Text Communication Research Articles

Technology-driven gratifications sought through text-messaging among college students in the U.S. and Japan

This study examined uses and gratifications of text-messaging focusing on its media attributes among college students who have grown up with communication technology. It also investigated if technology-driven gratifications sought is related to perceived richness of the channel as well as perceived competence in text communication. First, six technology-driven gratifications sought through text-messaging were identified, and using this scale, data from a total of 329 college students in the U.S. and in Japan via online surveys were analyzed. The results reveal that those who seek technology-driven gratifications are more likely to perceive the channel as rich. In addition, technology-driven gratifications sought is positively related to satisfaction with text-messaging as well as competence in text-messaging in terms of effectiveness across the groups. We also discuss similarities and differences in the use of text-messaging and its outcomes between college students in the U.S. and Japan.

Theologies of the Cross and the Mysteries of God: Apostolic Weakness and Divine Power in the Literary Receptions of 1 Cor 2:1-8

This last essay of a three-part research on early Jewish-Christian traditions and Gnostic movements examines the reception of 1 Cor 2:1-16. Taking into consideration the Pauline Theology of the Cross , which emphasizes apostolic weakness; and revelations of the mysteries of God to those who were called perfect Christians, which provides empowerment through contemplation of this unveiling. There is an apparent ambiguity in Paul’s arguments with many parallels in the gnostic traditions, apostolic fathers and other patristic texts. There are two clear sections on the textual reference used in this article, representing multiple interpretations throughout Pauline traditions, and revealing a polyphonic situation with ambivalent categories. These two studied sections disclose a polyphonic situation in which opposite perspectives co-exist in religious or cultural expressions. These diverse receptions, attestations and interpretations of the Pauline ideas are natural developments in a complex system of communication, while also requiring a profound dialogue between literary methodologies and theological discourses. Even though scholars are unable to date particular texts and relate them to historical contexts, studies on literary receptions, rhetorical criticisms and ancient textual communications are crucial for the intersections between Religious Studies and Literature.

Presidential Candidates" Twitter Use and the Linkage Pattern of Twitter users in the 2012 Presidential Election

The study aimed to examine how the five presidential candidates - Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul - used Twitter in their 2012 presidential election campaigns and how Twitter received information from the candidates and shared information with other Twitter users. Among 30 million Twitter who followed these five candidates, most individuals followed either Obama or one or multiple Republican candidates, but rarely followed across the party line. To find which model explains Twitter users following patterns better, the author examined the two-step flow model and the network model. Based on analysis of randomly selected 180 Twitter who followed any of the five candidates, this study found that their Twitter activities fitted the network model, in which shared information with each other beyond directly getting tweets from their favored candidate. In this network model, some of the seemed to emerge as opinion leaders by issuing plenty of tweets and having more followers than those they follow, also known as one-way friends. The author also downloaded the Twitter profile pages of the five candidates and all their tweets from when they set up their Twitter account through March 2012. To content analyze the tweets of the candidates, the author randomly selected 500 tweets from the five candidates, 100 from each candidate, and analyzed them to find emerging 11 categories, which covered mentioning of their performance and ideas, criticism of their opponents, solicitation, thanks to voters, personal-side stories, and event reminders. The five candidates heavily used Twitter as a hook to hashtags and http links that would provide more detailed information for followers. They still used Twitter mostly as a textual communication tool, but they slowly made a move to visuals. In terms of message content, Republican candidates heavily cited others, for example, the mass media, to describe their ideas and performance and to criticize their opponents. But Obama didnt seem to rely on external sources for the same purposes. This study used all 30 million Twitter to find which candidate they followed. But it used a small size of Twitter and tweets for other analyses. Future studies are suggested to analyze larger samples for more accurate results.

An Internet-based virtual reality intervention for enhancing self-esteem in women with disabilities: Results of a feasibility study.

