Modern Communication Theory Research Articles

William Byrd’s Come, woeful Orpheus in context: motion as visual and musical affect

Abstract Looking at William Byrd’s consort song Come, woeful Orpheus (1611) and the Orpheus overmantel at Haddon Hall (Derbyshire), this article imagines how music and visual culture provided reciprocal somatic and symbolic cues within the domestic sphere. Using Richard Haydock’s Tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge (1598), it considers how the Orpheus trope, cogitated and embodied through visual and musical media, could be used to produced ‘fellow feeling’ and affect through ‘motion’. ‘Motion’ was not only fundamental to early modern theories of affective communication but was thought to provide the spark of life that aided interpersonal connection. This research explores the shared language between the theoretical and affective aspects of music and art in early modern England, stemming from classical sources on decorum and persuasive oration, to provide a more nuanced understanding of contemporary experiences of recreational music-making. I argue that the embodied and visual contributions of the performers are crucial to understanding Byrd’s song, as early modern approaches to motion and affect relied upon the body and voice, and were best communicated through sight and sound.

HISTORY OF TRANSLATION. THE WAY TO INTERDISCIPLINARY STRATEGIES

Development of different translation strategies in historical aspect is considered. In the beginning interpreters practiced two strategies – word for word translation and free translation. With the growth of culture and science, a new type of texts that contain connotative and extralinguistic information appear. So, yet the Renaissance translators are in favor of translation, which not only faithfully reproduces the content of the original, but does not violate the norms of the target language. The ancient Roman tradition of cultural adaptation is returning. The choice of translation model was made mainly in view of the genre of the source text. With the development of the humanities, a number of linguistic, psychological and social factors gain an additional influence on the choice of translation strategies. The purpose of the study is to determine the nature and intensity of such effects. The first half of the twentieth century presents the burst of linguistics, which, in turn, gives a new impetus to the development of translation studies. The scholars research not just the text, but the more complex concept of discourse. Accordingly, not just language, but communication in general became the object of translation studies and translation methods gradually shift towards domestication model. Pragmatic strategies are trying to look into the so-called “black box” of translation, that is, to analyze not only the result but also the process of translation itself. The dynamics of the translation process shows a certain departure from the traditional linguistic translation and the increasing involvement in the field of culturology and pragmatics. Thus, for modern communication theory, translation is an understanding of the phenomenon of who translates and for whom, so the focus transfers from the text to the addressee.

Recommendations of Pope Francis on Rhetoric

Pope Francis cares about the quality of homilies. He confirmed this in the exhortation Evangelii gaudium, in which he presented twenty-four points on the homily. Several of them contain recommendations about the manner of preaching. Strong content is not enough for a good homily; the presentation must be appropriate. Ancient and Christian rhetoric as well as modern communication theory all deal with the quality of discourse. The Pope reiterated the importance of the preacher to speak properly, use appropriate language, speak simply and clearly, be mindful of the vocal aspect of their speech, to use appropriate gestures and not to speak for too long.

A Decomposition-Based Analysis of Wireless Multipath Channel With Full-Wave Simulation

Along with the adaptation of the modern communication theory, the in-depth understanding of multipath fading channel is necessary to guarantee the efficient design of both algorithms and systems, especially the multiple-input--multiple-output (MIMO) system. This letter proposes a novel decomposition-based method aiming to achieve the accurate multipath channel analyses with full-wave simulation. Through the sequential deleting of scatters in the environments, the complex multipath channels can be decomposed, where the accurate delay and strength can be calculated from the recorded electronic fields along the sweeping of incident frequency. Then, the latent multipath components can be simply located along the decomposition. The proposed method can also provide the geographical distributions of channel responses, which are important to guild the MIMO system design.

Wie die Perspektivität unser historisches Denken bestimmt. Ein zeichentheoretisch-kommunikativer Neuansatz

How does perspectivity determine our historical thinking and representation? The article addresses this central question by exploring the language-bound processes that enable us to (re)construct the singularity of historical actors’ perspectives based on historical sources. While history didactics still has an image-based understanding of perspectivity based on the paradigm of the »visual«, the study shows, that historical perspectivity cannot simply be mapped in historical context. The study draws on fundamental insights of modern semiotics and communication theory. It makes clear that historical perspectivity can only be methodically explored and presented as a construct of perspectival difference in a given historical context. The study underlines its findings through two qualitative experiments conducted in history classrooms using the writing format of a sourcebased »historical-fictional dialogue«. This allows to investigate the dialogical (re) construction processes of historical actor perspectives and to analyse it in terms of speech act theory.

