Novel Forms Of Communication Research Articles

Internet Access and Use by Patients with Gynecologic Malignancies: A Cross-Sectional Study.

The influence of digitalization on information-seeking, decision-making properties of patients, therapy monitoring, and patient-physician interactions has and will change the global health sector tremendously. With this study, we add knowledge on the degree of digitalization, digital device availability, the use and availability of home and mobile internet access, and the willingness to use novel forms of patient-physician interactions in a group of gynecologic cancer patients. From July 2017 to March 2022, 150 women with a diagnosis of gynecologic malignancy at the University Hospital of Cologne participated in this questionnaire-based cohort study. Any one of three potential internet access devices (stationary computer, smartphone, or tablet) is owned by 94% of patients and the only patient intrinsic factor that is significantly associated with the property of any one of these internet access devices is age. The Internet is used daily or several times per week to assess information on their disease by 92.8%, 90.1% use the Internet for communicational purposes and 71.9% and 93.6% are willing to communicate with their treating physicians via E-Mail or even novel forms of communication, respectively. In conclusion, the predominant majority of gynecologic cancer patients can be reached by modern internet-based E-Health technologies.

Social Distancing and Social Biosensing: Intersubjectivity from Afar

The shelter-in-place orders across the U.S. in response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced many relationships once sustained by in-person interaction into remote states through computer-mediated communication (CMC). Work, school, holidays, social engagements, and everyday conversations formerly experienced through rich and contextual in-person interactions instead have taken place on messaging, voice, and video chatting platforms that diminish or altogether lack many social cues and other qualities critical to social interaction. The difficulties feeling connected to one another observed during this period have stressed the need for novel forms of communication that enable deeper interactions. Social biosensing, the interpersonal sharing of physiological information, has shown promise facilitating social connection at a distance. In the present research we document the experiences of nine pairs of friends (N = 18) who navigated living through a shelter-in-place order, reporting on their experiences sharing their electrodermal activity (EDA) in response to short videos. Participants described the artificial and unnatural nature of communicating using typical forms of CMC and a range of interpretations of EDA as both emotional response and as representative of personal characteristics. We implemented a phased approach to study the temporal nature of forming an understanding of unfamiliar yet intimate data like EDA. Our results indicate typologies of meaning-making processes: “stablers”, “broadeners”, and “puzzlers”. We also interpreted our findings through the lens of intersubjectivity, analyzing how analogical apperception and dialogical interaction both play a role in participants’ meaning-making about their own and their partner’s biosensory information. We conclude with implications from this work pertinent to intersubjectivity theorists, social biosensing researchers, and CMC system designers and developers.

An exploratory study of advancing interdisciplinary research trends in digital new media

Aim: The paper’s overarching goal is to provide a theoretical framework for analyzing modern platform-based media ecosystems, and it does so by discussing three theoretical stances that offer promising new avenues of inquiry within the larger framework of communication studies. The paper zeroes in on how the original two ends of the communication process, the communicators and the receivers, change as a result of technology-centred contributions to social impact.Method: The two primary aspects of the methodology are discussed in this paper, and they are illustrated with examples using a logical research path and path diagram. An investigation into potential interdisciplinary research developments in digital new media will use existing literature reviews and theoretical perspectives on their application across disciplines as its primary framework.Findings: People’s knowledge of and care about how they use media can be strengthened by interdisciplinary research in new media, which examines the fundamental shift in medium and the communication capabilities derived from new media. This helps advance the field of digital new media research, which fosters investigation into novel forms of communication and the study of its interdisciplinary practices, and further enriches and develops the theory of communication in the twenty-first century.Implications/Novel Contribution: By allowing anyone to contribute, UGC gives people who use new media a chance to act as content creators, agents, and practitioners all at once. As a result of this trend, substantial social transformations will be accelerated and amplified. As a result, new media cannot be viewed as merely a new-style communication instrument but as a fusion of several different disciplinary dimensions. The data was collected to bolster foreseeable interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities progress.

The Psammetichus Syndrome and Beyond

Thanks to Bruno Galantucci, “experimental semiotics” is usually nowadays taken to mean the study of “novel forms of communication which people develop when they cannot use pre-established communication systems”. In spite of Galantucci’s claim to have picked the label because it was free, it has actually been used in different ways at least twice before: by Colin Ware, who takes it to be involved with “the elucidation of symbols that gain their meaning by being structured to take advantage of the human sensory apparatus”, as opposed to conventional meaning-making, and by Kashima and Haslam, who apply it to complex social situations. The label could also conveniently be used to describe the kind of experiment that we have realized at Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, which are classical psychological experiments which have been enriched with a focus on the particular semiotic resources involved, while also applying phenomenological analysis to both the experimental situation and its outcome. These are all reductive uses of the terms “experimental” and “semiotics”. In fact, although Galantucci himself refers to Psammetichus’s famous experiment as being roughly analogous to his understanding of experimental semiotics, there are important differences, the Psammetichus experiment, in spite of its intentions, being more unbiased, if it could really be accomplished. Pursuing the principle that I have called the dialects of phenomenology and experiment, and what Jordan Zlatev has termed the conceptual-empirical loop, I will suggest, in the present paper, that these different experimental approaches can be related to different varieties of semiosis, thus helping us to spell out the full task of the discipline termed cognitive semiotics. This, in turn, will help us determine the full scope of cognitive semiotics, while also highlighting the importance of the semiotic part, that is, the attention to meaning, revealed by phenomenology.

Wearable Haptic Systems for the Fingertip and the Hand: Taxonomy, Review, and Perspectives.

