Dissertations / Theses: 'Social communication'

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Bohlin, Diana. "Corporate Social Responsibility Communication : Communicating CSR to consumer." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-25344.

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Oredsson, Lindsey. "Communicating Responsibility : Audience reception of CSR communication on social media." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104697.

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This study offers insight into international audience reception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communication. Swedish companies are currently reaching international audiences through a variety of social media channels and this study analyzes how audiences in Sweden and the U.S. respond to specific messages. Qualitative interviews with professionals offer background information on how CSR is currently communicated while audience responses to CSR communication are gathered through a web-based survey and focus groups consisting of American and Swedish citizens. Results indicate that the two countries have more similarities than differences. Americans have a slightly more positive outlook on the communication and they are more likely to look up information about CSR initiatives after hearing a corporate message. This might indicate a more profound interest. Cultural and social differences are given as a possible explanation for the key differences.

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Lacayo, Virginia. "Communicating Complexity: A Complexity Science Approach to Communication for Social Change." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1367522049.

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Ronsse, Jean-Michel. "Média société et communication." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213308.

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Donno, R. E. "Social communication deficits and conduct disorder." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445421/.

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There is increasing evidence that a proportion of children with Conduct Disorder may have unidentified Autistic Spectrum Disorder (Gilchrist et al., 2001 Gilmour, Hill, Place & Skuse, 2004). This paper considers the argument that a subgroup of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder are undetected and subsumed under Conduct Disorder or similar descriptors. Diagnostic criteria are described and issues relevant to Conduct Disorder discussed. This is followed by an examination of the similarities and differences between Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Conduct Disorder. The case for misclassification of Autistic Spectrum Disorder is explored through reinterpretation of the behavioural markers associated with Conduct Disorder. Sample definition in studies of children with Conduct Disorder is then critically examined. The paper concludes with a review of the literature on social information processing in children with Conduct Disorder exploring whether some findings could be better explained by an Autistic Spectrum Disorder presentation.

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Rourke, Liam. "Exploring social communication in computer conferencing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0006/MQ59763.pdf.

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Booth, Jennifer. "Social class differences in communication accuracy /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsb725.pdf.

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Villa, Paul Javier. "Conflict in communication: Evaluating potential predictors for pro-social communication outcomes." Scholarly Commons, 2020. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3664.

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The importance of communication in every aspect of our lives cannot be understated, in many ways it is the foundation upon which society rests. As a result of communication being ubiquitous in nature, it becomes inevitable that at some point conflict will occur as competing ideas, world views, or beliefs are exchanged. This inevitability, therefore, necessitates researchers make attempts to better understand the role conflict tendencies can play in influencing communication variables that are generally understood to be pro-social. The researcher administered a questionnaire to 226 college students from one private university and three community colleges on the west coast using various modified scales examining tolerance for disagreement, verbal aggressiveness, self-esteem, communication competence, and evaluation apprehension. The data from the surveys were analyzed to determine whether the independent variables could in isolation or in combination serve as predictors for self-esteem, communication competence, and evaluation apprehension. The analysis revealed that tolerance for disagreement was significantly positively correlated with self-esteem and communication competence and was significantly negatively correlated with evaluation apprehension. Verbal aggressiveness was found to be significantly negatively correlated with communication competence and the construct of “Pro-Social Communication Outcomes” which combined all three dependent variables. The construct this work refers to as “Conflict Tendencies” which combines both independent variables was found to be significantly negatively correlated with communication competence and Pro-Social Communication Outcomes. Regression analysis showed that the combination of tolerance for disagreement and verbal aggressiveness demonstrated that tolerance for disagreement and verbal aggressiveness had some limited predicting power regarding self-esteem, communication competence, and evaluation apprehension. These results suggest that there are important relationships between communication variables associated with conflict and pro-social communication outcomes. Keywords: Conflict, Tolerance for Disagreement, Verbal Aggressiveness, Self-Esteem, Communication Competence, Evaluation Apprehension.

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Vion, Robert. "L'interaction verbale : Communication. Linguistique et sciences humaines." Paris 5, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA05H052.

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Cette thèse a pour objet de promouvoir une linguistique interactionnelle au sein d'une approche pluridisciplinaire de la communication et de l'interaction verbale. Elle débute par un travail de réflexion sur les catégories de sujet et de social en examinant plus particulièrement les positions de l'interactionnisme symbolique, de l'ethnométhodologie et de la philosophie d'Habermas. Le concept d'espace interactif, propose pour fédérer des notions comme figuration, face, soi, relation, situation, renvoie à une pluralité d'images identitaires mise en oeuvre sumultanément par chacun des co-énonciateurs, jeu d'images exprimé en termes de rapports de places. Cette pluralité d'images identitaires correspond à la complexité du sujet, exprimée par Mead, et à l'hétérogénéité de toute instance énonciative. Le rapport de place dominant correspond au cadre interactif définitoire de l'interaction. Ces concepts conduisent à distinguer "interaction" et "rencontre" et permettent de développer, avec la notion de module, une nouvelle typologie des interactions fondée sur l'hétérogénéité et la coarticulation des types. Un bilan est également effectué à propos des analyses structurelles et hiérarchiques de l'interaction. Enfin, l'apport le plus spécifiquement linguistique consiste à prolonger les approches pragmatiques et énonciatives avec la notion d'activités discursives. La thèse s'achève avec un important travail sur les concepts exprimant ces diverses activités : référenciation, reprises, reformulations, implicites, implicitations, modalisations et modulations
This thesis aims at promoting an interactional approach to linguistics in relation to a multidisciplinary perspective on communication and verbal interaction. The thesis opens with a discussion of the categories of subject, of social relations and social fabric. The frame of analysis put forward by symbolic interactionalism, ethnomethodology and the german philosopher habermas are examined. The concept of interactive space is proposed as a means to relate the notions of face work, face, self, relation and situation. This concept describes the diversity of self images brought to play by each of the co-enunciators, these images being linked to the places occupied by the interactants and to the relationship that these places entertain. This diversity of self images refers to the complexity of the subject, as defined by mead, and to the heterogeneous nature of enunciator. The foremost among the place relations which hold between the interactants defines the frame of interaction. The concepts proposed allow a distinction between "interaction" and "encounter" and make possible, through the notion of module, a new typology of interactions. Structural and hierachical models interaction are also discussed. The specific linguistic contribution consist in elarging the pragmatic and enunciative approaches through the notion of discursive activities. The conceptual framework required to describe various discursive activities : referenciation, reprises, reformulations, presupposedness, implicatures, modulations, is examined in the last part of the thesis

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Johansson, Sophia. "Communicating information during Covid-19 : Analysing strategic communication in a Swedish institution." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448139.