To examine the feasibility of an online self-esteem enhancement group program for women with disabilities. A sample of 19 racially and ethnically diverse, community-living women with physical disabilities, 22 to 61 years old, participated in a 7-session interactive group intervention (extending Hughes et al., 2004) in the 3-D, immersive, virtual environment of SecondLife.com, using avatars with voice and text communication. Baseline and postintervention questionnaires were administered online. Criteria for determining feasibility were (a) enrollment, (b) engagement, (c) acceptability, and (d) improvement on measures of self-esteem, depression, self-efficacy, and social support. We attained our enrollment goal and engagement exceeded expectations. Acceptability was positive; participants gave "helpful" and "enjoyable" ratings of 3.21 and 3.27, respectively, (mean on a 1 to 4 Likert scale, where 4 = high) to 5 intervention components-session materials, group sharing and discussion, relaxation exercises, action planning, and group excursions. Significant increases from baseline to postintervention were found on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (p = .02; Cohen's d = .60) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-10 (p = .005; Cohen's d = .74), with a trend toward significance on the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (p = .08; Cohen's d = .42). The intervention did not significantly affect the measure of social support. An intervention to enhance self-esteem may have a corollary benefit on depressive symptomatology. Offering psycho-educational, small group interventions using online virtual worlds shows promise for circumventing disability-related and environmental barriers to accessing mental health services experienced by women with mobility limitations, and should undergo further development and testing. (PsycINFO Database Record

Comment Entraîner les Elèves à L’Inférence et à Sa Vérification?

Inferences are an essential component of cognitive activities such as perception, problem solving, understanding text or verbal communication. The teaching of inference involves a contact regular of the child before such problems. Reasoning and inferences are based on the shapes, patterns or modes of reasoning. One of the objectives referred to in this study is about how students arrive to check inferences. Other words were what perception the veracity of what they wrote? How do they feel their performance on the basis of the methodology? Collection of data, methodology, was conducted among students in classes 4th, 2nde, 1er, the Terminal and to the superior. It consisted in the administration of a questionnaire. The thread of these attitudes in terms of inferential methodology is the predisposition to inference; so the student predisposes to fetch the implied either by a presumed inference, an implied inference. The apprehension of the performance of pupils is based on inferential discussed. Good reasoning, it is not only correct, reasoning it is a reasoning which reaches his goal.

Professional Online Support Group Facilitators: Guarantors of Maximal Group Utility

ABSTRACTSynchronous online support groups (OSGs) represent a promising psychosocial resource, as they offer many of the same therapeutic factors as face-to-face groups as well as unique benefits (e.g., anonymity, convenience). Despite their advantages, OSGs also present challenges to participation, including lack of visual cues, disjointed text communication, and rapid pace, which render the presence of a professional facilitator especially important. This study involved an in-depth qualitative analysis of 38 sessions of four time-limited OSGs for informal caregivers (i.e., family) of patients with advanced-stage cancer. Results depict the ways in which four trained facilitators maximized the utility of their respective online groups—namely, by structuring and guiding, actively scanning, and modulating experiencing. These findings expand our limited understanding of the facilitative processes that take place in OSGs and may be clinically informative to professionals with an interest in this relatively novel group modality.

Delivery of Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments by Automated Mobile Phone Text Messaging.

Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments allow patients to interpret their health and are integral in evaluating orthopedic treatments and outcomes. The purpose of this study was to define: (1) correlation between PROs collected by automated delivery of text messages on mobile phones compared with paper delivery; and (2) patient use characteristics of a technology platform utilizing automated delivery of text messages on mobile phones. Paper versions of the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) and the short form of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (QuickDASH) were completed by patients in orthopedic hand and upper extremity clinics. Over the next 48 hours, the same patients also completed the mobile phone portion of the study outside of the clinic which included text message delivery of the SF-12 and QuickDASH, assigned in a random order. Correlations between paper and text message delivery of the 2 PROs were assessed. Among 72 patients, the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) between the written and mobile phone delivery of QuickDASH was 0.91 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.85-0.95). The ICC between the paper and mobile phone delivery of the SF-12 physical health composite score was 0.88 (95% CI, 0.79-0.93) and 0.86 (95% CI, 0.75-0.92) for the SF-12 mental health composite score. We find that text message delivery using mobile phones permits valid assessment of SF-12 and QuickDASH scores. The findings suggest that software-driven automated delivery of text communication to patients via mobile phones may be a valid method to obtain other PRO scores in orthopedic patients.

