This study examines journalists' role conceptions in their coverage of diplomatic issues, strongly that journalists are participants in the negotiation process and that news sources have significant influence on their judgments of the newsworthiness of issues related to the talks. This comparative study offers important implications for the press-government relationships in foreign affairs issu...

Individual learning in organizations is an important activity to be nurtured for corporate procedures, policy, and knowledge sharing. One essential mechanism for individual learning is communication, increasingly occurring via multiple media environments. Understanding individual learning effectiveness depends on our ability to understand and predict media effects. Since recent research on medi...

A major challenge in achieving food security in South Asia is addressing the dichotomy between academic research and policy decision making. The work that researchers conduct often does not reach policymakers because of inadequate and inappropriate communication. The link between research and decision-making systems remains weak. This chapter explores the strategies for effective policy communi...

Background The production of policy-relevant research is necessary, but not sufficient, to promote its utilization in policy. Decision-makers must believe it has value, and researchers need the desire and skills to translate their work effectively. Our objective was to understand the perspectives of state policymakers and health researchers on the barriers and facilitators to translation of hea...

Recent research has shown that a considerable fraction of social media streams are about “events”. Collectively, events serve as a succinct summary of social media streams. Individually, event and its sub-events, reveal the evolution of certain social phenomena over time. In addition, analyzing relationships between events and people’s responses to the events provides rich information on the ma...

This study argues that language difference is an important, though often neglected, element in contemporary flows of audiovisual media and organizations’ efforts to influence them through policy. Because linguistic issues overlap a number of policy areas, including trade, culture, language, and communication, this study advocates for increased attention to language-related concerns within and a...

The Federal Communications Commission has regulated ownership of mass media outlets since the 1920s. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 abolished some of these regulations, changed others, and required the FCC to review its rules regularly and to repeal those no longer required. There is little opposition to the idea that media ownership policy should promote economic competition (to increase t...

The educational system involves a complex set of actors, including learners, parents, teachers, and administrators. However, we now have more data than ever to analyze this system, which could result in a quick understanding and evaluation of public policies in this complex policy area. This paper explores a new area of data about the educational experience, namely social media data. This paper...

Floor control is a means to manage joint or exclusive access to shared resources in a (multiparty) conferencing environment. Thereby, floor control complements other functions -such as conference and media session setup, conference policy manipulation, and media control -that are realized by other protocols. This document defines the requirements for a floor control protocol for multiparty conf...

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