Thèses : « Communication and action »

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Milić, Marko. « Psychosemiotics : communication as psychological action ». Thesis, View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35214.

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The investigation of semiosis calls for an interdisciplinary approach. A realist logical framework emphasising the triadic nature of semiosis is the optimal foundation for critically examining and integrating aspects of quantitative psychology, the interpretative-qualitative tradition in the social sciences, structuralist semiotics, and functional-contextual semiotics. While several aspects of each of these fields can be successfully integrated into a psychosemiotic model, each also suffers from key conceptual flaws which need to be addressed as a prerequisite to an interdisciplinary approach. The structuralist school of semiotics—and the functionalist approaches that have evolved from it—show problematic tendencies to reduce the triadic relationship of semiosis to relationships within systems of signifiers. On the other hand, mainstream schools of psychology, with their narrow commitment to the operationalisation and quantification of variables, leave little room for the qualitative concept of semiosis. Moreover, the phenomenon of intentional action, which is crucial in understanding semiosis, is ignored or marginalised in both mainstream psychology and the qualitative-interpretative traditions of the social sciences. Mainstream psychology marginalises intentional action in favour of observable behaviour. The qualitative-interpretative tradition marginalises intentional action in favour of situational conventions governing action. In the psychosemiotic model that emerges from an engagement with these problems, semiosis is an intentional action that can be investigated in a scientific framework where the contextual factors of culture, social structure and social situation are taken into account. The descriptive and explanatory powers of the psychosemiotic model can be illustrated with analyses of specific cases of semiotic action in social and cultural contexts.

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Milić, Marko. « Psychosemiotics communication as psychological action / ». View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/35214.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--University of Western Sydney, 2008.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, School of Psychology, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology). Includes bibliographies.

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Rintala, Maja. « Democratic participation on digital conditions : communication challenges and opportunities for collective action organizations ». Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-185462.

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This thesis examines how communication technology is used for creating a democratic and committed participation within collective action organizations (CAOs). This is achieved by illuminating how organizations' structure and culture relate to their communication. It’s done by in-depth interviews with network-based movements and association-based organizations, and analyses of their digital newsletters. The analysis is based on affordance-driven theory, capturing the interaction between organizations and their digital platforms. The focus lies on how internal democracy and collective action are afforded or constrained to some degrees. Degrees of deliberation for creating common ground and active participation are made visible by using the concept of communicative action. Theories within social movement studies, such as collective action, broaden the understanding of how the perception of digital tools shapes and is shaped by their structure and culture. The results show that the usage and coordination of communication channels is essential for the practice of internal democracy in everyday work, beyond annual meetings and board meetings. Independent chat-based platforms enable an increased control of conversations, cooperation and coordination, while information overload and effective decision- making processes can hinder democratic participation. Commercial social media platforms such as Facebook enables new flows of engagement and connectivity but constrains coordination and control of the framing process within Facebook groups. Additionally, unpredictable algorithms and advertising policy on Facebook makes it difficult to reach out. Overall, the study suggests a broadened view of communication, where communication and usage of digital media should not be considered as instrumental entities. Rather, it is strongly related to how channels are being coordinated, how organizations are organized and the view of participation. Formal structures can both hinder and enable increased communicative action that contributes to democratic participation.

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Dearden, Jackie. « Introducing facilitated communication training : an action research project ». Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11136/.

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Background: Facilitated Communication Training (FCT) is a controversial approach to supporting people with severe communication difficulties. It is one method of supporting Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). It has the potential for enabling people with severe language impairments to access communication aids. The local education authority had experience of enabling a non-verbal young person with cerebral palsy who uses FCT to access mainstream education and were open to exploring whether other young people could benefit from this support. Aims: To explore ways of introducing FCT within the local authority in order to enhance the communication of young people who had been identified as not having had access to the means of reaching their communication potential. Method: An action research approach resulted in the implementation of a pilot project. AAC/FCT was introduced to a group of seven pupils and the adults who support them through a training and support programme. A case study methodology was used to analyse the outcomes for pupils and adults. Results: Action research was found to support the introduction of FCT. Some pupils showed significant gains through access to AAC/FCT. The majority of adults reported changes in their knowledge, use and attitudes towards AAC/FCT. Many attributed this to an increased belief in pupils' potential. Conclusions: Action research is an effective process in supporting change. There is a theoretical basis for explaining why FCT supports some pupils. The discourse used to describe FCT could be further supported by using theories that take account of context (mediated learning and activity theory) and could contribute to changing the negative historical and socio-cultural discourse associated with FCT. An effective training and ongoing support programme lead to changes in adults' practise.

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King, Maia. « Collective action in networks : communication, cooperation and redistribution ». Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/30711.

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A person's friends, neighbours and other social relationships can have a large impact on their economic outcomes. We examine three important ways that networks can affect people's lives: when networks describe who they communicate with, who they can trust, and who benefits from their public good provision. We analyse information transmission in networks in a new, intuitive way which removes the problematic redundancy of double counting the signals that travel through more than one walk between nodes. Two-connectedness and cycles of length four play an important role in whether players are `visible', which means that other players can communicate about them. Next, using this approach to network communication, we investigate cooperation and punishment in a society where information flows about cheating are determined by an arbitrary fixed network. We identify which players can trust and cooperate with each other in a repeated game where members of a community are randomly matched in pairs. Our model shows how two aspects of trust depend on players' network position: they are `trusting' if they are more likely to receive information about other players' types; and they are `trusted' if others can communicate about them, giving them strong incentives not to deviate. Lastly, in networks with private provision of public goods, we show that a `neutral' policy corresponds to a switch in the direction of the impact of income redistribution. Where redistribution is non- neutral, we can identify the welfare effects of transfers, including whether or not Pareto-improving transfers are possible. If not, we find the implicit welfare weights of the original equilibrium. In this setting, we also identify a transfer paradox, where, counter-intuitively, a transfer of wealth between economic agents can result in the giver being better off at the new Nash equilibrium, while the recipient is worse off.