A Study of Ten Popular Android Mobile Cloud Storage Applications

The mobile cloud storage application becomes more ubiquities recently for storing data such as image, audio, text files and etc. The most important issue in this regard is security of these tools and using the best method for encrypting the users’ data for keeping them protected. In this study, we examine ten mobile cloud storage applications namely 4Shared, One Drive, Mega, Surdoc, Cubby, ADrive, Safe Sync, Team Drive, Wuala and Just Cloud. In these applications, we analyze the intercepted communications to determine encryption of the captured text and voice communication to bring out the results to find out the best cloud application that follows the encryption methods mostly. Thus, we use a histogram to analysis the text file and use a Wire shark to check whether a plaintext has been found in the cloud storage application or not, after that we analyze the plain text.

Service Oriented Mobile Wallets with NFC

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology integration with mobile phones has extended the way we use mobile devices. Instead of voice and text communication mobile devices can be used as credit cards to replace our wallets. In this study we have developed an NFC based mobile wallet with using Alcatel Lucent Mobile Wallet web services with provided functionalities such as accounts, e-money, loyalty cards, etc. These services are consumed from NFC mobile phones and NFC device is used for payments and secure store to keep user credentials in SIM Secure Element.

Study of Buy and Sell Debt to Debt in Islamic Jurisprudence

One of the most common sales in business communications, especially the international ones is debt to debt sale. Despite prevalence of debt to debt in internal and international business communication and lack of certain legal text about its validity or invalidity, there is a question that whether this type of sale should be allowed or based on principles in constitutional, in the case of law silence we should refer to valid legal resources. Although according to jurists , debt to debt sale is completely invalid , there is no valid reason to invalidity of a sale in which the price and values are both in the form of debt , but according to documents of contract permission and origin of transactions validity , such trades could be considered correct and according to some hadith ..., of course in order to compensate the weakness of its document to evident act , dedicated invalidity just to its certain case which should be both sale and cost before contracting a debt . DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p396

“Turn that frown upside-down”: A contextual account of emoticon usage on different virtual platforms

Evidence highlights the prevalent usage of emoticons within digital forms of textual communication and the impact on the recipient. However, little evidence demonstrates the interpersonal functions for the user and whether this varies as a product of virtual platform. This formed the basis for the current study in which participants (N = 92) provided open-ended accounts of their reasons for using emoticons across three virtual platforms (email, text message, and social networking site), and their general emoticon usage across these. Responses revealed a number of themes on reasons for emoticon usage. The first was; “aiding personal expression”, with sub-themes of; “establishing emotional tone”; and “to lighten the mood”. Other themes were “reducing ambiguity of discourse” and “appropriateness of context”. Overall, there was consistency across platforms, on both the personal and interpersonal functions which emoticons served. However, some disparity was identified as email platforms were deemed inappropriate for emoticon use, regardless of the fact that emoticons were recognised as important emotional aids for communication. Taken together these findings highlight the importance of emoticon usage for the user, through a contextual lens to recognise the influential factors upon these behaviours and the implications this has for digital text-based communication. In this regard, this contributes further conceptualisation of one aspect of hyperpersonal communication within virtual interactions, and how different platforms may permit these self-presentational efforts to a greater or lesser extent.

Spam filtering framework for multimodal mobile communication based on dendritic cell algorithm

With the continual growth of mobile devices, they become a universal portable platform for effective business and personal communication. They enable a plethora of textual communication modes including electronic mails, instant messaging, and short messaging services. A downside of such great technology is the alarming rate of spam messages that are not only annoying to end-users but raises security concerns as well. This paper presents an intelligent framework for filtering multimodal textual communication including emails and short messages. We explore a novel methodology for information fusion inspired by the human immune system and hybrid approaches of machines learning. We study a number of methods to extract and select more relevant features to reduce the complexity of the proposed model to suite mobile applications while preserving good performance. The proposed framework is intensively evaluated on a number of benchmark datasets with remarkable results achieved.

