New Medium Of Communication Research Articles

Exploring E-Commerce Use in Meerschaum Products Marketing: A Case Study

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been rapidly developed in the recent decades. Nowadays, computers and the Internet have become an essential part of the modern societies. The Internet has created a new medium for communication, education, entertainment and commerce. Today, many businesses depend on computers and the Internet for their daily operations. ICTs, computers and the Internet in particular, have significantly transformed the way business is conducted. These technological advances have also affected small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in many sectors and handicraft industry is one of them. It is challenging for most small businesses to adopt ICTs with lack of financial and human resources, especially in developing countries.In this study, e-commerce use in a small business for marketing meerschaum products is examined by a single case study.

Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life

High-profile political scandals are symptomatic of a profound transformation of the relations between public and private life that has accompanied and helped to shape the development of modern societies. While the distinction between public and private life is not unique to modern societies, the emergence of new media of communication, from print to radio, television and the internet, has altered the very nature of the public, the private and the relations between them. Both the public and the private have been reconstituted as spheres of information and symbolic content that are largely detached from physical locales and increasingly interwoven with evolving technologies of communication, creating a very fluid situation in which the boundaries between public and private are blurred, porous, contestable and subject to constant negotiation and struggle. The shifting boundaries between public and private life have become a new battleground in modern societies, a contested terrain where individuals and organizations wage a new kind of information war, a terrain where established relations of power can be challenged and disrupted, lives damaged and reputations sometimes lost.

Factors Affecting E-Commerce Adoption by Small Businesses in a Developing Country

Internet use has grown and spread rapidly around the world during the last decade. Today, computers and the Internet have become an integral part of modern societies. The Internet has created a new medium for communication and commerce for businesses. It is hard to imagine a business working without using a computer. These technological advances have also largely affected small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). While large companies have been quick to adopt the information and communication technologies (ICTs), SMEs have been slow to adopt these technologies in general for various reasons, especially in developing countries. This study explores the factors affecting the adoption of e-commerce by small businesses in a developing country. To attain this purpose a case study was conducted in a small hotel, which is using its website to keep up with customer expectations and competition in a small Turkish city. Conclusions and suggestions derived from this study provide a meaningful contribution to the understanding of e-commerce adoption among small businesses in developing countries.

Web-based-Research as Critical Pedagogy: A Reflection on its Application to Undergraduate Management Education.

In disciplines such as Management, where research capacity is not seen as an obvious workplace skill, it is difficult to get students to engage in research activities. They see them as too difficult and without value. However, research activities in undergraduate Management education are vital as tools for developing key learning attributes such as critical thinking and skills in analysis and argument. Convinced of the high value of integrating research activities into undergraduate Management Education, I took on the challenge to find alternative ways for students to develop their research capacity and engage in actual research. Drawing on reflections on my experience of teaching undergraduate management subjects with research components, in this paper I discuss how Web-based research can promote critical thinking and raise consciousness among management students. This experience included designing strategies to introduce a form of electronic literacy into undergraduate education, to assist students to learn how to use the Web critically for research purposes, while enhancing learning based on conventional resources. In the methodology I propose for researching contemporary issues by collecting and analysing data from the Web I adapt the critical pedagogy of Freire for adult literacy into new forms of literacy involving critical use of the new media of communication.

From Travel to Tourism: The Social and Cultural Impact of Photography as a New Medium of Communication in 19th-Century America

This article examines the relationship between the introduction of photography into American society in 1839 and changes in the concept of travel during the 19th century. Principles about the social consequences of photography formulated from the works of Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Lewis Mumford, and Susan Sontag serve as a framework to compare and contrast the predominant concepts of travel presented in magazine articles of travel advice published before and after the advent of photography. The principles focus on the medium's capacity to influence social and cultural thought and activity.

