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Thomas, Martha Wetterhall, and Samuel B. Hardy. "Communication Instruction in a Mature Institutional Partnership." Business Communication Quarterly 68, no. 2 (June 2005): 197–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1080569905276672.
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Since 1994, the University of South Carolina at Columbia and the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) have offered a joint master’s degree in international business. Communication instruction was initially a stable component of the program, with a week-long course at the beginning and a report-writing workshop at the end, followed by individual instruction in preparing deliverables for a consulting field project. Since the field projects were phased out in 2003, students continue to receive the one-week communication course in Vienna; after that, they have voluntary access to individual instruction from the Center for Business Communication at the University of South Carolina and exposure to in-class communication workshops as scheduled by faculty across the business disciplines. Although student feedback is positive, these instructional methods currently lack consistency. To achieve such consistency, a communication center can help to integrate instruction within MBA programs through communication intensive courses, writing studios, or a communication capstone course.
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Heyvaert, Pauline, François Randour, Jérémy Dodeigne, Julien Perrez, and Min Reuchamps. "Metaphors in political communication." Journal of Language and Politics 19, no. 2 (November 19, 2019): 201–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17057.hey.
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Abstract This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews. The article first investigates if the use of deliberate metaphor limits itself to a particular type of political discourse (i.e. public and institutional political discourse) or if metaphor use is also found in other types of settings (i.e. non-institutional political discourse). Second, the article analyses the variation of deliberate metaphor use between political actors depending on gender, seniority and political affiliation. To this end, the article applies Steen’s (2008) three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis on biographical interviews conducted with French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians (RMPs). Our results indicate that RMPs, when using non-deliberate metaphors, mostly rely on source domains such as construction, battle and relationships. This is in contrast with the use of deliberate metaphors, where source domains like sports, nature and container take the upper hand.
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Sağın-Şimşek, Çiğdem. "Receptive multilingualism in Turkish-Turkmen academic counseling sessions." Applied Linguistics Review 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2014): 195–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2014-0009.
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AbstractThis study examines a case of receptive multilingual communication in academic counseling sessions with participants of Turkish and Turkmen languages. In particular, the study aims to explore the contribution of linguistic and extralinguistic factors that might facilitate and/or constraint interlocutors' understanding in receptive multilingual communications. To this end, elicited conversations of a Turkish academic advisor and a Turkmen university student were video recorded and analyzed. The analysis shows that linguistic factors such as morpho-syntactic and lexical similarities between these languages do not guarantee but facilitate understanding. As for the extralinguistic factors, the study confirms that the use of institutional keywords in academic counseling sessions activates interlocutors' common institutional knowledge and, thereupon, the interlocutors' understanding is facilitated.
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Roschuni, Celeste, Elizabeth Goodman, and Alice M. Agogino. "Communicating actionable user research for human-centered design." Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing 27, no. 2 (April 18, 2013): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0890060413000048.
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AbstractIn human-centered design, user research drives design decisions by providing an understanding of end users. In practice, different people, teams, or even companies manage each step of the design process, making communication of user research results a critical activity. Based on an empirical study of current methods used by experts, this paper presents strategies for effectively communicating user research findings across organizational or corporate boundaries. To build researcher–client relationships, understand both user and client needs, and overcome institutional inertia, this paper proposes viewing user research clients asusersof user research outcomes. This reframing of the crafting of communication across boundaries as a parallel internal human-centered design process we refer to as adouble ethnography.
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Cabral, Raquel, Carlos Humberto Ferreira Silva Junior, Renata Calonego, and Candice Quincoses. "Comunicação orientada para cultura de paz nas organizações: uma proposta de análise da comunicação organizacional digital de três empresas do Pacto Global no Brasil." Relaciones Públicas en tiempos del confinamiento 10, no. 19 (June 26, 2020): 179–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/rirp-19-2020-10-179-200.
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This article aims to understand some aspects of communication in organizations in order to identify which elements are essential for a communication dynamic focused on the culture of peace in a context that may or may not naturalize organizational violence. Although it may seem controversial, both dynamics (focused on a peace culture or violence) can be strained in the organizational environment as they value and legitimize strategic elements of communication in these same organizations. This conception is based on the understanding that companies, through the diffusion of their media discourses, either through their own official spaces or by other means, assume a significant role in society to schedule matters and establish standards. Thus, a demand arises for responsible communication, which has been used by companies as a form of competitive advantage to create and / or strengthen bonds with their audiences and, therefore, differentiate themselves in a market with competition fierce. For this, based on the principles discussed in Peace Studies and considering its multidisciplinary nature, there is in the Communication for Peace the debate about the appearance (or not) of violence through communicational dynamics. For this reason, we also support this paper in the strategic elements of Peace Journalism, which indicates forms of communication that stimulate a culture of peace in conflict scenarios. From this, it was possible to construct analytical categories, in order to list the essential characteristics that could indicate a direction of organizational communication as a potentializer of actions directed to the culture of peace or legitimizing organizational violence. This is because the communicational actions of companies, especially when referring to an institutional positioning, can influence behaviors and, consequently, in the consolidation of the organizational culture itself. In an attempt to check in a practical way the formulation of the developed categories, we selected three Brazilian companies that have long been committed to the Global Compact, an initiative of the United Nations, which seeks to bring elements linked to ethical and sustainable management into the organizational sphere, they are: Natura, Copel and ArcelorMittal. Therefore, we analyzed the institutional speeches propagated in the three selected videos of these companies, “Natura – The most beautiful tune”; “Institutional Copel Energia” and “Safety Day - ArcelorMittal” referring to the institutional campaigns of these companies that were published in the first half of 2019 on their official YouTube channels. The analysis of the material was performed based on the discursive proposal of stereotypes offered by Amossy (2008), which aligns the aspects of the enunciator's search for legitimation before an audience. To this end, four analytical categories were established to identify a communication directed towards peace, that is, one that is concerned with promoting dialogue, building collective values, generating social transformation and considering the historical and socio-cultural context in which they are inserted. The development of these categories was inspired by the perspective of Journalism for Peace (Lynch and Mcgoldrick, 2007; Cabral and Salhani, 2017) and by the dimensions of essential communication skills (Calonego, 2018). With the study, it was possible to identify that although organizations are committed to the goals established by the Global Compact, these elements are not necessarily presented in their institutional campaigns, indicating the need for organizational communication focused on peace. In addition, problems related to the alignment between the formulation of organizational discourse and its institutional communication were detected.
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Caccese, Michael S., Clair Pagnano, Eden Rohrer, and Xiomara Corral. "FINRA issues interpretive guidance on related performance in institutional communications." Journal of Investment Compliance 18, no. 4 (November 6, 2017): 36–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joic-08-2017-0058.
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Purpose To analyze the June 9, 2017 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) interpretive letter permitting the use of Related Performance Information in continuously offered closed-end registered investment company sales materials distributed solely to institutional investors. Design/methodology/approach Provides background, including the application of FINRA Rule 2210, and explains the conditions under which fund marketing materials may contain Related Performance Information. Findings While the interpretive letter will not result in a fundamental shift in the Industry’s approach to providing Related Performance Information of open- and closed-end funds to institutional investors, it also represents FINRA’s ongoing recognition that communications provided solely to institutional investors do not raise the same investor protection concerns as communications provided to retail investors. Originality/value Expert guidance from experienced investment management and investment fund lawyers.
