire, he draws strategically from the repertoires in the physical setting and those of his disciplinary community to communicate successfully.

Epistemological similarities, prestige hierarchies, and double major combinations

ABSTRACT With increasing knowledge specialization, disciplines continuously communicate and contest the boundaries of knowledge. Within the dynamic space of collaboration and communication between fields that has ensued, it is not clear whether these new boundaries are aligned to knowledge similarities, or to prestige overlaps. In this article, I explore the significant case example of college double major combinations to show: (1) how the configuration and availability of double major programs are linked to the epistemological and social aspects of the disciplines; and (2) the ways in which disciplinary communication is shaped by students’ choices. Using a large administrative data set of undergraduate students, I show that students’ choices of double majors maintain knowledge boundaries, as proposed by the epistemological essentialism approach. However, when students deviate from this dominant pattern, their choices align with the prestige of the field; this leads to a unique structure of combinations, but also creates hierarchies based on knowledge combinations.

Another Voice in the Room: Negotiating Authority in Multidisciplinary Writing Groups

Scholarship has shown that writing groups are important sites of authority negotiation for student writers, yet little empirical research has examined how groups negotiate authority through conversation or how these negotiations influence students’ developing expertise. Drawing on observations and interviews of an undergraduate thesis and a graduate dissertation writing group, I use the concept of “presentification” to analyze conversational moments in which group members referenced advisors, “making present” advisor authority to influence group collaborations. Specifically, I analyze these moments to show how writing groups can serve as low-stakes communities in which students negotiate their emerging sense of authority. I found that whereas less experienced writers looked to advisors to solve writing problems and used advisor authority to stand in for disciplinary expertise, more experienced writers voiced advisor guidance to help pose writing problems and negotiate their own stance as disciplinary experts. This study thus theorizes one process through which student writers negotiate emerging authority across sites of literate practice and in collaboration with others who may not themselves be members of the same disciplinary community.

Exploring the Interdisciplinary Nature of Precision Medicine：Network Analysis and Visualization.

BackgroundInterdisciplinary research is an important feature of precision medicine. However, the accurate cross-disciplinary status of precision medicine is still unclear.ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to present the nature of interdisciplinary collaboration in precision medicine based on co-occurrences and social network analysis.MethodsA total of 7544 studies about precision medicine, published between 2010 and 2019, were collected from the Web of Science database. We analyzed interdisciplinarity with descriptive statistics, co-occurrence analysis, and social network analysis. An evolutionary graph and strategic diagram were created to clarify the development of streams and trends in disciplinary communities.ResultsThe results indicate that 105 disciplines are involved in precision medicine research and cover a wide range. However, the disciplinary distribution is unbalanced. Current cross-disciplinary collaboration in precision medicine mainly focuses on clinical application and technology-associated disciplines. The characteristics of the disciplinary collaboration network are as follows: (1) disciplinary cooperation in precision medicine is not mature or centralized; (2) the leading disciplines are absent; (3) the pattern of disciplinary cooperation is mostly indirect rather than direct. There are 7 interdisciplinary communities in the precision medicine collaboration network; however, their positions in the network differ. Community 4, with disciplines such as genetics and heredity in the core position, is the most central and cooperative discipline in the interdisciplinary network. This indicates that Community 4 represents a relatively mature direction in interdisciplinary cooperation in precision medicine. Finally, according to the evolution graph, we clearly present the development streams of disciplinary collaborations in precision medicine. We describe the scale and the time frame for development trends and distributions in detail. Importantly, we use evolution graphs to accurately estimate the developmental trend of precision medicine, such as biological big data processing, molecular imaging, and widespread clinical applications.ConclusionsThis study can help researchers, clinicians, and policymakers comprehensively understand the overall network of interdisciplinary cooperation in precision medicine. More importantly, we quantitatively and precisely present the history of interdisciplinary cooperation and accurately predict the developing trends of interdisciplinary cooperation in precision medicine.

АКТУАЛЬНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ ВИКЛАДАННЯ ДИСЦИПЛІНГУМАНІТАРНОГО ЦИКЛУ В АГРАРНИХ ЗАКЛАДАХ ОСВІТИ

The topical issues of teaching humanitarian disciplines at the agrarian university are analyzed in the article. Their place in the system of students ‘professional training is defined. The author draws attention to the rethinking of the experience of future agrarian’s professional training and considers it from the point of humanization of the learning process, which implies a qualitative change of priorities. It was found that the purpose of higher agricultural education is to train general cultural, creative, creative individuals. Analysis of the state of professional training of future specialists in agricultural educational institutions revealed shortcomings in the humanization of the process of training future specialists, namely: first, the discrepancy between the need for socio-humanitarian training and the amount of time allocated in educational plans for disciplines. humanitarian cycle; secondly, the overload of educational programs and textbooks with factual material, and then the emphasis on the transfer of knowledge, skills, abilities instead of comprehensive and comprehensive development of personality; third, insufficient implementation of a personality-oriented approach to learning; fourth, the traditional nature of the organization of the educational process, due to the traditional training of teachers, lack of innovative approaches to teaching, lack of awareness of the latest learning technologies. The current strict regulation of curricula leads to their congestion, and the contradiction between the large amount of material and the limited number of hours for its study in some way forces the teacher of the humanities cycle to limit the reproductive nature of teaching. It is noted that humanitarian training in agricultural educational institutions is aimed at the development and improvement of personal qualities. In order to optimize the humanities, their content should be updated to take into account the achievements of modern science; to introduce new disciplines aimed at improving personal qualities; use innovative technologies, innovative methods and forms of education; introduction of communicative disciplines – public speaking, discussion in small groups aimed at the development of critical thinking in students and the development of creative abilities. The real obstacles and shortcomings in the implementation of humanitarian training are highlighted, the peculiarities of the construction of the educational process, its content, activity and methodological components, the need fora comprehensive solution to the problem are emphasized.Key words: agricultural education, vocational training, social and humanitarian training, higher education, future agrarian.

Intercultural Communication at the Heart of a Translation Quality Assessment Model

Abstract Effective communication is crucial in a globalized communication technology-driven world. Translation and communication disciplines seem to meet in the field of Intercultural Communication, the study of communication between individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Translation, an interlinguistic and intercultural enterprise, generates quality translation products which portray not only a suitable linguistic format but also a cross- cultural component carefully thought out by expert translators. Fully aware of their responsibility in developing translator-to- be intercultural communication competence, higher education institutions did make their contributions for their graduates to become expert translators producing quality translations. Two such proposals are analysed to discern whether a traditional general approach effectively includes relevant intercultural components identified in a more recent study. At the outset, Lee-Jahnke’s 2001 comprehensive translation quality assessment model is explored to find out the extent and manner in which intercultural matters are taken in, thus making the evaluation tool suitable for academic and field work assessment. Then, PICT’s 2012 specific intercultural competence framework, developed as part of European Union- funded “Promoting Intercultural Competence in Translators” project, is reviewed to identify specific intercultural competence fields and show their degree of correspondence with relevant sections in the general assessment model and its adequacy for judging translation quality.

Research on the Teaching of Visual Communication Design Based on Digital Technology

In the era of big data, the rapid development of information technology has made the sharing of data and information more free, bringing convenience to the public, but at the same time, the massive amount of data also brings “information anxiety.” In this paper, we use the knowledge of design discipline, combined with psychological cognitive science, statistics, and communication discipline, and analyze a large number of excellent cases to effectively combine “information visualization‐visual representation‐design.” The purpose of this study is to enable audiences to efficiently access information through visual symbols in a large amount of data and to increase their interest in reading and satisfaction in accessing information. As a carrier of communication between designers and audiences in the process of visual representation of information visualization, visual symbols can effectively convey information content and emotional concepts to audiences. Finally, based on the theoretical support of the previous paper, combined with our own practical experience, we conduct a systematic study on the application of design thinking and the construction of design methods for the design of visual representations of information visualization. A comparative study on the aesthetics of different categories of APP interface design is conducted, and it is believed that different categories of APP can create distinctive and different categories of APP interface aesthetics through the differentiated design of interface layout, content expression, and visual form, which is considered as the ultimate goal that APP interface design must pursue. Visual representation is a method and means to realize information visualization as a representation practice that expresses the meaning of information in the form of visual symbols. The visual representation of information visualization uses visual symbols as a medium, and the audience interprets the visual symbols based on cognitive experience to obtain information, which helps to maximize the dissemination of information.