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Gilman, Todd Nathaniel. « Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology ». PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4906.

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This thesis proposes that feminist social and political theory adopt the epistemology inherent in Jurgen Habermas's communicative ethics in order to more coherently work toward the goal of freeing individuals from social oppression. This thesis first examines the fundamental differences that exist between the particular claims for knowledge made by the three major schools of feminist theory; the empirical feminists, the standpoint feminists, and those allied with postmodernism. After illuminating the specifics of these feminist claims, the conception of knowledge central to Habermas's thought is explored and shown to be split into three distinct realms; the objective, the social, and the subjective. It is shown that the three realms of Habermas's knowledge account for the underlying claims of the differing groups of feminist theory, and provide a basis for reconciling the differences between them. Habermas's objective realm of knowledge corresponds to the concerns of empirically oriented feminists. A need for an accurate description of the events and conditions of the actual world is shared by both, as is a trust in the human potential for grasping these objects and events accurately. Standpoint feminism's concern for interpersonal relations, accounting for the context of an individual's or group's existence, is reflected in the type of knowledge that Habermas considers social in nature. Habermas's conception of our capacity for social knowledge, which guides our actions with other human beings, is shown to be dependent upon both social existence and communication. Finally, Habermas acknowledges the human potential for critical knowledge to explain the individual's ability to differentiate herself from the group, a task which a postmodern feminism demands to avoid essentializing any aspect of women. If feminist theory is able to move beyond the entrenched differences that it now finds itself locked within, perhaps then it will be able to continue with the project shared with Habermas, that of providing a meaningful emancipation for human beings.

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Stiles, Siobahn Tara. « Feminist communicative action : Examining the role of "being heard" in a rehabilitation program for prostitutes ». Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/274482.

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Media & Communication
Ph.D.
This research project applies feminist revisions of Habermas's theory of communicative action to evaluate levels of participation in individually-based development programs through the case study of one such program. Utilizing a triangulated methodology of participant observation, interviews, and discourse analysis, combined with considerations of feminist ethical issues, this research study examines the role of dialogue and "being heard" in the recovery and rehabilitation of women who used prostitution to feed chemical addiction. I utilize a "feminist communicative action" to evaluate a unique type of development program: one aimed at individual development. In addition, this project assesses the place of human communication, emotions, and community in the sustainability of such recovery programs.
Temple University--Theses

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Humphries, Stacey Alexandra. « Gestural communication in Parkinson's disease : language, action and cognition ». Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.692611.

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition which results in severe motor impairment. Deterioration in multiple domains of cognition is another hallmark of PD. Together, these motor and cognitive impairments impact substantially on language and communication. Co-speech gestures are a form of action and are also part of linguistic processes, yet have rarely been explored in PD. Gestures can provide imagistic depictions of concepts described by speech and contribute to communication in healthy individuals. They rely on visual, spatial, and motor simulations and imagery, which may be impaired in PD. It is therefore of clinical importance to evaluate how co-speech gestures might be impaired to understand the extent of communicative impairment in PD. PD can also provide a useful model to understanding the cognitive basis of co-speech gesture in healthy people. In Chapter 2, participants described isolated actions. Gesture rate did not differ between the two groups, however, the groups differed in terms of the visual perspective they adopted when depicting actions in gesture. Controls preferred a “character viewpoint” or first-person perspective where their hands represented the hands of the actor, whereas PD patients preferred an “observer viewpoint” or third-person perspective, where their hand represented a whole person. This finding was replicated and extended in Chapter 3 where low-motion and high-motion actions were described in a longer narrative task. PD patients produced fewer character viewpoint gestures when describing high-motion action events, suggesting a difficulty in simulating these events from a first-person perspective. In addition, PD patients had difficult depicting “manner” (how an action is performed) features in gesture during high but not low motion. Extending the findings of Chapter 2, whilst overall rate of gesture production was not affected, PD patients produced action gestures at a significantly lower rate than controls. Chapter 4 took a different focus by investigating gesture depictions of static spatial (rather than dynamic action) features via a house description task. Gesture rate did not differ, but the groups depicted different types of spatial properties to a different extent. Whilst both groups predominantly gestured about location and relative position information, PD patients gestured more about directions whereas controls gestures more about shape and size information. This suggests that different strategies were being employed by the two groups. Finally, testing young adults’ comprehension of these spatial gestures in Chapter 5 revealed that gestures did not significantly improve comprehension of either PD patients’ or controls’ spoken messages, though there may have been ceiling effects. However, both PD patients and controls were viewed as more competent when their messages were viewed with gestures. The findings suggest a selective action-gesture deficit in PD which complements work demonstrating action-verb impairments in these patients, and supports gesture production theories which hypothesise a role for motor simulations and imagery. Overall gesture rate appears to be largely unaffected. The effects of PD can be felt beyond changes to goal-directed action, in the realms of language and social behaviour, but gestures may be able to improve listeners’ social perceptions of PD patients.

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Krol, Anna. « La dimension éthique de la communication langagière : tentative de construction d'un modèle éthique de la communication ». Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAP001/document.