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Elórtegui Gómez, Claudio, and Claudia Mellado Ruiz. "Roles of political journalism in a multiplatform context and institutional crisis." Comunicación y Sociedad 2019 (July 17, 2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2019i0.7136.
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Corona-León, Gladys Arlette, and Rosalba Mancinas-Chávez. "The importance of the communication strategy in tourism micro-enterprises in Seville." IROCAMM-International Review Of Communication And Marketing Mix 1, no. 4 (2021): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/irocamm.2021.v01.i04.05.
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In the context of excess information that we live in the XXI century, institutional communication becomes essential. Big enterprises and institutions clearly see the need to invest in this aspect, however small and micro-enterprises do not have it so assumed. The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of institutional communication in tourist micro-enterprises in Seville. It is carried out from the interview with 6 managers of micro-enterprises and is complemented by 2 interviews with experts. From the results, it is possible to verify that the organizations that implement communication elements manage to position themselves better.
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Feo, Rebecca, and Amanda LeCouteur. "Dealing with third-party complaints on a men’s relationship-counselling helpline." Discourse Studies 19, no. 2 (February 1, 2017): 131–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445617691701.
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This article examines how third-party complaints were responded to by counsellors on a men’s relationship-counselling helpline. Much prior conversation analytic research has shown that third-party complaints in institutional settings are embedded in other activities and treated as secondary to the main interactional business. As such, complaints are routinely responded to with a shift to a new, institutionally relevant activity (e.g. the reason for the call/visit). In the context examined here, however, the third-party complaints constituted callers’ reasons for call. We show that, as in many other institutional contexts, counsellors do not, commonly, affiliate with callers’ complaints in the sense of displaying a similar stance towards a described third party. However, unlike in other settings that have been examined, counsellors’ responses did not result in an immediate shift away from callers’ complaints. This was primarily because, following counsellors’ non-affiliative responses, callers regularly engaged in work to pursue affiliation.
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Demuru, Paolo, Felippe Pimenta Rodrigues de Oliveira, and Elder Cuevas-Calderón. "Bodily regimes and meaning production in Bolsonaro’s visual discourse: a sociosemiotic perspective." Comunicación y Sociedad 2021 (June 16, 2021): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2021.7949.
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In this paper, we analyze the semiotic strategies through which Jair Bolsonaro’s body is represented in his Instagram profile. In order to do that, we build upon Landowski’s elliptic semiotic square, through which we display Bolsonaro’s different bodily postures and lifestyles. The diagram shows four bodily regimes through which the body of the current Brazilian president is portrayed: 1) the military body, 2) the buffoonish body, 3) the institutional body, 4) the popular body. The results show that the institutional body is the least present, while the other three reinforce Bolsonaro’s non-political identity and anti-establishment discourse.
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Noy, Chaim. "Gestures of closure: A small stories approach to museumgoers' texts." Text & Talk 40, no. 6 (November 26, 2020): 733–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-2076.
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AbstractMuseums are familiar public institutions whose primary mode of mediation is narration. They are geared toward narrating collective stories that are authoritative, linear, and grand in scope. Yet with the historical turn museums have recently taken from collection-centered to audience-centered institutions – coupled with a participatory mode of mediation – more than ever museumgoers are now invited to participate in these grand narrations. This article examines the institutional interaction between museums and museumgoers, and the texts that the latter produce in situ. It analyzes over 3000 texts that visitors wrote at the Florida Holocaust Museum, between 2012 and 2015. It employs the “small stories” framework to explore the interactional narrative structure and features within which museumgoers' written comments are elicited and displayed in museums. The analysis highlights the narrative functions and authorial roles that museumgoers are ascribed institutionally, and whether and how they discursively occupy them. Three main narrative strategies of/for participation are discerned, through which museumgoers variously perform gestures of closure of their visit. These narrative gestures index ways, in which visitors signal the approaching end of the museum's narration, employing diverse discursive resources, while adding a coda or a resolution to the institutional narrative.
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File, Patrick C. "Journalism, Public, Policy: An Institutional View of the Press’s Legal Discourse at the End of the 19th Century." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 96, no. 3 (February 11, 2019): 830–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699019827005.
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This study analyzes discourse about journalists’ privilege and libel law from 1894 to 1897 to explain how the press articulated the public policy rationale for legal protection at a pivotal moment in journalism history. To illuminate the relationship between emerging professional values and ideas about law, it applies the analytical lens of institutionalism. The study argues that the public policy rationale that appeared in the legal discourse surrounding these key legal issues was both a function of principled professional identity–building and a means of “institutional maintenance” intended to protect the press’s social status.
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Haan, Constance K., Elisa A. Zenni, Denise T. West, and Frank J. Genuardi. "Graduate Medical Education Leadership Development Curriculum for Program Directors." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 232–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-10-00180.1.
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Abstract Objective Program director (PD) orientation to roles and responsibilities takes on many forms and processes. This article describes one institution's innovative arm of faculty development directed specifically toward PDs and associate PDs to provide institutional resources and information for those in graduate medical education leadership roles. Methods The designated institutional official created a separate faculty development curriculum for leadership development of PDs and associate PDs, modeled on the Association of American Medical Colleges-GRA (Group on Resident Affairs) graduate medical education leadership development course for designated institutional officials. It consists of monthly 90-minute sessions at the end of a working day, for new and experienced PDs alike, with mentoring provided by experienced PDs. We describe 2 iterations of the curriculum. To provide ongoing support a longitudinal curriculum of special topics has followed in the interval between core curriculum offerings. Results Communication between PDs across disciplines has improved. The broad, inclusive nature allowed for experienced PDs to take advantage of the learning opportunity while providing exchange and mentorship through sharing of lessons learned. The participants rated the course highly and education process and outcome measures for the programs have been positive, including increased accreditation cycle lengths. Conclusion It is important and valuable to provide PDs and associate PDs with administrative leadership development and resources, separate from general faculty development, to meet their role-specific needs for orientation and development and to better equip them to meet graduate medical education leadership challenges. This endeavor provides a foundational platform for designated institutional official and PD interactions to work on program building and improvement.
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Kaissis, Georgios, Alexander Ziller, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Théo Ryffel, Dmitrii Usynin, Andrew Trask, Ionésio Lima, et al. "End-to-end privacy preserving deep learning on multi-institutional medical imaging." Nature Machine Intelligence 3, no. 6 (May 24, 2021): 473–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00337-8.
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Ramírez Leyva, Flor Micaela, José Luis Terrón Blanco, and Remberto Castro Castañeda. "News and health frames in Mexican television. Focus on gender perspective content." Comunicación y Sociedad 2021 (May 12, 2021): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2021.7819.
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Based on contributions where communication, health and gender converge, an attempt is made to clarify how news and health frames are characterized on television, mainly addressing actors and actions. The objective is to observe the institutional presence, visibility and gender parity and perspective. Through the content analysis of 510 pieces from TV Azteca, Televisa and C7 –using Principal Component Analysis in SPSS as a tool– a major presence of political actors or the health system was found, a lesser presence of women and the absence of gender perspective in the information.
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Kerr, Richard F., and Matthew J. Rogers. "FINRA relaxes restrictions on pre-inception performance data." Journal of Investment Compliance 20, no. 3 (October 14, 2019): 6–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joic-04-2019-0026.
