Migrants’ Communication Practices with ICTs: Tools for Facilitating Migration and Adaptation?

Facilitating Social Harmony Through ICTs

the relationship of wtc with communication apprehension and self-perceived communication competene in english and persian context

بیشتر تحقیقات پیشین در زمینه تمایل به برقراری ارتباط به رابطه آن با عوامل فردی چون سن، جنس، نوع شخصیت و... صورت گرفته است. در صورتی که مطالعات کمتری به بررسی رابطه تمایل به برقراری ارتباط زبان آموزان فارسی زبان با ترس از برقراری ارتباط و توانش خود ادراکانه آنها در برقراری ارتباط در محیط فارسی و انگلیسی انجام شده است. بر اساس نظریه الیس (2008) تمایل به برقراری ارتباط جایگاه مهمی در زمینه آموزش م...

Situated Make Tools for envisioning ICTs with ageing workers

In this paper we describe an approach to base the design of ICTs profoundly on the actual practice of ageing workers. The core challenge of the presented case study is to appropriately facilitate co-design activities with ageing workers, who have had no previous experience with the development of ICTs. The aim of the presented project was to enable the ageing workers to express their needs in a...

Learning from Spontaneous Practices towards ICTs

This chapter discusses the success and failure of initiatives which provide access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a means of promoting social inclusion. We believe that there is often a disparity between the supposed and the true needs and desires of the minority groups at the receiving end of digital divide initiatives. Observation of practices towards ICTs which are s...

Vertical Practices Facilitating Exclusion∗

Resale price maintenance (RPM), slotting fees, loyalty rebates and other related vertical practices can allow an incumbent manufacturer to transfer pro ts to retailers. If these retailers were to accommodate entry, upstream competition could lead to lower industry pro ts and the breakdown of these pro t transfers. Thus, in equilibrium, retailers can internalize the e ect of accommodating entry ...