This paper reports on a small-scale study that explores the impact of social media adoption and use on corporate communications and brand image. The research is carried out in two phases; analysis of brand communications via social media; and a small-scale survey with social media managers. We draw upon Habermas’ theory of communicative action (the ideal speech situation and discourse ethics) i...

Increasingly scholars are emphasizing the importance of community driven media such as indigenous media for foregrounding marginalized voices. However, not all the indigenous media across the globe receive adequate attention in discursive spaces such as Adivasi (indigenous) media in India. Consequently, little is known about these media, their characteristics and relevance, and such gaps essent...

The research reported here is part of an ongoing eeort to design systems which can automatically generate integrated text and information graphics presentations. We are investigating the integration of two complementary approaches: hierarchical planning and task-based graphic design. A hierarchical planner is used to construct a media-independent plan of illocutionary actions which are ultimate...

Today’s firms are relying more on non-traditional communication media such as email, voice mail, and virtual meetings (Burke and Chidambaram, 1999; Guicking, Tandler and Grasse, 2008; Hoffman and Novak, 1996). In a globalized work environment, these types of communication media are important to quality decision-making (Fjermstad, 2005). However, a question arises as to whether the use of these ...

Twenty-five years ago, Horace Newcomb and Paul Hirsch proposed a model for studying television as a cultural forum, as the most common reference point for public issues and concerns, particularly in American society. Over the last decade, the internet has emerged as a new communicative infrastructure and cultural forum on a global scale. Revisiting and reworking Newcomb and Hirsch’s classic con...

In this article we offer an analysis of the practical and theoretical paradigm of media education as a fundamental pedagogical model for the adequate development of the current methods of digital literacy. In a society dominated by the flow of information and communicative processes -in which digitalization has led to techno-media convergence, the complete uniting of ICT novelties and tradition...

While observers have focused on the political use of social media when exploring their democratic potential, we know little about users’ perceptions of these media. These perceptions could well be important to understanding the political use of social media. In exploring users’ perceptions, the article asks whether politicians and voters view social media in a similar way, and to what extent th...

When examining young people’s experience of social media, it is useful to extend the notion of social media to appreciate not only the antecedents of some current youth online practices, but also the development of research concepts and frameworks related to this topic. For many researchers and media commentators the term social media refers principally, and narrowly, to the more communication ...

Information graphics found in popular media contain communicative signals which help the viewer infer the graphic designer’s intended message. One signal is the relative effort required for different recognition tasks. This paper presents a model of the effort required to recognize a trend in a grouped bar chart. The model is developed using the ACT-R cognitive framework and validated via eye t...

This paper presents a new perspective of the impact of information and collaboration technology (IT) on the work place and space. The study is at the intersection of the and new ways people behave in communicative events using the affordances of IT augmented spaces and content, i.e., interaction. The study proposes two hypotheses. Brick & Bits & Interaction Hypothesis: If we understanding the t...