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Purpose To explain the significance of a recently issued interpretive letter in which FINRA staff agreed to permit the use of pre-inception index performance data by passively managed, registered open-end investment companies. Design/methodology/approach FINRA recently issued an interpretive letter extending previously issued guidance by permitting passively managed open-end registered investment companies including separately-managed series of a business trust to use pre-inception index performance data in Institutional Communications. Findings The 2019 Letter is an important shift in how FINRA staff views PIP data in Institutional Communications by acknowledging that passively managed open-end funds should be treated in a similar manner as passively managed exchange-traded funds. This shift will be a welcome development for FINRA member firms wishing to include PIP data in marketing materials for the passively managed open-end funds they distribute. Originality/value Practical guidance from experienced investment management and broker-dealer lawyers.
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Escribà-Sales, Eudald, and Sergi Cortiñas. "Internationalization and coauthorship in major communication journals in Spain." Comunicar 21, no. 41 (June 1, 2013): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c41-2013-03.
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This work has conducted an analysis of Spanish Communication journals in terms of their level of internationalization and the collaborative models used by their authors, by assessing 1,182 articles published between 2007 and 2011 in the seven toprated Communication journals according to a set of six quality indicators. The ultimate goal has been to perform a data processing in order to detect the degree of inclination of international authors to publish their works in Spanish journals in the years covered by this study. Secondly, the study draws a profile of coauthorship patterns focused on geographical and institutional alliances. The results show there is no clear and convincing signs of evolution towards a desired level of internationality. Concerning coauthorship, although the results indicate a willingness on the part of authors to chart a path of wider geographical and institutional collaboration, unique authorship continues to be the preferred form of publication. Finally, the work shows that investigative alliances are confined to Spain and when they go international collaborations are almost exclusively with Latin American authors. En este estudio se ha llevado a cabo un análisis de las revistas científicas de Comunicación españolas en términos de su grado de internacionalización y de los modelos colaborativos utilizados por sus autores. Para ello se han analizado un total de 1.182 artículos publicados entre 2007 y 2011 por las siete revistas españolas mejor valoradas en términos de calidad. El objetivo principal ha sido realizar un tratamiento de los datos con el fin de observar si en los años comprendidos en el estudio se ha producido un incremento del interés de autores internacionales por publicar en las revistas españolas. En segundo lugar, se ha dibujado un perfil de los patrones que rigen las coautorías en términos geográficos y de alianzas institucionales. Los resultados no han permitido apreciar síntomas de evolución hacia los grados de internacionalidad deseados. Por lo que se refiere a las coautorías, aunque se percibe una voluntad por parte de los autores de trazar un camino de mayor colaboración institucional y geográfica, se observa que sigue predominando la autoría única y que las alianzas se concentran dentro del territorio español y se opta casi exclusivamente por Latinoamérica cuando se trata de llevar a cabo colaboraciones internacionales.
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Colton, Jared S., and Steve Holmes. "A Social Justice Theory of Active Equality for Technical Communication." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 48, no. 1 (May 3, 2016): 4–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047281616647803.
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Certain aspects of social justice research tacitly work from political frameworks of “passive equality.” Passive equality can limit a technical communicator’s ability to enact social justice in terms of (a) signaling the presence of an injustice and (b) waiting for the organization, institution, or state to make the correction (e.g., liberalism’s distributive justice). By contrast, this article foregrounds the political philosophy of Jacques Rancière as a way to cultivate a practice of “active equality” that enables technical communicators to enact social justice rather than wait for institutional redistribution.
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BELZ, JULIE A. "Institutional and individual dimensions of transatlantic group work in network-based language teaching." ReCALL 13, no. 2 (November 2001): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344001000726a.
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Network-based language teaching (NBLT) involves the application of global or local communication networks within foreign and second language education (Warschauer and Kern, 2000). In telecollaboration, a type of NBLT, distally located language learners use internet communication tools to support dialogue, debate, collaborative research and social interaction for the purposes of language development and cultural awareness (e.g. Kinginger et al., 1999). To date, the research on NBLT has been limited, focusing primarily on pedagogical implementations of technology and linguistic features of online communication. In particular, researchers have not robustly explored social and institutional dimensions of telecollaboration (Chapelle, 2000:217) nor have they adequately investigated the pervasive assumption that telecollaborative interaction will necessarily and unproblematically afford language learning (e.g. Kramsch and Thorne, to appear). Drawing on social realism (Layder, 1993), a sociological theory which emphasizes the inter-relationship between structure, i.e. society and institution, and agency, i.e. situated activity and psycho-biography, in researching and explaining social action, I present a sociocultural account of German-American telecollaboration. In particular, I explore the meanings that the macro features of (1) language valuation (Hilgendorf, 1996); (2) membership in electronic discourse communities (Gee, 1999); and (3) culturally determined classroom scripts (Hatch, 1992) may have for the differential functionality of virtual group work in this partnership. Differences in group functionality are reflected at the micro-interactional level in terms of (1) frequency and length of correspondence; (2) patterns of discursive behavior such as question-answer pairs; and (3) opportunities for assisted L2 performance and negotiation of meaning. Ethnographic data (e.g. interviews, electronic and classroom discourse, surveys and participant observations) on individual psycho-biographies are interwoven with macro-level descriptions and statistics to paint a rich picture of learner behavior in intercultural telecollaboration. This project is funded by a United States Department of Education International Research and Studies Program Grant (CFDA No.: 84.017A). The author is a research associate for the German component.
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Alkinani, Edrees A. "Factors Affecting The Use Of Information Communication Technology In Teaching And Learning In Saudi Arabia Universities." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 1012–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.849.
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Technology and machine learning are becoming increasingly important in Saudi Arabia educational system. There is a growing demand for educational institutions to use machine learning to teach the skills and knowledge students need for the digital age towards Saudi Vision 2030. The integration and adoption ofdigital technologies into learning and teaching brings more opportunities for Saudi universities students and teachers to better embrace the globalized digital age. There is huge potential for the Saudi educational system to perceive the key role of digital technologies inenhancing the education process quality. The aim of this article is investigating the barriersthat affectteachers’ integration and adoptionof information communication technologies(ICT) in universityclassroom. The study adopted a qualitative research design to collect the data through the semi-structured interview. The sample of the study is four Saudi ICT-experts professors from four public universities in Saudi Arabia. The findings of the study showed that there are three types of barriers namely; teachers’ level barriers e.g. attitudes, knowledge, access, resistance to change. Technology level barriers e.g. compatibility, perceived of useful, institutional barriers. Institutional level e.g. leadership support, resources. The recommendation and suggestion for studies were suggested in light of the findings.
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Snaman, Jennifer M., Erica C. Kaye, Holly Spraker-Perlman, Deena Levine, Lisa Clark, Robin Wilcox, Brittany Barnett, et al. "Incorporating Bereaved Parents as Faculty Facilitators and Educators in Teaching Principles of Palliative and End-of-Life Care." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 35, no. 12 (July 16, 2018): 1518–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909118786875.
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Background: Education and training for interdisciplinary pediatric providers requires training in principles of palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. The experiences of bereaved parents can inform and enhance palliative care educational curricula in uniquely powerful and valuable ways. The objective of this study is to present an innovative palliative care educational program facilitated by trained bereaved parents who serve as volunteer educators in local and national palliative care educational forums and to describe how incorporation of bereaved parents in these educational forums affects participant comfort with communication and management of children at the EOL. Methods: Parent educators underwent both general and session-specific training and participated in debriefings following each session. Survey tools were developed or adapted to determine how bereaved parent educators affected participant experiences in 3 different educational forums. Pre- and postsession surveys with incorporation of retrospective preprogram assessment items to control for response shift were used in the evaluation of institutional seminars on pediatric palliative and EOL care and role-play-based communication training sessions. Results from feedback surveys sent to attendees were used to appraise the participants’ experience at the international oncology symposium. Results: Involvement of trained parent educators across diverse, interdisciplinary educational forums improved attendee comfort in communicating with, and caring for, patients and families with serious illness. Importantly, parent educators also derive benefit from involvement in educational sessions with interdisciplinary clinicians. Conclusions: Integration of bereaved parents into palliative and EOL care education is an innovative and effective model that benefits both interdisciplinary clinicians and bereaved parents.
