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Sorensen, Lone Nerup. "Populist communication in comparative perspective : ideology, performance, mediation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21165/.
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In this study I investigate how populism can be understood and explained from a communication perspective. Most literature constructs a dichotomy between populist ideology and style. A communication perspective instead emphasises that ideological content and stylistic form are inseparable in populist performances of political representation. For this purpose I compare two populist parties: the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) – a radical-left, explosive phenomenon in South African politics – and the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which paved the way for Brexit. These two cases have emerged from contrasting democratic contexts, yet both respond to fault lines in representative democracy and engage in similar practices of symbolic communication. My approach offers a reconceptualization of populism as a communicative process. I achieve this by conducting an in-depth analysis of populist disruptive performances as exemplary manifestations of populist ideology and identifying their key features. A series of disruptive performances – live and virtual – initiated by UKIP and the EFF between 2014 and 2017 provide the inspiration. I approach the analysis through the theoretical concepts of ideology, performance and mediation and enquire into their interrelation in populist communicative processes. These processes are interrogated through a primarily interpretive analysis, supplemented by quantitative analysis, of a broad range of communicative resources sparked by the disruptive performances, including YouTube videos, press releases, legacy media and social media posts. Through this perspective I am able to enrich and deepen our understanding of current debates in the literature, explain populism’s appeal in the hybrid media environment and explicate its characteristic mode of representation. The thesis demonstrates that such a communication perspective explains the thinness of populist ideology, its harmony with processes of mediation and its varied forms around the globe. In combination with the comparative approach it reveals insights into the populist mode of political representation and its implications for democracy.
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Boone, Véronique. "Le Corbusier et le cinéma : la communication d'une oeuvre." Thesis, Lille 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL30011.
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La présente étude s’intéresse à la production cinématographique et télévisée de et sur Le Corbusier lors de son vivant. Longtemps ignorée comme instrument de communication de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, l’œuvre filmique (comme complément de la photographie et de l’édition) reste peu connue et reconnue. La thèse se construit en deux parties : une partie de catalogage de l’œuvre filmique, formant le corpus de l’étude, et une partie réflexive, qui s’interroge sur divers aspects de création et de diffusion de cette production. Un premier défi de la thèse consiste à étudier la masse d’archives relatives aux différents projets de films afin de combler le vide propre à cet aspect de la production de Le Corbusier, pour l’inclure à part entière dans sa production artistique. Le catalogue est le résultat d’une recherche transdisciplinaire qui demande une investigation dans deux, voire trois domaines de recherche : l’architecture, le cinéma et la télévision, en tenant compte des spécificités de chaque discipline. Chaque projet ou réalisation de documentaire est décrit depuis sa phase d’intention à sa réception jusqu'à sa valorisation, incluant les données techniques et les références contemporaines aux films. Ce corpus permet de mesurer l’importance de la quantité de documents cinématographiques et télévisés que Le Corbusier a pu entreprendre durant sa vie ou pour lesquels il a été sollicité. Aucun autre architecte ne semble avoir été si fréquemment sollicité, ni s’être impliqué de manière si récurrente dans de tels projets. Un deuxième travail, réflexif, traverse les modalités de la communication et de la représentation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme de Le Corbusier par le biais du cinéma et de la télévision. De l’investigation dans les théories transdisciplinaires - de réception, de diffusion, socio-économiques, sémiotiques et rhétoriques - et leur application sur l’œuvre cinématographique et télévisée de Le Corbusier, résultent trois hypothèses : transmission, transposition et transcription.L’étude questionne dans un premier temps les mécanismes de la transmission. Par celle-ci est entendu tout mécanisme de médiation de Le Corbusier par le biais des documentaires – et par extension les interviews télévisées. En croisant les résultats du corpus avec les théories de réception, de diffusion et de marketing, des intuitions se confirment quant à l’efficacité ou l’inefficacité de certains documentaires comme outils de communication, voire de promotion. Dans un deuxième temps sont approfondis les savoirs sur le processus de création de Le Corbusier, autant sur le plan de la représentation de l’architecture, que sur le plan de la construction du discours dans les documentaires cinématographiques. Le principe de la transposition part du constat que les documents cinématographiques entretiennent des liens de proximité avec leurs contemporains photographiques. La recherche utilise les théories sémiotiques pour analyser la manière avec laquelle Le Corbusier compose avec l’imaginaire et les techniques de la photographie pour concevoir ses projets de films. La transcription concerne essentiellement l’argumentation cinématographique de Le Corbusier. Ici, l’analyse part du constat que les écrits de Le Corbusier sur le cinéma, et la pensée qui en émane, ne collent pas avec la réalité cinématographique et les nécessités d’un cinéma de communication. Sa rhétorique au cinéma est analysée en reprenant les techniques décrites par les principaux théoriciens de la rhétorique et comparée aux exemples venant des conférences et publications<br>The present study focuses on the cinematographic and television production of and on Le Corbusier, realized during his lifetime. Long ignored – as opposed to photography and publishing – as an instrument of communication for architecture and urban planning, this filmic work remains little known and recognized. The thesis consists of two parts: a catalogue volume of the filmic work, forming the corpus of the study, and a reflective volume, which questions various aspects of creation and diffusion of this production.The first challenge of the thesis was to study the mass of archives relating to the various film projects in order to fill the gap of this aspect of Le Corbusier's production and to fully include it in his artistic production. The catalogue is the result of a transdisciplinary research, which required an investigation into three research domains: architecture, cinema and television, taking into account the specificities of each discipline. Each project or production of a documentary is described from the initial intention to its public reception until its valorisation today, including technical data and contemporary references to films. This volume makes it possible to measure the importance of the quantity of cinematographic and televised documents that Le Corbusier undertook during his life or for which he was solicited. No other architect has been so frequently involved in documentary projects.The second – reflective – part of the research analyses the modalities of communication and representation of Le Corbusier’s architecture and urbanism through cinema and television. By crossing transdisciplinary theories – reception, diffusion, socio-economic, semiotic and rhetorical – with Le Corbusier's cinematographic and televised work, three hypotheses result: transmission, transposition and transcription.The study begins by questioning the mechanisms of transmission. By this is understood any mechanism of mediation of Le Corbusier through the documentaries - and by extension the television interviews. Crossing the results of the corpus with the theories of reception, diffusion and marketing, builds insights into the effectiveness or inefficiency of certain documentaries as tools for communication and even promotion.In a second stage, the knowledge about Le Corbusier's creation process, both in terms of architectural representation and in terms of the construction of discourse in cinematographic documentaries, is deepened. The principle of transposition begins with the observation that cinematographic documents maintain close links with their photographic contemporaries. The research uses established semiotic theories to analyse how Le Corbusier composes with the imaginary and techniques of photography to design his film projects.The third principle, transcription, focuses on Le Corbusier's cinematographic argument. Here the analysis starts from the observation that Le Corbusier's writings on cinema and the thoughts he emanated do not stick with the cinematographic reality and the necessities of a cinema of communication. His rhetoric in the cinema is analysed by taking the techniques described by the main theorists of rhetoric and compared to the examples from conferences and publications
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Manohar, Uttara. "The Role of Culture in Parental Mediation." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313379998.
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Brannon, Laura Ann. "Cognitive mediation of the efficacy of scarcity appeals in compliance-seeking communication /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487844485899026.
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Garguilo, Sean P. "Framing and Prospect Theory: Testing Specific Patterns of Moderation and Mediation for Gain/Loss Framing." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397489060.
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Dieter, Anne. "Menschenrechte und Mediation : Wege zur Verwirklichung menschenwürdigen Lebens." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2007/1507/.
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Was haben Menschenrechte und Mediation miteinander zu tun? Was bezwecken sie, und welche Rolle spielt das Wissen der Natur- und Verhaltenswissenschaften über zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation?
Der Beitrag versucht, ausgehend von den Begriffen Menschenrechte und Mediation deren Beziehungsgefüge aus interdisziplinärer Sicht aufzudecken.<br>What combines human rights and mediation? What do they aim at and which role plays the knowledge of science of nature and of behaviour about the interpersonal communication? This article tries to find out the relation between human rights and mediation from an interdisciplinary view.
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Coley, Rob. "Visuality and the virtual : mediation and control in network ecologies." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2013. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/10744/.
