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This study was aimed to identify opportunities and challenges of the use of Facebook among the students in the Federal MZ Leadership academy. It was suited within the theoretical framework of Uses and Gratification theory and the Connectivism theory. It adopted a mixed-method approach, employing open-ended and close-ended survey questionnaire. A survey questionnaire was administered to 30 students that were selected through a purposive sampling technique. Descriptive methods of data analysis and Explanatory sequential were employed to analyze both quantitative and qualitative data. Similarly, documents and records of students' grades were used to identify whether the Facebook has effects on students. The analysis of the data reveals that Facebook has opportunities for interpersonal communication. Facebook allows interpersonal communication to users' instant messaging, blogging, photo sharing, and other applications and to communicate with distant friends and to exchange immediate information easily. Despite this Facebook hurts interpersonal communication. It decreases face to face communication which is important part of interpersonal communication and hinders nonverbal communication. The study also reveals opportunities and challenges of Facebook usage on students' academic performance. The study shows that Facebook allows users to engage in online academic discussions, and by using Facebook account users can also open another web site to get educational books. Despite this, the study shows that Facebook can be an addiction and takes students' study time and it can affect their results negatively. In the end, the researcher suggested recommendations for students to get Facebook’s advantages and to minimize its challenges. Students should be educated on the influence of Facebook on their interpersonal communication and academic performance.

This cartoGraphic essay – in the form of a short story in five comic-book pages – has been inspired by the works of both academic scholars and comics authors, with neither academic nor comics sources playing a prevalent role in the composition of the story. On the contrary, they merged naturally, inspiring the ideation of the panels, the contents of both the texts and the drawings. The essay draws on years of bibliographical research in the interdisciplinary fields of literary geography and cartography and comic book geographies. It is informed by creative approaches to maps and by the post-representational and emergent theories in cartography. Comic book geographies have, indeed, demonstrated how comics can actually become an object of interest for spatial analysis and also – as I have tried to explain more thoroughly elsewhere – for cartographic theorists.

(1) This semester-long project requires each student to write one entry that will be compiled with their classmates’ entries into an argumentative dictionary and published as an eBook. By “argumentative dictionary,” I mean a book that defines terms, and argues about how they rhetorically function. (2) By writing argumentative dictionary entries that include definitions, historical contextualization, and mini rhetorical analyses, students will learn the fundamentals of rhetorical studies, including the rhetoric of definitions, persuasive writing, argumentation, rhetorical criticism, and discourse analysis, as well as ePublishing. (3) Learning how to write for a public, open-access audience is emphasized.

Disaster response requires great amount of communication when it comes to coordination and cooperation, yet communication is not smooth and encounters some problems, one of which is lack of situation awareness. One of the most required information during disaster response which helps to solve the situation awareness problem is geospatial data. This research analyses the media capabilities of OSM Tasking Manager when communicating Volunteered Geographic Information by applying case of Nepal Earthquake in 2015 April as the most recent natural disaster for the analysis. It was first attempted to define the crisis communication and its variables to clarify the scope of analysis. Second it was attempted to evaluate media capabilities in theory by considering the context in which the media is used and communication is taking place as Media Synchronicity Theory suggests. After conducting usability inspection and document analysis actual OSM Tasking Manager capabilities were evaluated regarding conveyance and convergence processes in production function. Results showed that OSM Tasking Manager is a very task oriented communication media that fulfills theoretically required media capabilities. Research also showed that Map Communication Model provided by Hoffman is highly applicable when analyzing communication via interactive web mapping platforms.

ResumenLa vertiginosa explosión de nuevas formas y experiencias de comunicación que emergieron en los últimos 30 años no admite comparación con otros momentos de la historia de la humanidad. La acelerada transformación del ecosistema mediático y de la esfera tecnológica en general está poniendo a prueba las viejas teorías y modelos científicos. La misma idea de “ecosistema” o conceptos muy utilizados como “emergencia” (de nuevos medios) “adaptación” o incluso “extin-ción” (de viejos medios), aunque sea de manera metafórica, apuntan en una misma dirección: el desarrollo de una teoría evolutiva del cambio mediático. El presente artículo de revisión se propone mapear los diferentes enfoques y aporta-ciones que confluyen en una teoría evolutiva de los medios, entendida a todos los efectos como un work-in-progressde carácter transdisciplinario. El artículo se abre con una reflexión sobre los procesos de construcción teórica, continúa con un mapa de la Ecología de los Medios –un “campo de indagación” inspirado en los trabajos de Marshall McLuhan y Neil Postman– y concluye ese primer acercamiento con los autores que trabajaron la dimensión evolutiva del cambio mediático. Podría decirse que la teoría evolutiva de los medios ya existe, pero se encuentra diseminada en infinidad de textos e investigaciones en espera de ser articuladas. El artículo concluye con un primer identikit de la Evolución de los Medios, entendida como un campo teórico en construcción pero más que necesario para comprender las transforma-ciones pasadas y contemporáneas del ecosistema mediático.
Palabras clave Medios; Comunicación; Tecnología; Evolución; Ecología; Intermedialidad; Teorías de la comunicación; Teoría del medio; Evolución de los medios; Arqueología de los medios; McLuhan; Artículo de revisión.

This study’s purpose is to examine the relations between LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) youths’ Internet usage and their social capital. Previous research has shown that Internet use assists actors with similar background and interests in forming bonding social capital. Additionally, it has been found that Internet use can assist actors from dissimilar background in forming bridging social capital. This study aims at extending these findings to LGBT youth, who may especially benefit from having a supporting social network while coping with the challenges of forming their sexual orientation/gender identity. For this purpose, an Internet survey was launched, with 82 participants, who were users of forums in the Israeli Gay Youth organization website (IGY). The survey included three measures of Internet use (i.e., amount of time spent in Internet forums, content posting activity, and emotional investment in forums), and questionnaires estimating the degrees of bridging ...