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Thomas, J. A., and M. E. Greene. "Institutional Policies and Educational Programs: Animals in Research." Journal of the American College of Toxicology 13, no. 4 (August 1994): 308–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10915819409140603.
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Biomedical research facilities, including academic and industrial settings, need to have established internal and external policies regarding the humane care and use of animals in pharmacologic and toxicologic experimental protocols. Compliance with regulatory and accrediting agencies (e.g., Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, American Association for the Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care) requires institutional support and necessitates recruiting and retaining a quality veterinarian staff. Resources must be available to maintain vivarium physical facilities, including experimental surgery suites, and to provide an acceptable program in occupational health to protect against zoonotic diseases. Through the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), educational programs, compliance issues, and institutional security measures can be effectively implemented. A close communication liaison must be established between the IACUC, the veterinary staff, institutional public relations, security and the individual investigator. A coordinated policy with both internal and external components is necessary in order to satisfactorily manage the use of animals in toxicologic research.
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von Platen, Sara. "The communication consultant: an important translator for communication management." Journal of Communication Management 19, no. 2 (May 5, 2015): 150–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcom-06-2013-0049.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put forward a theoretical model which conceptualizes and clarifies the function and skills of communication consultants in terms of translation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines theoretical underpinnings from Scandinavian institutional theory with empirical examples from an interview study with ten senior communication managers in Swedish public sector organizations. Findings – Communication consultants are explained to perform varying translator functions ranging from a neutral transcoder to a freely interpretive translator and sensegiver. These functions are enacted as the consultant span organizational boundaries and contexts inside and outside the organization. The consultants are apt to carry out these tasks due to their translator expertise which resides in, e.g. multicontextual knowledge and bilingual skills, something which their clients lack. Research limitations/implications – The scope of the empirical material is limited to public organizations and a Swedish setting, and may therefore not be valid in other cultural contexts. Practical implications – The model highlights the intersecting work of communication consultants and their clients and thus raises questions concerning the legitimacy and core responsibilities of communication managers. The paper also argues that managers and consultants need to develop their translator skills, and that higher education in communication and PR should prepare students for professions where translator skills may be of great importance. Originality/value – The functions and tasks of communication consultants is a neglected area in communication research. By providing a comprehensive and pragmatic framework for communication consultants work as translation, the present research adds knowledge about the essential functions these actors perform and how they contribute to communication management as well as to organizational performance.
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Murnane, Richard, Alanna Simpson, and Brenden Jongman. "Understanding risk: what makes a risk assessment successful?" International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 7, no. 2 (April 11, 2016): 186–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijdrbe-06-2015-0033.
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Purpose Understanding risk is more than just modeling risk; it requires an understanding of the development and social processes that underlie and drive the generation of disaster risk. Here, in addition to a review of more technical factors, this paper aims to discuss a variety of institutional, social and political considerations that must be managed for the results of a risk assessment to influence actions that lead to reductions in natural hazard risk. Design/methodology/approach The technical approaches and the institutional, social and political considerations covered in this paper are based on a wide range of experiences gleaned from case studies that touch on a variety of activities related to assessing the risks and impacts of natural hazards, and from the activities of the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. Findings Risk information provides a critical foundation for managing disaster risk across a wide range of sectors. Appropriate communication of robust risk information at the right time can raise awareness and trigger action to reduce risk. Communicating this information in a way that triggers action requires an understanding of the developments and social processes that underlie and drive the generation of risk, as well as of the wider Disaster Risk Management (DRM) decision-making context. Practical implications Prior to the initiation of a quantitative risk assessment one should clearly define why an assessment is needed and wanted, the information gaps that currently prevent effective DRM actions and the end-users of the risk information. This requires developing trust through communication among the scientists and engineers performing the risk assessment and the decision-makers, authorities, communities and other intended users of the information developed through the assessment. Originality/value This paper summarizes the technical components of a risk assessment as well as the institutional, social and political considerations that should be considered to maximize the probability of successfully reducing the risk defined by a risk assessment.
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Amering, M. "Trialog - concept and research." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 2102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)73805-6.
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The active involvement of users of services and their families and friends into mental health care and research is essential for the success of mental health services and initiatives worldwide. Also, co-operations between mental health professionals, users and carers are needed to solve methodological problems of evaluative research and generate new models of needs-orientated interventions. However, accepting each other in a working partnership for a multiperspective evidence base is still a challenge for professionals as well as for users and relatives and friends. Changes in structures as well as in forms of communication are warranted.In Trialogue-groups users, carers and mental health workers meet regularly in an open discussion forum, that is located on ‘neutral terrain’ - outside any therapeutic, familial or institutional context - with the aim of communicating about and discussing the experiences and consequences of mental health problems and ways to deal with them. This setting offers new possibilities for gaining knowledge and insight and developing new forms of communication. It also functions as a basis and starting point for trialogic activities on different levels - e.g. serving on quality control boards - and different topics - e.g. anti-stigma projects. In German speaking countries well over hundred Trialogue groups are regularly attended by altogether ∼ five thousand people. Trialogues are inexpensive and a great number of people seem to benefit from participation. Current ideas for the scientific evaluation of Trialogues regarding process as well as possible outcomes pose conceptual and methodological challenges.
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Zante, Bjoern, and Joerg C. Schefold. "Teaching End-of-Life Communication in Intensive Care Medicine: Review of the Existing Literature and Implications for Future Curricula." Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 34, no. 4 (June 29, 2017): 301–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0885066617716057.
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Objectives: End-of-life (EOL) situations are common in the intensive care unit (ICU). Poor communication in respective situations may result in conflict and/or post-traumatic stress disorder in patients’ next of kin. Thus, training for EOL communication seems pivotal. Primary objective of the current report was to identify approaches for educational programs in the ICU with regard to EOL communication as well as to conclude on implications for future curricula. Materials and Methods: A literature review in MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsychINFO was performed. A total of 3484 articles published between 2000 until 2016 were assessed for eligibility. Nine articles reporting on education in EOL communication in the ICU were identified and analyzed further. Results: The duration of EOL workshops ranged from 3 hours to 3 days, with several different educational methods being applied. Mounting data suggest improved comfort, preparedness, and communication performance in EOL providers following specific EOL training. Due to missing data, the effect of EOL training programs on respective patients’ next of kin remains unclear. Conclusion: Few scientific investigations focus on EOL communication in intensive care medicine. The available evidence points to increased comfort and EOL communication performance following specific individual EOL training. Given the general importance of EOL communication, we suggest implementation of educational EOL programs. When developing future educational programs, educators should consider previous experience of participants, clearly defined objectives based on institutional needs, and critical care society recommendations to ensure best benefit of all involved parties.
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Serpa, Sandro. "A Sociological Approach to Institutional Communication: The Public Image in Organizational Administration in Education." International Education Studies 9, no. 1 (December 28, 2015): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v9n1p79.
