Perception Of Messages Research Articles

The Role of the Non-dominant Hand in ZEI Discourse Structure

Because sign languages have two main articulators, signers simultaneously experience both possibilities and constraints in the articulation and perception of linguistic messages. Sign languages commonly convey different linguistic units with each hand, and additional information is conveyed in nonmanual signals. Meaningful perseverations (or sign fragments) refer to activity by the nondominant hand that indicates the topic of either the sentence or the discourse and may represent background information. Foreground information, on the other hand, is produced by the dominant hand. In this article I utilize data from Zaban Eshareh Irani (Iranian Sign Language) to discuss this type of activity on the nondominant hand.

Corporate message impact on the Web 2.0

Although the proliferation of platforms 2.0 is a new kind of relationship with current and potential consumers, it is still not possible to assess their reach and influence in the perception of corporate messages. This research aims to find out the value of different platforms 2.0 from the perspective of corporate communication. The study focuses on the microblog Twitter as the empirical case, where comments from internet users about eight corporate campaigns are analysed. The structure of pre-/post-test analysis of the research has established how feelings of microblog users evolve after receiving the impact of a 2.0 campaign. The results obtained show that corporate messages have a positive impact on the company’s assessment. This opens new ways of interaction with users and other interest groups.

Celebrity Credibility on Social Media: A Conditional Process Analysis of Online Self-Disclosure Attitude as a Moderator of Posting Frequency and Parasocial Interaction

This study investigated factors predicting perception of celebrity credibility on social networking sites. Specifically, we evaluated a theoretical model whereby parasocial interaction mediates the association between posting frequency and credibility, with online self-disclosure attitude moderating these associations. Results supported this mediation, with the indirect effects for group and personal identification (but not interest or problem-solving ability) contingent on the user’s online self-disclosure attitude. Among other implications, findings suggest different forms of PSI may function differently vis-à-vis credibility, as well as commend future investigation of attitudinal variables that may moderate perception of online messages.

SOSYAL MEDYADA KULLANILAN MESAJLARIN HALKLA İLİŞKİLER ÇALIŞMALARINDAKİ ÖNEMİ

As a result of improvement in technological opportunities and internet media, there have been changes and transformations both in implementation and principle in public relations practices which are based on the cycle of sharing the right message at the right time with the right audience and evaluating the results to source the new studies. Enterprises which actualize the components of corporate reputation such as social responsibility, product and service quality, financial performance, human resource management and the value of the employees the organization's vision of the future and past assessments in collaboration with their stakeholders, design their perceptions in a positive way. Corporate reputation of the organizations which actualize their target audience with transparent and clear messages through corporate posts in internet and social media, improves and becomes entrenched day by day based on reliability principle. In this study, literature review, analysis and interpretation on the role of managing the perception of corporate messages in social media are conducted. Moreover, two-way symmetrical model of public relations examples that use the Internet's technological capabilities are presented and analyzed. Thus, social media messages which source perception management and reputation management are examined and interpreted with random sampling method.

Religious Pluralism in Thirteen Theses

Thesis 1: In terms of our awareness of religions the world has become significantly smaller and each country significantly larger. Thesis 2: Both the factual presence and the awareness of religious diversity will continue to grow for an unforeseeable length of time. Thesis 3: The religious challenge of religious diversity emerges from the necessity to engage with the perception of different messages of salvation and corresponding truth claims. Thesis 4: For logical reasons there are only four basic options on how to interpret religious truth claims, and only three of them constitute religious options. Thesis 5: Prima facie religious diversity seems to support an atheist/naturalist interpretation of religion. Thesis 6: Exclusivism is the weakest of all possible options. Thesis 7: Compared to exclusivism, inclusivism is only half-hearted progress. Thesis 8: Pluralism avoids the weak points of the two alternative options and represents a worthy alternative to atheism. Thesis 9: Religious pluralism is not rel...

