Communication Perspective Research Articles

Coining Tactile Signs: A Guided Experience of Tactile Communication for People with Acquired Deafblindness and their Communication Partners

Introduction: When hearing and vision are affected simultaneously, communication can be challenging (Nordic Welfare Centre, 2016). However, undertaking a bodily – tactile modality of communication can benefit the interactions for people with acquired deafblindness and their partners (Lahtinen, 2008). This research aimed to understand the process of creating tactile communication. It focused on analysing the process of coining tactile signs for specific objects. Method: A qualitative and descriptive case study was conducted, utilizing video-analysis and questionnaires. An intervention was based on a learning guide and inspired by the project Landscape of Touch (Tactile Communication Group DbI, 2012). Different activities of tactile communication, progressive in complexity, led the participants to a final experience of coining (the creation of) their own tactile signs. Results: The results showed three blended stages in the coining process, tactile exploration, information selection and negotiation of meaning. The coined signs were compared with their visual pair of NZSL [New Zealand Sign Language] finding several similarities in their components. This research had an expanding effect on the participant’s perspective of tactile communication and the possibility of integrating it to their daily life. Conclusion and Discussion: Further research on sign coining and tactile elements in the communication, including individual experiences, is essential for developing good practices for educators and support service providers in this field. It is recommended to use video analysis as a tool to observe the details in the handmovements. Some limitations in this study were the application in a case study, therefore no generalisations can be made, and the access to technology limited the possibilities for other possible participants.

Conceptualising the Role of Opinion Leaders as Moderator to Local Communities Commitment in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication

Corporations are subjected to high criticism due to the misuse of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication to shelter their wrongdoing in running business activities. Obtaining trust from the local communities will increase corporations’ chances to earn Social Licence to Operate (SLO). Although communication is typically a two-way process, in communication research, getting a response from the targeted personnel is much more valuable. However, extant studies provide insufficient understanding related to communicative framework in engaging with local communities. Current research trends in CSR communication are skewed towards the effects of CSR communication, legitimacy of CSR communication, as well as the challenges in carrying out CSR communication. In this study, the current model of communication which is based on the mechanistic perspective of communication is discussed and expanded. Three important communication elements are analysed, and their relationship is proposed to form a new conceptual framework that includes a fourth element: opinion leader. The suggested framework primarily describes and provides arguments for the extent of communication willingness in affecting communication commitment. The crux of this framework is communication quality; transpiring in three formative factors namely bi-directional communication, symmetrical information and transparency. This framework believes that investigating the role of opinion leader in moderating the success of CSR communication adds empirical insights in the emerging literature of CSR communication. The discussed framework could be implemented in understanding dialogue between corporations and local communities. Keywords: CSR communication, opinion leader, dialogue, communication quality, local community.

(RE)THINKING THERMALISM IN EUROPE FROM THE STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE: A THEORETICAL REFLECTION

This research aims to present a conceptual approach to the strategic importance of communication in the thermal sector. This therefore seeks to identify and analyse the scientific publications addressing the thermal sector from the strategic communication perspective. Furthermore, this also sets out the objectives and conclusions of the studies and conveys their relationship with communication. This study correspondingly applies a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) in keeping with the PRISMA Statement method covering the Scopus and Web of Science databases with 27 articles incorporated into the qualitative analysis. The results demonstrate that the three clusters obtained via the similarity of words enable the identification of the features that frame strategic communication as an essential tool for leveraging and promoting thermalism. This study contributes to identifying strategies and operationalised guidelines impacting on the publications able to outline promising future research paths for better knowledge about thermal tourism in Europe.

Main Challenges for Child Digital Citizenship in a Consumer Culture in Brazil

In this article, we reflect on how practices of children’s consumer culture interfere with the exercise of rights by children who are consumers and producers of content on digital platforms. It is our aim to offer a communicational perspective to a broader discussion on the processes of child socialization within the scope of digital culture. So, this article intends to highlight some of the challenges for the exercise of children’s digital citizenship based on the Brazilian experience. It also aims to insert Brazilian research in the international debate on children’s rights on the internet. To carry out this discussion, we mobilize theoretical and empirical studies produced in Brazil and map national legal framework that supports the notion of digital citizenship for children. The theoretical effort of this work has pointed out at least two dynamics that explain the way in which the logics of consumption permeate the exercise of the rights of active children on social network platforms: the appropriation of the right to freedom of speech in order to enable child labor, and the conversion of the right to information into processes of publicizing brands in children’s daily lives. We conclude that although Brazil offers a set of legal systems that guarantee the right of children to communication, the exercise of digital citizenship faces a series of challenges. In this sense, public policies which target children in the online ecosystem are needed so that they can participate in this environment without losing their protection guarantees.