Which Came First: Literacy or Social Studies? How Primary Sources Can Bridge the Divide

Due to the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the Common Core State Standards, disciplinary literacy has become a vital component of social studies instruction in middle and secondary classrooms. This paper determines the degree to which nine middle and high school social studies teachers were successful in designing integrated learning experiences for their students after attending professional development. Data from semi-structured interviews, teachers’ instructional units, workshop surveys and field notes were collected and analyzed for the qualitative study. The study considers how teachers’ instructional units incorporated primary sources to support students’ foundational literacy skills, scaffolded disciplinary understanding, historical analysis, and highlighted community issues that connected their lived experiences to broader social concerns.

Importance of Technical and Professional Writing Certificate Program in a Japanese Computer Science Context

Technical communication (TC) as a subject, and more so a department in the university curriculum are few and far between in the Japanese educational context, even with STEM education. As part of this paper, an exploratory pilot study is described explaining the overall importance of such a TC certificate program and how an optional TC feeder course could help students understand the value of the TC and professional communication (PC) discipline for a typical Japanese computer science academic context, in preparation for the job market. Further, such a TC-focused introductory feeder course helps the university administration, students and teachers better understand how computer science as a discipline should also emphasize on technical and professional writing and communication skills in the language curriculum, for better project management, and helping students develop soft skills for the market. Further, another strong argument for such coursework (offered in English as a medium of instruction) is also related to developing students’ entrepreneurial and transition skills for the market. This paper highlighted on one such rare certificate program and feeder course in the computer science (CS) department of a Japanese technical university which helped students understand the scope of the market, how technical communication as a discipline has wide-ranging opportunities, besides helping students develop basic understanding of content areas such as manual and information design, usability, content management and delivery, technical language, visualisation etc. Finally, the paper ends with a discussion of a few of the well-known TC certificate programs and TC organizational infrastructure in the US academia, and how we can catch up with that trend in Japanese higher education.

Most effective educational technologies in the era of coronavirus: Casestudy and e-learning Russian as a foreign language

The article substantiates the need for the use of the most effective educational technologies in the process of distance teaching communication disciplines in the era of coronavirus. As the main effective educational distance technology, the case-study method is presented. It allows to identify the competence level of students with the maximum of communication completeness. The content of the cases is given, the conditions and features of their use in new reality of self-isolation and distance teaching are revealed, the technology of case development is considered, and the method of the case-study application role games is presented. The article presents some results of using case-study method in teaching English language speaking students a Russian language writing. Online case-study technology brings the learning process closer to the real practice of preparing texts of different journalism genres and style. This is fully facilitated by two role games as follow: “The interview with a director of a theatre performance” and “The writing a feature article”. During the role game “The interview with a director of a theatre performance” students should prepare, conduct, and record the interview with a director of a theatre performance, and then present it (the interview) online in the form of an article designed for a newspaper or magazine, having stood the formal and substantive requirements of the genre of interview. During the role game “The writing a feature article” in accordance with the topic proposed by teacher, students should identify the problem to be analyzed, determine the vector of representation of the examined problem, and write a feature article due to its genre-forming and genre-defining parameters

SOSYAL MEDYA EKSENLİ İLETİŞİM ARAŞTIRMALARI: KONULAR, KURAMLAR, YÖNTEMLER

Today, social media research occupies an important place in the communication discipline. The most likely reason for this is that with the increasing prevalence of social media, communication scholars have turned their attention to this area. This study focuses on social media research in the communication discipline. The aim of the study is to reveal research trends and patterns of social media-based communication research. To achieve this, the study analyzes 120 articles published between 2011 and 2020 in academic journals indexed in Web of Science and with a high number of citations. By using qualitative content analysis technique, each article was examined and coded under six categories: (i). primary topic of the study, (ii). use of theories or theoretical models, (iii). types of sample, (iv). research methods, (v). social media platform, (vi). research area/locations. The findings help to understand general research trends and patterns in social media research conducted in the communication discipline.