Türkçe ve Rusçanın söylemsesbilimsel karşılaştırılması

Intonation plays a function on changing of the meaning according to speaker’s intention and listener’s inference in the process of perception and interpretation of message. In this study, based on the Speech Acts Theory of Searle (1969), it is aimed to determination of the comparison of intonational patterns of some speech acts which convey variable semantical-pragmatical functions in Turkish and Russian and the discourse-phonologic differences cross languages. By reason of Russian and Turkish differ with their word-order, there seems tonal variations in sentence-initial and sentence-final positions, however it is observed that the focus items carry similar semantic and pragmatic references in both of the languages. The database of this phonological observation techniques used study composed of the verbal data containing mutual conversations of speakers that is adapted to their own languages for 25-30 aged matched speakers one of whom mother tongue is Russian and other ones is Turkish. Each speech act consisted of mutual conversation that differs by its discourse function. Their phonologic analysis were done in Praat 5.2 Program for 4 speech acts (8x2) in total 16 mutual conversations. The role of intonation in discourse function of Turkish and Russian is explained for the data analyzed on the basis of intonational variations including tone, focus and pitch accents. Also, it is reached similarities and dissimilarities by their focusing and intonation structures via this way cross languages.

Communication Ecosystem Contexts: From Mass Audiences to Mass Messages

AbstractMass media used to have ‘mass audiences’. Nowadays, and with the emergence of the Internet and other new media technologies, messages themselves have turned into ‘mass’. These ‘mass messages’ have different densities, varieties, and dynamics in different societies and different countries. Accordingly, in this paper, we take an ecological perspective and resemble mass messages to living organisms that form ‘communication eco-systems’. We then introduce ‘communication ecosystem context’ as a new umbrella concept encompassing various previously known communication contexts. Based upon historical evidences, communication ecosystem contexts are classification into long-term and short-term, which can be formed normally, forcefully, or due to turn of certain events. In this paper the impacts of communication ecosystem contexts on message perception and interpretation have been studied primarily in Iran, and comparison have been made with five different communication ecosystems of Germany, UK, Australia, USA and Canada.

Vietnam - China Oil Rig Dispute: The Influence of Ego-Involvement in Media Perception

This paper examines such coverage to see how the Vietnamese people perceive the reported stories from different sides, including the sides of the involved countries (Vietnam and China) and of other neutral countries. To date, there has been a number of coverage on the oil rig dispute from both Vietnamese and Chinese media, as well as other international media around the globe. Major media outlets in Vietnam are running news series on this incident, in which the foreign sources were often quoted or mentioned to give the readers international perspectives on the issue. As the oil rig incident is central to every Vietnamese life, it is argued that both Vietnamese journalists and readers had their ego-involvement influence the perception of the media message. This paper indicated that Vietnamese people’s media perception of the Vietnam-China oil rig dispute was influenced by their high level of ego-involvement. The result confirmed that social judgment, with the ego-involvement in particular, has a significant influence in the media perception, especially when the issue is deemed important to a person’s life.

The unseen uncertainties in climate change: reviewing comprehension of an IPCC scenario graph

The reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are comprehensive assessments of the scientific knowledge and uncertainties surrounding climate projections. They combine well-formed language with supporting graphical evidence and have the objective to inform policymakers. One of the most discussed and widely distributed visual in these reports is the graph, showing the global surface temperature evolution for the 21st century as simulated by climate models for various emission scenarios, which is part of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) and the Working Group I contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). It displays two types of uncertainties, namely the socio-economic scenarios and response uncertainty due to imperfect knowledge and models. Through 43 in-depth interviews this graph and caption was empirically tested with a sample of people analogous to the SPM target audience. It was found that novice readers were unable to identify the two different types of uncertainties in this graph without substantial guidance. Instead they saw a great deal of uncertainty but falsely attributed it to the climate model(s) and ignored the scenario uncertainties. Our findings demonstrate how the choice of display can directly impact a reader’s perception of the scientific message. A failure to distinguish between these two types of uncertainties could lead to an overestimate of the response uncertainties, and an underestimation of socio-economic choices. We test this assumption and identify the difficulties non-technical audiences have with this graph and how this could inevitably impede its value as a decision support tool.

