Social media is becoming increasingly important during crisis situations. Affected people are now enabled to provide helpful on-site information, and emergency service organisations can use social media to inform people and communicate with them. This study addresses how different communication roles in social media affect sensemaking during crises situations. To this end, we conducted a study ...

Employing media richness theory and social information processing theory, a model is developed and tested to understand the impact of communication media and bargainers’ interpersonal history on negotiation processes and outcomes. In a laboratory experiment, common multi-media combinations and the interpersonal histories of subjects were manipulated to examine their effects on task performance ...

The study of mass communications is a broad, multidisciplinary field to which sociology has made major contributions. Some of these contributions have been reviewed in earlier works by Riley & Riley (1959), Larsen (1964), Janowitz (1968), McQuail (1969), Davison & Yu (1974), & Ball-Rokeach (1975), and Wright (1975a). Several chapters in Annual Review of Psychology, although not explicitly socio...

Innovation in a company’s design process is increasingly a matter of cooperation between the company and its customers. New Information and Communication Technology (ICT) possibilities such as electronic communication (EC) media generate even more opportunities for companies to collaborate with customers during the early stages of research and development. This exploratory study examined the de...

Wikis are quickly emerging as a new corporate medium for communication and collaboration. They allow dispersed groups of collaborators to asynchronously engage in persistent conversations, the result of which is stored on a common server as a single, shared truth. To gauge the enterprise value of wikis, the authors draw on Media Choice Theories (MCTs) as an evaluation framework. MCTs reveal cor...

Background;It is important to know media and educational intervention and also produce them according to standards. Thus, media and health educational interventions should evaluate to improve education quality. Methods;The study sample were whole produced media and interventions in all medical universities, deportments, offices, and centers affiliated to ministry of health in 2008 and in the f...

The dynamic design of graphic language can be seen everywhere in life as the digital media era progresses. Graphic designs, such product packaging, poster design, book binding and logo are examples traditional visual design. print is most important factor. that aided by technology not limited to but also includes network media. teaching research China’s specialty still its early stages, relevan...