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La problématique de mes recherches porte sur le langage – plus particulièrement, la communication humaine dans la perspective interdisciplinaire. Ainsi mes recherches puisent dans la philosophie (la philosophie du langage, l’éthique), la sociologie (Goffman, Mead), la psychologie (Piaget, Kohlberg, Watzlawick), la sociolinguistique, la linguistique (Jakobson, Buhler), la communication (Craig, McQuail) la neuroéthique (Patricia Churchland, Martha J. Farah). Cette « mosaïque » disciplinaire a pour objectif d’étudier la complexité de la communication interpersonnelle sous plusieurs points de vue afin de bien déterminer ses éléments « techniquement » constitutifs. Ceci permettra d’établir un groupe des facteurs qui jouent un rôle important dans la constitution de l’éthique de la communication
The problematic of my research concerns language - in particular, human communication in the interdisciplinary perspective. My research is based on philosophy (philosophy of language, ethics), sociology (Goffman, Mead), psychology (Piaget, Kohlberg, Watzlawick), sociolinguistics, linguistics (Jakobson, Buhler) Craig, McQuail) neuroethics (Patricia Churchland, Martha J. Farah). This disciplinary "mosaic" aims to study the complexity of interpersonal communication from several points of view in order to determine its "technically" constitutive elements. This will help establish a group of factors that play an important role in shaping the ethics of communication

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Bouaouli, Souad. « Aspects de la communication de catastrophe dans une société à tradition orale : entre action civique et action institutionnelle ». Thesis, Paris 10, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA100162/document.

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Quand les moyens techniques et professionnels deviennent inefficaces devant l’ampleur d’une catastrophe, les dispositifs sociaux in situ parviennent eux à sous tendre les interventions d’aide et de soutien nécessaires à la résilience. A long terme, ces structures sociales contribuent à la survivance culturelle et historique du lieu sinistré. Les deux enquêtes menées sur les inondations de Bab El Oued (novembre 2001) et le séisme de Boumerdes/Alger (mai 2003) en Algérie, ont servi de matière première à la présente étude réalisée au sein d’une équipe de chercheurs du laboratoire Cris Séries de Paris X Nanterre. Cette étude met en évidence un aspect particulier de l’anthropologie de la communication : la communication orale « en milieu désorganisé », son rôle dans la gestion des catastrophes et ses problèmes induits par les logiques d’action et rationalités propres à la situation. Dans un premier temps, l’hypothèse de travail utilisée est confirmée par les résultats qui démontrent que la culture orale, par ses caractéristiques permettant la proximité, la mobilité et la réciprocité, offre les moyens nécessaires aux populations pour affronter la crise et les difficultés. C’est dire que, les représentations collectives partagées au sein de la société favorisent non seulement, la création d’espaces de communication collectifs mais aussi, de contenus communs facilitant les échanges d’idées, de sentiments et les actions convergentes, etc. En Algérie, terrain de notre enquête, un ensemble de normes, de codes, de pratiques spécifiques, etc. gère cette communication et lui attribue un aspect spécifique. Il en découle que devant la catastrophe, les diverses manifestations de cette culture populaire ont pu résister et surmonter les épreuves du temps. La situation de crise apparait dans ce cas, comme un cadre organisateur de la communication et par conséquent de l’action. Car les individus cherchent l’information, la traitent, la vérifient et la contre vérifient à l’intérieur de leurs cercles. En somme, ils organisent l’information et la diffusent en tenant compte de l’évolution de la crise et en utilisant des procédés typiques tels que le bricolage et l’improvisation. Dans un deuxième temps, la crise renforce le sentiment d’appartenance identitaire et laisse apparaître différentes rationalités. En effet, les logiques d’action lors d’une crise, sont multiples et différentes. De ce fait, l’action est autant définie par les orientations normatives et culturelles des acteurs que par la nature des relations sociales. L’articulation entre ces deux dimensions complémentaires constitue donc, une logique d’action. Or, cette logique n’est souvent pas prise en compte lors des interventions des professionnels de la gestion de ’urgence. Ces derniers adoptent des méthodes et techniques d’intervention qui accordent peu d’importance à ces spécificités, rendant leurs tâches sur le terrain plus contraignantes et générant des problèmes de communication. Il ressort que ces dispositifs connaissent de sérieuses difficultés dans la gestion des situations d’urgence, les mettant face à une réalité du terrain qui ne répond pas ou peu à leurs méthodes strictes et rigides. De même, ils participent à installer de nouvelles contraintes en limitant l’accès à l’information de première nécessité mais aussi, l’accès au savoir et aux formations. Or, l’accès à l’information implique nécessairement l’accès à la formation et aux savoirs. Non seulement la pauvreté matérielle mais aussi les carences informationnelles contribuent à maintenir élevée la vulnérabilité d’une population car elles creusent l’écart entre l’information experte et celle à caractère expérientiel, les deux étant essentielles à l’efficacité de tout plan de communication de crise
When the technical and professional tools become ineffective to the extent of a disaster, the social arrangements in situ reach them by stretching aid interventions and support necessary for resilience. In the long term, these social structures contribute to the survival of cultural and history of the place affected. The two investigations into the flooding of Bab El Oued (November 2001) and the earthquake in Boumerdes / Algeria (May 2003) in Algeria, were used as raw material for this study as part of a team of researchers from the laboratory Cris Series de Paris X Nanterre. This study highlights a particular aspect of the anthropology of communication: oral communication "in disarray", its role in disaster management and its problems induced by the logic of action and rationality to the situation. In a first step, the working hypothesis used is confirmed by the results showing that the oral culture, by its proximity to, mobility and reciprocity provides the necessary means to the people to confront the crisis and hardship. This means that the collective representations shared in society promote not only the creation of communication but also, common content for the exchange of ideas, feelings and actions converge, ect. In Algeria, our field investigation, a set of standards, codes, specific practices, etc.. manages this communication and give to it a specific aspect. It follows that before the disaster, the various manifestations of popular culture have been able to resist and overcome the time tests. The crisis appears in this case, as an organizer of the communication and therefore of the action. Because persons are seeking for the information, deal it,check it and check it against in their circles. In summary, they organize the information and diffuse it in taking consideration of the crisis evolution and using typical processes such as “do it yourself” and improvisation. In a second step, the crisis strengthens the sense of identity and reveals different rationalities. Indeed, the action logics in a crisis are many and various. Therefore, the action is defined by the normative and cultural orientations of actors than by the nature of social relations. The relationship between these two complementary dimensions is, therefore, a logic action. However, this logic is often not taken into account at the professional interventions of emergency management. These, adopt methods and intervention techniques which give little importance to these characteristics, making their tasks on the ground more stringent and generating communication problems. It appears that these devices have face significant challenges in the management of emergencies, putting them face to the reality on the ground which does not or little adequate to their strict and rigid methods. They are involved in installing new problems by limiting access to essential information but also access to knowledge and training. However, access to information requires access to training and knowledge. Not only material poverty but also the deficiencies in information contribute to maintain high vulnerability of a population as it widens the gap between popular information and expert information, both being essential to effectiveness of any communication plan crisis