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After languishing for many years in the periphery of the field as a tacitly closed off concept, visuality is back on the agenda of Visual Culture Studies and, with it, the issue of power. In contrast to its informal use as a term to describe the ‘social fact’ of the visual, Nicholas Mirzoeff’s full scale reappraisal of visuality has revealed its strategic, military genealogy. However, in this and other revisionist accounts, the theory of twenty-first century power remains a predominantly hegemonic one, with visuality operating as an outside force, a power that structures and defines the reality of a world to which we remain subject. In this essay, by identifying emergent tendencies in the logic of capitalism, I present an alternate account of the present. I expose a post-hegemonic visuality which operates by co-opting the radical and experimental energies of digital culture, a visuality which no longer defines a fixed world but exploits the distributed social powers of ‘worlding’, a visuality which taps into and mediates our collective potential to make and remake new worlds. I situate this worlding visuality in the science-fictional context of what Gilles Deleuze calls ‘control society’. In so doing, I attend to the principal lacunae of the field – capital and labour – and examine how social and cultural activities previously identified with ‘resistance’ are increasingly integrated within a dynamic, complex system of power. By focusing on this ‘media ecology’, and taking into consideration the broader cultural implications of network technologies, I dispute the popular rhetoric of the digital and challenge conventional definitions of ‘the visual’. Indeed, I contend that a newly intense visuality necessitates a transformation in current attitudes toward the aesthetic, and that we must examine more closely the realm of bodily affect. I emphasize, throughout, a new temporality of control, insisting that it is crucial we now recognize an immanent, ontological visuality, a power which utilizes the ‘always-on’ communicational relations of a culture associated with cloud computing. To undertake such a study, I employ and adapt a set of tools which (though largely unfamiliar to the field formally identified with visual culture) stimulate the energies expressed in several realms of contemporary thought, particularly those assembled as ‘Non-Representational Theory’. My explicit contribution to the field is formulated around an argument for the need to go beyond representation, and, moreover, that to achieve any critical purchase on digital culture, theories of visuality must attend to the realm of the virtual, as outlined by Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, among others. For examples, I turn to some apparently familiar places: advertising, television, film and gaming. But, in making transversal intersections across divergent disciplines, I also find expressions of this emergent visuality in less conventional spheres: in twenty-first century literature, in software procedures, in socio-biological experiments. Rather than images to be ‘read’ or interpreted, I take the relations and disjunctions between such examples to be symptoms of a new capitalist visuality, one that manipulates and exploits the multiple, paradoxical nature of the real.
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Mendoza, Kelly Marie. "PROTECTION AND EMPOWERMENT: EXPLORING PARENTS' USE OF INTERNET MEDIATION STRATEGIES WITH PRETEENS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/222156.
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Mass Media and Communication<br>Ph.D.<br>This document presents a dissertation research study that examined parents of preteens and the protectionist and empowerment Internet mediation and media literacy strategies they reported using to guide their child's use of the Internet. Parents' use of protectionist and empowerment strategies, their confidence level in enacting these strategies, their attitudes about efficacy of these strategies, and the relationship among their attitudes about children's use of the Internet to these areas were examined. The study used an online survey (N=236) of parents who have preteens with Internet access at home, and parent interviews from a sample of the survey respondents (N=40), to gather data from a nationwide sample of parents. Parents were asked questions about their use of, confidence in, and perceptions of effectiveness of protectionist and empowerment Internet mediation strategies, what topics related to Internet use they have discussed with their child, and overall their attitudes about the Internet and children. The survey results show that the majority of parents use a combination of protectionism and empowerment strategies, but more heavily use protectionist Internet mediation overall. Parents reported high confidence in using most of the strategies, with slightly less (but still notably high) confidence in using empowerment strategies. Even though parents reported feeling confident using empowerment strategies, they used them much less than protectionist strategies. Protectionist strategies were also ranked as more effective than empowerment ones. Parents' attitudes about the Internet were also associated with behaviors. Parents' level of comfort in using the Internet and computers was positively associated with their overall engagement in their preteens' Internet use, whether protectionism or empowerment. Parental attitude about the Internet being a good place for their child was associated with the likelihood to use protectionist strategies. However, parents who did not believe the Internet was a good place for their kids tended to talk about more Internet behavior topics with their child. The interviews with parents revealed a typology of protectionist and empowerment strategies with three major themes and several subthemes. The first theme included strategies for monitoring the Internet, the second illustrated the types of protectionist and empowerment behaviors parents use, and the third theme encompassed the values that emerged regarding parents' family communication and roles, comparisons to other families, and hopes about the potential benefits of the Internet in their child's life. Among the three themes parents voiced their life experiences, feelings, and concerns and how those influenced their decisions around protectionism or empowerment. Similar to the survey results, the interviews show that most parents used protectionist strategies, with the most widely used strategies including "POS" (parent over shoulder), and having the child use the Internet in a public space in the home. Few parents who were interviewed co-surf online with their preteens, ask questions about the websites their kids visit, or encourage their kids to create things online. However, parents who worked in fields related to media and technology were more likely to use empowerment strategies. The interviews revealed that parents' use of protectionist or empowerment strategies is complex, and is interwoven with their attitudes, values, concerns, and hopes for the potential of the Internet for their child. This study challenges the field to consider four myths about parents and Internet mediation, including: 1) Parents are either protectionist or empowerment, but not usually both; 2) Parents who are more confident using Internet mediation strategies will use them more often; and 3) Parents who think the Internet is not a good place for kids are more likely to use protectionist strategies; and 4) Parents who are uncomfortable with technology are more likely to use protectionist strategies. Possible reasoning for these misconceptions about parents, and how this speaks to research in the field, are explored. This study encourages parent media literacy education efforts to include a balance and progression in protectionist and empowerment strategies by proposing a Stair Steps of Parent Internet Mediation framework. This framework explains an aspirational process for parent education around the Internet to guide future efforts for those who work in parent media literacy education.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Borges, Claudia Vicenza Funari Sa. "A prática da mediação em processos educomunicacionais: o caso do projeto educom.rádio." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-05072009-200106/.
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Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo traçar o perfil, entender a ação e os conceitos formados por agentes culturais que foram responsáveis pela relação direta entre o Projeto Educomunicação pelas Ondas do Rádio - Educom.rádio e os cursistas, representados por professores, estudantes e membros das comunidades educativas, das escolas de Ensino Fundamental da Prefeitura do município de São Paulo. A atuação desses agentes, denominados mediadores, ocorreu no período compreendido entre o início do segundo semestre de 2001 e o final do segundo semestre de 2004, totalizando três anos e meio. O objetivo da atuação dos mediadores era o de criar, em cada um dos Pólos, onde a proposta foi desenvolvida, as condições indispensáveis para o entendimento do conceito de educomunicação e para a sua aplicação no planejamento de ações educomunicativas, mediante o uso da linguagem radiofônica, entre outras mídias.<br>This research aims to establish the profile, understand the action and the concepts formed by cultural agents that were responsible for the direct relationship between the Educommunication Project by Radio Waves - Educom.rádio and the course attendants, represented by teachers, students and members of the educational societies of the Elementary Schools of the City of São Paulo. The action of those agents, named mediators, occurred in the period between the second semester of 2001 and the end of the second semester of 2004, totalizing three and a half year-period. The purpose of the mediators actions was to create, in each of the poles where the proposal was developed, the necessary conditions for the understanding of the concept of educommunication and its impact at the planning of educommunicational actions, with the utilization of radiophonic language, among other medias.
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Morley, Andrew Martyn. "An investigation into the feasibilty of providing intelligent support for computer mediation decision making groups." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/360.
