Impact Of Electronic Communication Research Articles

EXPLORATION OF PRAGMATIC MARKERS IN MULTILINGUAL WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION

This research explores the intricate use of pragmatic markers in multilingual workplace communication, delving into the dynamics of communication within the context of globalization and technological advancements. Drawing from a rich theoretical foundation, the study investigates the role of pragmatic markers in managing face-threatening acts, resolving conflicts, and preserving relationships in a multicultural workplace. Recent research underscores the increasing relevance of pragmatic markers in the globalized workforce and the impact of electronic communication on their use. Additionally, the study highlights the necessity for pragmatic marker-focused training programs to enhance intercultural communication. By examining the novel insights derived from this research, we gain a deeper understanding of how pragmatic markers function in multilingual workplace interactions, particularly in the era of electronic communication, thereby contributing to more effective cross-cultural understanding.

The Impact of Electronic Communication on Job Satisfaction (An Empirical Study on Egyptian Employees)

The Impact of Electronic Communication on Job Satisfaction (An Empirical Study on Egyptian Employees)

Electronic messaging and communication with living kidney donors.

New regulations require living kidney donor (LKD) follow-up for 2years, but donor retention remains poor. Electronic communication (eg, text messaging and e-mail) might improve donor retention. To explore the possible impact of electronic communication, we recruited LKDs to participate in an exploratory study of communication via telephone, e-mail, or text messaging postdonation; communication through this study was purely optional and did not replace standard follow-up. Of 69 LKDs recruited, 3% requested telephone call, 52% e-mail, and 45% text messaging. Telephone response rate was 0%; these LKDs were subsequently excluded from analysis. Overall response rates with e-mail or text messaging at 1week, 1month, 6months, 1year, and 2years were 94%, 87%, 81%, 72%, and 72%. Lower response rates were seen in African Americans, even after adjusting for age, sex, and contact method (incidence rate ratio (IRR) nonresponse 2.07 5.8116.36 , P=.001). Text messaging had higher response rates than e-mail (IRR nonresponse 0.11 0.280.71 , P=.007). Rates of nonresponse were similar by sex (IRR 0.68, P=.4) and age (IRR 1.00, P>.9). In summary, LKDs strongly preferred electronic messaging over telephone and were highly responsive 2years postdonation, even in this nonrequired, nonincentivized exploratory research study. These electronic communication tools can be automated and may improve regulatory compliance and postdonation care.

The Impact of Electronic Communication and Social Media on Child Welfare Practice

One hundred and thirty-six child welfare workers completed an online survey examining their experiences regarding the impact that electronic communication and social media use has had on their practice with youth and families. Workers reported e-mail and text message use have made work with youth easier, yet distinct difficulties have emerged for practitioners in relation to electronic communication and social media use. New elements have also emerged including issues with harassment and the ethics related to monitoring clients' online activities. Comparisons with a previous study conducted by Finn indicate that the use of technology within social work practice has evolved over time. Implications for social work practice and future research are also discussed.

The Impact of Electronic Communication on Confidentiality in Clinical Social Work Practice

Clinical social work practice has been significantly impacted by the evolution of electronic communication through the development of cyber technology. The increased methods for electronic communication raise questions about the impact of electronic communication on patient confidentiality. This paper will review the way that clinical social work ethics have addressed the use of electronic communication with clients, insurers, or other professionals. The history of confidentiality is briefly reviewed. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will be discussed as a new context for confidentiality in clinical social work practice.

The Impact of Electronic Communications on Qatari Family Values

Abstract Background: Our research investigates the impact of the sudden profusion of internet media and other forms of global communications on family values in Qatar. The majority of mass communications and sociological research has focused on examining the media content and the audience of the media in the United States and Europe. However, documentation on the societal consequences of the dissemination of internet media and other forms of mass communication on Arab, and in particular Gulf countries such as Qatar, remains scarce. The particular placement of Qatar at the heart of the crosscurrents of globalization affords a unique opportunity to examine this phenomenon. Objective: This paper attempts to gauge to what degree global communications are driving individualism a modern sense of citizenship and national identity, and to what degree the weakening of family solidarities may have adverse consequences for communal identities and the fabric of households and the nation as a whole. Methodology: The c...

