Exploring New Thinking in Communication & Social Change

Social Change: Exploring Design Influence

This paper explores some aspects of group divergence based on principles of design disciplines and social dissemination. Extensions to an elementary model are used to explore the fundamental relation between divergence and social influence mechanisms previously employed to explain group convergence. The possible role of a change agent is investigated supporting the notion that there is no need ...

Exploring Temporal Communication Through Social Networks

The dissemination of information in social networks and the relative effect of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) use has long been an interesting area of study in the field of sociology, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. To date, a lot of research has been conducted regarding an actor’s mobile phone usage behavior while disseminating information w...

Communication for Development and Social Change

Exploring Intercultural Communication in Expats’ Social Media Groups

As international and global organizations grow, so the expatriate communities expand in different regions of the world. Professionals, who are assigned to positions abroad by multinational/international organizations, constitute a multicultural community in which they face similar challenges of settling in, adjusting and joining in social life in a new culture. Since digital communication techn...

How New Thinking on Aging Will Change Your Life

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