Bir Vatandaşlık Değeri Olarak Yurtseverlik: Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretmen Adaylarının Algısı

Patriotism is one of the citizenship values that need to be taught in social studies. This study explored social studies teacher candidates’ perceptions of patriotism and patriotic education. The study was conducted in phenomenology design and it included 15 social studies teacher candidates. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed thematically. The study found that all the teacher candidates primarily associated patriotism with love, respect and commitment. Also, some of the participants regarded patriotism as fulfilling one’s responsibilities while some others considered it as striving for human rights and democracy. In addition, the participants had a constructive and democratic perception of patriotism in general. The social studies teacher candidates’ perception of patriotism is influenced by their families’ and social environments’ perception of patriotism and patriotism messages given by the educational system and media. Finally, the teacher candidates’ perception of patriotism had a direct impact on their perspective on patriotic education

How toxic leaders are perceived: gender and information-processing

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to study gender-based differences in information-processing impact on message perception, leading to women viewing the behavior of potentially toxic leaders more negatively than they are viewed by men.Design/methodology/approach– In total, 381 participants completed a series of measures of cue recognition items, collusion and conformity pertaining to a hypothetical toxic leadership scenario.Findings– Results indicated that women perceived the toxic leader more negatively than men, elaborating more on negative message connotations, while men emphasized positives. Likewise, men recorded higher scores on their tendency to collude with the toxic leader compared to women. Evidence was also found that participants were more attuned to negative messages and behavior from a leader of the same gender.Research limitations/implications– The Anglo-Celtic dominance of the sample is identified as a potential limitation. Further research exploring how not only gender, but age and cultural differences impact on how leaders are perceived is also proposed.Practical implications– From a management standpoint understanding that men and women process information differently has worth in assisting in organizations more effectively structuring their intra-organizational communications. Gender-specific communications may help to offset perceptions of negativity toward leaders.Originality/value– This study is the first to consider how gender-based information-processing differences may influence whether a leader is perceived as toxic by male and female followers. It also suggests that gender interaction effects may be critical when considering how leaders, particularly toxic leaders, are viewed by employees.

Role and importance of media literacy in the modern society of Bosnia and Herzegovina

This paper shows the research results gathered through the analysis of media contents on portals with high number of readers – klix.ba and pressrs. ba, with the aim of investigating the level of media education and media literacy of the readers. Particular attention was given to the ways in which the visitors of the portals read, understand and get the gist of media contents or, respectively, perceive and interpret them. Besides the analysis of the media contents and media education of the readers, this research included the investigation of readers’ attitudes towards their preferences regarding perception, analysis and evaluation of media messages. With this work we tried to depict the current situation regarding the media literacy of the modern Bosnian and Herzegovinian society as well as the impact of media messages on citizens, but also the importance and necessity of media alphabetisation of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Content and perception of weight-related maternal messages communicated to adult daughters.

This study examined communication between mothers and overweight daughters on weight or weight-related behaviors through the perspective of adult daughters. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze in-depth individual interviews conducted with 15 adult daughters. Mothers who actively engaged in weight management behaviors, such as dieting and exercising regularly, transmitted these behaviors through modeling and served as continuous sources of verbal guidance on the topic. Weight management was discussed frequently and explicitly. Daughters relied on mothers for motivation in the form of supportive statements consisting of specific recommendations on weight management practices, encouragement to attempt or continue weight management practices, empathy with the struggle of managing weight, and affirmation of practices conducive to weight management. Mothers who did not engage in weight management behaviors were not viewed as credible sources for advice on diet and exercise. Daughters did most of the advice giving and modeling on weight management behaviors. Weight management was discussed infrequently and cautiously. Daughters perceived weight-related messages from mothers as unsolicited and critical. The results suggest that shared lifestyle goals among family members are important for facilitating supportive communication and engagement in health-promoting behaviors and have implications for family-based weight management interventions.