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This thesis investigated the claim that the adaptation to the keyboard interface of a computer-mediated (CM) decision making group leads to differences in the style of communication when compared to that of a face-to-face (FTF) group. More importantly it examined the possibility that changes in satisfaction with the process and the decision outcome are determined not by the mode of communication, but rather the style of communication the decision makers employed in response to the keyboard interface. The decision processes of CM and FTF groups were examined using a simulated panel of enquiry presented via computer databases and containing inconsistent and incomplete shared information that could only be resolved through collaboration between the group members. An analysis of the communication styles employed in real-time CM and FTF groups (Experiment 1) revealed a tendency of CM discussions to exhibit a preference for a normative style of communication exchanging a proportionally high number of value statements and indications of preference, and for. FTF groups to rely proportionally more heavily upon factual and inferential statements. A paradigm for enabling intervention into the decision making process through the monitoring and coding of all group communication was developed (Chapter 2) which permitted the real-time analysis of the differences in communication style and aimed to reduce the differences in communication style. Using this paradigm and the norms for communication of the two forms of group (CM and FTF) established in Experiment 1, a series of studies examining the communication process were undertaken. Experiment 2 explored the possibility of intervening into the communication process using e-mail based support messages that conveyed the discrepancies between a CM groups communication style and the style a group might be expected to employ where it communicating FTF. Two configurations of support messages that each attempted to shape the communication style of CM decision panels to resemble those of FTF panels were considered. It was found that alerting users to their communication style and instructing them to increase or decrease certain styles of communication enabled them to more closely resemble the communication process and satisfaction levels of FTF groups. Experiment 3 considered the possibility that the presence of a monitoring system, rather than the content of the support messages provided, was the key issue in securing changes in the communication style of CM groups. Having established that it was indeed the content of the support messages that enabled CM groups to operate as if communicating FTF, attention turned to effects of the support. By easing the interpretation of the feedback through two configurations of visual feedback, Experiment 4 attempted to increase decision makers adherence to the content of the support messages. This study suggested that visual feedback alone was not sufficient to elicit the desired changes in communication style and that the text-based communication was required. Moreover, Experiment 4 considered the impact of support messages themselves, considering whether the support acted as continual assistance to the users or whether it merely trained the users to communicate in the desired way Conclusions from this study were slightly inconclusive, however, given that changes in communication styles had been achieved a further analysis of the content of the messages was undertaken. This final analysis (Chapter 7) revealed effects of confirmation bias within the communication and intervention steps that can on occasionally overcame such biases. The possibilities for the development of real-time intervention into these processes are considered and the findings interpreted in the light of existing theories of CM communication and recent developments in computer-based communication.
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Willsie, Brandon David. "Children First: Assessing the Role of Children in Active Mediation Interactions." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250102494.
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Hahn, Heidi Ann. "The effects of alcohol on four behavioral processes: perception, mediation, communication, and motor activity." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49786.
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Adeniyi, Abiodun Gabriel. "Internet and diasporic communication : dispersed Nigerians and the mediation of distance, longing and belonging." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1454/.
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This research investigates Internet uses and the potentials for transnational connections, for the development of a sense of nationalism, and for the construction of identity. Its focal point is on the case of the Nigerian diaspora. Though focussing mainly on the Internet, the role of other media are also highlighted in order to understand the complexities of long distance communication and the meanings of mediated connection within the broader context of international communications. The work analyses migrant uses and appropriations of media and communication technologies that enable a triangular framework of possibilities (i.) for longing and belonging, (ii.) for connecting migrants with Nigeria and (iii.) for shaping diasporic connections among the migrants in transnational and national contexts. The project employs qualitative and quantitative research methods, which include interviews, participant observation and survey, in an attempt to locate the practices and the meanings of Internet connections and online media activities.
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Rasmussen, Eric E. "Proactive vs. Reactive Parental Mediation: The Influence of Mediation’s Timing at Reducing Violent TV’s Effect on Children’s Aggression-related Outcomes." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1364468517.
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Enghel, Florencia. "Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance : A qualitative study of international development communication in practice." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-34448.
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This study scrutinizes the trajectory of an international development communication intervention aimed at mediating, rendering public and mobilizing processes of reconnection among estranged citizens across the former Yugoslavia. The intervention, which took place between 2000 and 2005 in the wider context of post-conflict international development assistance and peacebuilding operations in the region, was known as the Videoletters project. Centered on a documentary TV series aimed at promoting the reestablishment of relationships among ordinary people affected by ethno-political divisions, Videoletters was adopted by European bilateral funders for large-scale implementation and categorized as a “tool for reconciliation”. Starting from an understanding of communication as a right to which citizens are entitled, as a responsibility of practitioners and institutions, and as a capability that is socially distributed in unequal ways and has an ambiguous potential, the study looks into the contextualized potential and limitations of international development communication intervention to attend to the citizens that it is supposed to benefit. By providing rich empirical details about a process of intervention, the study argues in concrete terms for the study of development communication not as a presumably positive tool, but as an institutionally driven practice that may or may not strengthen conditions of justice, with consequences that will differ depending on the specificity of sociopolitical situations in time and space. Depending on contextual and institutional conditions and on the forms of mediation privileged/disregarded throughout the process, the deployment of a specific development communication intervention may/may not foster proper distance, and thus strengthen/weaken conditions of justice for the citizens under consideration, who are subject to the governance structure of international development assistance. By linking the practice of international development communication to a framework of justice, the study brings the political and ethical dimensions of said practice to the fore and contributes to a critical agenda for theorization and research that takes accountability into consideration and puts citizens at the center.
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Denifl, Örtegren Julia. "Ethical Dilemmas in Mediation of International Aid : We Effect's Visual Communication from Kenya to Sweden." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38605.
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how international development organizations are working to communicate campaigns and photographs from one cultural context to another. Additionally, will challenges in making campaigns which are both ethical appropriate and engaging be highlighted and discussed in relation to today’s impatient media landscape where globalization and development are dominated by economic interests. This research follows the international development cooperation We Effect and explore their whole media production process while making external communication from the work in Kenya to the target group in Sweden. The researcher has done interviews with decision makers at the head office in Stockholm, regional communicators in Nairobi, independent photographers and farmers in the fields of Kenya, visible in We Effect’s campaigns in Sweden. Additionally, ethnographical observations and diary notes contribute to answer the question how international organizations are planning, creating and distributing ethical and engaging media about development organizations long-term development work. In theoretical discussions, anchored in concepts about global culture, cosmopolitanism and how to mediate distant others, together with previous literature by Lilie Chouliaraki, Roger Silverstone and Stuart Hall, will this research state that there are several challenges in communicating messages from one cultural context to another. The distance, both geographical and mental, makes it challenging for the media producers and spectators to understand the same message; this research states that both the media producers and spectators’ interpretations of photographs and messages are dependent on their cultural background.
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Hidalgo, Clarissa L. (Clarissa Lim). "Educational uses of the Web : extending a teacher's communication and mediation capabilities through the Internet." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44489.
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Nally, Cheryl E. "An Exploration of Theoretical Issues Related to Mediation Found in the Social Science Literature." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4936.
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Mediation is a problem-solving approach to conflict management that is used more and more in virtually every context in which conflicts arise. This paper explores the wide range of meaning for the term 'mediation' as found in the social science literature and examines the question of what processes can properly be called mediation. It surveys the literature related to numerous theories of mediation and examines the meaning of the term as established in its various contexts. The mediation literature can be divided into the following contexts: public sector or court connected mediation, divorce mediation, international mediation, environmental mediation, community mediation, small claims, and judicial mediation. This study delineates these contexts and differentiates them for the purpose of conducting an explication of the various meanings of the term mediation. The term mediation is found to be used throughout the literature without operational definition and only broad generic definitions can adequately describe the processes which are called mediation. The boundaries between mediation and other processes are blurred as a result of this expansive use of the term. This study describes mediation as differentiated from other processes such as litigation, arbitration, conciliation, and process consultation. Numerous concepts and issues are found in the literature related to mediation--caucus, goals, strategies and tactics, success, empowerment, ethics, mandatory mediation, neutrality, power and standards of practice. Many of these concepts are informed through contradictory debate within the literature. This paper describes these concepts and issues of mediation for the purpose of developing a further understand of the theory and practice of mediation. This study also reflects on the critical issues, debates and contradictory expectations of mediation that have been raised within the literature and finishes by drawing some conclusions about mediation. Mediation is described as both art and science. No one process is appropriate for handling all or even most mediation situations.
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Su, Hua. "From love letters to digital technology: the mediation of modern Chinese romance." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1770.
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This dissertation provides a comparative study of letters and digital media as infrastructures of modern Chinese romance. It examines young Chinese lovers’ experiences with digital media in comparison with their forebears’ experiences with love letters in order to understand how the increased ease of communication shapes Chinese romantic relating. Based on historical documents and in-depth interviews, this dissertation argues that the Internet and mobile technology augment Chinese lovers’ capacities to contact each other over distance, to express emotions that are restrained by conventions, and to create private alcoves in public places. These augmented capacities alter various boundaries in and around romantic relationship and intensify Chinese lovers’ negotiation between individuality and relationship, between disclosure and concealment, and between the public and private realms of life.