For Whom Do We Write Exhibitions? Towards a Museum as Commons

In 1979, Umberto Eco published The Role of the Reader (Lector in fabula), which gathered the analysis he had conducted in the previous years on audience participation in the enjoyment of narrative literature. According to the Italian semiologist, a text always implies a set of rules as well as undefined empty areas, which are set up by the producer and activated by the receiver. As a matter of fact, according to Eco, any text has inscribed in it, since its very conception by the author, an interpretative mechanism that makes it incomplete. Every text therefore always implies—or at least hopes for—a subject able to decode it. Breaking down the act of textual communication as an act based on shared codes and conventions—some of which are more stable, like languages; others are less codified, such as a set of references or contextual readings—between producer and receiver, Eco delineates the theoretical character of a Model Reader, for which every communication produces postulates and proposes more or less knowingly the following: “To organize a text the author relies upon a series of codes that assign given contents to the expression he uses. To make his text communicable, the author has to assume that the ensemble of codes he relies upon is the same as that shared by his possible reader. The author has thus to foresee a model of the possible reader (Model Reader), supposedly able to deal interpretatively with the expressions, in the same way as the author deals generatively with them.”

Committee Opinion No. 653: Concerns Regarding Social Media and Health Issues in Adolescents and Young Adults.

Although there are many positive aspects of social media for adolescents and young adults, there are also risks. Adolescence is a time of significant developmental changes, during which adolescents exhibit a limited capacity for self-regulation and an increased risk of susceptibility to peer pressure and experimentation. Social media can be harmful, and obstetrician-gynecologists may screen their adolescent and young adult patients for high-risk sexual behaviors, especially if sexualized text communication (sexting), exposure to pornography, online dating, or other risk-taking behaviors are present. Victims of cyberbullying and those who engage in sexting are at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. The effect of social media may be considered in the differential diagnosis of myriad health problems during adolescence. Referrals to mental health care providers or providing outside resources may be indicated. A multidisciplinary approach to address these issues can include the obstetrician-gynecologist, guardians, and school officials and personnel. Knowledge of resources, including those within the schools and community, allows the obstetrician-gynecologist to provide support to adolescents facing these issues.

Committee Opinion No 653 Summary: Concerns Regarding Social Media and Health Issues in Adolescents and Young Adults.

Although there are many positive aspects of social media for adolescents and young adults, there are also risks. Adolescence is a time of significant developmental changes, during which adolescents exhibit a limited capacity for self-regulation and an increased risk of susceptibility to peer pressure and experimentation. Social media can be harmful, and obstetrician-gynecologists may screen their adolescent and young adult patients for high-risk sexual behaviors, especially if sexualized text communication (sexting), exposure to pornography, online dating, or other risk-taking behaviors are present. Victims of cyberbullying and those who engage in sexting are at increased risk of sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. The effect of social media may be considered in the differential diagnosis of myriad health problems during adolescence. Referrals to mental health care providers or providing outside resources may be indicated. A multidisciplinary approach to address these issues can include the obstetrician-gynecologist, guardians, and school officials and personnel. Knowledge of resources, including those within the schools and community, allows the obstetrician-gynecologist to provide support to adolescents facing these issues.

Computer-aided qualitative data analysis of social media for teachers and students in legal education

This article addresses a new field for legal education researchers. It describes and discusses emergent methods for computer-aided qualitative data analysis of social media in legal education. Social media contributes opportunities for learning, teaching, and research for legal educators and students. It potentially expedites collaborations, sharing, and collection of information and commentary on relevant and important issues and topics. These sources provide content and data for learning, teaching, and research. Benefits of computer-aided qualitative data analysis of social media in legal education include a systematic approach, transparency, accountability and durability, and innovative ways to communicate insights through textual and graphical communications. The article uses two examples in which computer-aided qualitative data analysis, combined with qualitative data analysis strategies, can contribute insights in and about legal education: analysis of social media discussions involving specific topics or events – to study students’ work, or academics’ interactions at conferences; and analysis of legal educators’ scholarly communications and social media activities, toward improving the visibility and influence of legal education scholarship. Research ethics for studies involving social media and human participants are also considered.

Архетип у медіатексті: просторові образи

The article studies the space images that are the basis for the mental fields represented in the Ukrainian media space. In general, the material provided is a part of a comprehensive research devoted to the special nature of space images in the textual communication, including in belles-lettres and media. In the author’s opinion, particular space concepts as a basis of the mental field of the information consumer, specify the interpretation of this information and create an opportunity for miscellaneous information manipulations. In the article a concept of a mental map, which is the key one for the theory of space mental mapping is used. The Ukrainian media space shows a clear opposition of “east”- “west” in the context of establishing the positive/negative and axiological; as well as they display the fixation of particular geographic myths taken as an axiom and failed to become a subject of reflection and re-assessment not only by ordinary information consumers but also by the authors of media texts in the reality changed.