Some Implications of Literacy in Uganda

During the last fifty years, several debates have waxed and waned regarding the implications of literacy for African history. Among social scientists in general and social anthropologists in particular, Jack Goody and Ian Watt's survey of “The Consequences of Literacy” (1963) for hitherto preliterate or partially literate and now modernizing societies, drew attention to one suggested transformation: “The importance of writing lies in its creating a new medium of communication. (…) Its essential service is to objectify speech, to provide language with a material correlative, a set of visible signs. In this material form speech can be transmitted over space and preserved over time; what people say and think can be rescued from the transitoriness of oral communication.” The consequences, in Goody and Watt's view, were immensely important: “In oral societies the cultural tradition is transmitted almost entirely by face-to-face communication; and changes in its content are accompanied by the homeostatic process of forgetting or transforming those parts of the tradition that cease to be either necessary or relevant. Literate societies, on the other hand, cannot discard, absorb or transmute the past in the same way. Instead, their members are faced with permanently recorded versions of the past and its beliefs; and because the past is thus set apart from the present, historical enquiry becomes possible. This in turn encourages scepticism; and scepticism, not only about the legendary past, but about received ideas about the universe as a whole.”

Factors Affecting the Adoption of E-Commerce by Small Businesses: A Case Study

In recent years, computers and the Internet have become an integral part of the societies. The Internet has created a new medium for communication and commerce for the businesses. Today, it is hard to imagine a business working without using a computer. These technological advances have also largely affected small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). While large companies have been quick to adopt information and communication technologies, SMEs have been slow to adopt these technologies in general for various reasons, especially in developing countries. The main purpose of this present study is to explore the factors affecting the adoption of e-commerce by small businesses. To attain this purpose a case study was conducted in a small hotel, using the website to keep up with customer expectations and competition. Although having a website is critically important and it provides some benefits for the hotel, in order to become successful in e-commerce, it just is not enough. Conclusions and suggestions derived from this study will provide a meaningful contribution to the understanding of e-commerce adoption in small businesses.

Introduction: Recurrence of Limits on Knowledge

For as long as rulers have ruled, they have tried to monopolize and control information. The institution of secrecy is as old as the state. But as new media for communication have appeared, it has become more difficult to control the flow of information, just as the rise of democracy as an ideal has made it harder to justify the institution of secrecy. The articles that follow consider the recurring limits to public knowledge of government policies in a perspective that is specifically American and mainly contemporary.

Social systems and codes of communication in the health system – an empirical study of the communication of hospital personnel during the implementation of an electronic patient record

The point of departure is an empirical study of communication on hospital wards during the implementations of a new media of communication – an electronic patient record (EPR). The implementation of the EPR illustrates, that the chosen code of communication is of great importance in determining weather communication is successful. According to Niklas Luhmann the binary code sick/healthy is guiding the communication in the health system. However, in this paper it is argued that today the health system is made up of several sub-systems, each with their own distinctive code of communication.

The new fundamental right to it security — First evaluation and comparative view at the U.S.

The recent Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court from February 2008 sheds light on the constitutional side of the intersection of law and technology. 25 years after its landmark “Census” decision promulgating the fundamental right to information self-determination the Court “invented” a new fundamental right to the integrity and confidentiality of IT systems. On the background of rapid technological development and especially the rising of the internet as a new medium of communication the Court consistently expanded its line of constitutional protection to fill the gap that has arisen. This decision further opens the gap to the restrictive stance of the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutional foundation of privacy while at the same time providing some comparative insights into the different interpretations of the respective Constitutions in the information age.

Conformity, Trust, and Value: A Detailed Look at Global Spanning Networks

The global dynamic, built on a foundation of technological advancements, is changing. Globalization has accelerated at a pace never before seen. There are those who contend we are living in a new society, which is emerging - or has already emerged throughout the world. Riding in the wake of an information technology revolution, social change is occurring as a result of new media of communication coinciding with globalization. Globalization has been defined as the ability of an institution or system to function on a global scale, in real-time, utilizing technological and organizational components. Societies and nations of the world are increasingly becoming interdependent through economic and technological forces, politics, and governance. As a result of today's global paradigm, an old form of social organization, the network, has increased in value and importance. A network in its most basic form can be described as a set or group of interconnected or interrelated nodes. However, the networks which have, and continue to emerge throughout the globe, are becoming increasingly complicated. Within these networks each node may represent an individual actor, a community, an organization, or a government. As will be described in this paper, networks can be utilized for numerous reasons and have gained significance as a result of the expansive contemporary global climate. With the rapid burst in populations, advances in technology, and dependence on foreign markets and economies the internationalization of issues is on the rise. As a result, the need to combine expertise, knowledge, and information has arisen to find solutions to problems and address issues. Networks are ideal for these types of situations; they combine expertise, transfer knowledge and allow nodes (or actors) within the network to build upon the ideas of others. Such networks can exist where the combining and sharing of knowledge can occur and benefit those involved. Further, the sharing and building of knowledge within a network leads to an overall collective knowledge, from which value can be extracted. The value of this collective knowledge has been described as social capital.