Specifically, young Chinese lovers are better able to maintain a continual sense of togetherness but have more difficulty protecting personal boundaries and being alone. They find it easier to articulate feelings that are untoward in face-to-face speech, but they also find it harder to prove the sincerity of love in text and to avoid confrontation in impulsive message exchange. They have more access to a private space, albeit virtual, and more chances to publicize their romantic lives, but by doing so they also contribute to diminished sociality in offline public spaces and have to rely on the kindness of strangers for privacy more than ever before. For young Chinese lovers, digital media promise the freedoms that are regulated and controlled by social institutions in their offline worlds, but seeking these freedoms via digital media poses chges to their relationships with themselves, with each other, and with the larger social and public worlds they live in.
These chges for romantic relating, as this dissertation argues, manifest the problems of the physical and the material while digital media facilitate spiritual contact over distance. The boundaries of personal accessibility are rooted in the limitation of human attention and ultimately in human mortality; the problem of sincerity in verbalized love lies in the difficulty of invoking deeds as the culturally preferred signifier of love; private nooks in public spaces are problematic both because bodily presence in physical locales entails expectations of sociality and because information storage in virtual venues requires a material apparatus that is beyond the control of individuals. As digital media reduce physical distance as the obstacle to lovers’ spiritual contact, they also intensify the tension between the spiritual and the physical aspects of communication and relationships.
Overall, this dissertation provides a tripartite approach to the study of mediation and sociality based on three dimensions of communication: contact, content, and context. It emphasizes the importance of examining the ways in which communication media enable individuals to connect with each other, to express themselves, and to privatize or publicize their relationships. This approach provides a holistic understanding of how media shape modern sociality and how that mediation contributes to the shift of social boundaries and changes in social etiquette. In addition, this study enriches the current understanding of emerging media, particularly personal communication technologies (PCTs), as a social-technological combination, and proposes the study of the combination in plural and contradictory forms. Methodologically, it suggests the significance of studying both the symbolic and material aspects of mediated communication and of examining various modes, modalities, and genres of mediated communication as the locale where the material channels of media and the symbolic meanings of interaction intersect.
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Nweke, Chuks Petrus. "A Case Study Investigating the Interpretation and Implementation of the Transformative Mediation Technique." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/959.
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For decades, unresolved conflicts have negatively influenced the general public through increased violence, overwhelming the judicial system. A literature review suggested that between 15% and 20% of conflicts result in an impasse. This study was designed to understand how the implementation and application of the transformative meditation technique (TMT) is used to resolve conflicts. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the interpretation and implementation of TMT. This qualitative case study was grounded in the conceptual framework of interest-based negotiation (IBN) principles. The research questions focused on mediators' perceptions, interpretations, and depth of knowledge, as well as the effectiveness of the transformative mediation technique (TMT) as an improvement over evaluative or facilitative techniques in resolving conflicts and reducing impasses. Twenty face-to-face interviews were conducted with purposefully selected mediators. Data were coded and analyzed to identify recurring themes: interests, needs, responsibility, relationship, empowerment, problem solving, and negotiation. The findings of the data analysis revealed that mediators were familiar with TMT; interpretation and implementation varied with mediator style. Moreover, most mediators were not highly educated in TMT. In addition, it was found that simply having knowledge of TMT did not prepare mediators to apply the technique appropriately. Mediators were more attracted to the hybrid transformative mediation technique (HTMT). This study has the potential to create positive social change by reducing the number of litigations, giving relief to the overburdened justice system, and thus decreasing the use of limited courts resources.
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Richards, Jessica Smith. "Terminological Mediation in Information Technology and Related Fields." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5572.
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Terminological dissonance is created by the inherent ambiguity of natural language and compounded by ontological specialization efforts within fields. Terminological dissonance creates high-risk miscommunications in two key areas: within Information Technology as a singular domain, and also between IT and other fields in interdisciplinary projects. A comprehensive literature review revealed a lack of previous effort to acknowledge or solve problems of terminological dissonance within Information Technology. This research provides a comprehensive overview and definition of the terminology mediation space as it relates to Information Technology and adjacent fields. An analysis and verification of the contents and implementation of the terminology mediation tool Termediator has also been created as part of this research. The Termediator tool's conceptual model is further validated through the analysis of its synonymous and polysemous clustering methods and results.
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Jones, Tricia Suzanne. "\"Breaking up is hard to do\" : an exploratory investigation of communication behaviors and phases in child-custody divorce meditation /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487263399024477.
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Lee, Jayeon. "The Effects of Journalists' Social Media Activities on Audience Perceptions of Journalists and their News Products." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374158231.
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Newton, Eric. "Building rapport in mediation| A study of the application of intercultural competencies in a Midwestern mediation center." Thesis, University of the Pacific, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10140628.
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<p> In today’s world, people from various cultures interact on a daily basis on a number of occasions. During these intercultural encounters, conflicts often arise. Intercessors are needed to help people navigate these types of disagreements. Mediators are considered some of these peacekeepers. This thesis engaged with mediators at a mediation center in the Midwestern United States in order to understand what strategies seemed most effective. </p><p> I examined the research that scholars have conducted regarding building rapport through utilizing respect and face issues, as well as nonverbal behavior. In addition, I explored the connection between the understanding of these factors and intercultural competence and intercultural conflict competence. </p><p> The purpose of this thesis was to see how these mediators understood and valued respect and face issues, including nonverbal behavior, when building rapport with parties in mediations. These mediators were engaged in two manners, via survey and interview questions. The intercultural competence of the mediators in these domains was also explored. </p><p> The results of the research in this thesis showed how the mediators were skilled in some areas, such as in rapport building and respect issues. It further revealed that they were in need of some skills for their toolbox, such as training on face issues and nonverbal behavior, including silence, tone of voice, and eye contact. Detailed recommendations for the mediators are provided. Future research is encouraged: A group of mediators that have exhibited intercultural competence should be selected in order to test their intercultural conflict competence.</p>
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Chakroff, Jennifer Leigh. "Parental mediation of advertising and consumer communication the effectiveness of parental intervention on young children's materialistic attitudes /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1190001119.
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Shabo, Gabriela. "Den muntliga kommunikationens betydelse i det matematiska klassrummet : En studie om hur lärare muntligt medierar med verktyg och redskap med fokus på tal i bråkform." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35465.
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This study aims to examine the importance of oral communication in the math classroom. A study on how three teachers in math communicate medally with tools and focusing on speech in a fractional form. Methodologically, the teachers perspectives of oral communicative competence are explored through interviews and observations. Following questions have driven the study: ”What are the math teachers' perceptions of the importance of oral communication for students focusing on speech in a fractional form?”, ”What mediating tools, such as metaphors, figures, symbols, pictures and characters use three mathematics teachers in grade five in the preparation of oral communication, and how do they succeed in focusing on speech?”, ”What are the similarities and differences between these three year courses regarding the choice of mediating tools and tools by these three teachers in oral form focusing on speech in a fractional form?” The theoretical foundation of the study includes the ”Sociocultural perspective” as well as ”Mediation”, ”Perception”, ”The concept of brutal verbs in mathematics teaching”. The results presented here support the positive role of oral communication when teachers communicate medally with tools and focusing on speech in a fractional form in Swedish elementary schools.
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Afyounian, Ebrahim. "Information and Communication Technologies in Support of Remembering : A Postphenomenological Study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32692.
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This thesis aimed to study the everyday use of ICT-enabled memory aids in order to understand and to describe the technological mediations that are brought by them (i.e. how they shape/mediate experiences and actions of their users). To do this, a post-phenomenological approach was appropriated. Postphenomenology is a modified, hybrid phenomenology that tries to overcome the limitations of phenomenology. As for theoretical framework, ‘Technological Mediation’ was adopted to conduct the study. Technological Mediation as a theory provides concepts suitable for explorations of the phenomenon of human-technology relation. It was believed that this specific choice of approach and theoretical framework would provide a new way of exploring the use of concrete technologies in everyday life of human beings and the implications that this use might have on humans’ lives. The study was conducted in the city of Växjö, Sweden. Data was collected by conducting twelve face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Collected data was, then, analyzed by applying the concepts within the theoretical framework – Technological Mediation - to them. The results of this study provided a list of ICT-enabled devices and services that participants were using in their everyday life in order to support their memory such as: calendars, alarms, notes, bookmarks, etc. Furthermore, this study resulted in a detailed description of how these devices and services shaped/mediated the experiences and the actions of their users.