Dialogic Interactions: Communication between Human Being and God according to the Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig

Abstract This article examines the communication between human being and God in the Jewish philosophy of the German-Jewish philosopher, Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929). It observes Rosenzweig’s Jewish philosophy in light of communication theories and wishes to use the theoretical wealth of this relatively new discipline—communication—in order to deepen the philosophical discussion. The encounter described in this article is not an encounter that takes place in Rosenzweig’s writings, but rather an attempt to bring Rosenzweig into dialogue with modern theories of communication. This new perspective can enrich our view of philosophy of religion and to offer a new perception of communication.

Soil security as a roadmap focusing soil contributions on sustainable development agendas

Long a rather abstract concept, sustainable development has since 2015 been defined by the United Nations in terms of goals (SDGs), specified by targets and indicators.Soils play an important role in several land-related SDGs by their contribution to ecosystem services that, in turn, contribute to biomass production (SDG2), water quality (SDG6), climate mitigation (SDFG13) and biodiversity preservation (SDG15). These goals have been adopted by the European Union when defining their Green Deal. However, sustainable development will only be achieved when stakeholders adopt appropriate management measures that result in a satisfactory level of all four ecosystem services. Adoption, however, is not only a function of technical considerations but is also highly affected by socioeconomic and even psychological factors. The soil security concept that considers both: “hard”and “soft” criteria, is therefore well suited to act as a roadmap towards a sustainable future, focusing soil contributions to ecosystem services and the SDGs. A storyline is proposed starting with connectivity, defining interaction processes among all partners involved in the sustainability debate, followed by condition, and capability that can be defined by a recently proposed quantitative expression of soil health. Soil Capitol expresses soil contributions to ecosystem services in financial terms and thus contributes to connectivity when examples show that non-soil contributions are much more expensive. Environmental laws and regulations, expressed by codification, ideally link soil performance to societal relevance but the tension between individual desires and societal demands requires modern forms of connectivity in terms of willingness to: “joint-learning”, supported by modern communication theory. Following the complete storyline of the 5C's, as proposed by the soil security concept, can make future soil research much more effective from a societal and political point of view.

Optimal communications with infinite impulse response matched filters

Abstract Optimal communication waveforms matched to a large and practically important class of filters are investigated and shown to be chaotic. Filters of this class are defined by an infinite impulse response (IIR) and a transfer function comprising a finite number of distinct stable poles. This class contains many of the most popular and widely used filter families, including Butterworth, Chebyshev (type I), and Bessel. For such a filter, a matched basis function is derived and convolved with a random binary sequence to construct a communication waveform. It is shown that this waveform is chaotic in the sense that it is deterministic and characterized by a positive Lyapunov exponent. This result supports a recent conjecture that optimal communication waveforms matched to stable IIR filters are chaotic, and it further establishes that chaos is fundamental to modern communication theory.

Main Research Trends in Advertising Communication in Modern Humanities

The relevance of the article is to study the algorithms of the influence of advertising communication on the mass consciousness. The purpose of the article is to describe and analyze the models and mechanisms of advertising communication in the modern communication theory. It is elucidated that a creative message should be formulated accurately, as proper communication systems are a major factor in the effectiveness of the message. Research methodology. The author combines general scientific approaches, that are inductive and deductive as well as the method of interdisciplinary study. Results. The article deals with the content, scope and structure of the “advertising communication” concept. The article describes the basic theories on the meaning and characteristics of the investigated concept. The article describes the main models and types of advertising communication used in the modern Ukrainian-language advertising. The effectiveness of the study is determined by the fact that models, characteristics, mechanisms and peculiar features of terminology of advertising communication have been analyzed and presented in the scientific paradigm. Novelty . The evolution of the concept “advertising communication” is analyzed. The author suggests a new approach to the changes of the scientific paradigm related to the development of the theory of communication, as well as the changes in the semantic and formal, technological parts of the advertising message. Factors of formation of modern components of advertising communication are highlighted. The practical significance . The features of the advertising message design, its characteristics and components are considered. Special attention is paid to the formation of advertising messages, taking into account the main 15 characteristics of the process. The conclusions propose the definition of the “advertising communication” concept. The specific features of changes in verbal and non-verbal advertising, such as emergence of new technical possibilities, a change of socio-political realities are outlined. All the identified phenomena are analyzed from the position of communication studies, theory of reasoning, and sociolinguistics.