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<p class="apa">Acknowledging that the external context visibly affects any organization, this investigation seeks to constitute a specific contribution to the study of the importance of public image in organizational administration. To that end, a collection and documentary analysis of news stories from the newspaper <em>O Fayalense</em> on the <em>Asylum for the Disadvantaged Children of Horta</em> [<em>Asilo de Infância Desvalida da Horta</em>], an institution located on Faial Island, Azores, Portugal, covering the time period of 1858 to 1895, is performed. In the presentation and discussion of the results, a comparison is made between two periods that involve a single president because they vary in the type of news stories published (at the level of sources and subjects). It is concluded that the news stories published cover three large types of references, which, given the period in question, vary substantially: factual information (on the celebrations occurring in the asylum, communications about donations received and appreciation of benefactors, or institutional information on the elections of the asylum directorate), praise (regarding the asylum’s mission, operation, or administration), and censures (including responses to external criticism, criticism of previous managements, and stories regarding the asylum’s precarious circumstances). The implication of the study is that the importance of a positive public image, especially a positive image that is supportive of the leadership, should not be overlooked for the organizational administration to have greater chances of success.</p>
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Cohen, Rinat, Gal Maydan, Shai Brill, and Jiska Cohen-Mansfield. "Barriers to Development of an App for Improving Staff-Family Communication at Israeli Geriatric Facilities." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 192–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.623.
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Abstract Family caregivers (FCs) of institutionalized noncommunicative older persons reported multiple unmet communication needs focusing on the need to receive reliable and regular updates on the patient’s condition. We have developed a mobile app for improving communication between FCs and healthcare professionals (HPs), based on 152 interviews with FCs and 13 discussion groups with HPs from four Israeli geriatric facilities. Both parties participated in app planning, tailoring it to their needs and abilities. App use implementation encountered major obstacles including the bureaucratic process concerning signing contracts between the university and software development firms, which hindered the process for a full year; data security department required disproportionate security levels that interfered with user experience and delayed the development process; the study’s definition varied across different ethics/Helsinki committees (Institutional Review Boards; IRBs), which led to different demands, e.g., insurance for medical clinical trials although no drugs or medical device were involved; lack of cooperation by mid-level staff members despite the institutional adoption of the app project; low utilization by HPs resulted in FCs not receiving timely responses. Despite these and other obstacles, we tested app use for 15 months in one facility in a pre-post-design with intervention and control groups, and we have since begun testing it in another facility. FCs who had used the app had positive feedback and wished to continue using it. App use optimization requires implementation planning, assimilating changes in each facility’s work procedures and HP’s engagement and motivation and thus depends on institutional procedures and politics.
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Franco, Renato Soleiman, Camila Ament Giuliani dos Santos Franco, and Orit Karnieli-Miller. "Deepening the teaching and learning of clinical communication." Scientia Medica 31, no. 1 (August 11, 2021): e39795. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1980-6108.2021.1.39795.
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Aims: clinical communication (CC) relates to health professionals’ interaction with patients/families. CC is fundamental for the physicians’ role. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion about reflection and feedback for meaningful teaching and learning of CC.Methods: the authors provided a short review and conceptual discussion of the history and nature of CC teaching, followed by exploring the role of reflection and feedback in teaching CC.Results: communicating well can be challenging as it requires medical students and professionals to adapt their communication to each patient/family while obtaining all the needed information, conveying trustworthiness, care, and compassion. The teaching of CC to medical students involves deepening the doctor-patient relationship’s technical, relational, and emotional elements. CC requires teaching that is flexible and tailored to the participants’ needs. Therefore, teaching CC must go beyond asking the appropriate question or applying specific checklist-based behaviours. In teaching CC, it is crucial to give medical students support to discuss personal and institutional barriers and attitudes and explore how to transfer their learning to clinical practice. To that end, reflection should be encouraged to allow students to express difficulties and feelings and enhance their understanding of themselves and others. Within this process, feedback is essential to moving beyond skill-based teaching to reflection-based learning.Conclusion: the move from skills-based learning requires using reflective processes and feedback to allow students to learn about their communication tendencies and needs to become more flexible and attuned to different patient’s needs in clinical encounters.
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Aggerholm, Helle Kryger, and Birte Asmuß. "A practice perspective on strategic communication." Journal of Communication Management 20, no. 3 (August 1, 2016): 195–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcom-07-2015-0052.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to link the authentic, communicative activities, e.g. organization-wide meetings at the micro-level, to the institutionalized practices at the macro-level within an organization, e.g. change management decisions and communication strategy (Steyn, 2003). Thus, the concern is with the relationship between institutionalized strategic management and the real-life strategic communication processes, thus advancing the understanding of the role of texts and discourses in the actual practice of strategic communication in an organizational context of strategic change processes. Design/methodology/approach – The data are based on a large corpus of video-taped management meetings and organization-wide meetings in a large Danish public, knowledge-based organization. The method applied for studying the management discourse is a conversation-analytical approach (Sacks et al., 1974; Sidnell, 2010). This method has been chosen as it enables the authors to focus on micro-aspects of organizational practices (Nicolini, 2013) by investigating the interactional patterns that serve as resources for doing legitimation as an institutionalized practice. Findings – The common denominator for the entire analysis is legitimation accomplished through the discursive use of distanciation and the analysis identifies three different discursive elements or micro-level strategies directly related to the concrete doing of strategic communication. First, legitimation is created by reference to the socio-economic context of the organization. Second, legitimation is generated by means of pointing to the abnormality of the strategic situation. And third legitimation is fostered by the use of idiomatic expressions. These different ways of accomplishing legitimacy are in a strategy-as-practice perspective related to the specific, in-situ communicative praxis and accomplished by the concrete actions of the strategic communicators, and thus the authors can position the instances of strategic communication at the organizational micro-level. Originality/value – This paper studies at a micro-level how strategic actors use various discursive resources to legitimize strategic decisions and how these resources constitute the discursive basis of strategic communication as a managerial practice. The authors focus on the role of discourse in the legitimization processes of strategic managerial decisions analyzing micro-level instances of organizational communication. The paper thereby links the actor process activities (Langley, 2007), e.g. organization-wide meetings at the micro-level, to the institutional field practices at the macro-level within an organization, e.g. strategy and planning (Johnson et al., 2007).
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Ferrell, Betty R., Haley Buller, Wendy Anderson, Judith A. Paice, and Doranne Donesky. "Interdisciplinary palliative care communication for quality palliative care: Outcomes of a statewide train-the-trainer course." Journal of Clinical Oncology 36, no. 34_suppl (December 1, 2018): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2018.36.34_suppl.83.
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83 Background: Expert communication skills are essential for the delivery of effective palliative care across the domains of care. However, few healthcare providers receive formal communication training. The purpose of this presentation is to describe a train-the-trainer course for interprofessional hospital-based palliative care teams to prepare them to teach other healthcare professionals palliative care communication skills. Methods: This project was organized by the eight domains of the National Consensus Project (NCP) guidelines for quality palliative care and provided communication skills training for California-based teams. Funded by the Archstone Foundation, this 2-day train-the-trainer course included skill-building exercises and interactive discussions to assist participants in integrating communication skills-building into their clinical settings. Using a goal-directed method of teaching, the faculty assisted teams in developing three institutional goals for providing palliative care communication training to other healthcare professionals. Evaluation of the course included immediate post-course evaluation and follow-up evaluation at 6 and 9 months. Results: The first statewide interprofessional communication training took place in January 2018 with 26 palliative care teams consisting of primarily nurses, followed by social workers, chaplains and physicians. The 46 course participants’ post-course evaluations demonstrated high satisfaction with the course. On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = lowest), the course met participants’ expectations and objectives (4.8). The teams’ pre-course goals focused on: 1) staff education, training and mentorship, and 2) institution-wide system changes involving communication with palliative care. Conclusions: A 6 and 9 month follow-up will evaluate team progress on institutional goals (e.g. status and implementation) and provide an update on the additional healthcare professionals trained by course participants and changes implemented within their health system.