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Kaniamattam, Monica. « Communication Partner Training for Parents of Children with Communication Disorders| A Participatory Action Research Study ». Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10814914.

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Parents and speech language pathologist (SLP) typically establish and maintain hierarchical relationships which ascribe excessive authority to the therapist, thus limiting the possibilities for dialogue and mutual learning. The SLPs discussions of children?s communication development often fail to acknowledge the contributions that parents can make, based on their knowledge and experiences with children at home. Neglecting parents? voices in communication intervention means the parents? critical role in supporting children?s communication development is overlooked. By investigating with parents their perspectives on children?s communication facilitation and social interaction experiences in and out of the home environment, this study sought to understand the relationships between parent?s beliefs and practices for communication facilitation and to model processes by which parents and SLP?s develop a reciprocal dialogue. This study draws insights into how parent initiated communication facilitation and social interaction for children with complex communication needs (CCNs) in a rural rehabilitation center in Kerala can be improved through examining a collaboratively created communication partner training program for parents and used a participatory action research approach centered on cooperative inquiry. Six parents of children younger than 6.5 years with CCNs, joined me in a six-month long co-investigation. Individually and collectively we raised questions, observed, documented, and reflected on communication facilitation strategies in and out of the homes. Weekly meetings were held involving all the participants and occasionally with individual families. Data sources included research diaries written by myself about parent?s experiences, audiotapes of meetings, participants? reflective journal entries, and children?s communication profiles constructed jointly by parents and the researcher. When children?s communication was documented based on children?s communication at home, we observed a wide variety that was not assessed in the standard communication assessments. The study?s findings provide evidence that parents can be a rich resource for SLPs and researchers. The data reveal the perceptions and practices of parents for communication facilitation. It also shows some of the real-life challenges for communication and interaction facilitation. Parents raised issues about current practices in communication interventions, misunderstandings about speech therapy, and training/teaching and learning relationships. This suggests that organizing parent training programs based on western models would be inappropriate. Through the parent practitioner research process, we were able to develop and introduce `conversation books? as a way for viewing the child as a communication partner and to provide more interaction opportunities for the children viewed as `sick child.? This process provides further evidence for the importance of including parents? knowledge and experience in the design of effective learning contexts for their children. These findings suggest that beyond the currently existent routine clinician-parent meeting (5 minute or lesser sessions, of giving instructions to parents), alternative structures for dialogue with practitioners are needed that allow for parents? critical reflection and substantive contributions to the children?s communication intervention plans.

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McQuesten, Pamela Ann. « Human action in mass communication : a complex adaptive systems approach / ». Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Balestibaud-Monseigne, Annick. « La participation et l"homme politique local : une approche interactionniste : entre communication digitale et communication analogique ». Bordeaux 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BOR30073.

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Notre recherche vise à analyser la pratique de l’utilisation du concept participatif dans le discours de l’Homme politique local. Le choix de la participation, habituellement analysé à partir des conditions objectives de crise de légitimation du système politique, est ici interrogé à partir du comportement de l’Homme politique qui la met en oeuvre. Pour ne pas nous enfermer dans un fonctionnalisme pratique, nous avons souhaité prendre de la distance avec les discours managériaux et politiques tournés vers leur propre finalité et comprendre le phénomène dans toute sa complexité. C’est par le biais d’un processus dialectique entre exploration théorique et connaissance empirique que ce travail a progressivement cheminé vers son objet de recherche. Entre le rationnel et le sensible l’approche déployée vise la recherche de structures interactionnelles multidimensionnelles, en restant toujours à l’écoute de l’imprévisible et du non-dit. Entre communication digitale et communication analogique, le face à face de l’Homme politique local avec la participation prend en compte les interactions à la fois verbales appliquées au contenu et non verbales. Entre recherche et action, la méthodologie utilisée, fondée sur une « opération en pince » des fondamentaux et des observations, mobilise un cadre rigoureux, une démarche heuristique et une vigilance épistémologique. Cette recherche sur la mise en oeuvre de la participation par le politique, entendue dans sa dimension stratégique et ontologique, ouvre des pistes qui aideront à comprendre les processus d’interactions communicationnelles mis en place par l’Homme politique local en direction du citoyen et à penser la communication des organisations publiques
Our research aims to analyse the pratice of the using participatory concept in Political Local discourse. The choice of participation usually analysed from the objective conditions of crisis of legitimacy of political system is here, examined through the politician‘s behavior which is set up. In order to unlock ourselves in a functionnalism practice, we had to keep distance with managerial and political discourses turned to their own purpose and we had to understand the phenomenom in its all complexity. It is through a dialectical process between theoritical exploration and empirical knowledge that this work has steadly progressed towards its research’s object. Between the rational and sensible, deployed research is the search of interactional and multidimentional structures always remaining attentive to the impredictible and unsaid. Between digital communication and analogical communication, the confrontation of the local Politican towards participation takes to account interactions both applied to verbal and unverbal meaning. Between research and action, the methodology which is used is based on fondamentals « operation pincer » and comments, mobilizes a rigourous frame work, an heuristic step and an epistemological alertness. The research based on the implementation of political participation understood in its strategic and ontological dimension, opens path to help the understanding of communcative interactional process,established by the local Politician towards citizens and also the thinking statement of public organization