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Hughes-d'Aeth, Armand Henry. "The role of teacher values in the mediation of ESL innovation programmes : two case studies in a Southern African context." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021598/.
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This thesis examines teacher personal and cultural presage variables within a black South African cultural dimension. I seek to understand what effects value variables have on the mediation of change and to know why these sometimes act as barriers to the implementation of classroom innovation - in this instance, a communicative language teaching approach. Finally, I itemize the implications of value change for the professional development of teachers following ELT INSET programmes and set out a series of practical proposals on the basis of my conclusions. I argue the need for congruence between teacher values and values inherent in a CLT approach and discuss ways in which value redeployment occur. I outline acceptance of change in terms of a theoretical construct of 'practicality ethics' and argue that personal values must be examined within black South African cultural dimensions of allocentriccollectivism, high uncertainty avoidance and high power distance. I analyze paradigms of western education and review the principles underlying a CLT approach. I link my analysis to the requirements of the DET's English language syllabus and contrast concepts of teacher roles and classroom power relationships in traditional African pedagogy with those of a CLT approach in terms of 'ideal' and 'indigenous' mediational operators, and I examine dissonances between the two. A narrative-descriptive background account of two case studies is given through the use of life histories, diaries, documents and interviews to support an itemistic cross-case analysis of cultural and personal values held in relation to black South African cultural dimensions. I then analyse a series of videoed lessons and I provide a descriptive overview of classroom interaction patterns. Classroom events are discussed in terms of types of teacher questions asked, turn allocations, wait-time and power-relationships, class participation and ritualization, and teacher evaluation, repair and feedback. I conclude that African societies emphasize collective moral values whereas societies geared towards a Western-urbanscientific- technological paradigm stress idiocentricprofessional values. I do not assert that individuals rigidly conform to this bipolarity but application of either or both value systems lie along a continuum with consequent effect on classroom events.
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Lehti, Emil. "It’s so hard to put words on it; an exploratory study on mediation of ambience." Thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-234463.
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Retrieving information regarding ambience is difficult since it’s often perceived at a physical location and cannot be easily mediated. This study aimed to explore how ambience at a restaurant or bar can be mediated via a smartphone app. The study was based on the conversation about the relationship of space and place in HCI and CSCW. Based on the research question “What means of mediation are best suited for mediating ambience at a restaurant via a smartphone app?”, a research through design approach was adopted to develop a mockup that favored browsing. The mockup was used as a way to test how different means of mediation mediated ambience. An evaluation was held where users were asked to think aloud when given tasks to perform, then complete an experience questionnaire. Finally, a semi structured debriefing was held. Photos and text-based reviews were the best means of mediation to mediate ambience at restaurants.<br>Att motta information om en känsla från en fysisk plats är svårt eftersom den inte på ett enkelt sätt kan bli förmedlad från den platsen. Den här studien syftade till att undersöka hur känslan på en restaurang eller bar kan bli förmedlad via en mobilapp. Den här studien grundar sig i diskussionen om relationen mellan fysiska platser och dess betydelse samt relationen till människa-datorinteraktion och CSCW. Utifrån forskningsfrågan ”Vilka sätt att förmedla känsla på är bäst lämpade för att förmedla känsla på en restaurang via en smartphoneapplikation?” togs en forskning genom design-ansats för att utveckla en prototyp. Prototypen användes som ett testmedel för att undersöka hur olika sätt att förmedla känsla kunde användas. En utvärdering hölls där användarna fick tänka högt när de utförde en rad uppgifter, för att sedan fylla i ett formulär och delta i en semistrukturerad intervju. Foton och textbaserade recensioner förmedlade känsla från restauranger och barer bäst.
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Kimberg, Martha Petro. "Praktykmodel vir egskeidingsevaluering 'n sistemiese perspektief op die belang van die minderjarige kind by sorg en kontak /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11122008-154858.
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Roberts, Steven Fredolph. "The Mediation of U.S. American Culture in the ESL Classroom." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4786.
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The concept of cultural mediation is one that all ESL teachers must deal with as an inherent part of their employment. Yet, relatively little of the current literature has examined how teachers actually perceive this aspect of their work once they have left the teacher preparation program behind. This question provided the main rationale for the present study. The current study, an adaptation of DeFoe (1986), examined the mediation of U.S. American culture in the ESL classroom by means of a written survey of 42 teachers from ten community colleges, both in the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area and from around the state of Oregon. The four research questions of the present study sought to find a relationship between four independent variables--the kind of ESL that is taught, overseas exposure, cultural self-characterization, and explicit instruction in intercultural communication theory and practice--and how ESL teachers perceive their roles as each of these concern the four dependent variables of the study: being an example, explaining U.S. American culture, teaching interculturally, and listening and helping as a friend. A non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis analysis of the data revealed that none of the research questions achieved statistical significance. However, some of the findings did suggest several interesting relationships. The variable of cultural self-characterization did approach significance in relation to the dependent variable of explaining American culture. This, in connection with some of the findings for the respondent demographic data, appeared to indicate for this group of teachers that cultural self-perception may have exercised an influence on their explain of American culture. Second, intercultural communication theory and practice exposure seemed more of an aid to the respondents of this study in teaching about culture specific issues, as opposed to teaching about culture general issues. This would appear to raise a question as to how easily the theory and practice learned in the intercultural communication classroom translates to the ESL context.
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Hawbaker, Rebecca Marie. "Using video modeling to improve the social communication of an adolescent with autism spectrum disorder." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6589.
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Difficulty with many aspects of social interactions is a defining characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Video modeling (VM) has successfully improved a range of social skills for individuals with ASD in previous studies, but most often with simple social skills with young children. The current study used VMs scripted and recorded by peers to improve complex conversation and social gestures by a young adult with ASD. A multiple-probe, across-behaviors design found mixed evidence of experimental control of VM on the social behaviors of the individual with ASD, although all behaviors increased from baseline and generalized to other settings and conversants. Peer comparison data from the conversation partner suggest that the VM may have served to prompt the peer to guide and extend conversation as modeled in the VMs and that the conversation skills of the peer also improved throughout the study. Implications of the important role peers may play to enhance VM and improve social skills are explored.
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Binder, Heidi A. "Cultural fluency in the eye of the storm : a mediation case study." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/800.
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The eye of the storm is the calm center amidst chaos where, metaphorically speaking, mediators often begin their work. Recent research has advocated for a more holistic, relational, culturally inclusive approach to the mediation process. Such an approach requires conflict fluency as well as cultural fluency for effective mediation. This thesis explores how the intervention strategies of mediation may be enhanced through increased cultural understanding. Current theories of intercultural conflict transformation and intercultural communication are reviewed. Conflict fluency is understood through a mediation perspective. Cultural fluency is understood through cultural identity, cultural values, communication styles, and conflict styles.
A case study follows the theoretical review of the literature. In this case study, a small community mediation center illustrates what is happening in the field today regarding the relationship between culture and conflict. The case study involves a 6 holistic analysis of the organization, seeking to understand intercultural competence at all levels. This includes an analysis of keystone materials, a survey of mediators, Intercultural Effectiveness Scale (IES) results, and interviews with mediators as well as organizational leadership.
The thesis concludes with a list of recommendations that may be useful to this community mediation center as well as other similar organizations. Amongst these recommendations are potentially useful training items such as intercultural conflict styles, critical moment dialogues, and other intercultural tools designed to increase mediator competence in intercultural communication.
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Busch, Dominic. "Interkulturelle Mediation : eine theoretische Grundlegung triadischer Konfliktbearbeitung in interkulturell bedingten Kontexten /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/475133331.pdf.
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Massingill, K. B. "A Comparison of Communication Motives of On-Site and Off-Site Students in Videoconference-Based Courses." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3229/.
