How does state rhetoric change as conflict intensifies against intrastate enemies? We forward the concept of narrative expansion and labeling, to analyze escalatory transformation discourse by Philippine media. The data set includes 4,098 articles from state’s official news agency, covering early attempts at reconciliation eventual failure peace nego...

A smart home is an intelligent and shared space, where various services coexist and multiple residents with different preferences and habits share these services most of the time. Due to the sharing of space and time, service conflicts may occur when multiple users try to access media services. In this paper, we propose a context-based mediation method, consisting of service mediators and mobil...

Cognitive, emotional, and arousal responses to violent games play a central role in theoretical explanations of how violent media may affect aggression. However, existing research has focused on a relatively narrow range of responses to violent games in experimental settings. This limits our understanding of whether and how violent game-induced responses relate to aggression in real life. To ad...

Background: Challenge between parents and their children is a rapidly growing phenomenon in Iran. The communication challenge of adolescence with emphasis on social media in this study is a phenomenon that based on the changes and developments of adolescence, can affect the nature and quality of family relationships, question the authority of parents, and cause changes in regulations. The prese...

This article aims at exploring the conflict management mechanisms through social media that pastors of Nigerian Baptist Convention are using in their churches. Twenty were randomly and purposively selected from pool church Ibadan metropolis. Five key officers national level its headquarters also interacted with. Each these was orally interviewed. Some documents used to substantiate or disprove ...