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Feller, Amanda Elizabeth. « Dialogue and Critical Thinking in Personal Action ». PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4962.

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A common criticism of U.S. citizens today, whether as voters or students or workers, is that they are "lazy and apathetic". It is important to explore the validity of this criticism. This thesis begins with the premise that there are two prerequisites for citizenship in a democracy: (1) that citizens be willing to participate and (2) that citizens are able to participate. The purpose of this research is to examine a particular set of perspectives regarding social conditions which consistently impact the two aforementioned prerequisites. This examination addresses social conditions that undermine a person's ability to participate meaningfully and it addresses perspectives on alternative social conditions which support personal action. Included in this set of perspectives are relevant concepts and ideas derived from Socrates, John Locke, Karl Marx, Anthony Giddens, and Michael Lerner. These prominent thinkers provide likely, but not exclusive examples of how certain themes commonly emerge regarding social conditions and their relationship to communication. Each of these sources, in different ways and to different degrees, demonstrates how social conditions commonly encourage ideology that can undermine personal action. Additionally, each theorist indicates the need for dialogue and critical thinking to penetrate these social conditions and ideologies, thus providing the keys to encouraging personal action. Once established, the potential for dialogue and critical thinking is discussed with regard to several important social arenas and systems of American culture: mass media, education, the workplace, and government. The true test of whether or not Americans are willing to participate depends upon the nature and extent of their ability to participate. As the promotion of dialogue and critical thinking is necessary to assure the second, an exploration of these capacities is necessary to begin assessing the first.

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Salter, Andrew M. « A normative approach to modelling action and communication in organisational processes ». Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402740.

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Khan, Muhammad Sikandar Lal. « Enabling physical action in computer mediated communication : an embodied interaction approach ». Licentiate thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108569.

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Bowdon, Melody Anne. « An ethic of action : Specific feminism, service learning, and technical communication ». Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289001.

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This dissertation contains three major arguments. First, teaching ethics in technical communications courses is worthwhile. Chapter One, a review of literature on ethics in technical communication maps books and articles into three categories: theoretical, case study, and pedagogical approaches. It summarizes ways in which major textbooks address ethics and calls for a pedagogy that combines the benefits of all three approaches. Chapter Two provides the theoretical and philosophical groundwork for a "pedagogy of action," based on an ethical stance called "specific feminism" located in a conversation among feminine, feminist, and discourse ethics perspectives. The chapter addresses work by theorists such as Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings, Judith Butler, Iris Marion Young, Jurgen Habermas, and Alisdair MacIntyre. Specific feminism emerges as an ethic of deliberation and action. The second major argument is that in order to effectively "teach" ethics in technical communication and fulfill their social responsibilities, instructors must be involved in their communities as local intellectuals. Chapter Three begins with an argument about the nature of the public intellectual, drawing on ideas from Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, and Paulo Freire. The chapter ends with a case study of the author's own work as a technical writer for a local AIDS prevention program. The final major argument is that the best way for teachers to bring ethics into the technical writing classroom is through service learning. Chapter Four includes an overview of service learning in composition and describes "the seduction of empathy," a dangerous pattern of substituting emotional response for action in service experiences. This chapter includes case studies of students who used a specific feminist perspective to help them move beyond personal reactions to their service learning experiences, converting their empathy into social action. Chapter Five includes an analysis a popular approach to teaching ethics in technical writing, the hypothetical scenario/case study method, and argues that this model is not as effective as one based on service learning. It describes a semester-long method for bringing ethics into the technical writing classroom and argues that service learning gives students opportunities to apply ethical frameworks they articulate through discussions of theories and case studies.

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Phear, Nicolette. « Creating Space| Engaging Deliberation about Climate Action ». Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3642993.

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In the United States public discourse, climate change is often framed as a polarized and intractable issue. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore deliberation about climate action, and to evaluate whether effective responses to climate change can be facilitated through new structures and processes that enable and encourage dialogue on the subject of how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Working with sustainability leaders at the University of Montana and in the community of Missoula, Montana, the author convened three public deliberations, in which a variety of solutions to climate change were discussed. Three questions guided this study: 1) what motivated individuals to engage in deliberation about climate action; 2) how did individual engagement vary and affect the quality of the deliberation; and 3) how effective were the deliberations in building a sense of individual agency and generating collaborative action strategies to address climate change. Based on a rigorous statistical analysis of survey responses combined with qualitative data, this action research study offers a holistic exploration of the three deliberative events convened. The deliberative processes generated collaborative action strategies and increased participants' sense of agency to take action on climate change; the findings also revealed differences in the ways individuals engaged and affected the quality of the overall group deliberation. This dissertation contributes to the literature on collaborative responses and collective action on climate change, broadens understanding of deliberative processes, and provides new insight into opportunities for leading deliberation about climate action.