In the last decade, we have witnessed a drastic change in the form factor of audio and vision technologies, from heavy and grounded machines to lightweight devices that naturally fit our bodies. However, only recently, haptic systems have started to be designed with wearability in mind. The wearability of haptic systems enables novel forms of communication, cooperation, and integration between humans and machines. Wearable haptic interfaces are capable of communicating with the human wearers during their interaction with the environment they share, in a natural and yet private way. This paper presents a taxonomy and review of wearable haptic systems for the fingertip and the hand, focusing on those systems directly addressing wearability challenges. The paper also discusses the main technological and design challenges for the development of wearable haptic interfaces, and it reports on the future perspectives of the field. Finally, the paper includes two tables summarizing the characteristics and features of the most representative wearable haptic systems for the fingertip and the hand.

On liveness: using arts workshops as a research method

Drawing on a research project using arts workshops to explore pain communication, we develop a methodological reflection on the significance of the liveness of arts-based methods. We discuss how liveness informed the design of workshops to provoke novel forms of communication; how it produced uncontrollable and unpredictable workshops, whose unfolding we theorize as ‘imprography’. It also constituted affective and collective experiences of ‘being there’ as important but difficult-to-record parts of the data, which raises challenges to current understandings of what constitutes data, particularly in the context of team research and in light of directives for archiving and reuse. We explore the implications of liveness for methodological practice.

Estándares en informática médica: generalidades y aplicaciones

The use of computers in medical practice has enabled novel forms of communication to be developed in health care. The optimization of communication processes is achieved through the use of standards to harmonize the exchange of information and provide a common language for all those involved. This article describes the concept of a standard applied to medical informatics and its importance in the development of various applications, such as computational representation of medical knowledge, disease classification and coding systems, medical literature searches and integration of biological and clinical sciences.

Neutrophil Intercellular Communication in Acute Lung Injury. Emerging Roles of Microparticles and Gap Junctions

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Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008: Emerging Trends and Significant Impacts

ABSTRACT The themes, trends, and significant events of 2008 demonstrate that anthropology has established a new foothold in the public sphere—one that makes the most of novel forms of communication to reach far beyond the ivory tower to disseminate knowledge widely and freely. This review focuses on six topical areas of robust anthropological research in 2008 that also addressed some of the year's most pressing problems and issues, including the following: (1) war and peace; (2) climate change; (3) natural, industrial, and development‐induced disaster recovery; (4) human rights; (5) health disparities; and (6) racial understanding, politics, and equity in the United States. It concludes by addressing some emerging issues in 2009 that especially require anthropological attention and insight, if we are to move beyond “business as usual.”[Keywords: practicing anthropology, public anthropology, 2009 trends, anthropological impacts]

Transnational Activism: What's New, What's Not

descriptive inference makes eminent sense. This strategy is particularly relevant because the mechanisms and processes identified in The New Transnational Activism are so widely observable. They appear in disparate arenas, from diaspora groups to advocacy movements to terrorist networks; they recur in varied types of international networks, from the most institutionalized to the most informal; and they apply across time, from the Hanseatic period to the Internet age. With its broad historical sweep, The New Transnational Activism reveals significant similarities and differences between past and present transnationalism. Most important and contrary to much of the globalization literature, Tarrow underscores the continuing relevance of states and interstate institutions. In his view, states remain the most powerful actors in the international system. As a particularly useful corrective to conventional wisdom, he notes that the economic, social, and political changes associated with globalization do not themselves cause transnational activism. Rather, states and international institutions create the threats that make transnational mobilization necessary; they also provide many of the political opportunities and resources that make it possible. Tarrow powerfully demonstrates that international institutions need to be at the center of research on contemporary and historical transnationalism. At the same time, Tarrow also indicates what is new today: a widespread, though by no means universal, increase in global awareness; novel forms of communication and organization; and shifting, multi-issue campaigns. The last of these is a particularly interesting feature of contemporary

Imagining Zapatismo: The Anti-globalisation Movement and the Zapatistas

Recent protests against corporate globalisation in Seattle, Washington, Prague, Melbourne and Quebec City suggest the emergence of a new anti-globalisation movement. These protests have been linked to forms of 1960s radicalism, situationism and anarchism. Others herald this protest as the beginning of a new global movement, of a 'new community' or a 'new culture' in the making. This paper investigates these pronouncements about 'newness' and examines the use of Zapatista iconography in recent anti-globalisation protests, including S11 in Melbourne. It questions why the Zapatistas, a movement of primarily low-waged, indigenous Mexican peasants who rose up against the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement has captured the imagination of activists. It focuses on the novel forms of communication used by the Zapatistas, and their use of poetry, song, stories and symbolism. The paper critiques pronouncements of the Zapatistas as a postmodern movement and argues that the Zapatistas represent the see...

Exploring Trust in Flexible Working Using a New Model

Information technology (IT) facilitates novel forms of communication between individuals and organisations, thus supporting new flexible work patterns and making organisational boundaries more permeable. In general, this increases the physical and cultural distances both within and between organisations choosing to work together. In all of these situations, trust is a critical part of the process by which relationships develop. This paper presents a model of the trust development process called the ABC Trust Model. It is based on a synthesis of the management and information systems literature. The model is illustrated by applying it to a case example of remote working between individuals within an organisation. It is also demonstrated that the ABC Trust Model can be applied more generally to the fostering of co-operative relationships between both individuals and organisations that are supported by shared information systems. It is therefore of value to researchers investigating trust and also to managers involved in the design and implementation of IT-based co-operative relationships. The implications for new information systems design are discussed and opportunities for future research are outlined.