Komunikasi Antar Budaya Dalam Perspektif Antropologi Islam

Intercultural communication develops based on two interconnected premises. First, you live in a time when changing technology, travel, economic and political systems, immigration patterns, and population density have resulted in a world in which you regularly interact with people from different cultures. Second, nowadays, people are very sensitive to the fact that the influence of culture on communication is very close and great. Your cultural background and experience help you determine how the world should be for you and how you will interact with it. Anthropological perspective in intercultural communication is looking at intercultural communication from an anthropological point of view, because the communication already contains cultural values. Intercultural communication is part of the marriage between the disciplines of anthropology and communication which later became a separate discipline both in communication science and in anthropology. Anthropology is one of the fields of science that is the root or foundation of the birth of communication science. In subsequent developments, cultural experts realized the importance of communication in the cultural field.
 Keywords: Intercultural communication and in anthropological perspective
 
 
 

THE INFLUENCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND E-COMMERCE BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS PERSPECTIVE ON ENTREPRENEUR SELF EFFICACY MEDIATED INTENSITY IN STUDENTS OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SURABAYA

The importance of this study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurship education and the perspective of e-commerce business communication on entrepreneurial intensity mediated by entrepreneur self-efficacy in students of the economics and business faculties of Surabaya State University. This research uses a type of descriptive quantitative research with path analysis to look for relationships in each variable. The number of samples was 303 students from a total population of 1253 students from the 2019-2021 class. The research findings reveal that entrepreneurial intentions are indirectly influenced by entrepreneurship education, which means that entrepreneur self-efficacy has succeeded in mediating entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial intensity of students at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Negeri Surabaya. As for the e-commerce business perspective, it does not significantly influence the entrepreneurial intensity of students at the Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Negeri Surabaya

Research on Exploding Video Creation Strategy based on Visual Communication

With the rapid development of digital media technology, the form of information dissemination is constantly updated, reflecting the development and progress of the times. Facing the new situation and task, the analysis of the new strategy of visual communication design of communication content is an extremely important link. As a new way of communication, short video has changed the way people get information and socialize. The rise of short video makes the audience gradually develop fragmented audio-visual habits, which in turn affects and changes the production and communication mode of traditional media. Using the theory of communication to analyze, it is not difficult to see the characteristics of communication methods. The era of big data enables communicators to grasp the needs of audiences more accurately and optimize communication methods. More and more mainstream news media have entered the field of short video creation. Creating explosions and detonating traffic is the only way to expand the media's influence, seize the right to speak online and guide public opinion. From the perspective of visual communication, this paper analyzes the audience's media choice and the change of visual center, and gives some suggestions on the creation strategy of explosive short videos.

Communication Ecology Model of Successful Aging in Indonesian Context

The communication ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA) as a part of aging studies from a communication perspective was replicated in the Indonesian context. The CEMSA provided a specific perspective from communication scholars about the successful aging process. The study of CEMSA has grown significantly to demonstrate the importance of the interactive-communication process to propagate and enhance aging studies. However, there has been no specific aging study from a communication perspective, especially from communication scholars in the Indonesian context. This study applied all concepts, variables, measurements, and analyses from the replicated study. The result showed that seven domains of communication about aging may be relevant to predict successful aging from a negative effect and positive effect, and efficacy toward aging. The model showed that the uncertainty and combination of a negative and positive effect in seven domains of communication about aging could construct the efficacy and success of the aging process. The model with seven domains of communication about aging could be proved while the data were gathered not by self-report.