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On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed the corona outbreak to be a pandemic, and on the same day, the first Swede, a person in his upper 70s, died of Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic had a significant impact on school settings and affected higher education globally. Students faced sudden changes to their lives and relied upon written messages for directives. This study investigated Uppsala University in Sweden as a case study. The purpose of this study was twofold: to examine strategic communication by Uppsala University aimed at students during the Covid-19 crisis, and to investigate the way the students at the university perceived and made sense of this crisis communication. The study was conducted when the pandemic was still ongoing and specifically focused on communication and perceptions during the time of November 2020 until the end of April 2021. The study relies on the concept of sticky crises. It has further used Coomb’s Situational Crisis Communication Theory based on Attribution Theory in order to analyze crisis communication. This has been used in combination with Reception Theory in order to evaluate how students have decoded messages. This study claims Uppsala University has been using a varied crisis communication strategy. However, there has been a gap between certain messages (adjusting information) and students. This gap is due to three different reasons: the nature of the complex crisis, the decentralized institution, and because not enough messages have combined different message strategies when communicating and mostly just focused on instructing information.

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Berg, Linda. "Communication tools’ impact on project communication efficiency : An evaluation of traditional communication tools and Social Media." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14725.

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Rana, Juwel. "Improving group communication by harnessing information from social networks and communication services." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26239.

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On-line social networking and communication services are increasingly popular methods to communicate with friends, family and communities. Statistics shows that users of services like Facebook and Twitter stretches across geographical locations, professions, age groups and habits. Smart mobile devices with Internet connectivity simplifies access to these services at anytime and from almost anywhere. However, the huge amount of user-generated content makes it difficult to identify useful information. A challenge is to create micro-communities where users may join in from heterogeneous social networks using proper user and identity management. The increasing number of social networks and communication services are also creating new challenges in social media content filtering, micro-community discovery, automatic group communication initialization.This licentiate thesis proposes to utilize social graphs for improving group communication. It therefore presents a framework that manages information harnessed from social-networking services and personal devices such as mobile phones and laptops. The framework can identify individual communication patterns and use these to calculate a social strength between users expressed as a weighted social graph.The central component of the framework is a social recommendation engine for social content filtering, group management and communication pattern discovery. The engine harness personalized social data (both content and contact) from the social-networking services and personal devices. The framework also contains methods for social strength calculation based on a unified interaction model that supports communication pattern discovery. A comparison study is presented together with the framework, which evaluates different social strength computation methods based on a simulated interaction dataset. The feasibility of social data collection from social networks and communication services are also discussed to illuminate potential benefits of the framework for the next generation of communication tools (such as mobile video conferencing).Evaluation of the framework is initially done by proof-of-concept prototypes that illustrate functional feasibility. Two prototypes are presented in this thesis, a presence information viewer that filters and prioritizes contacts and a real-time photo sharing application utilizing calendar data for initiation of group communication. In conclusion, improving group communication by offering services for micro-communities, based on our communication habits, personal interests and context (such as activity and location) is technically realistic and feasible.
Godkänd; 2011; 20110217 (mjrana); LICENTIATSEMINARIUM Ämnesområde: Medieteknik/Media Technology Examinator: Professor Arkady Zaslavsky, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, Luleå tekniska universitet Diskutant: Professor Mikael Wiberg, Ekonomikum, Uppsala universitet Tid: Torsdag den 24 mars 2011 kl 13.00 Plats: A109, Luleå tekniska universitet

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Bakarman, Maryah. "SAUDI FEMALES’ SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND ATTITUDES TOWARD COSMETIC SURGERIES." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1560793387780191.

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Stoltenow, Petersen Kelsi K. "YouTube beauty vlogs: How social media blurs social boundaries." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523368597591707.

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Turco, Megan D. "Changing communication through Facebook : redefining perceptions of public and private communication." Scholarly Commons, 2010. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/746.

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There has been much research conducted into the phenomenon of online social networking. However, there has not been enough research conducted to establish its affect on our overall communication patterns. This research study focuses on the way in which Facebook is redefining perceptions of public and private communication. Using the current body of research paired with a varied theoretical backing, this research establishes Facebook's affect on the communication of college students while also noting how the users affect the way this medium is used. Focus groups at a private University were conducted to establish current uses and perceptions of Facebook and how college students utilize the site to communicate. The research discovered that through Facebook, a new version of confessing one's thoughts has been established and intensified. Also, the research discovered that students had difficulty in defining their own versions of private and public information, but they understood that the line between the two is no longer distinct.

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Martinson, Tiina. "Children chatting- communication between two social settings." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4276.

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Chat communication has been investigated within the frames of 5thD (Fifth Dimension). The study is based in field-material from two chat sessions, between children in Ronneby-Barcelona and Ronneby-Denver. During the chats there was plenty of interaction between children and, assistants, which is illustrated with the help of patterns of communication. The analysis of the data shows that chat is more than an interaction between two persons, it even connects two social settings. The thesis also deals with the question of how to create meaningful chat, since this did not occur in an entirely satisfactory way during the above-mentioned chats.

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Micheletta, Jerome. "Social communication in crested macaques (Macaca nigra)." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2012. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/social-communication-in-crested-macaques-macaca-nigra(e4908e72-7425-464f-bfec-9af968d81f97).html.

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Comparative research into animal communication has been and continues to be highly informative regarding the general principles underlying the evolution of communication (including human communication). However, our tendency to focus on specific modes of production of these signals (i.e. facial expressions, gestures or vocalisations) in isolation of each other, and in a limited number of species, may be obstructing our progress. Therefore, in this thesis, I adopted a novel and more comprehensive approach to a highly understudied primate, the crested macaques (Macaca nigra). First, I consider the effects of the strength of social bonds and dominance relationships between individuals (and, when possible, their kin relationships) when investigating the function of communicative signals. The findings show that communication can be flexible depending on social factors, possibly reflecting functional relevance to the context. Social bonds in particular, influenced communication between individuals facing immediate socio-ecological challenges (finding food and deterring predators). Second, I address the significance of multimodal communication in this species. I test the influence of the composition of communicative signals on the outcome of social interactions. The results show that subtle changes in the composition of communicative signals (multicomponent and multimodal) can have a profound effect on the outcome of social interactions. The findings resulting from this work constitute one of the first quantitative accounts of the communication system of crested macaques, thereby adding to the pool of data available to study communication from a comparative perspective. The comprehensive approach adopted in this thesis provides much needed insight into the importance of considering communication as multimodal and highly intertwined with species’ social style. Such an approach seems highly productive and provides insight into aspects of social and communicative complexity that have been overlooked so far.

