This article advances a communicative approach to social capital that views communication as the fundamental source of societal integration. We contend that integration occurring at the system level via news consumption and at the individual level via interpersonal discussion is amplified through ties at the community level. This cross-level interaction is theorized to encourage civic engagemen...

Gesticulation is the kind of unconscious, idiosyncratic and unconventional gestures humans do in conversation or narration. This chapter reviews efforts made to harness the expressiveness of gesticulation in virtual humans and proposes one such model. First, psycholinguistics research is overviewed so as to understand how gesticulation occurs in humans. Then, relevant computer graphics and comp...

the aim of this study was to design the strategic orientations model of market, brand and entrepreneurship in the food industry in iran.  the organizational decisions are not formed  in a vacuum but in the economic and cultural environmental context of each country, they are much influenced by many different factors. this study is of applied type and was conducted in two stages. first after an ...

today, market orientation plays a vital role in determining customers’ needs and success of organizations. market orientation has also influenced various organizations’ measures including innovation. therefore the aim of this research is to study the role of market orientation in innovation of bodybuilding clubs of golestan province. the population of this study comprised all 170 managers of bo...

Thread disentanglement is the task of separating out conversations whose thread structure is implicit, distorted, or lost. In this paper, we perform email thread disentanglement through pairwise classification, using text similarity measures on non-quoted texts in emails. We show that i) content text similarity metrics outperform style and structure text similarity metrics in both a class-balan...

Conversation Theory and a dynamic protolanguage, Lp, are used to illustrate an al'gulllent in favour of reflective and relativistic theories in Cybernetics and Systems Studies.

We investigate the interaction of power, gender, and language use in the Enron email corpus. We present a freely available extension to the Enron corpus, with the gender of senders of 87% messages reliably identified. Using this data, we test two specific hypotheses drawn from the sociolinguistic literature pertaining to gender and power: women managers use face-saving communicative strategies,...

A series of projects attempted to explore a southern perspective for global visual art. The South Project was a series of gatherings across the latitude to develop a southsouth network and conversation. This was followed by an intellectual push through Southern Theory to diversity academic frameworks beyond the trans-Atlantic. The application of this to visual arts was explored with the project...

This thesis explores if and how identifying the character of face-to-face conversations can help manage proactive actions, especially notifications, on smartphones so that they become less disruptive. We motivate our research with the initial hypothesis that different types of conversation entail a different receptiveness to interruptions. This hypothesis is backed up by surveys and eventually ...

Drawing on recordings of remote screen-based work meetings in Finland, this conversation analytic study investigates interactive properties mouse cursor movements technology-mediated shared tasks. The article illustrates how participants rely features afforded by the input device ways that divert from its pre-designed functions to accomplish virtual pointing gestures. These gestures serve as an...