İletişim Biliminin Oluşumunda Pozitivist Epistemolojinin Rolü

İletişim bilimi, teknik ve teorik bilginin yakınlaşmasını sağlayan pozitivist epistemolojinin bir sonucudur. Bu yakınlaşma eğiliminin temel motivasyonunu ideal bir toplumsal düzene ulaşma isteği oluşturmaktadır. Fizik biliminde devrim yaratan buluşların etkisi ile 17. yüzyıldan beri insan düşünce ve davranışlarını kontrol etmenin yasalarını oluşturmaya çalışan düşünürlerin teorileri, 20. yüzyılda kitle iletişim araçlarında gerçekleşen gelişme sayesinde uygulamaya yönelik bir hal almıştır. 17. yüzyıldan beri pozitivist epistemolojinin en güvenilir bilgisi olan fizik biliminin, teorinin pratiğe geçmesinde önemli katkıları vardır. Fizik bilimi birçok sosyal bilimler disiplinin oluşumuna etki ettiği gibi, iletişim biliminin oluşumuna da etki etmiştir. 20. yüzyılın başlarında sosyal bilimler disiplinlerini ilişkisel bir şekilde ele alan iletişim bilimi, toplumsal değişimi açıklamaktan ziyade gerçekleştirmek sorunsalına odaklanan bir bilim dalıdır. İletişim bilimine bilimsel meşruluk konusunda getirilen en temel eleştiri, temel bir epistemolojiye sahip olmadığıdır. İlginçtir ki iletişim biliminin oluşumuna etkisi olan pozitivist epistemoloji, bilimsel meşruluk tartışmalarının da konusudur. Bu tartışmanın oluşmasını sağlayan iki temel konu vardır: 1) İletişim disiplinini sosyal bilimler içerisinde pozitivist bir temele oturtma çabası, 2) doğa bilimlerinin felsefi yorumunu yaparken düşülen hatadır. Çalışmada, doğa bilimleri ve sosyal bilimler arasındaki etkileşimi gerçekleştiren pozitivist epistemolojinin, iletişim biliminin oluşumundaki rolü literatür taraması yöntemi ile araştırılacaktır. Bu bağlamda iletişimin biliminin bilimsel meşruiyeti konusundaki tartışmalara yanıt aranacaktır.

An Empirical Approach on Pre-roll Advertising through Narrative Ads and FoMO

The narrative impact has long been studied in the marketing communication discipline and associated with different advertising topics. In this context, the present study aims to explore connections among narrative ads, intrusiveness perception, and skipping behavior within the scope of digital video advertising. Besides, fear of missing out (FoMO), which is predicted to be related to the mentioned pre-roll advertising factors was included as another independent variable in the research process. Thus, the connections of narrative ads and FoMO with pre-roll advertising were compared. An experimental design was conducted to test research hypotheses, and data were collected through within-subjects repeated measures procedure. While the findings supported the impact of narrative ads on advertising avoidance, no significant correlation of FoMO with skipping habit has been reported.