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Battiston, Diego. "Essays on communication, social interactions and information." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3834/.

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This thesis consists of three papers in the broad field of Applied Economics. I focus on three "soft factors", namely, face-to-face communication, brief social interactions and information updates. I study on how they affect individual and organisational outcomes using different natural experiments. The first chapter provides causal evidence on how the ability to communicate face-to-face (in addition to electronic communication) can increase organisational performance. The study exploits a natural experiment within a large organisation where workers must communicate electronically with their teammates. A computerized system allocates the tasks to workers creating exogenous variation in the co-location of teammates. Workers who share the same room, can also communicate in person. The main findings are that face-to-face communication increases productivity and that this effect significantly varies across tasks, team characteristics and working environments. In the second chapter I construct a novel dataset of immigrants and ships arrived to the US in the early 20th century to study the effects of brief social interactions and their persistence over time. The chapter shows that individuals travelling (during few days) with shipmates that have better connections in the US, have higher quality jobs. Several findings are consistent with the mechanism whereby individuals get information or access to job opportunities from their shipmates. The study highlights the importance of social interactions with unknown individuals during critical life junctures. It also suggests that they are more relevant for individuals with poor access to information or weak social networks. The third chapter shows that executions cause a local and temporary reduction in serious violent crime. The interpretation of this result follows from a theoretical framework connecting information updates with the increasing 'awareness' of individuals about the consequences of crime. Consistently with the predictions of the model, the study finds that effects are stronger when media attention is high and lower in places with high propensity to apply the death penalty.

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Karahalios, Kyratso G. 1972. "Social catalysts : embracing communication in mediated spaces." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28779.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108).
Mediated communication between public spaces is a relatively new concept. One current example of this interaction is video conferencing among people within the same organization. Large scale video-conferencing walls have begun to appear in public or semi-public areas, such as workplace lobbies and kitchens. These connections provide a link via audio and/or video to another public space within the organization. When placed in public or semi-public work spaces, they are often designed for casual encounters among people within that community. Thus far, communicating via these systems has not met expectations. Some drawbacks to such systems have been lack of privacy, gaze ambiguity, spatial incongruity, and fear of appearing too social in a work environment. In this thesis we explore a different goal and approach to linking public spaces. We are not creating a substitute for face-to-face interaction, but rather new modes of conversational and physical interaction within this blended space. This is accomplished through the introduction of what we are defining as a social catalyst. We address the need for designs best suited for linking public spaces and present a series of design criteria for incorporating mediated communication between public and semi-public spaces.
Kyratso G. Karahalios.
Ph.D.

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Thomaz, Andrea L. "Understanding implicit social context in electronic communication." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61858.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).
Artificial Intelligence (Al) has shown competence in helping people with complex cognitive decisions like air traffic control and playing chess. The goal of this work is to demonstrate that Al can help people with social decisions. In this work Artificial Intelligence of Social Networks is used to improve human-human communication, recognizing the social characteristics of human relations in order to achieve a more natural online communication interface. Can a computer learn to understand the value of communication? It is shown here that a first attempt at social context classification performs with almost 70% reliability. Could a computer use this to help a person relate to other people through technology? The addition of social context to an email interface is shown to have a positive effect in a user's online communication behavior. Email is a tool that people use practically every day, making an implicit statement about their relationships with other people, and providing an opportunity for a computer to learn about their social network. Furthermore, over the years people have come to utilize and depend on email more in their daily lives, but the tool has hardly changed to help people deal with the overwhelming amount of information. Many of the social cues that allow people to naturally function with their social network are not inherent or obvious in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). This work offers automatic social network analysis as a means to bring these cues to CMC and to foster the user's coherent understanding of the people and resources of their communication network.
by Andrea Lyn Lockerd.
S.M.

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Brown, Adam. "Social aspects of communication in Parkinson's disease." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/10108.

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Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological condition which affects motor control, in almost all cases involving speech, and is frequently of many years duration. Much is known about speech production but less of the psychosocial consequences of the speech impairment (dysarthria). Accounts of people with dysarthria have shown that its impact on quality of social participation can be varied and profound. However, level of participation has not been investigated. Reduction in social activity and social networks has been found following onset of other neurogenic communication disorders. In Parkinson's disease there is some evidence of social activity reduction but this has not been studied in relation to severity of dysarthria. Social anxiety has been found to be raised in speakers with other speech production impairments and this may be a contributor to reduction in social engagement. Investigation of social variables is of importance in understanding relationships within a biopsychosocial model of health which underpins intervention for therapies for communication disorders. Aims The study aimed to investigate the impact of dysarthria on social participation and whether presence of dysarthria in Parkinson's disease (PD) resulted in changes to social anxiety, social networks and social activity. It further sought to investigate whether severity of dysarthria resulted in changes to the same variables. Method A group of 43 mild-moderately dysarthric speakers with PD were recruited. Exclusion criteria were applied to control for cognitive impairment, depression, apathy, movement disability and co-occurring neurological and communication impairment. A group of 30 non-neurologically impaired participants were recruited matched for age, sex, socioeconomic status and educational attainment. Participants with PD were further grouped using measures of sentence intelligibility and motor speech impairment into higher and lower functioning groups. All participants completed a social anxiety questionnaire, a social activity checklist and detailed their social network. Group data were compared to address the research questions. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with all participants to explore change to social life and perceptions of causes of change. Results Participants reported a range of changes to interaction and social engagement arising from speech and other impairments and also from intra and interpersonal contextual factors. Quantitative data showed that presence of dysarthria was associated with social anxiety and avoidance but not changes to social activity level or social network size. Greater severity of dysarthria was associated with deterioration in social activities and social network. There was wide individual variation on these variables. Outcomes Impact of dysarthria may be significant and unrelated to severity of impairment and satisfaction with level of activity is low in dysarthric speakers. Mild - moderately dysarthric speakers with PD may experience social anxiety in particular types of social situation. Moderately dysarthric speakers may experience loss of social capital in terms of quantitative changes in social networks and social activities. Motor speech impairment was a better predictor of social functioning than intelligibility in this sample. It is possible that a threshold for change lies at a more severe level of speech involvement. How speakers with PD perceive and experience their social interactions is discussed and limitations to the research are considered. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to the ICF framework and the concept of social capital.