Adaptability of Chinese Translation of Luxury Advertisements from the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Communication

The world today has entered an era of globalization, and has achieved global connectivity in cultural, economic, technological and informative. With the rapid development of global trade, cross-cultural communication has become an irreversible trend in today's world. In such background, the translation of transnational advertising is not only crucial to the future development of enterprises, but also related to the effectiveness of cultural communication. In cross-cultural context, this article explores some luxury advertising translation from cases of success and failure from the perspective of application of “Adaptation Theory” in translation, and points out that the translator should make full use of the “Adaptation Theory” when translating advertisements. Luxury advertisement translation as a kind of cross-cultural communication activities, involves many factors such as regional culture, consumption psychology, aesthetic ideas, value orientation. Therefore, translators should take these factors into full consideration when translating, so as to make the translated text conform to consumers' psychology as far as possible, and achieve dynamic adaptation of cultural information . At the same time, it puts forward strategies for Chinese local products to help them "go out".

Students' Comunication Perapective in Online Listening Subjects

This study aimed to discover students' communication perspectives in online listening subjects. The method used in this research was qualitative method in the kind of phenomenological research. The research instrument to collect the data was a semi-structured interview. The subjects of this study were third-semester students of the English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar.Based on the results of this study, the perspective of student communication in online listening classes, students stated that the way the lecturer conveys material in the online listening class is direct via Zoom or Google meet. Meanwhile, in terms of interaction, some students answered that communication was done in writing on WhatsApp. Then, In terms of delivering feedback, almost all students mentioned that the lecturer delivered it in groups (one class). Whereas in terms of doing assignments students prefer to do them individually. Most students have a good opinion after studying these topics, and it helps them understand many situations in real life. Furthermore, most of the students mentioned that these themes influenced their understanding of culture because they heard how languages are in other countries. especially on differences in accent and pronunciation.

Women’s Fashion Simulacra A Compulsive Narrative in Syahrini’s Shopee Advertisement

Advertising is essential in persuading, strengthening, and reminding the product of the public. Advertising is a representation of a product. From the modern communication perspective, advertising is used to make up the product's image. Recently, advertisements have appeared not only in conventional media but also in new media. Advertising works are becoming more varied and creative considering that new media are relatively uptight regulation than conventional media. This creates a hyper-reality that goes beyond the function of the ad itself. This study seeks to reveal Syahrini's Shopee marketplace advertisement on Youtube. The advertisement's content is examined critically and analyzed using Pierce's triangle of meaning: object, interpretant, and representamen. The research found that hyper-reality simulacra were created as a compulsive shopping narrative. This occurs due to unpleasant events or negative feelings caused by addiction, depression, and boredom. However, the public does not know this.

Renewable Energy-Based Energy-Efficient Off-Grid Base Stations for Heterogeneous Network

The heterogeneous network (HetNet) is a specified cellular platform to tackle the rapidly growing anticipated data traffic. From a communications perspective, data loads can be mapped to energy loads that are generally placed on the operator networks. Meanwhile, renewable energy-aided networks offer to curtailed fossil fuel consumption, so to reduce the environmental pollution. This paper proposes a renewable energy based power supply architecture for the off-grid HetNet using a novel energy sharing model. Solar photovoltaics (PV) along with sufficient energy storage devices are used for each macro, micro, pico, or femto base station (BS). Additionally, a biomass generator (BG) is used for macro and micro BSs. The collocated macro and micro BSs are connected through end-to-end resistive lines. A novel-weighted proportional-fair resource-scheduling algorithm with sleep mechanisms is proposed for non-real time (NRT) applications by trading-off the power consumption and communication delays. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm with an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) and power saving mode (PSM) for narrowband internet of things (IoT) applications extends the battery lifetime for IoT devices. HOMER optimization software is used to perform optimal system architecture, economic, and carbon footprint analyses while the Monte-Carlo simulation tool is used for evaluating the throughput and energy efficiency performances. The proposed algorithms are validated through the practical data of the rural areas of Bangladesh from which it is evident that the proposed power supply architecture is energy-efficient, cost-effective, reliable, and eco-friendly.