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Lopes Davi Médola, Ana Silvia, and Henrique da Silva Pereira. "The Effect of Sense of Movement in Audiovisual Media: A Study on Kineticism as a Formant of Expression in Globo News’ Institutional Motion Sequence Intolerância." Comunicación y Sociedad 2021 (April 14, 2021): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/cys.v2021.7921.
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This article analyzes the Brazilian cable television channel Globo News’ institutional motion sequence Intolerância. Israeli designer, Noma Bar, illustrated and directed Intolerância, which reveals in its discursive structures how the gaze of a Latin American country hegemonic media on the identity conflicts between West and East is aligned with Western powers. In the wake of Floch’s theoretical developments in plastic semiotics and Bergson’s postulations on the mechanism of the philosophy-centered filmmaking movement, this study aims to consider kineticism as a constitutive formant of visuality in audiovisual texts. The analyzed motion sequence is a notably exemplary object of establishing such hypothesis.
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Plush, Tamara. "Interrogating Practitioner Tensions for Raising Citizen Voice with Participatory Video in International Development." Nordicom Review 36, s1 (July 7, 2020): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0029.
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AbstractWithin international development, strengthening the voice of citizens living in poverty is recognised as vital to reducing inequity. In support of such endeavors, participatory video (PV) is an increasingly utilised communicative method that can stimulate community engagement and amplify the voice of groups often excluded from decision-making spaces. However, implementing PV processes specifically within an international development context is an immensely complex proposal. Practitioners must take into consideration the different ways institutions may understand the use of participatory video for raising citizen voice; and how therefore the practice may be influenced, co-opted or even devalued by these institutional assumptions. To this end, this article interrogates how global PV practitioners express tension in their work. Analysis of their descriptions suggests six influential views on PV practice with the potential to diminish the value of voice from the margins.
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Servaes, Jan, and Rolien Hoyng. "The tools of social change: A critique of techno-centric development and activism." New Media & Society 19, no. 2 (July 9, 2016): 255–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444815604419.
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Generally, the literatures on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and on networked resistance are evolving isolated from one another. This article aims to integrate these literatures in order to critically review differences and similarities in the techno-centric conceptions of agency and social change by political adversaries that are rooted in their socio-technical practices. We repurpose the critique of technological determinism to develop a multi-layered conception of agency that contains three interrelated dimensions: (1) “access” versus “skill” and the normative concept of inclusion; (2) fixed “system” versus “open-ended network” and savoir vivre; and (3) “institution” versus “extra-institutional network” and political efficacy. Building on our critique, we end by exploring the political possibilities at the intersections of conventional institutions or communities and emerging, extra-institutional networked formations.
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Brown, Arleen F., Keith Norris, Rachelle Bross, Yelba Castellon, Norma Mtume, D’Ann Morris, Aziza Lucas Wright, Juan Barron, Sarmen Hakopian, and Maritza Salazar Campo. "4457 Adopting a Team Science Communication Module for Community-Partnered Teams." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 4, s1 (June 2020): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2020.251.
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OBJECTIVES/GOALS: There is increased recognition that patients and community members are critical to creating impactful research. To this end the UCLA CTSI Community Engagement & Research Program modified an established multidisciplinary team science communication module to train academic-community research teams. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Community partners who have had previous experience in participatory research provided input such as limiting the emphases of individual academic introductions to group icebreakers (to level the playing field), reduced academic jargon to lay language, reducing the amount of text to key principles, and changed academic team scenarios for the team activity to represent community-academic teams. Academic partners articulated institutional barriers to integrating community into institutional systems. Iterative testing and modifications occurred through pilots with eleven teams (49 individuals). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Embedding community partners in team science training involved creating a level playing field with less emphasis on academic credentials, using lay language in the didactic sessions and ensuring accessibility in all aspects of the training. An example of modifications: communication scenarios were read out loud by participants, which community partners felt were not inclusive of potential varying literacy levels and all partners may not feel comfortable reading aloud in a group setting. The vignettes were replaced with short videos of the scenarios with audio recordings. Several modifications were made the training’s team activity of the training module. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Traditional academic team science training required significant modifications for an academic/community-partnered team to allow for optimal collaboration, inclusion, and strategically reduce the power dynamics that can naturally occur. Long-term followup to assess their effectiveness is needed.
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Uehara, Takuro, and Naoko Kojima. "Prioritizing English-Medium Instruction Teachers’ Needs for Faculty Development and Institutional Support: A Best–Worst Scaling Approach." Education Sciences 11, no. 8 (July 27, 2021): 384. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080384.
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This study explored the prioritization of English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers’ needs for faculty development and institutional support by applying a best–worst scaling approach to an EMI program in Japan. This prioritization is important as EMI programs need management under various constraints (e.g., time, budget, and teachers). This study also investigated how teachers’ needs for institutional support differ by English language competence and EMI teaching experience and their relationship with EMI programs (e.g., full-time or adjunct). Questionnaire surveys administered to 38 EMI teachers revealed that, overall, faculty development (FD) program menus training teaching styles, speaking skills, communication skills, and respecting the diversity of students should be prioritized such that it varies depending on the teachers’ English language competence levels but not their teaching experience. Irrespective of their relationship with EMI programs, the recognition and appreciation of their burdens, efforts, and contributions is most needed. There are noticeable differences based on their position over the necessity of pedagogical guidelines, teaching load, and economic incentive.
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Maheshwari, Nidhi. "Uber taxi cab-handling crisis communication." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 7, no. 4 (October 26, 2017): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-12-2016-0228.
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Subject area The case is written for MBA or senior undergraduate courses on communication global strategy, leadership or strategy implementation. Study level/applicability The case is written for MBA or senior undergraduate courses on communication global strategy, leadership or strategy implementation. The case can be taught towards the end of a communications course to learn about crisis communications and the importance of understanding the local institutional and socio-political contexts, including the media during a crisis. For a strategy implementation class, this case can be used in the segment focusing on action and leadership. Case overview An extremely difficult situation arose for Uber Cab, a US-based company operating in India, on December 8, 2014, when its taxi services were banned by the Delhi government due to growing anger over the suspected rape of a 27-year-old female executive by one of its drivers. Uber Cab claims that it offers the “safest rides on the road”, but this episode proved otherwise, as the accused was identified as a repeat offender. Initial interrogation by the police highlighted the negligence of the company regarding background checks and police verification while recruiting driver partners. The police further revealed that the driver did not have a Delhi Transport Authority-issued license. Furthermore, the company was not able to provide a call log to police, as such information was said to be gathered at the company’s headquarters in New York. To handle this situation, Uber Cab suspended its operations until the company could apply for a fresh registration and trade license. What was the significance of this incident to a brand like Uber Cab? Could its effect on the regulation of taxi services have been anticipated? How and when should the brand have reacted? Looking forward, what contingency planning would be appropriate? Should brand management, customer service management or the human resources department have been held accountable, or did the responsibility lie elsewhere in the organization? Expected learning outcomes The expected learning outcomes are as follows: to understand how institutional differences can create unintended consequences for an multinational enterprise working in an emerging market (early-stage institutions); to understand the critical role of a country manager in mobilizing the local organization and the headquarters to respond to a crisis; also, the role of the headquarters to provide flexibility and support to the local executive; and to understand the inevitable role of the local press in an organizational crisis, and the need for business leaders to deal with the press effectively. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 6: Human Resource Management.