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Maria, Audrey. "SUSTAINABILITY MARKETING COMMUNICATION." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37024.

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ABSTRACT Title: Sustainability marketing communication Student: Audrey Maria Supervisor:Venilton Reinert Purpose of the study: Understand how the companies build their communication message to achieve their sustainable positioning. Research Question: How today’s companies integrate sustainability in their communicationmessage to position themselves as a sustainable company? Method: This study uses a qualitative approach that analyses 3 different case studies of business to consumer (B2C) companies.The empirical data have been collected witha content analysis of the companies’ communication activities. Results and Recommendations: This study shows how it is important for companies to communicate about their sustainable activities and values, to be relevant, transparent and credible towards the target. This can be done by using communication channels in an integrated way and avoiding negative appeals in the message content. Keywords:Sustainability Marketing Communication, Sustainability, Message content, Promotion mix.

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Treanor, Ellen Stein Kevin. "No pirates, no princesses raising children with values and responsibility in a consumer culture /." [Cedar City, Utah : Southern Utah University], 2009. http://unicorn.li.suu.edu/ScholarArchive/Communication/TreanorEllen.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Southern Utah University, 2009.
Title from PDF title page. "April, 2009." "In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree [of] Master of Arts in Professional Communication." "A thesis presented to the faculty of the Communication Department at Southern Utah University." Dr. Kevin Stein, Thesis Supervisor Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-80).

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Kappeler, Warren. "Communication habits for the pilgrim Church : Vatican teaching on media and social communication." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102834.

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This study examines the communication habits of the pilgrim Church with focus upon Vatican documents on mass media and social communication. Attention is given to the historical context of Vatican Councils I and II. As the Church engaged modernity, it shifted ecclesial organization from closed to become open. This study documents the importance of sociology, especially communication theory and cybernetics for Catholicism today.
It is argued that the pivotal event in the Roman Catholic Church's self-exploration for self-awareness and realization was the Second Vatican Council. At that Council, the Church re-examined itself and its own identity to come to grips with the modern world. The teachings of the Council were concerned mainly with the pastoral dimension of the Church and its self-realization. Reflexivity is an important theme of this study as it speaks about understanding the very identity of the modern Church. It is explained that the process of communication within the Roman Catholic Church is itself linked to this insight of reflexivity.
The first chapter shows that behind the pilgrim Church lies an emerging vision of the threefold offices of priest, prophet, and king. The history behind the Roman Catholic Church's transition from the First to the Second Vatican Council is provided. John Henry Cardinal Newman influenced nineteenth-century Catholic theology with his own study of the threefold office. In chapter four we return to the threefold office and examine the contribution of John Paul II. It includes an analysis of how the politics of the magisterium shapes Catholic social teaching. Chapter two examines the text and context of the Second Vatican Council's pastoral decree "Inter Mirifica". Chapter three provides a documented history of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communication and its teachings. Chapter five develops major tenets of a critical analysis of the communication of the post-Vatican II Church: attention is given to the discursive aspects of religious authority, argumentation, bureaucratization, and market culture. Chapter six takes a step towards examining the pragmatics of contemporary Vatican teaching.
This study concludes that there are three basic sociological and theological aspects of the pilgrim Church. These include a ritual approach to communication, the generational experience of Catholics and their respective attitudes toward Church teaching, and the important link in the faith's praxis between reflexivity and forming habits of communication.

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Kovaz, David Matthew. "Social Compensation, Social Enhancement, and Rejection in Everyday Online Conversations." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626671.

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Burford, Caitlyn M. R. "Anonymous and the virtual collective| Visuality and social movements in cyberspace." Thesis, Northern Arizona University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550096.

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In 2008, a group of masked protesters stood in front of the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles to protest the organization's censorship on the Internet (Knapperberger, 2012). This protest was the first collectivized, localized, and material manifestation of the group Anonymous, a loosely coordinated decentralized group of Internet based-activists that began on the web. Amidst increasing regulation of the Internet, Anonymous is a key subject to watch to determine how contemporary social movements will unfold with the introduction of cyberspace as a place of organization and performance. To provide a foundation for this study, I review social movement theory in the U.S. with an emphasis on visual imagery in protests. While traditional movements relied on public collective action (Bowers, Ochs, & Jenson, 1993), new social movement theory assumes movements rely on private and individual reclamation of identity (Buechler, 1999, 2000). Anonymous fits into neither theory but takes aspects from both, challenging social movement theory to go further and account for the Internet-driven conditions that change the nature of the protester, revealing anonymity and appropriation of images as two distinct markers of contemporary social movements, as initially depicted in the use of the Guy Fawkes mask. Next, I look at geographies of place and how protest changes in cyberspace based on the images that emerge, giving the group aesthetic control over their social construction. Mirzoeff's (2011) analysis of visualized authority explains how Anonymous creates a countervisual to the state control of aesthetic reality by guiding is visual representations. DeLuca and Peeples' (2002) concept of the public screen addresses the promulgation of protest images, which become the primary rhetoric of the movement and a means to establish aesthetic credibility. Anonymous exists as a character in a disembodied cyber-world, with the media creating myths of embodied protesters. Through Bahktin's (1981) analysis of the chronotope, I study the spatio-temporal relationships of traditional social movements and how Anonymous challenges those relationships by establishing new chronotopes that influence contemporary movements. Emerging chronotopes break down the distinction between the protester and the hacker, the public and private dichotomy, and allow for contemporary protesters to break out of these conditions and inhabit a space of legitimacy. Anonymous offers a case study for the future of contemporary social movements that will take place in cyberspace in an era characterized by a struggle over information in a virtual world. Because social movements are no longer primarily defined by traditional media outlets, Anonymous shows how protesters can determine their own aesthetic reality. The chronotopes that emerge speak to the movement's ability to expand social movement theory as both a public and private operation, functioning outside of state suppression tactics and normative restraints. As the chronotopes become recognizable by the public, Anonymous gains leverage in defining its own genre of social movements. Anonymous is a performance without a distinct beginning and end, but operates as an evolving ideological position. The visual realities that emerge into the material world may provide further insight into how the state will allow (or disallow) social movements to occur.

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Smith, Elizabeth R. "Social media and social learning| A critical intersection for journalism education." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251916.