Influence of surge movement in non-uniform water flow on performance of underwater quantum communication

Quantum communication is brand new way of communication in which quantum entanglement is used to transmit information. It is an interdisciplinary subject combining quantum informatics with modern communication theory. Motivated by the communication requirements for underwater sensor networks, submarines, etc., underwater optical communication has been developing rapidly in recent years due to the ideal information security of quantum communication. However, the research on the performance of underwater quantum communication in sea has not yet been fully developed because of a series of factors such as surge, salinity and seaweed and so on. In this paper, the influence of surge in non-uniform water flow on the underwater quantum communication is studied theoretically and experimentally. Firstly, a new Boussinesq equation with a given flow function is derived based on the horizontal and vertical wave velocity of the free surface to represent the free surface boundary conditions. On the other hand, In view of the nonlinear motion of movement, the complexity of change and the randomness of the distribution, the spectrum is used for numerically calculating the surge. The characteristics of wave motion are described by wave height, period and wavelength. Secondly, the influence of surge on the entanglement of underwater quantum channel is analyzed. It is proved that the wave height of surge and the change of the cycle affect quantum communication due to the destruction of the quantum coherence and the reduction in quantum entanglement degree. Thirdly, the influence of surge motion on the quantum channel capacity is studied. The influence of the relation between the wavelength and the transmission cycle on the quantum channel capacity is simulated. The relationship between the physical characteristics of surge wave and the capacity of depolarized channel is established. Fourthly, the influence of surge motion on error rate in quantum key distribution is studied. The simulation results show that when the sea surface wind speed changes in a range of 0-20.5 m/s, the propagation cycle is increased gradually. The channel entanglement is increased from 0.0012 to 0.8426, and the channel capacity is reduced from 0.8736 to 0.1024. In the key distribution process, the quantum bit error rate increases from 0.1651 to 0.4812. Therefore, in underwater quantum communication, the parameters of the system should be adjusted adaptively according to the varying degree of the surge movement.

Социокультурные детерминанты современной теории коммуникации

Социокультурные детерминанты современной теории коммуникации

Saussure and the model of communication

AbstractOne of the less obvious contributions of Saussure is his role in establishing modern communications theory. The sender-message-receiver (SMR) model of communication was developed by Shannon and Weaver (1949,The mathematical theory of communication. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press). Within the humanities, it is Roman Jakobson’s version of the SMR model that is most influential. Jakobson’s model creates a methodology for considering such complexities as the sender’s intentions, the context of transmission, metalinguistic codes, the transmission medium, and the relation to the referent. Despite the complexity of Jakobson’s model, it is still bound by the assumption that perfect communication can be achieved through the full recovery of contexts. The most thorough and powerful critique of what’s often called the “transmission model” of communication is found in Jacques Derrida’s “Signature Event Context.” Derrida’s critique begins by demonstrating “why a context is never absolutely determinable” (1988a: 3, Signature event context. In Gerald Graff (ed.),Limited inc., Samuel Weber (trans.), 1–23. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press). In place of context, Derrida proposes the notion of “dissemination” in which a text is radically adrift of the conditions of its utterance or reception. At face value, Saussure’s “speech circuit” model represents an early and underdeveloped model of communication. As if often the case, however, a closer reading of theCoursreveals something far more radical and profound. Closer attention to Saussure’s speech circuit model re-opens many questions in communication theory, and in associated fields such as literary theory, cultural studies, and semiotics.

Multi-Image Deblurring Using Complementary Sets of Fluttering Patterns.

We present a novel coded exposure video technique for multi-image motion deblurring. The key idea of this paper is to capture video frames with a set of complementary fluttering patterns, which enables us to preserve all spectrum bands of a latent image and recover a sharp latent image. To achieve this, we introduce an algorithm for generating a complementary set of binary sequences based on the modern communication theory and implement the coded exposure video system with an off-the-shelf machine vision camera. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, we provide in-depth analyses of the theoretical bounds and the spectral gains of our method and other state-of-the-art computational imaging approaches. We further show deblurring results on various challenging examples with quantitative and qualitative comparisons to other computational image capturing methods used for image deblurring, and show how our method can be applied for protecting privacy in videos.

A historical outlook on theatrical ostension and its links with other terms of the semiotics of drama and theatre

The first part of the article sketches the history of the term ostension from St. Augustine to Osolsobe. Ostension is explained as the fundament of the theatrical art by comparing it with the older theory of transubstantiation and the modern discussion of iconicity. The second part draws a parallel between ostension and Mukarovský's discovery of the 'thingness' of every work of art. The aim is to show that within the Prague School, which initiated modern semiotics and communication theory, there was at the same time a resistance against pan-semiotization and total subsumption of the arts under the theory of communication. Yet the School's insights also safeguard against an uncritical rejection of semiotics and communication theory. The last part retraces certain pathologies of the theatre and focuses on recent Polish and Czech drama, demonstrating how obvious the destructive influence of the new media is on theatre. These pathologies are analyzed by means of the semiotic model with the focus on ostension. The theoretical framework is enhanced by Karl Buhler's distinction between two fields of language and Keir Elam's theory of possible worlds and frames.