Exploring the Process of Educational Visits to the Primary schools as an Educational and Cultural Experience. A study based on Empirically Grounded Theory, in parallel with the Perspective of Cultural Communication

The educational visit, regardless of its multiple valuable functions and concepts, is a process of institutionalized education that takes place in places of cultural reference, according to the instructions given in the respective school curricula. It starts at school and ends at school, with an intermediate phase at the Museum. It is, therefore, typically an educational and cultural experience. However, it includes a series of activities that take place in different spaces of identity and philosophy, actions of people from two different scientific and professional fields, interactions of people who approach the process with different means and of course have different goals, needs and motivations. To the pluralism of this peculiar framework of the educational visit are added the qualitative parameters of the condition related to the person who participates and gives a special imprint to the process with his uniqueness, depending on his role. The comparative analysis of three studies on primary school students, teachers and museum professionals sought to provide an explanation from three different groups of subjects actively participating in an educational visit on the identity of the heritage-focused museum experience. The aim was to highlight the points of identification and differentiation in order to improve the effectiveness of the institution with an emphasis on the goals of cultural communication. In other words, how the educational visits as an institutionalized pillar of cultural heritage communication contribute to the formation of awareness attitudes, and the conscious participation of those involved in the whole process.

Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries

Abstract Numerous national research assessment policies aim to promote ‘excellence’ and incentivize scholars to publish their research in the most prestigious journals or with the most prestigious book publishers. We investigate the practicalities of assessing book outputs in different countries, concentrating on evaluation based on the prestige of book publishers (e.g. Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and Spain). Additionally, we test whether such judgments are transparent and yield consistent results. We show inconsistencies in the levelling of publishers, such as cases where the same publisher is ranked as prestigious and not-so-prestigious in different states or within the same country in consequent years. Likewise, we find that verification of compliance with the mandatory prerequisites is not always possible because of the lack of transparency. Our findings support doubts about whether the assessment of books based on a judgement about their publishers yields acceptable outcomes. Even more, currently used rankings of publishers focus on evaluating the gatekeeping role of publishers but do not assess other essential stages in scholarly book publishing (e.g. dissemination or preservation). Our suggestion for future research is to develop approaches to evaluate books by accounting for the value added to every book at every publishing stage, which is vital for the quality of book outputs from research assessment and scholarly communication perspectives.

"EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL ERA. A CASE STUDY ON THE AUDIOVISUAL SERVICES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. "

The European Union’s media communication system has been changing rapidly during the latest years due both to new trends in media industry and also due the euro-scepticism wave expressed by some EU member states. The paper first provides a background on the main perspectives of media industry and public communication. Further, the paper refers to EU’s communication strategies, with a focus on the recent digital initiatives. As for the case study, the authors will conduct an analysis on the Audiovisual Services of the European Union (the video, photo and audio services), in terms of identifying the updated approach imposed by professional media industry and by the consumption preferences of the new segments of audiences in the digital era.

Concordancing DEVELOP* at the Interpreter-mediated Press Conferences

Thanks to the pragmatist Reform and Opening-up (RoU) program initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China, the largest developing country, has witnessed decades of sustained development and is poised to overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world. RoU is a major watershed in China’s recent history, signaling the beginning of China’s rapid economic development and meteoric rise over the past few decades in the global arena. The broader RoU discourse represents an important overarching metadiscourse, legitimizing China’s miscellaneous developments and policies, economic system, style of governance, and stances for the entire post-1978 period. In particular, ‘development’ is an operative word for and a key component of the RoU, which also constitutes a central and recurring theme throughout the interpreter-mediated premier-meets-the-press conferences in China. Development studies represents a growing and interdisciplinary research area. However, it is rarely explored from a discursive perspective in political interpreting, despite the vital mediating role of interpreters. To bridge this gap, framed within the broader trends of interdisciplinary research and digital humanities, the pragmatist mixed-methods approach of corpus-based critical discourse analysis is applied to the premier-meets-the-press data (1998–2017) to explore the government-affiliated interpreters’ agency and (re)construction of China’s ‘development’ discourse over one-fifth of a century. The study reveals the interpreters’ institutional (over)alignment and frequent strengthening of Beijing’s development discourse in English at different levels using various discursive means. Discursively, this established the interpreters’ role and text ownership in (re)shaping reality, further facilitating China’s development, (re)constructing and disseminating sociopolitical knowledge, and possibly even effecting changes and transformations to the East–West power differentials as vital (re)tellers of the Chinese story. Looking beyond the traditional view of interpreting as a more static and mechanical process in a semi-closed and self-contained system, this article discusses the vital role interpreting plays from a historical, communication, geopolitical and development perspective.