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For the past decade, the profession of journalism has been under intense pressure to adapt to changing business models, technology, and forms of communication. Likewise, journalism education has been under intense scrutiny for failing to keep pace with the industry and inadequately preparing students for a rapidly changing professional environment. Social media has become a nexus for the pressures being experienced by both the profession and academia. This study uses Wenger’s (1998) model of Communities of Practice to consider how a student newsroom functions and how student journalists adapt within a newsroom and on social media. This study used a quantitative self-reported survey (N=334) design to understand the relationship of students’ social media use and newsroom participation, social media use and digital skills, and the differences relationships between demographic variables and the use of social media. Items in the survey were in one of four categories: newsroom participation, social media use, digital skills, and demographics. Results demonstrated that as students take on more responsibilities in a newsroom, the more likely they are to have relationships in the newsroom, to have a voice (in both editorial content and newsroom policy), to share their experiences with newer staff members, and to see the importance of social media use in their newsroom experience. Findings also related to meaning, identity, and practice within Wenger’s (1998) notions of Communities of Practice. Significant correlations among items measuring digital skills are related to length of time on staff, use of social media (e.g. watch breaking news and find story ideas), holding a digital position, frequency of use of social media, and critical knowledge of digital skills (including high-level relationships among libel, audience analytics, and multi-media content). Analysis showed that participants who held primarily digital positions demonstrated patterns of the more sophisticated digital skills.

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Greiner, Karen P. "Exploring Dialogic Social Change." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273197688.

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Maduga, Frank. "Public communication and social security delivery in Tanzania." Thesis, University of West London, 2015. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1268/.

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Less than 30 per cent of the world’s population is covered by some form of modern social security scheme. In the African continent the coverage in some places is well below 10% of the population. Tanzania and its East African neighbours Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are no exception. This research explores the factors that restrict the widening of social security coverage in Tanzania and discusses whether or not lack of effective communication is a contributing factor. In Tanzania, traditionally societies are known to have practiced some form of social insurance within specific communities including tribe, clan, and extended family. This study examines whether there has been a shift of attitudes from traditional social security towards modern social insurance arrangements It also explores the types of communication that are taking place and suggests ways in which such communication can be improved for more effective results. Furthermore the study evaluates awareness and level of understanding of the public regarding modern social security schemes. It measures acceptability and willingness of people to learn about the schemes and it explores the factors that hinder participation. Grunig J. (1992) and other authors from the developed world have suggested concepts of excellent communication including two way asymmetrical and symmetrical approaches. This study looks at the application of these approaches in Tanzania. Surveys were conducted in nine regions involving workers from both formal employment and the informal sector: fishing, mining, farming, livestock keeping, small scale business and other self-employed personnel. The need to investigate the informal sector comes from the fact that more than 80% of the active labour force make their living through such ventures. Finalist students from A level secondary schools and teacher training colleges were investigated as these are just about to enter the employment market and could share their knowledge and experience as dependents. Interviews were conducted with stakeholders within the insurance industry itself including service provider institutions in Tanzania, the retirees, academicians, aged group associations, the unemployed, communication practitioners and members of the public. These were recorded and for those who did not wish to be recorded, notes were taken. For quantitative data SPSS and STATA software were utilized while NVivo and ATLAS were deployed as tools for qualitative data analysis. More qualitative data were obtained through secondary sources and interviews conducted in Burundi and Uganda. The aim was to establish if there were any similarities in social security coverage and its communication aspects with cross border neighbours. Modern communication theory (Grunig and Hunt, 1984) emphasizes a two-way rather than a one-way relationship between an organisation and its stakeholders. The subject of symmetrical and asymmetrical communication is addressed with regard to establishing the type of communication taking place and suitability of the same. Other theories related to effective communication are examined. These include diffusion of innovation theory and mass communication. The practices of social security schemes in Tanzania appear to show that there is a need to apply a tailor made communication approach to fit local realities. The study establishes that modern life challenges coupled with the effects of globalisation have eroded the value and practicability of traditional social security. Hence, societies have sought for an alternative solution but most people do not look at modern social security providers as their way forward. The survey has established that only about 20% of the population accepts modern social security systems. Moreover the communication approaches used by the main service providers are mainly tactical as they do not go deep enough to address the information needs. In addition, the level of interaction required between the service providers and their potential clients is insufficient. Social security institutions carry the image of being huge financial institutions, donating and participating in a wide range of social activities. On the contrary, however, they do not seem to play an active part in assisting their contributors who have lost employment. In this regard the institutions fail to demonstrate care beyond paying the basic entitlement. The present research found a lack of savings culture, a low degree of risk appreciation, and the common belief that when faced with social and economic contingencies, society in general, family members, or one’s own assets would come to the rescue. Most of these shortfalls could be addressed with the application of effective communication strategies including conduct of a public communication campaign that includes a special national campaign. The findings have also established that low income, fragmentation of the schemes, unattractive benefit packaging, unfriendly restrictions and corruption have had an impact on the low coverage. Finally, there are suggestions regarding the need to adopt a more suitable communication frame work that could be applied in addressing the deficiencies uncovered during the study. This should make a substantial difference.

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Laguda, W. B. "Electronic government, information communication technologies and social inclusion." Thesis, University of Salford, 2003. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26767/.

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The UK's E-Government agenda was found on the principles of improving the quality of services offered to the public by Central and Local Government. This would be made possible through various national projects. Most notable were the use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Community Informatics involving the use of public libraries and outreach workers. However there is growing fear on the emergence of inequalities between the information rich and information poor termed the 'digital divide'. This has prompted the subject of research - to explore the reality of e-government in reducing social exclusion. Both qualitative and quantitative research techniques are used to this end. Analysis is made on the use of CRM in 27 Local Authorities including a detailed case study at Newham Council and a public survey in Salford. Universal access and social inclusion is tackled through the analysis of public libraries in Salford offering ICT services. In addition the effects of free ICT courses organised by Salford City Council on a number of community groups was included in the survey. The findings confirm the widespread use of CRM and reveal a series of barriers to its success. These include a lack of skilled CRM staff, inefficiencies in channel management, high emphasis on technology, and low levels of ICT usage. Results from the public library survey also revealed some barriers. Inadequate staffing levels, inappropriate training, and lack of IT support were all identified. In addition the library failed to attract novices and new users. The evaluation of Community Informatics in Salford showed the problems faced by outreach workers. As well as providing some academic research in a field lacking representation in IS research (due largely to recent emergence), the thesis also contributes to E-Government practice by, highlighting issues often over looked in its implementation, addressing its failures, and providing some reasoning on the current situation.

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Estow, Sarah. "The effects of social communication on stereotyping processes /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 2001.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2001.
Adviser: Julio Garcia. Submitted to the Dept. of psychology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-94). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

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Back, Heather M. "The Effects of Communication Disorders on Social Development." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/77.

