BACKGROUND Cancer experts engage in public communication whenever they promote their research or practice, respond to media inquiries, or use social media. In a changing communication landscape characterized by new technologies and heightened attention to cancer controversies, these activities may pose ethical challenges. This study was designed to evaluate existing resources to help clinicians...

This study examines the innovation in communication media, based on empirical survey results from five countries. First, the authors create a general framework of the media life cycle by exploring the replacement of communication media used in daily life. The shift from voice communications to mobile e-mailing is at the forefront of the media life cycle in the personal communication area. This ...

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for H.264/AVC streaming over error prone channels. H.264/AVC Redundant slices feature is an error robustness feature allowing the encoder to send an extra representation of a frame region that can be used if the primary representation is corrupted or lost. Redundant slices tool allow the insertion of primary slices and one or more additional secondary ...

The rapid development of new media has been the main force accelerating the trend of globalization in human society in recent decades. New media has brought human interaction and society to a highly interconnected and complex level, but at the same time challenges the very existence of intercultural communication in its traditional sense. It is under this circumstance that we see more and more ...

Personal Communication Support enhances control over reachability in telecommunication. Conversion and screening technologies of communication media, combined with QoS evaluation, allow to focus on the semantic of the information instead on carriage. A CORBA-based implementation allows scaling from Java clients to IN service nodes and TINA integration.

Although videoconferencing technologies perform an important function in organizational communication, many users remain apprehensive about using the medium for routine communication. The study draws on media choice theory to assess the impact of communication apprehension and participation on perceptions of task characteristics and media traits. The results demonstrate that user aversion to vi...

This paper describes a new theory called a theory of media synchronicity which proposes that a set of five media capabilities are important to group work, and that all tasks are composed of two fundamental communication processes (conveyance and convergence). Communication effectiveness is influenced by matching the media capabilities to the needs of the fundamental communication processes, not...