Feedback providers’ credibility impacts students’ satisfaction with feedback and delayed performance

Purpose: Medical students receive feedback during clerkships from many different sources: attendings, residents, paramedics, other clerks and even patients. Not all feedback providers have similar impact on learning. One characteristic that is believed to have impact is their credibility to the recipient. This study investigates the effects of feedback provider credibility on medical student satisfaction, self-efficacy and performance with a trained skill.Methods: A single-blind randomized controlled between-subjects design was used, with feedback provider credibility (high–low) as independent variable and examination of hearing abilities as the task. First year medical students’ (n = 68) satisfaction, self-efficacy and performance were the dependent variables and were measured both directly after the intervention and after a three-week delay.Results: Credibility did not significantly affect immediate or delayed self-efficacy. Students receiving feedback from a high-credibility source were more satisfied with the feedback. They did not perform significantly better immediately after the feedback intervention, but did so three weeks after the intervention. High credibility was associated with a perception of a negative feedback message and an unsocial feedback provider.Conclusions: Feedback provider credibility impacts satisfaction with feedback and delayed performance. If feedback is not effective in clinical settings, feedback providers may reconsider their credibility.

Poetic text in contemporary voice training: a repositioning

The article examines the practice of verse text as a key element in spoken voice work in UK conservatoire actor training. It lays out the context for a historical debate that challenges practitioner essentialism and re-positions voice practice in the light of the adoption of a range of critical and reflective approaches. It suggests that the imbrication of a number of critical frames within the practice renders the work more transparent than was previously the case and, thereby, offers a new model of studio practice. The article draws on sources such as neuro-science, literary studies and poetics in triangulation with practice- led case studies from an auto-ethnographic voice practitioner perspective. Previously undocumented conservatoire voice practice is also signalled in the work of two voice coaches, Elizabeth Pursey and Betty Mulcahy. The former is representative of a long tradition of voice practice in the mainstream UK acting conservatoires and the latter is a professional verse reader with a practice that adopts similar values. Their work is situated alongside my own verse speaking practice and in combination, it provides a context for framing existing voice traditions with suggestion about new studio frameworks. Conclusions reached include the notion that transparent concepts of authorship and listener receptivity will enhance studio work and that research-led reflection on voice and verse practice will foster an enhanced perception of the auditory message in live performance more widely.

Introducing value-based framing as a strategy for communicating CSR

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test how framing of CSR messages, based on a value-theoretical framework, impacts consumer perception of the CSR message. Design/methodology/approach – Quantitative study in the form of an online survey strongly inspired by classical experimental design. Findings – Findings demonstrate that explicit communication of CSR framed as a corporate competence, and to some extent also as something personally relevant to the receivers, positively impacts evaluations of CSR messages and the companies behind them. Research limitations/implications – Findings indicate that CSR messages could increasingly emphasize corporate competence with a lesser focus on moral ideas and commitments, and that framing strategies can be effective in creating CSR messages that will be positively evaluated by young consumers. Originality/value – This study contributes by providing new insights into how value-based framing of CSR messages can increase credibility and relevance and thus help facilitate the complicated task of communicating CSR by way of suggesting a new CSR communication strategy framework.

How do we recognise who is speaking

The human brain effortlessly extracts a wealth of information from natural speech, which allows the listener to both understand the speech message and recognise who is speaking. This article reviews behavioural and neuroscientific work that has attempted to characterise how listeners achieve speaker recognition. Behavioural studies suggest that the action of a speaker's glottal folds and the overall length of their vocal tract carry important voice-quality information. Although these cues are useful for discriminating and recognising speakers under certain circumstances, listeners may use virtually any systematic feature for recognition. Neuroscientific studies have revealed that speaker recognition relies upon a predominantly right-lateralised network of brain regions. Specifically, the posterior parts of superior temporal sulcus appear to perform some of the acoustical analyses necessary for the perception of speaker and message, whilst anterior portions may play a more abstract role in perceiving speaker identity. This voice-processing network is supported by direct, early connections to non-auditory regions, such as the visual face-sensitive area in the fusiform gyrus, which may serve to optimize person recognition.

Analysis of databases appropriation in the academic staffs of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences according to the social appropriation approach.