The role of argumentation on high- and low-creative performing groups: A structuration analysis of undergraduate students’ group discussion

Communication is essential for group creativity, and involves cognitive and social processes. However, research rarely investigates how these two processes unfold from a communication perspective, and its consequences on group creative performance. This study adopted the structuration theory as a framework that is capable of integrating both approaches in the study of in-group communication. In particular, we employed a structuration view to examine group argument; a social practice defined as both a system (argumentative patterns of interactive behaviors) and a structure (rules and resources undergirding the system). By applying the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme (CACS) and Lag Sequential Analysis (LSA) to analyze the argumentative behaviors of 17 groups of undergraduate students performing a creative task, we identified significant differences in the systems and structures exhibited by high and low-performing groups. Successful creative groups exhibit argumentative patterns characterized by conflict, which contributes to the generation of new ideas and the integration of diverse perspectives. In contrast, less successful groups revealed a system that focused on reaching consensus rather than challenging or evaluating ideas. This paper further discusses the first empirical evidence provided by LSA on unpacking the communication dynamics that involve social and cognitive processes in in-group creative discussions.

Corporate Communication of CSR in China: Characteristics and Regional Differences

This article investigates CSR issues publicized by websites, annual reports, and social responsibility reports by companies in mainland China from the perspective of corporate communication. The empirical study is surrounded by issues about the motives of CSR, the content of CSR, and the applications of stakeholders. Empirical tests are distinguished by CSR motives, characteristics, and stakeholder issues for companies from Eastern, Central, and Western regions. Our research results indicate that although corporate social responsibility implementation and communication in China have made great progress compared with the past, there are still problems, such as the incomplete implementation of CSR, unbalanced communication of CSR, and lack of integrity and pertinence. Enterprises in different regions are affected by the degree of local economic development, social development environment, and government intervention, which leads to obvious differences in geographical and political attributes of enterprises in different regions in communicating social responsibility. This article focuses on the impact of institutional (consists formal and informal) and regional influencing factors on CSR communication. Therefore, political, cultural, and regional differences are expected to be conducted by corporate culture and government policy in future CSR activities.

Politics, economy and society in the coverage of COVID-19 by elite newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil: a text mining approach

We analyzed 95,970 stories on COVID-19 published in 2020 by newspapers in US, UK, China and Brazil — countries marked by controversial management of the crisis. Through a text mining approach, we identified main topics, subjects, actors and the level of attention. The coverage was politicized in “The New York Times” and “Folha de S. Paulo”; focused on health aspects in “The Guardian”; and emphasized the economic situation in “China Daily”. In this sense, the pandemic has motivated a deeper approach to the multiple dimensions of science and health, pointing to a broader perspective of science communication.

DIALECT POLITENESS: IS VIOLATING THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE AN IMPOLITENESS?

The way someone shows politeness in speech acts is not only seen from a macro understanding of how speech participants can keep each other's face and maintain maxims with the inclusion of linguistic elements. Politeness of speech acts should be seen and understood on a micro level; more specifically in the context of language use in a language community as a cultural practice, both collectively and individually. Using the ethnographic perspective of communication, the current study investigates the politeness of speech acts in the context of guidance and counselling communication interactions in senior high schools, in the province of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The results of the analysis of S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G showed that the politeness of speech acts that appeared in the guidance and counselling process was mediated pragmatically by the use of local dialects. To find the forms, functions, strategies, and cooperative principles of speech act politeness that exist in the speech process, further analysis is carried out using coding techniques which also aims to construct a concept. The results of the analysis showed three forms of politeness, four functions of politeness, six strategies of politeness, and two principles of cooperative principles. The current study understands that violating the principle of cooperation in the context of communication in this study is actually a courtesy and that is why a polite speech act should be relied on the context in which a communication happened. This understanding was constructed theoretically then labelled as 'Dialect politeness' as a cultural communication practice.