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This paper explores literature on the effects of communication disorders on the social development of children. The paper discusses such topics as the effects of communication disorders on personality development, the ability to make friends and resolve conflict with peers, and academic success. It also discusses the influences of multiculturalism and bilingualism on the diagnosis of communication disorders and reflects on the importance of awareness of cultural differences in communication style to avoid a misdiagnosis. Research shows that without intervention and treatment communication disorders can have irreversible detrimental effects on a child’s ability to develop effect social-communication, to make friends, and to be successful in academic pursuits. Intervention strategies are discussed, such as group and individual therapy, as well as social skills and communication skills treatment. Effective intervention can help children overcome or avoid many of the negative effects of communication disorders and can allow them to reach their developmental potential and achieve success in many areas of life.

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Cavanaugh, S. Austin. "Intercultural contact, communication apprehension, and social perspective taking." Thesis, East Carolina University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1544970.

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This research examined the relationship between intergroup contact, intercultural communication apprehension, and social perspective taking. Participants were students taking a course which facilitates interactions between culturally diverse students around the globe via internet technologies, students taking an introductory psychology course, and students taking upper-level psychology courses. Participants in the intercultural contact condition were expected to show gains in social perspective taking and a decrease in intercultural communication apprehension when compared to the two comparison groups. No significant differences between the three groups were found for either change in intercultural communication apprehension or social perspective taking. Potential explanations for this lack of change are explored, along with a path model to explain the influence of extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness and openness on the dependent variables.

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Köster, Antonia [Verfasser]. "Social Referrals via Personal Communication Tools / Antonia Köster." Berlin : epubli, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1192229266/34.

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Lister, Sarah. "The early detection of social and communication impairments." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390012.

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Rana, Juwel. "On weighted egocentric graphs and social group communication." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17932.

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Electronic communication has a profound impact on our society, where for instance social media now is almost ubiquitously used to share information. This has led to several major challenges, including how to overcome information overload and privacy concerns, how to utilize social context based on multiple data sources from both the virtual and physical worlds, and subsequently how to improve group communication.This doctoral thesis presents an Aggregated Social Graph (ASG) framework that utilizes weighted egocentric graphs representing the calculated social strength between people. The framework is based on a unified interaction model that support capturing and aggregating information from communication services such as social networks, mobile phones and email clients. Two algorithms for social strength computation are presented and evaluated in this thesis: Utility Function and Euclidean Distance.The proposed framework contains a social recommender engine that includes context-based methods (tags, locations and objects) to rank, filter, recommend and group social contacts and information based on the weighted egocentric graphs. The ranking of contacts can for instance be used to automatically form contextual groups. These groups can be used to dynamically compose and tailor communication tools for specific communication contexts by integrating widgets into web-based collaborative environments.The framework also contains a novel social distribution mechanism for controlling otherwise flat or viral distribution of information. The mechanism combine weighted egocentric graphs and users' context to establish a level of trust to control propagation of information, thus reducing the potential perception of spamming.The work is evaluated through several proof-of-concept prototypes that show the potential to improve distribution and filtering of information as well as social group formation. The proof-of-concept prototypes also show that communication tools can be dynamically composed for a specific group of users and for a specific context. Moreover, this thesis presents evaluation studies that compare the social strength algorithms and verify the concept of contextual group formation.In conclusion, utilizing social context as represented by weighted egocentric graphs has the potential to improve group communication services. We believe that the proposed framework is an effective means to reduce the problems with information overload and to enable automation of processes related to electronic group communication.

Godkänd; 2013; 20130925 (mjrana); Tillkännagivande disputation 2013-10-04 Nedanstående person kommer att disputera för avläggande av teknologie doktorsexamen. Namn: Juwel Rana Ämne: Distribuerade datorsystem/Pervasive Mobile Computing Avhandling: On Weighted Egocentric Graphs and Social Group Communication Opponent: Associate Professor Georg Groh, Fakultätsrat der Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany Ordförande: Professor Christer Åhlund, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Måndag den 28 oktober 2013, kl 13.00 Plats: A109, Luleå tekniska universitet

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Gannon, Patrick J. "The impact of social media on crisis communication." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/775.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of social media on crisis communication. To evaluate this impact, a case study method was utilized examining the crisis communication response of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on April 20, 2010. This study focused on the response of the responsible party, British Petroleum, and the general public over three social media: Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. Through extensive analysis of both the company's and public response to the Gulf spill, nine implications were identified regarding social media's influence on crisis communication. These implications highlighted the potential for organizations to build interpersonal relationships with its publics. These relationships were found to be crucial in times of crises. The implications of this study also pointed to interactivity, using a "human voice," trust, and credibility as crucial factors in building these relationships and leading an effective crisis response across social media. This study also noted the new stress for organization's to respond quickly to crises as a result of instant news brought by social media. Implications of this study also highlighted social media's influence on individuals becoming contributing members of a crisis response. While social media has influenced the practice of crisis communication in many ways, this study found that the principles and ethics of the field have remained the same. In conclusion, analysis suggests that BP neglected using social media in its crisis response, a channel which has entered the mainstream of crisis communication. As a result, this study recommends the use of social media before, during, and after a crisis to ensure the welfare of a company and its relationship with its publics.

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Treffel, Frédéric. "Conseil economique et social, espace public et communication." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040286.

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La communication n'est pas le seul fait des personnages publics. Certaines institutions sont preparees a cette transparence, encore imparfaite, et savent en tirer profit. D'autres s'y refusent. Bien que le conseil economique et social soit la troisieme assemblee constitutionnelle du pays, seul une petite quantite de nos concitoyens connait le conseil economique et social. Les traits dominants du ces, capacite de reflexion en profondeur sur la societe, recherche constante de la cohesion sociale, s'opposent singulierement a ceux qui caracterisent notre environnement mediatique. Plusieurs freins institutionnels et culturels empechent le conseil economique et social d'entretenir des relations harmonieuses avec les medias. L'existence du conseil economique et social, dans un espace public mediatise passe, plutot que par une adaptation obstinee au langage des medias, qui comporte le risque de voir s'effacer le sens de sa mission, par la definition d'objectifs qui lui sont propres en fonction du langage qui est le sien.

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ljung, sofia. "Grow Social : Create connection & communication through cultivation." Thesis, Konstfack, Industridesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7269.

