In our current era, learners are confronted with many and varying sources of information, such as news media, books, websites, social scientific articles, communicative interactions, mor...

Young people’s interaction online is rapidly increasing, which enables new spaces for communication; the impact on learning, however, is not yet acknowledged in education. The aim of this exploratory case study is to scrutinize how students frame their interaction in social networking sites (SNS) in school practices and what that implies for educational language teaching and learning practices....

Using face-to-face conversation as an interface metaphor, an embodied conversational agent is likely to be easier to use and learn than traditional graphical user interfaces. To make a believable agent that to some extent has the same social and conversational skills as humans do, the embodied conversational agent system must be able to deal with input of the user from different communication m...

Behind the problems faced in implementation of teaching English schools, on contrary, learning activities Kampung Inggris Pare are reported as having exciting and enjoyable terms topics exercises they do classroom. The methods varied, broad, challenging. variation avoids boredom learning. Therefore, this study investigated conducted immersive environment. This qualitative was Peace, Pare, Kedir...

Audience studies is without a doubt one of the most lively subfields within media and communication research. This has been the case for more than a decade. An interesting aspect of the field is that it is relatively communicative. Within the field, researchers from the social sciences and the humanities actually tend to speak to, and learn from, each other, even though research objectives and ...

This paper investigates the implications of Australia’s prohibition of ‘child-abuse material’ (including cartoons, animation, drawings, and text) for Australian fan communities of animation, comics and gaming (ACG) and slash fiction. It is argued that current legislation is out of synch with the new communicative environment brought about by the Internet since a large portion of the fans produc...

Knowledge and management do not fit prima facie. Management aims at goal-oriented action while in many sciences, especially in the humanities, knowledge and the creation of knowledge have a discursive nature. This process of knowledge creation, interpreting and discussing selected observed or postulated phenomena, is leading to some progress but hard to control. It is important to recognize tha...

The paper considers studying the perception and assessment of media content in the Russian-language social networks, analyzing the causes that affect the perception and distribution of network content. The importance of language learning and communication in Russian-language social networks, and problems of content effectiveness is determined by the growth in the number and activity of Runet us...