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Almujaibel, Naser Bader. « CHANGING A SYSTEM FROM WITHIN : APPLYING THE THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION FOR FUNDAMENTAL POLICY CHANGES IN KUWAIT ». Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/508399.

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Media & Communication
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Political legitimacy is a fundamental problem in the modern state. According to Habermas (1973), current legitimation methods are losing the sufficiency needed to support political systems and decisions. In response, Habermas (1987) developed the theory of communicative action as a new method for establishing political legitimacy. The current study applies the communicative action theory to Kuwait’s current political transformation. This study addresses the nature of the foundation of Kuwait, the regional situation, the internal political context, and the current economic challenges. The specific political transformation examined in this study is a national development project known as Vision of 2035 supported by the Amir as the head of the state. The project aims to develop a third of Kuwait’s land and five islands as special economic zones (SEZ). The project requires new legislation that would fundamentally change the political and economic identity of the country. The study applies the communicative action theory in order to achieve a mutual understanding between different groups in Kuwait regarding the project’s features and the legislation required to achieve them.
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Stephens, Davey L. « Studying communication as social experience : a reflexive methodology for the explication of practical reasoning and speech action / ». Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1995.

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McNeill, Kathryn Bond. « Communication cues to action prompting central Appalachian women to have a mammogram ». [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0430104-084147/unrestricted/McNeill061704f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0430104-084147 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Oei, Lily. « An action research on improving communication satisfaction among teachers in a local secondary school ». Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21183740.

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Bowerbank, Joel. « Facebook and Communicative Action : The Power of Social Media During the 2011 Egyptian Revolution ». Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24080.

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Social media had an impactful role in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Facebook as a public sphere space was used as a powerful tool to enhance communicative action among Egyptians, dissidents, and global observers. Drawing on the philosophical and theoretical notions of individuality and the responsibilities of the state of John Locke (1689; 1690), Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762); the public sphere and communicative action of Jürgen Habermas (1981; 1989); and Manuel Castells network society and new public sphere (2004; 2006; 2008), this thesis empirically investigates the role of social media, specifically Facebook, during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Theories and concepts including the strength of weak ties, social movement theory, and Internet and organizational theory, a discussion of recent writings from both sides of the spectrum—those believing social media to hold power and those with the opposite view—inform the theoretical foundation of this thesis. The primary purpose of this thesis is to better understand what power lies in Facebook as used during the Egyptian Revolution. Using a qualitative approach, a methodological frame is employed to examine both the form and content of Facebook posts. This study concludes three major findings regarding the social power of Facebook during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: the power of attention and momentum, the power of cooperation, and the creation of a repository of information and communication.

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Kiran, Asle H. « The Primacy of Action : Technological co-constitution of practical space ». Doctoral thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for språk- og kommunikasjonsstudier, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-5586.

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Lienhard, Hannah [Verfasser]. « And action ! : How “inhibitory” oscillatory activity shapes motor network communication / Hannah Lienhard ». Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1098136322/34.

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MUNISI, HAWA ISSA. « Studying Business Communication Patterns Using Action Research ; Case of Tanzanian Companies' Experience ». Kyoto University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/142156.

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Kittichokechai, Kittipong. « Communication With Reconstruction and Privacy Constraints ». Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kommunikationsteori, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-145134.

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Communication networks are an integral part of the Internet of Things (IoT) era. They enable endless opportunities for connectivity in a wide range of applications, leading to advances in efficiency of day-to-day life. While creating opportunities, they also incur several new challenges. In general, we wish to design a system that performs optimally well in all aspects. However, there usually exist competing objectives which lead to tradeoffs. In this thesis, driven by several applications, new features and objectives are included into the system model, making it closer to reality and needs. The results presented in this thesis aim at providing insight into the fundamental tradeoff of the system performance which can serve as a guideline for the optimal design of real-world communication systems. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part considers the aspect of signal reconstruction requirement as a new objective in the source and channel coding problems. In this part, we consider the framework where the quality and/or availability of the side information can be influenced by a cost-constrained action sequence. In the source coding problem, we impose a constraint on the reconstruction sequence at the receiver that it should be reproduced at the sender, and characterize the fundamental tradeoff in the form of the rate-distortion-cost region, revealing the optimal relation between compression rate, distortion, and action cost. The channel coding counterpart is then studied where a reconstruction constraint is imposed on the channel input sequence such that it should be reconstructed at the receiver. An extension to the multi-stage channel coding problem is also considered where inner and outer bounds to the capacity region are given. The result on the channel capacity reveals interesting consequence of imposing an additional reconstruction requirement on the system model which has a causal processing structure. In the second part, we consider the aspect of information security and privacy in lossy source coding problems. The sender wishes to compress the source sequence in order to satisfy a distortion criterion at the receiver, while revealing only limited knowledge about the source to an unintended user. We consider three different aspects of information privacy. First, we consider privacy of the source sequence against the eavesdropper in the problem of source coding with action-dependent side information. Next, we study privacy of the source sequence due to the presence of a public helper in distributed lossy source coding problems. The public helper is assumed to be either a user who provides side information over a public link which can be eavesdropped, or a legitimate user in the network who helps to relay information to the receiver, but may not ignore the information that is not intended for it. Lastly, we take on a new perspective of information privacy in the source coding problem. That is, instead of protecting the source sequence, we are interested in the privacy of the reconstruction sequence with respect to a user in the system. For above settings, we provide the complete characterization of the rate-distortion(-cost)-leakage/equivocation region or corresponding inner and outer bounds for discrete memoryless systems.

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Beauzamy, Brigitte. « La créativité altermondialiste : discours, organisation, action directe ». Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0140.

