The abstract aims to connect various fields of knowledge, including journalism, information sciences, and human cognition. It analyzes Recommendation Systems (RS) on the Web in order to understand how they are changing user-experiences and, consequently, affecting the fundamental structures of journalism. Today’s networks are decentralized with few barriers to entry. They provide new ways of co...

Interactive art questions relationships between creator and audience in a direct and provocative manner. Our goal was to explore how interactive art either promotes or constrains audiences’ sense of creative involvement, and satisfaction. We provide a brief background on interactive art before describing an interactive music installation, Terpsichore, designed to test two hypotheses in an exper...

Many animals live in a communication network, an environment where individuals can obtain information about competitors or potential mates by observing interactions between conspecifics. In such an environment, interactants might benefit by changing their signalling behaviour in the presence of an audience. This audience effect seems widespread among species, has been observed during various ty...

INTRODUCTION When I was considering the compatibili ty of veterinary physiology and community development as a topic for an inaugural address, a skeptical colleague remarked that to marry a basic with an applied science was impossible. However, I was not convinced, because I believe that it is possible. In this address I will attempt to convince you, the audience, that the two are compatible an...

BACKGROUND Online health forums are widely used, but the quality of advice differs as much as the knowledge backgrounds of the audience members who receive the advice. It is important to understand how people judge the information given online. In line with the communication accommodation theory (CAT), online forums represent specific social contexts of communication which can present either ac...

The vast majority of newspaper reports of lightning injury portray direct strike as the predominant mechanism. However, direct strike actually causes only a small number of the injuries. This paper will review the mechanisms of injury as well as a likely distribution between the mechanisms of injury in an attempt to dispel the myth that the majority of injuries and deaths are caused by 'direct'...

In this workshop we will address what it means to live in a smart world with particular regard to privacy. Together with the audience, we will discuss the impacts of smart devices and appliances on individuals and society as a whole. To that end, specific examples of smart devices will be addressed based on topicality.

This study examines how bloggers establish and enhance the credibility of their blogs through a series of blogging practices. Based on an analysis of interviews with 22 independent bloggers who blog on a range of topics, we present audience-aware credibility as a theoretical construct. Audience-aware credibility is defined as how bloggers signal their credibility based on who they think their a...

Introduction For over 25 years, International AIDS Conferences have played a key role in the response to AIDS: by providing the research community with opportunities to share important scientific advances, by profiling both successes and failures in the response to AIDS, and by offering a unique platform for people working professionally in the HIV field to address critical issues before a glob...