Multilingual Genre Practices in International Relations

Globalisation has produced not only denser, but also linguistically more complex communication networks. Multilingual practices have transformed the academic and professional lives of language learners, and imposed new requirements on LSP teaching. This article foregrounds genres in multilingual globalised contexts. Genres have been recognised as one of the key focuses of LSP. Although previous research highlighted the importance of developing relevant field-specific genre practices, little attention has been paid to the nature of genre repertoires in the field of International Relations (IR). We report on the findings of a qualitative study into genre practices of the IR community. We set out to examine the typical genres of IR in academic and in professional settings. We focus on the languages in which these genres are enacted, and on the transformation of genre practices that occurs as a result of the community members’ trajectories through different academic and professional or institutional contexts. The analysis of genre collections and of the data collected through semi-structured interviews with IR students, professors, and graduates, reveals the rich, diverse, and asymmetrical patterns of genre use in three languages: French, Slovene, and English. The study suggests that the informants’ disciplinary communication has changed considerably over the past twenty years, and that the changes in the genre ecologies require new approaches to teaching about genres. Based on the findings of the study, the paper discusses the challenges of multilingual realities for LSP teachers and genre analysts.

Ciencia de la voz para todos

Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud (RIICS in its Spanish acronym) is an Ibero-American scientific journal of the Health Professions, peer-reviewed, in open access and Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 , whose purpose is to be a channel of disciplinary communication of research and review articles, original and unpublished, derived from research projects and processes that provide evidence to respond to current gaps, needs and problems.

The Epistemic Dignity of Knowledge Developed Through Nursing Practice

In this article, I revisit a philosophical idea from Intermodernism about generating knowledge through nursing practice and examine how this may enhance the epistemic dignity of knowledge. Epistemic dignity is an evaluation of knowledge (formalized in theories) as possessing quality and worth as scientific knowledge and as held in esteem by a disciplinary community and others. The philosophical turn toward the practice of science is discussed along with contemporary work on theoretical virtues as qualities of scientific theory. In addition, I suggest that what we may refer to as uniquely nursing knowledge is knowledge that is generated through nursing practice and ground in disciplinary perspective.

Introducing the Academic Discipline of Agricultural Communications to the United Kingdom

Introducing the Academic Discipline of Agricultural Communications to the United Kingdom

Design and deployment of IoT based underwater wireless communication system using electronic sensors and materials

Underwater wireless communication performs a critical role in tactical surveillance, water pollution control, oil exploration and maintenance, offshore mining, local weather control and oceanography research. It is an excellent operation for the military, industry, and scientific community. To facilitate these applications, wide variety of unmanned motors or units, which require excessive bandwidth and excessive ability to switch data are deployed underwater. Even though some of these goals have been achieved by underwater acoustic communication discipline but constrained by bandwidth. These factors have led to the advent of underwater Wi-Fi connectivity (UWC), which provides higher bandwidth than the usual acoustic contact systems with substantially reduced energy consumption and simplified technological problems for short-range Wi-Fi connexions. This paper under water wireless communication is achieved by using Internet of Things (IoT) an advanced technology along with microcontroller and Wi-Fi. In this study temperature, turbidity and distance between the objects are measured with the respective sensors connected to the transmitter and recorded at the receiver side by using IoT technology for different time intervals. It is concluded that the proposed UWC system based on IoT can be low cost, efficient and can be used for different applications related to underwater.

Fostering Interdisciplinary Boundary Spanning in Health Communication: A Call for a Paradigm Shift

ABSTRACT Scholarship in the field of health communication is broad, with interdisciplinary contributions from researchers trained in a variety of fields including communication, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health, and social work. In this paper, we explore the role of “health communication boundary spanners” (HCBS), individuals whose scholarly work and academic appointment reflect dual citizenship in both the communication discipline and the health professions or public health. Using a process of critical reflective inquiry, we elucidate opportunities and challenges associated with HCBS across the spectrum of health communication in order to provide guidance for individuals pursuing boundary spanning roles and those who supervise and mentor them. This dual citizen role suggests that HCBS have unique skills, identities, perspectives, and practices that contribute new ways of being and knowing that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. The health communication field is evolving in response to the need to address significant healthcare and policy problems. No one discipline has the ability to single-handedly fix our current healthcare systems. Narrative data from this study illustrate the importance of seeing HCBS work beyond simply being informed by disciplinary knowledge. Rather, we suggest that adapting ways of knowing and definitions of expertise is an integral part of the solution to solving persistent health problems.