Background:Numerous researches conducted on about the quality of perception of media messages shows that the people are not passive receivers but they have the ability of understanding, interpreting and accepting or rejecting messages. In order to make clear the relationship of information and communication technologies with social changes and to gain a broader vision from this scope, sociological theories about information and communication technologies’ usage, especially appropriation approach can be very useful. So, keeping in mind the important role of Databases in the qualitative expansion of education, research, diagnosis, remedy and medical services presentation, this research was carried out with the aim of status determination of databases appropriation in the academic staffs of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences according to the social appropriation approach in 2012.Materials and Methods:This is an applicative research of an analytical-descriptive type, which was carried out by measurement approach. The statistical society of this research was composed of the academic staffs of the Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences in 2012 and finally 390 academic staffs were selected according to the Cochran's formula were selected. The research tool are searcher's made questionnaire, which was composed of nine separate parts. Its validity was accepted by the specialists and its reliability was calculated and found to be 0.961 by Cronbakh's alpha.Results:Database appropriation score in the academic staffs of Iranian Universities of Medical Sciences with 65.020% was in a good status and data bases dis appropriation score with 71.484 was in a high status.Conclusion:According to the findings of this research, Librarians and politicians in this scope-with determination of the academic staff's positive and negative points in usage and appropriation would be capable of accurately diagnozing and analyzing the chances and challenges of the academic staffs members in using databases and would also be capable of achieving solutions and appropriate catalyzers of prolific usage and appropriation of databases.

Remember Gerhard Richter in the Thunderstorm of Beethoven: The Influence of Cross-Sensory Coupling on Memory, Intercultural Communication, and the Verbalization of Paintings and Sounds

Abstract This interdisciplinary study focuses on the perception and verbalization of messages conveyed through instrumental music, soundscapes, and contemporary paintings. International young-adult university students learning German participated in a series of experiments conducted at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. To incorporate globalization and cultural difference into this analysis, the author compared the reactions of Western and Asian participants to auditory and visual stimuli. This paper explores the concepts of mixed media, cross-sensory coupling, and esthetic synesthesia, and throws new light on the contribution of cross-sensory coupling to verbalization and to long-term memory processes, from encoding to retrieval. In addition, the author demonstrates how intercultural communication is based upon universal emotions aroused by contemporary paintings, instrumental music and soundscapes.

Law is Not or Must Not Be Just Verbal and Visual in the 21st Century: Toward Multisensory Law

Humans are multisensory beings and live in a multisensory world. Human communication involves the production and perception of messages, as well as the five senses (hearing, vision, touch, taste, and smell). Multimodal or multisensory systems are capable of receiving and sending information by using various sensory channels involving vision, hearing, and movement, but preferably all five senses. Such computer systems are used not only in human communication but also in machine communication. These systems have brought forth a trend toward multisensory digital communication practices in the 21st century. Such multisensory digital media help us produce meaning by using two or more discrete sign systems (i.e., audio-visual, visual-kinaesthetic, tactile-kinaesthetic, and so forth). The advent of digital media and their implications for the law has prompted some scholars to suggest that a visual turn is also occurring in the legal context. Whereas this may be partly true, by restricting or confining the law to the verbal and visual, legal discourse has difficulties in becoming sufficiently aware of multisensory digital media and thus fails to adequately explore these media and their impact on the law — in overt contradiction to the growing significance of such media. Overemphasising both verbal and visual legal communication leads to marginalising or even to ignoring other modalities of already existing or future digital legal communication. Given these problems, this paper seeks to develop tentative answers to five key questions: 1. What is multisensory law? 2. What are the impacts of multisensory digital media on the law? 3. How could or rather should greater awareness be raised in legal discourse about the current and future relevance of multisensory digital media for the law? 4. How could or rather should the marginalising and ignoring of multisensory digital legal communication practices be challenged? 5. How are these research questions relevant to legal discourse, particularly legal history, legal informatics, legal pedagogy, legal psychology, and legal theory? In addressing these questions, this paper draws on insights from different legal and non-legal disciplines, such as the anthropology of the senses, communication studies, legal history, legal informatics, legal psychology (therapeutic jurisprudence), legal theory, multisensory law, perceptual psychology, and so forth.