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The objective of this investigation is to determine whether student site location in an instructional videoconference is related to students' motives for communicating with their instructor. The study is based, in part, on the work of Martin et al. who identify five separate student-teacher communication motives. These motives, or dimensions, are termed relational, functional, excuse, participation, and sycophancy, and are measured by a 30-item questionnaire. Several communication-related theories were used to predict differences between on-site and off-site students, Media richness theory was used, foundationally, to explain differences between mediated and face-to-face communication and other theories such as uncertainty reduction theory were used in conjunction with media richness theory to predict specific differences.Two hundred eighty-one completed questionnaires were obtained from Education and Library and Information Science students in 17 separate course-sections employing interactive video at the University of North Texas during the Spring and Summer semesters of the 2001/2002 school year. This study concludes that off-site students in an instructional videoconference are more likely than their on-site peers to report being motivated to communicate with their instructor for participation reasons. If off-site students are more motivated than on-site students to communicate as a means to participate, then it may be important for instructors to watch for actual differences in participation levels, and instructors may need to be well versed in pedagogical methods that attempt to increase participation, The study also suggests that current teaching methods being employed in interactive video environments may be adequate with regard to functional, excuse-making, relational and sycophantic communication.
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McAndrew, Jennie Elizabeth. "I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories About Sexuality in Children’s Television." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587084433416255.
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Kinzel, Holger. "The Use of Mediation and Mediative Elements to Improve the Integration of the Human Factor in Risk Assessments in Order to Enhance the Safety in the International Oil and Gas Industry." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-226583.
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The work of an engineer is closely intertwined with safety. An engineer’s perception of the “safety” task is traditionally inherent in his or her design. However, in the technical world most machines and systems designed by engineers contain a human element, which engineers have to consider in their work.
In the oil and gas upstream industry – especially drilling, production and workover operations – petroleum engineers (including drilling and production engineers) are responsible not only for design but also for operational and organizational aspects. The human factor becomes more important in complex offshore operations. Incorporating safety into a sys-tem design requires identifying, analyzing and evaluating risks and ensuring that any not accounted for are taken into consideration. This process requires communication among everyone involved in the process. Analysis of accidents in the oil and gas industry shows that often a lack of that communication led to incident triggering events.
In this thesis, the author proposes a novel communication model that improves this exchange of information and supposedly makes the process of risk assessment more effective. In addition, the new model also incorporates factors such as emotions, feelings, needs and imagination into the risk assessment process. This broadens the information base for the risk identification and analysis and creates an atmosphere of psychological ownership for the stakeholders in the process, which leads to a perceived safety climate in the organization where the new model is applied.
The innovative communication or consultation model, as it is also referred to in risk assessments, is based on a structured process used in conflict resolution called mediation. Mediation is an alternative conflict resolution process that is centered on mutual under-standing and listening to each other’s needs. The process is composed of elements that characterize it. These elements of mediation are used to assess other communication processes and to develop new communication models. The application of the elements of mediation and the safety-mediation consultation into the risk assessment process enables this process to be enhanced with human factors such as emotions, feelings, intuition and imagination. The inclusion of all stakeholders creates psychological ownership, improves communication, enables organizational learning and expands the knowledge base for risk analysis.
The applicability of the safety-mediation consultation process for a human factor-based risk assessment is presented and tested using illustrative examples and field cases from the international oil and gas industry. Possible concerns and limitations are also discussed.
This thesis shows that mediation and elements of the mediation process can be applied to improve communication in the international oil and gas industry. This is facilitated by educated safety mediators, who help the petroleum engineer and operational crew on a drilling rig to achieve a better understanding by ensuring that they hear and fully register each other’s needs.
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El, Kaed Charbel. "Home Devices Mediation using ontology alignment and code generation techniques." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENM002/document.
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Les protocoles plug-and-play couplés avec les architectures logicielles rendent nos maisons ubiquitaires. Les équipements domestiques qui supportent ces protocoles peuvent être détectés automatiquement, configurés et invoqués pour une tâche donnée. Actuellement, plusieurs protocoles coexistent dans la maison, mais les interactions entre les dispositifs ne peuvent pas être mises en action à moins que les appareils supportent le même protocole. En plus, les applications qui orchestrent ces dispositifs doivent connaître à l'avance les noms des services et dispositifs. Or, chaque protocole définit un profil standard par type d'appareil. Par conséquent, deux appareils ayant le même type et les mêmes fonctions mais qui supportent un protocole différent publient des interfaces qui sont souvent sémantiquement équivalentes mais syntaxiquement différentes. Ceci limite alors les applications à interagir avec un service similaire. Dans ce travail, nous présentons une méthode qui se base sur l'alignement d'ontologie et la génération automatique de mandataire pour parvenir à une adaptation dynamique de services<br>Ubiquitous systems imagined by Mark Weiser are emerging thanks to the development of embedded systems and plug-n-play protocols like the Universal Plug aNd Play (UPnP), the Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing (IGRS), the Device Pro le for Web Services (DPWS) and Apple Bonjour. Such protocols follow the service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm and allow an automatic device and service discovery in a home network. Once devices are connected to the local network, applications deployed for example on a smart phone, a PC or a home gateway, discover the plug-n-play devices and act as control points. The aim of such applications is to orchestrate the interactions between the devices such as lights, TVs and printers, and their corresponding hosted services to accomplish a specific human daily task like printing a document or dimming a light. Devices supporting a plug-n-play protocol announce their hosted services each in its own description format and data content. Even similar devices supporting the same services represent their capabilities in a different representation format and content. Such heterogeneity along with the protocols layers diversity, prevent applications to use any available equivalent device on the network to accomplish a specific task. For instance, a UPnP printing application cannot interacts with an available DPWS printer on the network to print a document. Designing applications to support multiple protocols is time consuming since developers must implement the interaction with each device pro le and its own data description. Additionally, the deployed application must use multiple protocols stacks to interact with the device. More over, application vendors and telecoms operators need to orchestrate devices through a common application layer, independently from the protocol layers and the device description. To accomplish interoperability between plug-n-play devices and applications, we propose a generic approach which consists in automatically generating proxies based on an ontology alignment. The alignment contains the correspondences between two equivalent devices descriptions. Such correspondences actually represent the proxy behaviour which is used to provide interoperability between an application and a plug and play device. For instance, the generated proxy will announce itself on the network as a UPnP standard printer and will control the DPWS printer. Consequently, the UPnP printing application will interact transparently with the generated proxy which adapts and transfers the invocations to the real DPWS printer. We implemented a prototype as a proof of concept that we evaluated on several real UPnP and DPWS equivalent devices
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Robinson, Erin. "E-health and the Internet factors that influence doctors' mediation behaviors with patients /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11212008-142202/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Yuki Fujioka, committee chair; Jaye Atkinson, Holley Wilkin, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 11, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-69).
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Borton, Ian M. "Victim offender communication in felony cases: An archival analysis of Ohio's Office of Victim Services dialogue program." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1213195868.
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Zhang, Jie, and John J. Wheeler. "Using Peer-Mediation to Promote Social Communication Skills for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): An Evidence-Based Intervention." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/273.
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Parkin, Jennia. "The Longterm Effects of Television Mediation on LDS Young Single Adults: An Exploratory Study." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5014.
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This exploratory study examines what Latter-day Saint young single adults remember about their parents mediating the television and its use, and how those recollections contribute to their current attitudes and values toward the media, as well as their media choices. A stratified random sample of 267 LDS young single adults across the United States and outside the state of Utah responded to a cross sectional mail or online survey. The three mediation styles established by Valkenburg, Krcmar, Peeters, and Marseille (1999)—Restrictive, Instructive, and Coviewing—were used as the independent variables while scales assessing television offensiveness levels, attitudes, orientation, and usage were used as dependent variables. According to this study, individuals who recall high levels of Restrictive mediation tend to restrict their personal media choices when exposed to personally offensive material more than those that recall low Restrictive mediation (p < .01). High levels of Restrictive mediation also indicate (a) negative attitudes towards television (p < .001), (b) more media sensitivity (p < .05), and (c) a Traditionals approach to media choices (p < .001). Individuals who come from highly Instructive based homes watch more informational/educational programs and more situational comedies than individuals from low Instructive homes (p < .05). Individuals who recall high levels of Coviewing have a neutral orientation towards the media, finding it neither positive nor negative (p > .05) and tend to watch more informational/educational programming (p < .05). This study, while exploratory adds to the research on parental mediation and mediation theory, and offers support to the effectiveness of mediation. It suggests a possible benefit from teaching parents how to mediate the television and encourages religious groups to educate church members on using methods of television mediation.
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Zhuang, Jiahui. "I’m Your Fan – Engaging in Celebrity’s Social Media Page with the Mediation of Parasocial Interaction and Parasocial Relationship." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7252.