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La thèse porte sur les pratiques créatives à l'œuvre dans certains groupes altermondialistes, à la lumière d'un rapport entre discours et action qui se transforme au cours de l'histoire de ces mouvements. Au cours de leur brève existence, les mouvements altermondialistes ont connu une croissance rapide, mais ont été confrontés à des problèmes qui les ont fait entrer en crise. On examine les conditions et les contraintes pesant sur cette créativité dans trois sphères d'exercice: le discours, les structures organisationnelles et l'action directe. Le rapport au discours politique des altermondialistes se situe d'emblée en tension avec d'autres discours anti-mondialisation. Sur le plan organisationnel, les mouvements mettent volontiers en avant leur spécificité, en s'appuyant sur une éthique du pluralisme politique qui conduit à considérer comme un atout la diversité interne des positions politiques. Pour eux, l'action directe apparaît comme conjuguant l'efficacité à une définition de la protestation plurielle, ouverte et démocratique. De fait, cette définition de l'action directe pose immédiatement des problèmes et occasionne des tensions internes
The dissertation studies creative practices within certain alter-globalization movements in a context marked by a changing relationship between discourse and action. During their brief history, alter-globalization movements have grown rapidly but they have met with some challenges which prompted their crisis. The aim is to examine the conditions and the constraints which shape this creativity in three realms: discourse, organizational structures and direct action. The movements' relation to discourse is marked by a tension with other anti-discrimination discourses. On the organizational level, the movements are keen on emphasizing their specificity by drawing on an ethics of political pluralism which leads them to consider the internaI diversity of political orientations as a strength. For them, direct action appears to conjugate efficiency with a plural, open and democratic form of protest. However, this definition meets with problems and leads to internaI tension

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Marty, Stéphanie. « Communication et processus décisionnel : le choix du film des jeunes publics au cinéma ». Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20045/document.

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Le cinéma est, depuis sa création, au centre des débats qui animent les sociétés. Il attise la curiosité et l’intérêt d’une multitude d’individus : des publics, des critiques, des acteurs économiques, des professionnels, des chercheurs… Ces derniers s’intéressent aux publics, à leurs pratiques, et y consacrent de nombreux travaux. Pourtant, malgré le volume foisonnant de publications, une question reste entière : comment les publics choisissent-ils leur film au cinéma ? L’approche des publics reste parcellaire et le choix du film reste inexploré, alors qu’il préoccupe un ensemble d’acteurs, qui multiplient les initiatives pour intervenir dans ce choix, l’équiper ou l’orienter. La présente recherche entend remédier à ce paradoxe, en cherchant à mettre au jour les logiques sous-jacentes du processus de choix du film mené par les jeunes publics au cinéma. Ancrée dans une démarche exploratoire et compréhensive, elle envisage ce choix dans une perspective communicationnelle, qui prend en compte sa complexité et l’étudie de manière globale et transversale. Nous appréhendons le choix en train de se faire, au cinéma ; cette perspective permet de porter un regard distancié sur les théories dominantes mobilisées sur le cinéma et sur la décision, notamment en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication. Elle nous permet de comprendre combien le choix du film des publics est une action située, qui dépend du contexte et des circonstances du moment. En outre, en articulant le théorique et l’empirique, et en donnant la part belle à une triangulation de données, notre démarche délivre des clefs pour comprendre les processus de choix en particulier, et les processus décisionnels en général
Since its creation, cinema is at the heart of discussions within societies. It arouses curiosity and attracts interest from many: publics, critics, professionals, main economic actors, researchers… While these latter have contributed to a huge amount of works based on cinema’s audiences and practices, only one question remains: How cinema audiences make their film selection? Although many actors and initiatives are developed to help, support, advice and orient the audiences, the approach and the decision-making process of a movie remain misunderstood and unexplored. This research aims to remedy to this contradiction, by highlighting the underlying motivations present in the decision-making process of the young cinema audience. Anchored in a both exploratory and comprehensive process-based approach, this research conceives this process in a communicational perspective by taking in account its complexity, and by analyzing it globally and transversally. We study the “on-going decision-making process” – the decision “as practice” - made inside the cinema. This perspective allows having a look distant from the dominants theories. Furthermore, by articulating theoretical and empirical points of view, and by giving special attention to the triangulation of data, our approach delivers keys to rightfully understand the decision-making process in general and in particular

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Kring, Jason P. « Communication Modality and After Action Review Performance in a Distributed Immersive Virtual Environment ». Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4389.