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Vi lever i ett samhälle där individualismen blomstrar samtidigt som ofrivillig ensamhet är ett växande samhällsproblem som kommit att bli en hälsofråga.Genom urbaniseringen bor vi allt tätare, trots detta visar studier att vi känner oss ensammare i storstäder. Forskning visar även att en av de viktigaste källorna till ett långt liv, är social interaktion i vardagen. Något så enkelt som att säga hej till grannen.Det är ju inte så svårt, eller? Socioekologisk stadsutveckling handlar om hur man i stadsplanering kan fläta samman ekologisk och social hållbarhet. Utifrån kontexten “Grannar bosatta i lägenhet i Stockholm”undersöker jag hur jag genom design, kan bidra till detta arbete genom att ta fram ett förslag som kan appliceras på redan existerande boendeformer/miljöer vi ser idag. Grow Social är kombination av en produkt och tjänst med syfte att ”åka runt” och sprida fröer i lägenhetshus för att uppmuntra grannar till att odla lokalt, men framförallt,att få grannars sociala relationer att växa genom att odla och umgås. Genom Grow Social vill jag visa på att utvecklingen till hållbara boenden kan börja i det lilla.Att vi genom något så litet som ett frö, kan gå mot en framtid där social interaktion fyller en naturlig plats vid utformandet av våra boendemiljöer.

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Velasquez, Araque Daniel. "Inclusive online social play through non-verbal communication." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22492.

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This research focuses on the connection between voice-based interactions and harassment in online games, from the point of interaction design. It points out severe faults in privacy afforded by voice-based communication and explores beyond this medium to design a communication system that relies only on non-verbal communication (NVC). Such system was co-created with the players supporting the idea that inclusion starts even in the early design stages. Through the playtesting of the NVC system the research shows the many ways in which the type of communication impacts the game and how players experience cooperation, cohabitation, and inclusion in online games. However, to achieve this, this research had to create a framework and mapping methods that focus on the players and their communicative intention. Hence, the “levels of multiplayer communication” is proposed as a tool to analyze and a method to design for communication in games, and it stands as a knowledge contribution along with the information acquired through its use.

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Cooley, Jamie A. "Symbolic Understanding of Children with Social Communication Impairments." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1313501692.

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Sweeney, Matthew. "Interpersonal communication on Myspace: A social networking study." Thesis, Sweeney, Matthew (2007) Interpersonal communication on Myspace: A social networking study. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/53031/.

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As Web 2.0 emerges, Internet users realise a new degree of self-publication through blogs, wikis and social networking sites. The inherent sociality of social networking sites (SNS) has led to exponential growth of internet use, especially amongst teens. The rapid increase in use of these sites poses questions of why do people use these sites? Who are they communicating with? Why are they communicating with the each other? Interpersonal interactions on SNS are a departure from traditional computer-mediated communication (CMC) interactions due to the public articulation of friends and communication with these friends. As social networking sites are at the forefront of many-to-many mass communication technologies, it is important to understand the interpersonal communication that takes place through these media and what influences these communication behaviours. Myspace, the most popular SNS has not yet been encountered in Uses and Gratifications (U&G) research or communication research. The proposed research aims to bridge this gap, adding to existing research in interpersonal communication, identity and friendship performance theory and extending U&G theory to a new environment, SNS. Answers to the research questions can lead to a clear understanding of social networking sites as a new communication tool and its application in the lives of its users and the wider society.

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Farache, Aureliano Da Silva Francisca. "Corporate social responsibility communication : presentation through print advertisements." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2011. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/0e79c753-003a-4df6-b87f-bda87f6b5fb4.

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Companies are faced with increasing expectations on the part of stakeholders to engage in social responsibility and are consequently expected to communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts to a varied, influential, and alert audience. Despite this, CSR communication remains an emerging field, with research focusing on corporate social disclosure mainly through websites and corporate reports, while little is known about CSR advertisements. This thesis addresses this gap in the research and explains how companies publicise their CSR actions through print advertisements in order to disclose the CSR image they want to signal to their public(s). This thesis examines companies' self-presentation via disclosure of social and environmental information, adopting impression management and self-presentation concepts derived primarily from the social psychology literature. As the thesis investigates CSR image, legitimacy theory provides a theoretical prism as it attempts to explain social and environmental disclosures from corporations in order to present a socially responsible image. Six propositions were developed from the literature to create a conceptual framework. The conceptual framework was then substantiated through the use of semiotics and textual and visual analysis of 26 CSR adverts grouped into six CSR advertising campaigns in magazines circulated in the UK and Brazil and the respective non-financial reports from the six companies that communicated their CSR efforts more frequently over a 12-month period. The contribution of this doctoral research has been to develop a conceptual framework from the literature and then evaluate it in an empirical study of CSR advertising campaigns. Specifically, this thesis contributes to knowledge and theoretical development as it identifies the communications strategies firms adopt to legitimise their CSR image through, for instance, both 'informing' and 'diverting attention'.

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Meriano, Olivia. "Communication skills development after a drama program for children with social-pragmatic communication difficulties." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59516.

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The current study set out to describe a drama-based group intervention (InterAct) for children with social (pragmatic) communication difficulties and examine the outcomes, with a particular focus on methodologies suitable to measuring potential change. Those with difficulties in this area may have limitations in the skills that are important for achieving successful interactions with others. As a result, they are likely to struggle to develop and maintain meaningful relationships and are at a higher risk of being socially isolated or depressed. InterAct was conducted over 10 weeks and utilized scripting, storytelling and improvisation. The over- arching goals of the program were for the children to develop: (1) more effective social behaviour and interaction; (2) greater socio-emotional awareness of themselves and others, including skills in modulation of their own communication; and (3) more confidence in their communication abilities. Participants were between the ages of 6 and 9 years and had a range of conditions affecting social communication: autism spectrum disorder (ASD), complex developmental behaviour disorder, social anxiety and/or more global developmental delays (n=6). Because there is no consensus on how to evaluate social (pragmatic) communication, outcomes were assessed using a range of standardized tests and non-standard measures of social cognition and behaviour, including communication samples, a false-belief task, Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS: Kiresuk & Sherman, 1968), a parent-report questionnaire and participant interviews. Results suggest that some participants in the InterAct program showed gains in inferencing, flexible thinking and emotional embodiment, including improvement on a false- belief task. No change was observed for recognition of non-social emotions due to pre-program ceiling effects. Parents and participants indicated satisfaction with the program. Participant feedback indicated highlights in: (1) activities and games; (2) forming meaningful relationships; and (3) self-assurance. Additionally, gains were made in observed social communication, as measured by Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS). Overall, the findings show promising results for use of drama as a form of speech-language therapy for children with social skill deficits. This study discussed methodological considerations for future studies, including the potential for GAS to capture progress in social communication.
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Audiology and Speech Sciences, School of
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Cloete, Ewoudt. "An exploration of the strategic implementation of marketing communication within social networking communication context." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9004.

