Based on user requirements investigations of typical groupware users, we have elaborated a rating model for collaborative message filtering. In this model, evaluating contributions has a direct effect to the organisational structure of virtual co-operative groups. The model fosters self-organisation and vitalization. The dynamic incentive mechanism mirrors real group dynamics to virtual communi...

Baudrillard is one of postmodernist theorists that criticize the unreality of the culture which we live in. He suggests that human interactions with virtual reality media and unreal technologies, achieve nothing; He even fears that society will fall prey to these media subjectivity. The virtual reality media capability to produce simulated reality could mislead society into voluntary detachment...

This essay aims to explore the ways in which our understanding of the social world is shaped by the media with main references to the 'Toronto School' communication theorists and also Baudrillard, the influential French scholar who is known as 'Situationist'. Marshall McLuhan, the most well known Toronto School author, argues that the media function as the environment in affecting the patterns ...

Jean Baudrillard's concept of "symbolic exchange" represents an important concept in understanding why Marx's prediction regarding the collapse of capitalism has not been realized. Baudrillard adds to the Marxian concepts of use value and exchange value, suggesting that, in today's consumer-oriented society, commodities take on a symbolic value that constitutes their "status" and, therefore, po...

Jean Baudrillard es una referencia clásica de las reflexiones sobre los media. Sin embargo, no hay estudios recientes acerca su influencia en la literatura contemporánea comunicación. El presente artículo investiga el legado obra área comunicación mediante revisión sistematizada entre 2007, año muerte, y 2020. En particular, se estudia evolución temáticas artículos razona autores obras que, den...