Public Sphere The third kind of public sphere, named by Habermas as the “abstract public sphere”, is produced by media, which connects singular and globally spread readers, listeners and spectators (BFN, 1996: 308). In the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Habermas conceives the small press as an important institution for the conveyance of ideas and the establishment of the rationa...

Structures in organisations to a certain extent consist of language. This becomes obvious when analysing social media. Contrary to verbal speech, computer-mediated communication is non-volatile. However, in some respects communication on social media platforms resembles face-to-face communication. This calls for close analyses of this kind of communication in relation to organisational behaviou...

In this paper, I discuss the debate over digital games and narrative in light of medium theory (also known as media ecology). The communicative environment created by a society’s media can favor certain kinds of cultural change. After analyzing the stories (or lack of them) in three very different games, I argue with ludologists that games are not narratives. I believe, however, that the digita...

Information graphics, such as bar charts and line graphs, that appear in popular media generally have a message that they are intended to convey. We have developed a novel plan inference system that uses evidence in the form of communicative signals from the graphic to recognize the graphic designer’s intended message. We contend that plan inference research would benefit from examining how eac...

Information graphics, such as grouped bar charts, generally have a communicative message that they are intended to convey when they appear in popular media. Communicative signals are typically designed into the graphic to help convey to the graph viewer these intended messages. We have designed and implemented a system that automatically hypothesizes the intended message of a grouped bar chart ...

This article deals with the category of alternative media from a theoretical perspective. It aims to develop a definition and to distinguish different dimensions of alternative media. The article is a contribution to theoretical foundations of alternative media studies. The notion of alternative media as critical media is introduced. Critical media product content shows the suppressed possibili...

The purpose of the research is to determine effectiveness practical application social media based on Web 2.0 technologies, aimed at developing students' English-speaking communicative competence. To implement tasks and test hypothesis put forward, following scientific methods were used: empirical (experimental learning using 2.0); diagnostic: observation, testing students; statistical method -...