Megaphones to the Internet and the World: The Role of Blogs in Corporate Communications

Corporations can create blogging guidelines, implement Web log monitoring-and-analysis programs, and launch blogs to capitalize upon this new medium of communication. During the next five years, blogging will not render the traditional tools of communication obsolete nor will it usher in a new era of corporate communications; however, it will become a permanent, fully integrated, and vital part of the media landscape. Students, academics, and practitioners interested in corporate communications and new media may find this article useful.

Youth and New Media in the New Millennium

Abstract There is general agreement among media and communication scholars that a monumental shift is occurring in the media and communication habits of young people. In the present paper, this shift is discussed within the framework of a long-term study of six samples of Icelandic youths, covering a period of 35 years. A persistent decline in use of the “old” media, such as books, newspapers and radio is demonstrated, while the social role of television is shown to be undergoing a transformation comparable to what happened to book reading centuries earlier. All this is discussed in the light of the onslaught of new technologies and new media of communication.

Theory Meets Praxis: From Derrida to the Beginning German Classroom via the Internet

This essay will argue that contemporary cul tural developments associated with the emergence of new technologies, particularly computer-medi ated communication, provide new opportunities to German Studies curricula from the be ginning level onward.1 Students' employment of computer-based technologies for the purpose of learning German at the beginning level, in courses with online and distance-learning platforms,2 can and should be an opportunity to engage in reflec tions about cultural developments of which these technologies are a driving force. A theoretical framework for such reflections, I will argue, is pro vided by poststructuralist theories, particularly in the writings of Jacques Derrida, which have pre dicted significant aspects of current cultural devel opments and provide conceptual tools with which to comprehend or theorize them. In their lan guage work in the beginning German class, using new media of communication, students have a unique, hands-on opportunity to experience the shifting complexity and mediated-ness of com munication as they become familiar with multiple linguistic competencies between speaking and writing. Alongside other efforts to integrate lan guage and content throughout the curriculum,3 the use of the Internet as a leaming tool provides a manner of introducing theoretical content at the beginning level of the German Studies curriculum and thus of bridging a curricular gap that has been perceived between the beginning German class room,4 where the emphasis has tended to fall on traditionally-conceived language skills (particu larly speaking proficiency) and on relatively simple cultural information that is quite different from the theoretically-informed cultural knowledge that stu dents will be expected to acquire at more advanced levels of German Studies curricula.5 The theoretical content that is consistent with the employment of new technologies of communi cation in the beginning German classroom is that which has been shaping advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in many German Studies curricula, whether taught in German or English translation. This theory has numerous individual manifestations in different fields of inquiry-an thropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, social science, cultural history-but a common charac

From “Public Journalism” to the “Public's Journalism”? Rhetoric and reality in the discourse on weblogs

It has become somewhat of a truism that each new medium of communication is heralded as a radical departure from preexisting ones. From the telegraph to television, the advent of new communication ...