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Taking into consideration the dramatic changes ushered in by the exponential growth of social networking, marketers are left without a dependable framework on how to implement social networking strategically and in alignment with other modern as well as traditional marketing disciplines. In light of this, the study aims to explore the strategic implementation of social networking within the context of a dependable marketing theoretical model, known as the marketing communications mix. During the study’s literary exploration, social networking’s capacity as a viable professional marketing tool was discussed. Thereafter, the study’s main theoretical underpinning, marketing communications was discussed and analysed. During the empirical phase of the research, a process of grounded theory was firstly followed in order to compile a list of typical social networking communications actions that are performed on social networking platforms. The list of typical social networking communication actions were then compared with the five disciplines of the marketing communications mix and consequently paired, based on their inherent similarities in regards to characteristics. In an attempt to illustrate the practical use of the paring of social networking actions and the disciplines of the marketing communications mix, the empirical study conclusively followed a process of action research in order to analyse an organisation’s social networking strategy. It was established that the model could possibly increase the strategic alignment of an organisation’s social networking initiatives but that it should only be used as a guiding and adaptable framework as to not hamper the creative capacity of social networking marketing. It was suggested that a follow-up study explore the ways in which social networking can complement and support other modern as well as traditional marketing initiatives as way to strengthen the case for an integrated approach to professional, strategic marketing.
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Allgayer, Sasha. "Rio 2016's Promise to be Different: The Role of Social Media in Struggles Over Urban Imaginaries and Social Justice." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1595868281207325.

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Wedlock, Brad C. "The Diffusion of Social Media in Public Relations| Use of Social Media In Crisis Response Strategies." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557580.

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The goal of this study was to determine how the Acadiana cultural region (St. Martin, St. Landry, Acadia, Vermillion, Lafayette and Iberia parishes) used social media in crisis response strategies. The researcher used a purposive sample and qualitative long interviews to gather data from six public relations practitioners in Acadiana. Practitioners were selected from the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce website in the section labeled "Advertising & Media" (http://business.lafchamber.org/list/ql/advertising-media-1). Results proved the hypotheses that practitioners used Twitter for the dissemination of information and Facebook was perceived to have the most interaction among all social media sites in the study. In addition, the results determined how practitioners used social media in the following categories and themes: usability, service and frequency.

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Gross, Amanda. "A Correlative Study of Gender and Social Style." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3143/.

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This study examines the concepts of social style and gender to determine if a relationship exists between the two constructs. The hypotheses suggested a direct relationship between the categories of the BSRI (masculine, feminine, androgynous, and undifferentiated) and the Social Style Analysis (driver, amiable, expressive, and analytical). Ninety-four participants completed two self-report surveys. Chi-square analysis performed on the data found a significant relationship between feminine and amiable as well as androgynous and expressive. While the analysis suggested that masculine/driver and undifferentiated/analytical were not independent, the relationship found was not significant.

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Dennison, Jeffrey M. "Social media and thinspiration." Thesis, Gonzaga University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10252031.

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Thinspiration and pro eating disorder (“pro ana”) social media content is prevalent and widely used by sufferers of eating disorders (ED). The risks associated with thinspiration and pro anorexia social media include continued disordered eating, poor self-esteem and perpetual body image dissatisfaction leading to depression and other psychological problems. However, little is known about why females continue to seek out this media or what are the reported impacts of continued usage. The goal of this research is to expand on current knowledge of the influence of social media imagery such as “thinspiration” and “pro ana” on disordered eating. The researcher qualitatively examined if sufferers use thinspiration to further their eating disorders (ED) and if sufferers report negative uses, feelings, behavior, family problems, life choices, body-image satisfaction or dissatisfaction when using social media platforms that promote or participate in thinspiration or pro ana. The study employed a confidential internet survey of 20 females, 18 years or older. Feedback was evaluated using a qualitative content analysis. Additionally, the author used the “uses and gratification theory” to explain how sufferers gravitate toward and participate in damaging social media platforms to prolong their ED. Young females suffering from ED reported using social media as part of their daily lives and reported negative impacts from this influence such as trouble with school, relationships, negative self-esteem, guilt, depression and body image dissatisfaction. The implications of these findings are discussed throughout the paper. It was concluded that thinspiration and pro ana social media represent a powerful and often damaging communication medium for those suffering from ED and can be a contributing factor to the severity and length of disordered eating.

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Rajendran, Gnanathusharan. "Computer-mediated communication in autism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12030/.

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The aim of this thesis was to examine linguistic and social processing in autism and Asperger syndrome (AS), through computer-mediated communication. The first investigation used conversational analysis, on a corpus of computer-mediated dialogue, generated by two adults with AS. The results revealed that one of the two individuals had problems asking questions. Hence, an inability to ask questions may be one aspect of AS communication, though it may be not universal in this population. The second study used a computer program called Bubble Dialogue (Gray, Creighton, McMahon & Cunningham, 1991) to investigate the working understanding of nonliteral language and responses to inappropriate requests in individuals with AS and high-functioning autism (HFA). The AS/HFA group showed poorer understanding of a figure of speech and were more likely to consent to socially inappropriate requests compared to their typically developing peers. In contrast, understanding of sarcasm was predicted neither by verbal ability, executive ability nor clinical diagnosis. The results suggest that having AS/HFA does not, a priori, dispose someone to having problems with communication and socialisation, and that verbal ability protects the individual to a certain extent. Additionally, executive ability also seems important in mediating socialisation and communication ability. The third experiment tested the hypothesis that an autistic preference for internet-based communication may be due to the absence of verbal and non verbal cues, physical distance, and slower rate of information exchange through that medium. To test this, participants worked out predetermined map routes by asking the experimenter closed questions either via text chat, or through telephone conversations. An initial examination of the results suggested that AS performance may in fact have been better via the telephone. However, a detailed look at the strategies employed by some individuals with AS suggests that their executive problems may have resulted in their use of a less than systematic way to solve the task in both media. The results of this study also indicate a relation between executive and mentalising ability because both are required to solve the task. Interestingly, many of the participants with AS could generate novel closed questions to successfully solve the map task in both media, though they were slower than controls. Using computer mediated communication has therefore given us greater detail into the nature of, and the factors that influence, communication in autism.

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