Is everything text? In Material Studies and Sound Studies, among many other disciplines, scholars produce elaborate methods for reading non-traditional texts. Are boundaries between the traditional text and other units of information collapsing? And if so, how and why? This conference seeks to connect early-career scholars from any discipline who engage with non-traditional texts either as the subject matter or a methodology.

Since the 1980s, the critique of cartographic reason has sparked intense debate in geography. For many geographers, maps are reductive and inert representations of space; for others, they are dangerous tools that can manipulate the perception of the territory. While these interpretations demand a careful deconstruction of the negative and coercive power that underpins the map and its sociopolitical apparatuses, a new wave of studies promotes a creative exploration of mapping potentialities. The article examines the position of the map in cultural geography through a peculiar analytical key: the mapclash. The mapclash, literally the clash over the status of the map, opens up a conflictual theory that unfolds the act of rupture between geography and cartography; emphasizes the iconoclastic gesture of map destruction promoted by geographers during the postmodern season; finally, it grasps the short-circuit generated by the encounter between the herme-neutic-deconstructive approach and the contemporary post-/non-representational cartographic theory. By comparing the different positions emerging from the clash between potestas and potentia, Map and maps, representation and event, this article proposes to reason both on the fractures and the recompositions of new cartographic spaces for cultural geography.

Aula Aberta dada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação (PPGCOM) da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). A discussão se localizou na disciplina de Metodologia de Pesquisa (mestrado e doutorado), sob a organização das Profas. Dras. Valquíria M. John e Michele Goulart Massuchin. 19 de Novembro de 2020.

Internet produced new forms of newsmaking and new technologies play now a central role in newsrooms. A great diversion of participation is now possible and news sites are used by the public to express opinions, debate the subjects of the agenda, and include their own material. Still, journalists’ attitude towards public participation tends to be framed by their perceptions of professional roles. Television has a tradition of public participation but it’s not clear if the TV sites mirror this practice, particularly in the news organization. This study it’s a first attempt to understand the relation between the news published and the publics’ participation. In order to establish that correlation, news were divided in sections: Politics, Economy, International, Society, and the public participation was measured according to the number of comments under each of them. The aim of this study is to try to indentify if there is a similar behavior by the TV news agenda and the public’s reacti...

Given the increasing use of social media and other digital technologies, critical theorists have argued that social life has become increasingly structured by neoliberal market logics. Yet, little research has empirically tested these claims. This study is the first to examine whether the use of digital technologies in the avant-garde literary field is accompanied by neoliberal logics. Developing a cultural logics approach to neoliberalism, which allows for the identification of the independent logics of entrepreneurship, market-faith, profit-maximization, efficiency, and individualism, I draw on archival data and interviews with editors and writers to explore the relationship between digital technologies and neoliberalism. I find that editors and writers legitimate some neoliberal logics and reject others. Entrepreneurship and efficiency are strongly legitimated. Profit-maximization is generally rejected. Market-faith and individualism are legitimated differently by editors and writers who occupy different positions within the field, drawing attention to the importance of field position, organizational affiliation, and career exhaustion in the use of digital technologies in the avant-garde literary world. Many of these findings are surprising given the historically non-economic orientation of the field. This study provides a novel framework for the study of neoliberal logics as well as their relationship to digital technologies. Such an approach complements recent agendas in economic sociology and contributes to debates about the relationship between new technologies and capitalism.

The role of Nigerian media in 2015 general election is found out to be satisfactory based on the scale within which Nigerian media operate in previouse election. The paper look into the role media played, the challanges, the criticism and influence of the media.

Originality/value: The value of the study is to visualize the cultural specificities of the local newsmakers to understand the way they produce crime news. Whereas the study undoubtedly shares similar characteristics with news production in other countries, it focuses on the specific environment of local newsmakers and shows how the press experiences and visualizes crime and fear of crime in Argentina.

Abstract Purpose This paper presents the results of research carried out by the Media Education for Sustainability Project, based at the Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro (UFTM). The project investigated the potential for engaging marginalized communities with educational centers to generate and utilize media and networks, which can be used to promote healthier and resilient lifestyles in the community. Methodology/approach The project’s activities used the “Design of Meaning” theoretical framework to design collaborative group work in order to foster key skills for promoting agency and awareness of local problems affecting the environment. Underpinned by Action Research methodology, a series of workshops were piloted with the participation of 20 secondary school students. Findings Results suggested that such a creative learning environment can help students develop the skills needed to be active citizens, such as the ability to access, evaluate, use, and contribute to public information addressing issues of democratic participation and accountability. Nevertheless, challenges centered around student motivation and difficulties in engaging with their communities’ contexts will need to be dealt with in future Action Research cycles. Originality/value Based on our observations during the workshops, and subsequent feedback from participants, we suggest that Media Education tools show potential for improving school learning, encouraging the community in the search for answers based on local knowledge, and engaging students in a debate about critical issues and challenges at the local level. We believe that this outcome was achieved in part due to the deployment of multimodal languages and creative use of technologies.

Purpose: This study investigated how college students’ pace of life and perceptions of communication technologies shape the choices they make when engaging in mediated communication with their parents. Methodology: We conducted 21 interviews to explore how students’ understandings of various communication technologies, the rules and patterns of technology use in their families, and the circumstances surrounding their use of technologies while at college influence the number and type of media they use to communicate with their parents. Findings ! We found that perceived busyness and generational differences played a large role in limiting technologies used, with environmentalfactors, the purpose of communication, and complexity of message also contributing to technology choices. Originality: This study extends media multiplexity theory by investigating media choice and relational tie strength in an intergenerational context.