Editorial for the Special Issue on Cyberbullying

This Special Edition of the Journal of Social Sciences deals with a rare but monumental social change-the profound impact of electronic communications on the development of children. Prior to the twentieth century, most people would be born, live and die without ever witnessing first-hand a significant social upheaval. During the last century, however, the pace at which society evolved quickened noticeably. The spread of industrialization, city living, suburban sprawl, transportation and the Sexual Revolution marked the lives of every person in the First World and many outside of it. In the list of such social changes, however, the overnight boom of electronic communications must rank among the most potent. Having evolved hundreds of thousands of years to communicate fairly slowly, in a blink our communication capacity far outreaches our comfort zone. We can communicate further, faster and to many more people than ever before and in so doing, we have profoundly changed the lives of people in the developed world. Although children are by no means the only ones affected by this shift, they are doubtless the most significantly affected. While most of their communications remain-childishly-banal, their capacity for careless and intentional cruelty has been exponentially increased. With the good, comes the bad. Violence-in all its forms-is still a relatively rare event for human beings in the United States. But electronic violence is a new animal, with new motives, new understandings, new rationales and new results. We are just beginning to tap into an understanding of how, why and where it occurs. This volume is the result of research and partnerships developed by the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University. Our focus is on developing the current literature on bullying prevention into the realm of electronic bullying. The Journal of Social Sciences has already published important papers in the area of gender and aggression, recently in 2010, Volume 6 (Edalati and Redzuan, 2010; Edalati et al., 2010). Our research and fieldwork has increasingly honed in on bullying and the violence perpetrated online by children against their peers. The papers selected for admission into this Special Edition are:

A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Electronic Communications in Multi-Cultural Education Sector

One of the main issues relevant to both the field of organization theory and the field of information technology is whether electronic communications do enhance participation in decision-making. Common sense and some personal experience do advocate the so-called egalitarians argument that since email, chat and blogs etc, allow direct (non-filtered) communication between people as well as identity/status concealment, then they also enhance more freely and easily day-to-day participation in organizations. Indeed, it is often argued by technology experts that the newer - and so-called better technology - will result in optimization of resources and improvement in organizational communication. Certain technology potentials will be exploited - sooner or later - by employees and employers, and the technical trait of keeping trace induced some authors to point out the risk of supporting direct control and surveillance over employees' behavior. In order to empirically examine the impact of electronic communication, this paper presents a preliminary study conducted within the UAE education sector, attempting to identify organizational effectiveness when dealing with three types of communicators: those more leaning towards the use of traditional media, or computer-mediated media (email and internet), or lastly those who use a combination of both types of communication means. Moreover, an attempt is made to understand language effects on outcomes, as a potential indicator of cultural roots to behavior.

The Impact of Electronic Communications on the Science Communication Process — investigating crystallographers in South Africa

The author adopts the premise that effective communication of scientific and technological information is pivotal to the success of technological innovation and sustained economic growth and that this applies particularly to South Africa. Many factors are, however, currently impacting on the information communication process, not least of which are the burgeoning information industry, globalization, and rapid technological advances. This factor motivated the author to investigate the impact of electronic modes of communication and this article is based on the research project. The community of scientists engaged in crystallographic research in South Africa was selected as the study population. It clearly emerged from the study that the significant increase in the use of electronic modes and systems, while not affecting the inherent structure of the communication process, did create a far wider range of modes of communication and did have a positive influence on the ease of communication and collaboration. This was particularly manifested as far as cooperation with the international research community was concerned. It was also clear that this impact varied according to the scientists' work environment.

Rethinking the Educational Practices of Biblical Doctoral Studies

The paper explores the impact of the change in populations, the impact of electronic communication, and the multiplicity of methodological approaches on the ethos and practices of biblical studies. It proposes a rhetorical emancipatory educational paradigm and explores its possibilities for the professional education of biblical scholars on the doctoral level. Since both college and seminary teachers are shaped in and through their doctoral studies, it is necessary to focus on doctoral education in order to address the growing recognition that the discipline of biblical studies in its present form needs to cultivate transformative intellectuals who are not only at home in the academy but also can critically intervene in the public discourses and uses of the Bible in religious communities, democratic publics, or global inter‐religious relations.