New Medium, New Messages, New Meanings: Communication and Interaction in Child Treatment in the Age of Technology

Technology not only includes the hardware of the Computer Age, but also the myriad new forms of communication that are made possible by it. These new forms represent fundamentally different ways of communicating with others. They have changed the ways children interact with one another, so it is inevitable that they would manifest themselves inside the therapy room. Technology has changed the playing field for child therapy. These “instant” forms of interaction blur all the lines to which we are accustomed and raise a host of issues for the therapist—issues including technique, boundaries, limit setting, and effects on the relationship between therapist and patient. These new media of communication represent a fundamental shift in the basic assumptions and paradigms that underlie our society and our theories and techniques of psychotherapy. The case presented in this article explores some of the issues that arise when the “new technology” interacts with the “old technology” of child therapy. Specifically, the child and therapist began to interact via computer-based messaging. The quandaries raised for the therapist involved communicating clearly in the absence of usual feedback; the anxiety of being in uncharted territory; managing this medium of communication with its mix of verbal and nonverbal elements; and the struggle to understand changes in boundaries and expectations of privacy.

Sensemaking and New Media at Work

This article examines sensemaking about new media at work in organizational settings. Two models of sensemaking are presented. Recent social science and management research on computer-mediated work is reviewed to identify aspects of sensemaking evident in computer-mediated communications at work. The sensemaking models are used to interpret this recent research on human computer interactions and computer-mediated communications in organizations. The article shows how the sensemaking perspective facilitates an understanding of the interpretive practices and problems people face in using new media for communication at work.

Literature and film in the Third Reich

This book is the first survey in English of literature and film in Nazi Germany. It treats not only works sympathetic to National Socialism, but also works of the so-called Inner Emigration, of the resistance, and those written in prisons and concentration camps. Much of this literature is not easily accessible in German, and not available at all in English translation. Historical and ideological context is provided in chapters covering influential works of the time such as Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century and Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Schoeps also analyzes Nazi cultural policies, fascist histories of literature, and the role of German studies and Germanists in the Nazi movement. A major section of the book is devoted to film, then a relatively new medium of communication whose propaganda value was clearly recognized by Goebbels, the minister for propaganda and president of the Reich's Chamber of Culture. One of the most interesting areas of research in recent years is the relationship between Hitler's cultural commissars, in particular Goebbels, and the literature and film production of the Nazi years. This book is based on the revised and expanded second German edition, Literatur im Dritten Reich (1933-1945), but has again been revised and expanded, especially the chapter on film and Nazi policies toward the film industry. The chapter on cultural policies has also been expanded to include Himmler's efforts to meddle in this area. New also are sections dealing with Jewish entertainers in concentration camps (for example, Kurt Gerron) and activities of the Jewish Cultural League. Karl-Heinz Schoeps is professor of German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Competition Between the Internet and Traditional News Media: The Gratification-Opportunities Niche Dimension

Over the last decade, the Internet has become one of the most popular vehicles facilitating a variety of communication and information-sharing tasks worldwide. Its growing popularity as a new medium of communication has resulted in changes in use of traditional media. The purpose of this study was to better understand the uses of online news compared with news use via traditional media. In light of the niche theory and the theory of uses and gratifications, a new medium survives, grows, competes, and prospers by providing utility or gratification to consumers. In doing so, it may have effects on existing media by providing new solutions to old needs or to more contemporary needs. Data were collected in a telephone survey with 211 respondents in the Columbus, Ohio (Franklin County), metropolitan area. The results clearly indicate that the Internet has a competitive displacement effect on traditional media in the daily news domain with the largest displacements occurring for television and newspapers. The findings also show that there is a moderately high degree of overlap or similarity between the niches of the Internet and the traditional media on the gratification-opportunities dimension. In addition, the results suggest that the Internet has the broadest niche on the gratification opportunities dimension, providing users satisfaction with more needs than any of the traditional media on this dimension.

The Brazilian Remake of the Orpheus Legend: Film Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension

An increasing sensitivity towards films and other forms of visual experience has become apparent in social theory. Recent explorations of new media of communication and entertainment have criticized the emphasis on the hegemonic or manipulative power of cultural industries and popular forms of leisure. Films, like many other discursive and visual forms, have been considered as signifying practices and investigated as processes of production, exhibition and reception. This article takes these recent contributions as its point of departure and investigates two Brazilian films, made in the 1950s and 1990s, based on a play that retells the Greek legend of Orpheus in Brazilian social and cultural settings. This article considers the different historical contexts, explores discursive and visual forms of representation, struggles for power within the narratives, unconscious systems of signification, and makes some considerations about the aesthetic dimension present in each film.