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Social media enable celebrity to interact with their followers and enable followers to build the relationship through the interaction. Former research has found that openness and perceived interactivity are antecedents for parasocial interaction. In order to investigate the way to increase user’s engagement in celebrity’s social media page, this research examines the relationship between celebrity’s posts employ openness and perceived interactivity, other user’s posts employ openness and perceived interactivity, parasocial interaction, parasocial relationship, and social media engagement. Survey data were collected from 595 followers of one Chinese celebrity through an online survey. The results indicate that neither celebrity’s nor other user’s posts employ openness and perceived interactivity direct lead to user’s social media engagement. However, PSI and PSR, which increased by celebrity’s and other user’s posts employ openness and perceived interactivity, have a positive relationship with user’s social media engagement. It provides support for the mediating role of PSI and PSR to social media engagement.
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Costa, Elisangela Rodrigues da. "Linguagens da comunicação: jornalismo e publicidade no ensino fundamental de Barueri/SP." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-20052013-163037/.
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A diversidade de linguagens, em consonância com os recursos tecnológicos disponíveis atualmente, marca a primeira década do século XXI. Em decorrência deste processo, houve mudanças nos modos de emissão e recepção de mensagens, que foram para além da Comunicação e adentraram a Educação. Sendo assim, no cenário contemporâneo a escola é o local que reflete as idiossincrasias sociais quanto à utilização dos aparatos midiáticos. A incorporação das linguagens comunicacionais no referido contexto torna-se, cada vez mais, um processo naturalizado, no qual o docente tem uma importante função, sobretudo o especialista em Língua Portuguesa. Afinal, cabe a este profissional a execução de ações pedagógicas voltadas à aquisição das habilidades de leitura e escrita e, consequentemente, das capacidades de argumentar e interpretar, competências imprescindíveis para os alunos como forma de garantir a autonomia destes cidadãos em todos os aspectos da vida profissional e pessoal. O papel de mediação que os meios de comunicação, os dispositivos e, principalmente, os educadores adquirem neste processo é fundamental para a orientação dos jovens incorporados ao mundo digital. Por admitir a relevância destes profissionais, determinamos como foco da investigação a opinião do educador especialista de Língua Portuguesa sobre o entendimento quanto à utilização de instâncias midiáticas no ambiente escolar. Com este fundamento, verificamos como os professores de Língua Portuguesa do município de Barueri, região metropolitana de São Paulo, utilizam as linguagens do jornalismo e da publicidade, como compreendem a inter-relação comunicação e educação perante as exigências do atendimento do aluno adolescente dos anos finais (8º e 9º anos) do Ensino Fundamental. Diante de tais questionamentos, a pesquisa examina o seguinte problema: como as linguagens da comunicação das esferas jornalística e publicitária são legitimadas na prática dos docentes de Língua Portuguesa de Barueri nos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental? As reflexões teóricas fundamentadas na perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais perpassam aspectos conceituais que, em diálogos com o objeto empírico, consideram o processo da interface entre Comunicação e Educação. O modelo metodológico adotado é o proposto por Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, com base na reflexão, por meio das seguintes técnicas: observação indireta, questionários e entrevistas.<br>The diversity of languages, in line with the technological resources available today, marks the first decade of this century. As a result of this process, there were changes in the modes of transmission and reception of messages, which were beyond entered the Communication and Education. Thus, in the contemporary scene is the local school, which reflects the idiosyncrasies in the use of social media apparatuses. The incorporation of language communication in that context becomes, increasingly, a natural process in which the teacher has an important function, especially the specialist in Portuguese. After all, it\'s up to the execution of this professional pedagogical actions aimed at acquiring the skills of reading and writing and, consequently, the ability of interpretation and argumentation skills essential for students in order to guarantee the autonomy of citizens in all aspects of life professional and personal. The important role of mediation that the media, devices, and especially educators acquire in this process is critical to guiding young people incorporated into the digital world. By admitting the relevance of these professionals, we determined the focus of investigation to understand the educator expert in the area into consideration and use of media bodies in the school environment. With this foundation, we examine how teachers of Portuguese in the city of Barueri, metropolitan region of São Paulo, using the language of journalism and advertising, as they understand the interrelationship communication and education to the demands of the student\'s attendance of teen final cycles (8 and 9 years) Elementary School. Given these questions, the research examines the following problem: how languages of communication in journalism and advertising spheres are legitimized the practice of teachers of Portuguese Barueri in the final years of elementary school? The theoretical reflections based on the perspective of cultural studies conceptual issues that underlie, in dialogue with the empirical object, consider the process of interface between communication and education. The methodological model adopted is that proposed by Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, based on reflection, through the following techniques: indirect observation, questionnaires and interviews.
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Nagamini, Eliana. "Comunicação em diálogo com a literatura: mediações no contexto escolar." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-22052013-104907/.
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Esta pesquisa situa-se na interface Comunicação/Educação, pois envolve um produto midiático - as adaptações de obras literárias produzidas para o cinema - e sua presença na escola. Tal estudo implica o descentramento disciplinar como ruptura e, ao mesmo tempo, o estabelecimento de novas relações como resultado da abertura entre os vários saberes e as trocas epistemológicas. A desterritorialização, além de romper com a noção de tempo e espaço, também cria novas formas de apreensão do saber, na medida em que o limite entre um conhecimento e outro perde sua configuração consagrada e adquire novos contornos. Pretende-se refletir com base no conjunto epistemológico que dialogue no interior de dois campos de estudo distintos: o comunicacional e o educacional, e que nos permita compreender o impacto provocado pela mídia na formação do leitor de textos literários e de adaptações literárias. Para isso faz-se necessário traçar um percurso teórico que discuta sobretudo a função da escola e, consequentemente, do professor no novo contexto tecnológico. Nosso objetivo é analisar as interferências e interdependências das mediações que determinam a presença/ausência das adaptações cinematográficas no contexto escolar. Os professores, como mediadores do texto adaptado, são os sujeitos pesquisados, cujo grau de subjetividade revela formas de apreensão e recepção das mensagens midiáticas, um dos fatores determinantes para que as adaptações integrem ou não os conteúdos desenvolvidos em sala de aula. O cenário escolhido é o da escola, compreendida como instituição reguladora das atividades de leitura e exposta a várias mediações (macromediações e micromediações). O estudo das mediações, nas perspectivas de Martín-Barbero e Orozco Gómez, constitui as principais bases teóricas desta pesquisa. Como nossa investigação está centrada no fazer, no planejamento e na condução efetiva das práticas pedagógicas, o universo pesquisado é composto por professores de Língua Portuguesa e Literatura, atuantes em escolas do Ensino Médio da rede de ensino estadual, localizadas na cidade de São Paulo. Existem dominâncias de algumas mediações que influenciam na presença/ausência das adaptações em sala de aula. São as mediações que tratam diretamente da prática educativa, ou aquelas marcadas por aspectos da individualidade, ou aquelas que estão relacionadas às linguagens verbais e não-verbais. A dinâmica que ocorre no interior das mediações - responsável pelas escolhas pedagógicas - é determinada pelas tensões no jogo de mediações.<br>This research deals with the interface between Communications and Education, as it involves a media product - the adaptations of literature works produced for the film industry - and their presence at school. The study implies the discipline decentralization as a rupture and, at the same time, the establishment of new relations as a result of the opening between different knowledge and epistemological exchange. The deterritorialisation, besides disrupting the notion of time and space, also creates new types of learning, as long as the limit between different forms of knowledge loses its crystallized configuration and takes on new aspects. We intend to reflect taking into account the epistemological group which holds a dialogue inside the two distinct fields of study: the communicational and the educational, and that allow us to understand the impact caused by the media in the reader formation of literature texts and adaptations. To achieve this, it is necessary to follow a theoretical track which discusses mainly the role of school, and consequently, the role of the teacher in the new technological context.Our aim is to analyze the interference and the interdependence of mediation which determine the presence or absence of cinematography adaptations, in the school context. The teachers as mediators of adapted texts, are the subjects researched, whose level of subjectivity reveals forms of learning and reception of media messages, one of the determining factors making the adaptations be, or not be, part of the syllabus developed in the classroom. The scenario chosen is the school, understood as the institution regulator of reading activities and exposed to mediation (macro-mediation and micro-mediation). The study of mediation, from the perspective of Martin-Barbero and Orozco Gomes, constitute the principal theoretical bases of this research. Since our research is focused on the development, planning and effective implementation of pedagogical activities, the universe researched é composed of Portuguese and Literature teachers, working in public high schools in the state of São Paulo, situated in São Paulo City. The dominance of some forms of mediation has an influence on the presence or absence of adaptations in the classroom. They are the ones that have to do directly with the educational practice, or those marked by aspects of individuality, or those related to verbal and non-verbal languages. The dynamic which occurs inside the mediation - responsible for the pedagogical choices - is determined by the tension in the game of mediation.