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de-Fontcuberta-Balaguer, María-del-Mar. "Mentor: International Association for Media Education." Comunicar 12, no. 24 (March 1, 2005): 41–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c24-2005-07.
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The Mentor International Association for Media Education was founded in Barcelona at the end of May 2004 during the media education workshop organized by Unesco and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in collaboration with the European Comission and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Its objective is to connect media education professionals from diverse official and institutional structures in order to develop and coordinate international activities in the area of media education. It is and independent association with support of Unesco. La asociación internacional en educación en medios «Mentor» se creó en Barcelona en mayo del 2004 en el seminario organizado por la Unesco, la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, en colaboración con la Comisión Europea y la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Su objetivo es establecer una red de profesionales e instituciones con el fin de promover y coordinar el desarrollo internacional de la educación en medios; es una asociación independiente, auspiciada por la Unesco.
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Salamova, Ayna. "Global networked economy as a factor for sustainable development." E3S Web of Conferences 208 (2020): 03053. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020803053.
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Towards the end of the twentieth century, certain features of economic development were clearly defined that will become the dominant features of the economy of the next century. Modern advances in the development of global information and communication technologies have led to the formation of a global electronic environment for economic activity, which has opened up new opportunities for organizational and institutional design in business and other areas of human socio-economic activity.The article discusses the prospects for the development of the world global economy.
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Henderson, Carrie M., Michael FitzGerald, K. Sarah Hoehn, and Norbert Weidner. "Pediatrician Ambiguity in Understanding Palliative Sedation at the End of Life." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 34, no. 1 (July 11, 2016): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909115609294.
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Context: Palliative sedation is a means of relieving intractable symptoms at the end of life, however, guidelines about its use lack consistency. In addition, ethical concerns persist around the practice. There are reports of palliative sedation in the pediatric literature, which highlight various institutional perspectives. Objectives: This survey of 4786 pediatric providers sought to describe their knowledge of and current practices around pediatric palliative sedation. Methods: Our survey was administered to pediatricians who care for children at the end of life. The survey assessed agreement with a definition of palliative sedation, as well as thoughts about its alignment with aggressive symptom management. Bivariate analyses using χ2 and analysis of variance were calculated to determine the relationship between responses to closed-ended questions. Open-ended responses were thematically coded by the investigators and reviewed for agreement. Results: Nearly half (48.6%) of the respondents indicated that the stated definition of palliative sedation “completely” reflected their own views. Respondents were split when asked if they viewed any difference between palliative sedation and aggressive symptom management: Yes (46%) versus No (54%). Open-ended responses revealed specifics about the nature of variation in interpretation. Conclusions: Responses point to ambiguity surrounding the concept of palliative sedation. Pediatricians were concerned with a decreased level of consciousness as the goal of palliative sedation. Respondents were split on whether they view palliative sedation as a distinct entity or as one broad continuum of care, equivalent to aggressive symptom management. Institutional-based policies are essential to clarify acceptable practice, enable open communication, and promote further research.
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Valenzuela-Saavedra, Moisés. "¿Por qué y para qué la Comunicación Popular? Apuntes sobre pueblo, subjetivación y política." INDEX COMUNICACION 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33732/ixc/10/02porque.
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This essay proposes, with the limitations of those who analyze such a live phenomenon, some ideas that could help to clarify the scope of Popular Communication and the importance of its political activity as a precondition. For this, it reflects about the notions of people and the popular, the subjectivation processes and the connection that between them set the popular communication activities, considering them essential practices for the societies to pursue their democratic ideals. This paper is based on the idea of Popular Communication as a conflictive activity whenever, through the installation of counter-speech that confront an institutional, professional and ideological communicative officiality, the configuration of the public space is being questioned and disputed with the dominant processes of identification, allowing the existence of disagreement and, in the end, making politics possible. It is not a description of Popular Communication, much less an enumeration of its cons-tituent elements: rather it is an attempt to defend the place that it must occupy in our society and in the common space.
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Umstead, Claire N., Kim M. Unertl, Nancy M. Lorenzi, and Laurie Lovett Novak. "Enabling adoption and use of new health information technology during implementation: Roles and strategies for internal and external support personnel." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 28, no. 7 (April 24, 2021): 1543–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab044.
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Abstract Objective Successful technological implementations frequently involve individuals who serve as mediators between end users, management, and technology developers. The goal for this project was to evaluate the structure and activities of such mediators in a large-scale electronic health record implementation. Materials and Methods Field notes from observations taken during implementation beginning in November 2017 were analyzed qualitatively using a thematic analysis framework to examine the relationship between specific types of mediators and the type and level of support to end users. Results We found that support personnel possessing both contextual knowledge of the institution’s workflow and training in the new technology were the most successful in mediation of adoption and use. Those that lacked context of either technology or institutional workflow often displayed barriers in communication, trust, and active problem solving. Conclusions These findings suggest that institutional investment in technology training and explicit programs to foster skills in mediation, including roles for professionals with career development opportunities, prior to implementation can be beneficial in easing the pain of system transition.
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Warfield, Katie, Jamie Hoholuk, Blythe Vincent, and Aline Dias Camargo. "Pics, Dicks, Tits, and Tats: negotiating ethics working with images of bodies in social media research." New Media & Society 21, no. 9 (April 26, 2019): 2068–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444819837715.
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With the rise of camera-enabled cellphones and social media platforms that focus on vernacular images (e.g. Instagram™and Snapchat™), researchers and intuitional ethics boards increasingly seek guidelines for research using digital images of bodies shared on social media. This article presents the findings of in-depth interviews with 16 researchers who have received institutional ethics approval to study images of bodies shared on social media platforms. The interviews explored the researchers’ (a) processes of selecting their methodologies, (b) experiences getting institutional ethics approval, and (c) personal research ethics that emerged through their research programs. The findings indicate that researchers and review boards generally lack resources. Researchers often adhered to contextual integrity, were protective while not patronizing, and adopted a feminist materialist ethics of care, which included consideration of the manifold human and nonhuman forces at play in the lifespan of images in digital research. Researchers also practiced strategies like ongoing consent, “ethics-on-the-go,” ethical visual fabrication, and conscious omission.
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Bedrina, T., A. Parodi, A. Quarati, and A. Clematis. "ICT approaches to integrating institutional and non-institutional data services for better understanding of hydro-meteorological phenomena." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 12, no. 6 (June 18, 2012): 1961–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-1961-2012.