Political Science and the Internet

The Gutenberg invention of printing has been a major precondition for the development of present-day science and the science system. With this historical analogue as a starting point, the article addresses the present and future impact of the emergence of electronic communication networks as epitomized by the Internet and the World Wide Web on the future organization and operation of the science system, including political science and the effects that can already be found in the science system. The analysis finds that the impact of electronic communication is already strongly felt in the “hard” sciences, but much less so in the humanities and social sciences, although its potential there is also large. Electronic communication is a field where the social sciences should engage much more in research than is presently done.

Student Role Play in the World Forum: Analyses of an Arctic Adventure Learning Apprenticeship*

This study analyzes new forms of student social interaction and dialogue within asynchronous communications of six middle schools and six high schools participating in the World School for Adventure Learning. In the World Forum component of the World School, students discussed, questioned, and debated with Arctic explorers, researchers, World Forum mentors, and peers about environmental issues while assuming identities of famous people. One of the three key tasks, Flash Points, generated more lengthy dialogue than other techniques (i.e., Arctic Alerts and Questions to Explorers). Analysis of the forms of learning assistance provided to students indicated that mentor electronic interactions with students typically involved feedback, questioning, and cognitive structuring of the lesson or activity; however, minimal task structuring, direct instruction, and modeling of how to interact occurred. Whereas most student questions to explorers about envir onmental issues or expedition activities were lower-level knowledge and comprehension queries, many also were at the evaluation level. Despite the restricted assistance and limited student questioning, student role-taking activities within their environmental discussions enhanced the degree of perspective-taking exhibited in their conversations. Examining these interaction patterns, forms of mentor assistance, levels of questioning, and degrees of perspective-taking provides new insights into the impact of electronic communication on student learning when role playing, though many questions remain.

The AJC and television: A logical marriage

T his supplement of The American Journal of Cardiologv is important to the medical community, principally because it addresses one of the most important topics of our time: sudden cardiac death. In addition, this publication introduces a unique concept in which a traditional peer-review print supplement was developed in partnership with the medium of electronic communications; in this instance, television. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) is a landmark clinical trial in our quest to prevent sudden death. Therefore, the need to quickly and effectively disseminate information about the CAST to clinicians was critical. Numerous bulletins from the involved pharmaceutical companies were mailed directly to physicians, warning of the unexpected adverse results of 2 of the drugs evaluated in the study. These bulletins and an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine provided the first level of communication about the CAST results. However, after any investigation, especially when the results are as dramatic and potentially far-reaching as the CAST, there remains the task of explaining the implications of the study to the practicing physician. With the support of Parke-Davis, we determined that this goal could be accomplished effectively by a combination of print and television media. In August 1989, a group of the CAST investigators convened to discuss their study in a day-long forum. The entire session was videotaped and edited into four 30minute programs for the “Milestones in Medicine” series on Lifetime Medical Television. The first of these programs was broadcast only 3 weeks after the original publication appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, with subsequent programs appearing during September and October. Next, based on their presentations in the “Milestones in Medicine” television programs and the discussions that followed, each of these authorities wrote an article for this supplement. As a result, what was theoretically possible had become a reality: print and video had found a logical marriage. In this era of television, computers, FAX machines, and other marvels of modern mass communications, has this experience taught us any lessons about how medical information should be disseminated? We believe it has. First, the initial publication of medical research in peerreview journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine is tried and proven to be best for both the medical profession and for the patients we serve. Despite the enormous impact of electronic communications on modern society, any temptation to circumvent this critical responsibility of the traditional print medium must be resisted. Second, the power and reach of television is so great that its ability to quickly and credibly disseminate information such as the CAST results cannot be ignored. And finally, print supplements are a valuable reference for those who desire a depth of discussion beyond the usual scope of video. We are convinced that this AJC supplement, combined with the television programs from which it was derived, is an important step into the future of medical communications. Parke-Davis, one of the pioneers in supporting professional television, and a long-time supporter of the traditional print medium, is to be congratulated for its vision in supporting this effort. We encourage more sponsors to utilize this and other models of modern media techniques in order to achieve our common goal of imparting information in the most accurate and efficient means possible.