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Consani, Marciel Aparecido. "Mediação tecnológica na educação: conceitos e aplicações." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-27042009-115431/.
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A tese aborda a área de intervenção educomunicativa Mediação Tecnológica na Educação MTE. Trata-se de uma das vertentes nas quais o campo da Educomunicação se estrutura epistemologicamente e que se encontra bastante evidenciada, nos dias de hoje, por conta da educação a distância (EaD). Nossa proposta é fazer um amplo levantamento do sentido e significado da MTE, de modo a aclarar seu entendimento a partir da análise histórica, etimológica e lingüísticopragmática sobre os usos correntes da expressão nos campos onde ela ocorre. A saber: a educomunicação, a comunicação e a educação. Espera-se, ao final, obter um nível de compreensão elevado sobre a MTE, permitindo que ela respalde com maior robustez a praxis das ações educomunicativas, principalmente daquelas identificadas com os vários projetos implementados na parceria entre o NCE e o poder público.<br>This study examines the Educommunication intervention called Technology Mediation in Education (MTE). This is one of the epistemological areas in which the field of Educommunication is built, clearly found in Distance Learning programs. Our objective is to conduct a detailed analysis of the meaning and significance of MTE, its history, etymology, and linguistic characteristics, as well as its current use in educommunication, communication, and education. We anticipate that this level of analysis will bring about a higher level of understanding of MTE, allowing for stronger educommunication praxis, particularly the practices implemented by the partnership between NCE and the public sector.
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Mbuye, Kanku Lisette. "Integrating Online Discussion Forums into the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Case Study of Advanced Learners of French." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc68012/.
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This exploratory case study aims to develop a set of best practices for integrating online discussion forums into the foreign language curriculum, focusing specifically on a group of learners in an advanced French grammar course at a large, public U.S. university. During a period of two months, 26 participants completed a series of tasks designed to provide three different types of data: 1) exploration and analysis of interactional, linguistic, and social features of Web forum discourse; 2) participation in Web forums; and 3) feedback from students. Since the feedback received from two questionnaires was ultimately the most consistent and reliable type of data collected, this study focuses on students' participation patterns and their perceptions of Web forums as a communication space having the potential to provide opportunities for learning French. Although some students indicated that they would neither consider visiting a French-language Web forum nor actually visit one, in both cases, more than half of the participants who completed these questionnaires indicated that they would both consider visiting a French-language Web forum and might actually visit one. Since encouraging students to use French beyond the classroom and to engage in the lifelong use of French for personal enrichment (following the Communities standard of the U.S. Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century), at least one goal of this study-the main goal-has been partially achieved.
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Radlovacki, Andrea. "Crisis Communication in the Time of Corona: A comparative analysis of Danish and Swedish public news narratives." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23572.
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When the coronavirus disease COVID-19 spread through the world’s countries in early 2020 and dominated the news media, a contrast between how Sweden was combatting the virus compared to other countries who used stricter restrictions quickly became apparent and frequently discussed in media. Through a comparative content analysis, this study aims to investigate how narratives concerning the coronavirus have been presented in Swedish public news medium SVT compared to its Danish equivalent, DR. Any differences in such news reporting could indicate the possibility of media influence behind why one country implemented and adhered to stricter restrictions than the other did.Utilizing a quantitative as well as a quantitative approach, 245 articles from Danish and Swedish sources were coded and analysed through theory grounded in situational crisis communication (SCCT). The findings however revealed similar results, identifying the same four key SCCT-narratives in both countries: anxiety, blame, flattery and care. The theoretical contribution of this study is centred on the reflection of how these similar results may relate to one another on a societal and sensemaking level. The study ultimately also emphasises the flexibility of SCCT strategies as useful narrative tools for further research.
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Carvalho, Eric de. "Circuitos comunicacionais. Mediações e midiatização de comunicação de marca em circuitos de consumo cultural e midiático." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-06092016-121047/.
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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as mediações comunicativas da cultura que envolvem as inter-relações entre marcas e seus públicos interagentes em seus circuitos comunicacionais, assim como o processo de midiatização decorrente dessas relações. O sistema publicitário se adaptou às novas tecnicidades da sociedade contemporânea, somando à tradicional técnica da propaganda dispositivos promocionais que visam estabelecer vínculos com seus públicos interagentes por meio do estimulo à participação, interação e colaboração. Esse panorama reflete a mudança de enfoque de processos comunicacionais unilaterais, baseados na emissão de mensagens, para processos interacionais estabelecidos com o suporte de tecnicidades que permitem a produção de conteúdo e sua difusão em redes de informação, estimulando a interação entre marca e públicos em um processo comunicacional baseado na perspectiva da circulação da informação por circuitos comunicacionais. A tese analisa circuitos comunicacionais entre marcas e públicos a partir do uso de aplicativos dotados da tecnicidade do georreferenciamento como um recorte metodológico para demonstração das interações entre circuitos físicos e digitais de comunicação entre consumidores e marcas. Os circuitos físicos de consumo cultural de marca são analisados pela abordagem teórica da perspectiva da antropologia urbana de Magnani (1999) e pela óptica da teoria das mediações segundo Martín-Barbero (2010, 2001) e sob a perspectiva da midiatização em sua vertente nórdica segundo Hjarvard (2013), Hepp (2011) e pela visão latino-americana de Braga (2006), Fausto Neto (2010) e Trindade e Perez (2014); os circuitos digitais são analisados com base na noção de publicização de Casaqui (2011), assim como nas visões sobre compartilhamento e engajamento por Castells (2003), Saad Correa (2010), Recuero (2008), Ugarte (2008), Jenkins, Ford e Green (2014) e Terra (2011). O estudo resulta em um protocolo de análise de circuitos comunicacionais estabelecidos sob a mediação de lógicas de produção de marcas e táticas de recepção de consumidores em constante negociação.<br>This study aims to analyze culture communicative mediations that involves interrelationships between brands and interactor public in their communication circuits, as well as mediatization proceedings arising from these relations. Advertising system has adapted to new technicalities of contemporary society, adding to traditional technique of advertising some promotional devices that aim to establish links with their interactor public through stimulus to participation, interaction and collaboration. This situation reflects focus changes from unilateral communication processes based on message sending to interactional processes established by support of technicalities that enable content production and its distribution in information networks that stimulates interaction between brand and public in a communication process based on the perspective of information circulation on communication circuits. Thesis analyzes communication circuits between brands and public from use of georeferencing technicality provided mobile apps as a methodological cut to demonstration of interactions between physical and digital consumer-brands communication circuits. Brand cultural consumption physical circuits are analyzed by theoretical approach from Magnani´s (1999) urban anthropology perspective and Martin-Barbero´s (2010, 2001) mediation theory view and from mediatization theory by Hjarvard (2013) and Hepp´s (2011) northern perspective and latin american perspective of Braga (2006), Fausto Neto (2010) and Trinidad and Perez (2014). Digital circuits are analyzed by Casaqui´s (2011) notion of publicization perspective as well as views of sharing and engagement by perspective of Castells (2003), Saad Correa (2010), Recuero (2008), Ugarte (2008), Jenkins, Ford and Green (2014) and Terra (2011). The study results in analysis protocol of communication circuit established under mediation between brand production logics and consumer reception tactics in a constant negotiation.
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Thornberg, Jack. "Distant Suffering : A multimodal analysis of the politics of pity in news agencies’ mediation of the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-7014.
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This thesis explores of how American and British television mediated the crisis that started with the 4 April 2017 alleged chemical attack in Syria and culminated with the subsequent attack on Syria by the United States 7 April 2017. It builds upon a rich literature and focuses on the politics of pity in the mediated representation of distant suffering as set out by Luc Boltanski. The thesis utilizes a methodological approach which merges Lilie Chouliaraki’s ‘analytics of mediation’ with Roxanne Lynn Doty’s view of discourse analysis. The results find that CNNW mediated the distant suffering based on ostensibly a priori knowledge, whereas BBC News was more inclined to guide the spectators along a line of investigative reasoning.