Media Technologies - Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society

Navigating knowledge landscapes: on health, science, communication, media, and society

Today patients are confronted with an increase in complexity of health-related information, including that on medical procedures, data interpretation, and multifaceted therapeutic strategies. At the same time, there is a justified need to simplify information in order to enable patients to make decisions about themselves (1). The patient is indeed the only one in the system who possesses all th...

Vehicular Networks: A Survey on Architecture, Communication Technologies and Applications

The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) provides wireless and mobile communication between vehicles and infrastructure to improve the safety of transportation and make the journey more enjoyable. This system consists of many fixed and mobile nodes (Vehicles, Trains, Vessels, Air planes), Wireless and Wired Telecommunication Technologies to exchange information between mobile nodes or betwee...

Editorial: Knowledge, Social Media and Technologies for a Learning Society

Medicine in society: historical essays

ALFRED GRAFE, A history ofexperimental virology, transl. Elvira Rechendorf, Berlin, New York and London, Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. xi, 343, DM 98.00 (3-540-51925-4). This is a virologist's book more than a historian's. Perhaps a better description would be "an introductory historical text for students of virology". As such it is very thorough, very factual, and highly technical, and would be a...

Essays on the Economics of Communication

Chapter 1 studies the tradeoff of knowledge generation and information flow in organizations, and explains why many modern firms choose to replace corporate meetings with one-on-one communication. In a theoretical model we compare the efficiency of employee communication during a meeting with the efficiency during a pairwise one-on-one communication. The quality of information transmission betw...