Interrupted Dialogue (“Friend”/”Foe” Conflict in New New Media)

New Media and Peacemaking Diplomacy

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments’ objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors...

New Media: New Pleasures

media suggests that they offer more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work within media and cultural studies has failed to interrogate these claims empirically. This article critically assesses the conceptualization of pleasure as it is deployed in media audience research and attempts to update these conceptualizations by drawing upon game design theory...

New Approach for Approximation of Dispersivity in Porous Media

This paper presents a simple yet powerful original approach for approximating dispersivity in porous media. The key to this approach is both use of least-squares criterion and image processing technique. Two dimensional transparent models, including horizontal and vertical configurations, under different combinations of grain sizes and pore velocities, experimented. Concentration data were obta...

Dialogue--A New Utopia?

New Dialogue Initiation

Human infants have an extraordinary capability to discover new ways of representing and manipulating knowledge, and a key dimension of development is the progressive transformation of sensorimotor and cognitive representations. Such adaptation of representations provides high flexibility and creativity to humans, and for this reason researchers have also tried to study how analogous mechanisms ...