the aim of this paper is to show that modern media are not totally independent of the older media and that there is, specifically, a kind of language transfer from older media such as television to the modern ones. although internet users enjoy relatively more freedom in the virtual reality public domains compared with real public domains, their political communications in negotiation rooms are...

This paper describes the application of artificial intelligence techniques for design and subsequent use in monitoring and control of communications networks. We describe the development of a knowledge base which provides a model of the communications network during the network design process. We then describe utilization of this knowledge base using various artificial intelligence techniques I...

This paper uses Gallup poll data to assess two narratives that have crystallized around the 2011 Egyptian uprising: (1) New electronic communications media constituted an important and independent cause of the protests in so far as they enhanced the capacity of demonstrators to extend protest networks, express outrage, organize events, and warn comrades of real-time threats. (2) Net of other fa...

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Interest in virtual worlds from both academic and practitioner perspectives continues to grow. As a relatively new area of research, exploratory efforts to capitalize on and understand this new computer-mediated communications medium have been varied and multi-disciplinary, but also dangerously fragmented. Avatar-based communication distinguishes virtual worlds from traditional communications m...

The author traces the dynamics of ideas about conflict communications in media conditions a revolutionary change information space. These changes are so global that they have led to emergence term «mediatization public life», which is defined as process creating virtual politics and economics establishing serious dependence real spheres on their presentation media. In context communication expl...