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Abstract. It is widely recognised that an effective exploitation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is an enabling factor to achieve major advancements in Hydro-Meteorological Research (HMR). Recently, a lot of attention has been devoted to the use of ICT in HMR activities, e.g. in order to facilitate data exchange and integration, to improve computational capabilities and consequently model resolution and quality. Nowadays, ICT technologies have demonstrated that it is possible to extend monitoring networks by integrating sensors and other sources of data managed by volunteer's communities. These networks are constituted by peers that span a wide portion of the territory in many countries. The peers are "location aware" in the sense that they provide information strictly related with their geospatial location. The coverage of these networks, in general, is not uniform and the location of peers may follow random distribution. The ICT features used to set up the network are lightweight and user friendly, thus, permitting the peers to join the network without the necessity of specialised ICT knowledge. In this perspective it is of increasing interest for HMR activities to elaborate of Personal Weather Station (PWS) networks, capable to provide almost real-time, location aware, weather data. Moreover, different big players of the web arena are now providing world-wide backbones, suitable to present on detailed map location aware information, obtained by mashing up data from different sources. This is the case, for example, with Google Earth and Google Maps. This paper presents the design of a mashup application aimed at aggregating, refining and visualizing near real-time hydro-meteorological datasets. In particular, we focused on the integration of instant precipitation depths, registered either by widespread semi-professional weather stations and official ones. This sort of information has high importance and usefulness in decision support systems and Civil Protection applications. As a significant case study, we analysed the rainfall data observed during the severe flash-flood event of 4 November 2011 over Liguria region, Italy. The joint use of official observation network with PWS networks and meteorological radar allowed for the making of evident finger-like convection structure.
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Villanueva, Isabel, and Ivan Lacasa-Mas. "The audiovisual recreation of operas filmed in theaters: An analysis of Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart." Communication & Society 34, no. 1 (January 12, 2021): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.34.1.77-91.
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This article analyzes select opera films produced during the 20th and 21st centuries by international opera houses in order to determine whether, when the diegesis of these films is recreated, there is also an attempt made for the films to reflect the conventions of operatic performance. We performed content analysis of the end of the first act in 29 filmed versions of the opera Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart by evaluating 44 variables related to three categories that are central to translating the original story to the new audiovisual discourse: recreation of time and space and use of scenery. The main results reveal that in translating Don Giovanni to audiovisual media, the films continue to be influenced by the institutional conventions of operatic theater. In relying on the original performance, these films, even in the 21st century, do not exhibit full narrative autonomy. Our article proposes several ways to better adapt—from a cinematographic perspective—these scenic representations based on elements such as depth of field or scenery, without the need for greater resources than those already available to opera houses.
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Traut-Mattausch, Eva, Eva Jonas, Michael Förg, Dieter Frey, and Friedrich Heinemann. "How Should Politicians Justify Reforms to Avoid Psychological Reactance, Negative Attitudes, and Financial Dishonesty?" Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology 216, no. 4 (January 2008): 218–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0044-3409.216.4.218.
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Necessary changes through political reforms meant to solve current problems can be justified in different ways. Politicians can focus on the communication of increased limitations resulting from the changes (limitation justification) or they can communicate improvements of the institutional setting, e.g., with respect to more equitable rules (improvement justification). Based on reactance theory we argued that a limitation justification threatens one’s freedoms, and, therefore, leads to direct and indirect reactance effects compared to an improvement justification. Study 1 showed that the participants reacted with more negative attitudes when the changes were justified through limitations compared to improvements. This difference was mediated by the experience of reactance. Study 2 revealed that a limitation justification had a negative impact on financial honesty through a lower identification with one’s country. The implications of our results for the communication of political reforms are discussed.
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Cranfield, Ben. "‘Not Another Museum’: The Search for Contemporary Connection." Journal of Visual Culture 12, no. 2 (August 2013): 313–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412913486326.
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This article considers the site of the Independent Group’s formation, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA), as a discursive proposition, using the institutional level (understood as a meeting place of the pragmatic and ideal) as a vantage point from which to re-encounter a plurality of positions that defies the congruities of thematic analysis. To this end, the author examines how the ICA was formed, in relation and distinction to the institutional designation ‘museum’, through an analysis of the three terms that make up its title. He argues that the ICA was a rhetorical space that emerged from a complex negotiation between extant possibilities and understandings of artistic value held within the fragmenting, but hegemonic, discourse of the museum and demands for technocratic, productive relevancy. He proposes that this space impelled, and was, in turn, made manifest by, the declaration of the Independent Group, as a response to and negation of the ICA’s particular formulation of the contemporary.
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Tsai, Bi-Kun, Ku-Yuan Lee, Chi-Ming Hsieh, and Pimpinan Somsong. "Determinants of Actual Purchase Behavior in Farmers’ Markets." Sustainability 11, no. 19 (October 3, 2019): 5480. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11195480.
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Farmers’ markets in Taiwan advocate for the sustainable consumption of locally produced food to support sustainability and social justice goals. Institutional trust and interpersonal trust are critical determinative factors in sustaining farmers’ farm-to-consumer venues for the long-run. The purpose of this research was to investigate determinants of customers’ actual purchase behaviors, and the relationships between trust, purchase intention, and actual purchase behavior in the context of farmers’ markets. A questionnaire approach with closed-ended survey questions was conducted with customers in farmers’ markets in different parts of Taiwan. The results revealed that both institutional and interpersonal trust could serve as driving forces influencing a consumer’s purchase intentions, which in turn reinforces their actual purchase behavior. Specifically, the interpersonal trust between consumers and producers includes positive interactions and sufficient communication, enabling producers to share the value and concepts underlying their production processes with the consumers, enhancing customers’ purchase intentions and intensity. Institutional trust generated from a producer’s endeavor to improve the quality of their own products by meeting market standards would impress consumers and build loyalty. It is recommended that farmers’ market farmers or managers continually examine both the institutional and interpersonal needs of customers (e.g., food safety, face-to-face interactions between farmers and consumers) to earn customers’ trust, and to accommodate their expectations by providing sufficient products and services.
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Bralić, Ante. "Zadarske srednje škole na hrvatskom jeziku i talijanska vlast 1918.-1921. godine." Miscellanea Hadriatica et Mediterranea 6, no. 1 (January 20, 2020): 205–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/misc.2915.
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In this paper an analysis is made of the influence of the changed political situation on the workings of secondary schools in Zadar in which the language of instruction was Croatian. At the end of the World War I in 1918, the political situation on the Croatian side of the Adriatic had not calmed down. From November 4th, 1918, the Italian army progressively occupied northern Dalmatia and a part of central, while at the same time putting both institutional and non-institutional pressure on the operations of Croatian schools. Italian public and official communication are imposed, and the occupied areas of Dalmatia are kept separate from the hinterland. In such circumstances, the functioning of the school system is made more difficult, as a portion of Croatian and Serbian teachers leave Zadar, and Italian teachers take their place. Occasionally the teaching process is disturbed due to physical attacks and the occupation of the school space by the Italian army. With the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo from November of 1920, the fate of previous Croatian scholastic institutions is sealed, and they cease operations at the end of the 1920/1921 school year.
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Da Silva, Renan Goncalves Leonel, and Maria Conceicao Da Costa. "The Sociological Debate of the Life Sciences Research: from Molecular Biology to Human Genome Sequencing." International Journal of Social Science Research 5, no. 1 (March 19, 2017): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijssr.v5i1.10185.
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This paper presents some sociological debates involved in the new field of life sciences at the end of 20th century. From a bibliographic review concerning history of science and Social Studies of Science, it will be presented some particular sociological issues of the research on molecular biology and its historical evolution – the formation of speeches and legitimization; institutional arrangements and alliances in post-war period. We will focuses on the emerging systems of information and communication technology, ICTs. and how it transformed the biomedical research. The goal is to show briefly how molecular biology was built, from the post-war period to the end of the 90’s, and what was the main proceedings of interdisciplinary associations and technoscientific interactions in the life sciences agenda.