BACKGROUND There is currently a lack of information about the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for health communication among the general public, patients, and health professionals from primary research. OBJECTIVE To review the current published literature to identify the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for health communication among the general public, patients...

While media use becomes increasingly important in virtualized work contexts, traditional media choice theories exhibit a range of shortcomings with regard to practical application. The paper presents an approach for contextualizing media choice using genre analysis. In doing so, the communication of a team can be captured as a repertoire of genres and as such be made accessible for subsequent a...

Communication skills, such as listening, open-mindedness, empathy, and confidence, are essential for personal professional development play a significant role in many disciplines, including education, health, business. Social media, widely used communication channel, has revolutionized how people interact, its effects on education overall social significant. The purpose of this study was to det...

Media for content analysis can include any recorded communication from papyrus to podcast, published or unpublished. Approaches to studying media content are almost as diverse as the approaches to studying human communication behavior. In a general sense, any study of media content is a content analysis, but in communication research the term usually implies a quantitative approach and a series...

How did the discipline and practice of development communication begin? Who were the founders and how were the first experiments implemented? The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of development communication. To do so, the first section focuses on the theoretical perspective and evolution of development communication. This study then specifies the components of development commun...

In this paper, we identify two categories of media that are common in computer-supported collaborative learning and software in general: communication media, and information media. These two types of media map easily on to two types of social activities in which learning is grounded: dialogue and monologue. Drawing on literature in learning theory, we suggest the need for interfaces that help s...

Communicating harmful messages in order to accomplish organizational goals is an unfortunate, yet unavoidable part of organizational life. Because “necessary evil” messages are often of personal consequence to the receiver, it is important the communication process be designed in a way that will minimize harm caused to both messengers and receivers without compromising communication performance...

information technology has demolished time and distance. the new communication technologies have become dominant in contemporary world politics. the tools such as mobile phones, internet and satellite networks play supporting role in social changes with strengthening public space. we witness the effectiveness of new media in the recent unprecedented developments in arabic countries. the social ...

INTRODUCTION The extensive use of social media in modern life redefines social interaction and communication. Communication plays an important role in mitigating, or exacerbating, the psychological and behavioral responses to critical incidents and disasters. As recent disasters demonstrated, people tend to converge to social media during and following emergencies. Authorities can then use this...