Organization and Management Efficiency Assessment in the Aspect of Linguistic Communication and Professional Text

The article considers the issues of organization and business management positions with inter-sectoral approach to managerial communication. It analyzes the results of the experiment on optimization of enterprise management system. The method of evaluating the effectiveness of production management positions, structural communication and management of text is analyzed. The recommendations for improvement of management positions with inter-sectoral approach are given The article explains that in today's world, a majority of management processes unfolds through the transfer of textual information organized and structured in a certain way. The transition to electronic document management, speeding up the staff management processes, the requirement for continuous and rapid quality control and management of the construction site leads to the formation of such texts in a continuous mode. Thus, the control building production process is carried out in continuous communicative interaction, where each element is associated with various other types of communications. On the communicative level machine control is required at all stages of organization and work to continuously maintain communicative contact with subordinates. This it is required to build up an understanding of and optimize the existing texts at every level of organization, to provide for their real-time actualization in the systems of organization and production management. In practice, this is achieved through a complex process of inclusion of the existing regulatory framework text in the texts of the adaptive optimization nature and regulating the progress of work in view of the chosen management model. The larger the organization, the more complex and heterogeneous the process of exchanging text information control and reporting nature is. The article describes a commercial organization undergoing an experiment aimed at optimizing the management of the company in terms of linguistic communication.

Safety and efficacy of WeChat combined with Yi Jin Jing exercise for the treatment of cervical spondylosis in white-collar workers: study protocol for a prospective open label randomized controlled trial

Background: Yi Jin Jing (changing tendon exercise) is a traditional Chinese exercise. Yi Jin Jing can reportedly prevent cervical spondylosis in financial professionals. In the absence of effective supervision and follow-up training, Yi Jin Jing self-exercise does not become habitual, reducing the efficacy of the technique. WeChat is an online text and voice messaging communication service developed by Tencent in China, and can be used as an interactive platform for doctors and patients. We hypothesized that WeChat could be used to guide Yi Jin Jing exercise, potentially enhancing the preventative and therapeutic benefits for cervical spondylosis in white-collar workers. Methods/Design: 120 financial professionals with cervical spondylosis working at the Bank Card Industrial Park in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China will be enrolled in this prospective, open label, randomized controlled trial. Participants will be equally and randomly divided into two groups. In the intervention group, participants will undertake conventional Yi Jin Jing training followed by a group chat using WeChat to provide interactive guidance. In the control group, participants will undertake conventional Yi Jin Jing training alone. The primary ontcome will be the Cervical Spondylosis Symptoms scale measured 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after training. The secondary outcomes will be the 36-item Short Form Health Survey score, Visual Analog Scale score for pain intensity, medical expenses and the number of days absent from work. Discussion: This study will examine whether on-going interactive Yi Jin Jing exercise using the WeChat platform will improve outcomes in participants with cervical spondylosis. Trial registration: This trial was registered with the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (identifier: ChiCTR-OCH-13003426) on 6 August 2013. Ethical approval: Written approval for this project was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Wanggang Community Health Center, Shanghai Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China (approval number WG2013 0709001). All patients will be informed of the protocols and will provide written informed consent.

Text Analytics: the convergence of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

The analysis of the text content in emails, blogs, tweets, forums and other forms of textual communication constitutes what we call text analytics. Text analytics is applicable to most industries: it can help analyze millions of emails; you can analyze customers� comments and questions in forums; you can perform sentiment analysis using text analytics by measuring positive or negative perceptions of a company, brand, or product. Text Analytics has also been called text mining, and is a subcategory of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field, which is one of the founding branches of Artificial Intelligence, back in the 1950s, when an interest in understanding text originally developed. Currently Text Analytics is often considered as the next step in Big Data analysis. Text Analytics has a number of subdivisions: Information Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Web annotated domain�s representation, and many more. Several techniques are currently used and some of them have gained a lot of attention, such as Machine Learning, to show a semisupervised enhancement of systems, but they also present a number of limitations which make them not always the only or the best choice. We conclude with current and near future applications of Text Analytics.