A Symbolic Approach to Performance Analysis of Quantized Feedback Systems: The Scalar Case

When dealing with the control of a large number of interacting systems, the fact that the flow of information has to be limited becomes an essential feature of the control design. The first consequence of the limited information flow constraint is that the signals that the controllers and the systems exchange have to be quantized. Though quantization has already been extensively considered in the control literature, its analysis from the point of view of the information flow demand has been considered only recently. Limiting the information flow between a plant and a controller will necessarily lead to a performance degradation of the feedback loop, and we expect a trade-off between the achievable performance and the amount of information exchange allowed in the loop. Most of the success of modern digital communication theory in the last 50 years is due to the contributions of information theory, which proposed a symbolically based analysis of the communication channel performance. The same goal is much more difficult to reach in digital control theory. This paper proposes an attempt toward this direction. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a complete analysis of the trade-off between performance and information flow in the simple case of the stabilization of a scalar linear system by means of a memoryless quantized feedback map.

A dispersão como dispositivo para uma teoria pós-midiática da comunicação

The invention of a post mediatic communication defended by Felix Guattari in Cartographies schizoanalytiques provides a critic to the modern theories of communication based on formal mediatics universes and suggests an analytical perspective that recognizes the virtual micro-agencies as powers of communications in devir. They are presented, therefore, with a double challenge: as a cartography of the dispersive action of these communications, evaluating them from its proper repertoire and to constitute politicians agencies to improve the understanding of the world. Such proposal finds the foucaultien concept of dispersion as a fundamental device.

Retrospective: Claude E. Shannon (1916-2001)

In this Retrospective, Golomb reviews the life and work of Claude Elwood Shannon, the founder of modern communication theory that enabled, together with the transistor, the revolution in information technology. Claude Shannon passed away on 24 February 2001, aged 84.

Information-theoretic assessment of sampled imaging systems

By rigorously extending modern communication theory to the assessment of sampled imaging systems, we develop the formulations that are required to optimize the performance of these systems within the critical constraints of image gathering, data transmission, and image display. The goal of this optimization is to produce images with the best possible visual quality for the wide range of statistical properties of the radiance field of natural scenes that one normally encounters. Extensive computational results are presented to assess the performance of sampled imaging systems in terms of information rate, theoretical minimum data rate, and fidelity. Comparisons of this assessment with perceptual and measurable performance demonstrate that (1) the information rate that a sampled imaging system conveys from the captured radiance field to the observer is closely correlated with the fidelity, sharpness and clarity with which the observed images can be restored and (2) the associated theoretical minimum data rate is closely correlated with the lowest data rate with which the acquired signal can be encoded for efficient transmission.

Advanced digital receiver principles and technologies for PCS

The synergy between digital radio communications and VLSI signal processing is revolutionizing the design of wireless terminals. Driving this synergy are certain fundamental paradigms in modern communication theory, digital signal processing, and VLSI design. The authors discuss the modern centers-of-gravity model, which they believe is emerging as the basis for the successful design and implementation of advanced digital communication systems. Central to this model are design principles that enable engineers to systematically derive digital receiver structures and explore algorithm and architecture trade-offs using sophisticated tools. Digital signal processing technology is critical in the implementation of these digital receiver structures efficiently. Finally, CAD tools for digital communications system design and design space exploration are shown to be of crucial importance in the efficient execution of these designs. >

Jamming

Modern communication theory focuses to a disproportionate degree on the cultivation of shared meanings, interpretations, and emotions, and insufficiently on how coordinated action may occur under conditions of minimal self-disclosure and limited consensus. Borrowing a term from music and sports, this article describes characteristics of “jamming” experiences, instances of fluid behavioral coordination that occur without detailed knowledge of personality. Two biases in prior work—individual bias and strong culture bias—are cited as reasons why experiences like jamming have been ignored in the literature. Examples are given of how these experiences strike a balance between autonomy and interdependence, and can even be transcendent. Four preconditions for jamming—skill, structure, setting, and surrender— are also provided. Finally, possibilities for jamming in formal organizations and society are explored.