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Technological innovations in data transfer and communication have given rise to the virtual team where geographically separate individuals interact via one or more technologies to combine efforts on a collective activity. In military, business, and spaceflight settings, virtual teams are increasingly used in training and operational activities; however there are important differences between these virtual collaborations and more traditional face-to-face (FTF) interactions. One concern is the absence of FTF contact may alter team communication and cooperation and subsequently affect overall team performance. The present research examined this issue with a specific focus on how communication modality influences team learning and performance gains. Evidence from a recent study on virtual team performance (Singer, Grant, Commarford, Kring, and Zavod, 2001) indicated local teams, with both members in same physical location in Orlando, Florida which allowed for FTF contact before and after a series of virtual environment (VE) missions, performed significantly better than distributed teams, with team members in separate physical locations in Orlando and Toronto, Canada and no FTF contact. For the first mission, local and distributed teams exhibited no significant difference in performance as measured by the number of rooms properly cleared in the building search exercises. In contrast, for the second mission, occurring after each team had completed the opportunity to discuss mission performance and make plans for future missions, local teams performed significantly better than distributed teams; a pattern that continued for the remaining six missions. Given that the primary difference between local and distributed teams was how they communicated outside of the VE during after action reviews (AARs), and that the localiii distributed difference was first detected on the second mission, after teams had completed one, 10-min discussion of mission performance, a tenable conclusion is that certain team characteristics and skills necessary for performance were communication-dependent and negatively affected by the absence of FTF communication. Although Singer et al. (2001) collected multiple dependent variables related to performance and communication activities, these measures were not designed to detect communication-dependent team factors and therefore incapable of supporting such an explanation. Therefore, the present research replicated Singer et al. (2001) and incorporated additional measures in order to determine if specific communication-dependent factors could explain the inferior performance of distributed teams. Three factors critical to team communication, particularly during the AAR process, are the similarity of team members. shared mental models (SMMs), team cohesion (task and interpersonal), and team trust (cognitive and emotional). Because evidence suggests FTF communication has a positive effect on processes related to each of these factors, the current study tested whether distributed teams exhibit less similar mental models and degraded cohesion and trust in comparison to local teams, which can affect performance. Furthermore, to test the prediction that distributed teams possess degraded communication and would benefit from improved communication skills, brief team communication training (TCT) was administered to half of the teams in each location condition. Thirty two, 2-person teams comprised of undergraduate students were equally distributed into four experimental conditions (n = 8) based on the independent variables of location (local vs. distributed) and training (TCT vs. no-TCT). Teams completed five missions using the same VE system and mission tasks as in Singer et al. (2001), however in the present study distributed team members were in separate rooms in the same building, not separate geographic locations. In iv addition to performance data, participants completed a series of questionnaires to assess SMMs, cohesion, and trust. It was hypothesized that local teams would again exhibit better performance than distributed teams and that the local team advantage could partly be explained by a greater similarity in mental models and higher levels of cohesion and trust. Moreover, TCT teams in both locations were expected to exhibit improved performance over their non-trained counterparts. Analyses of the three team factors revealed the largest location and communication training differences for levels of cognitive trust, with local teams reporting higher levels than distributed teams early after the second VE mission, and TCT teams reporting higher levels than no-TCT teams after the second and fifth VE missions. In contrast, the main effects of location and communication training were only significant for one SMM measure agreement between team members on the strengths of the team's leader during the AAR sessions. Local teams and TCT teams reported higher levels of agreement after the first VE mission than their distributed v and no-TCT counterparts. Furthermore, on the first administration of the questionnaire, TCT teams reported higher levels of agreement than non-TCT teams on the main goals of the VE missions. Overall, teams in all conditions exhibited moderate to substantial levels of agreement for procedural and personnel responsibility factors, but poor levels of agreement for mental models related to interpersonal interactions. Finally, no significant differences were detected for teams in each experimental condition on levels of task or interpersonal cohesion which suggests cohesion may not mature enough over the course of several hours to be observable. In summary, the first goal of the present study was to replicate Singer et al..s (2001) findings which showed two-person teams conducting VE missions performed better after the first mission if allowed face-to-face (FTF) contact during discussions of the team's performance. Local and distributed teams in the current study did show a similar pattern of performance, completing a greater total of rooms properly, although when evaluating mission-by-mission performance, this difference was only significant for missions 3 and 4. Even though distributed team members experienced the same experimental conditions as in Singer et al. (no pre-mission contact, no FTF contact during missions or AARs) and were told their partner was at .distant location, familiarity with a teammate's dialect and other environmental cues may have differentially affected perceptions of physical and psychological distance, or social presence, which ultimately altered the distributed team relationship from before. The second goal was to determine if brief TCT could reduce or eliminate the distributed team disadvantage witnessed in Singer et al. (2001). Results did not support this prediction and revealed no significant differences between TCT and no-TCT teams with regard to number of rooms searched over the five missions. Although purposefully limited to 1 hr, the brevity of the TCT procedure (1 hr), and its broad focus, may have considerably reduced any potential benefits of learning how to communicate more effectively with a teammate. In addition, the additional training beyond the already challenging requirements of learning the VE mission tasks may have increased the cognitive load of participants during the mission phase, leading to a detriment in performance due to divided attention. Despite several notable differences from Singer et al. (2001), the present study supports that distributed teams operating in a common virtual setting experience performance deficits when compared to their physically co-located counterparts. Although this difference was not attributed to agreement on SMMs or levels of cohesion, local teams did posses higher levels of cognitive trust early on in the experimental session which may partly explain their superior performance. However additional research that manipulates cognitive trust as an independent variable is needed before implying a cause-and-effect relationship. Ultimately, this study's most significant contribution is identifying a new set of questions to understand virtual team performance. In addition to a deeper examination of cognitive trust, future research should address how features of the distributed team experience affect perceptions of the physical and psychological distance, or social presence, between team members. It is also critical to understand how broadening the communication channel for distributed teams, such as the inclusion of video images or access to biographical information about one's distant teammate, facilitates performance in a variety of virtual team contexts.
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Shah, Claire Supriya. « The Development of a Lexicon for the Communication of Action in Cooperative Work ». Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1578594776724604.

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Carl, Walter John III. « The (interactional) business of doing business : a rhetorical discursive action analysis of an e-commerce business opportunity ». Diss., University of Iowa, 2001. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/190.

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This thesis focused on presentations of an e-commerce business opportunity to people interested in a multilevel marketing business. Participation in a multilevel marketing organization can be described as a legitimate business activity where individuals can earn a living while enjoying the benefits of independence, autonomy, and being part of a business team. A second, equally plausible way to describe the business is as a get-rich-quick or pyramid scheme in which individuals learn techniques of persuasion and how to exploit personal relationships in order to maximize profit. Given these alternative descriptions, the primary research question for this project concerned the identity problems managed by current business owners as they built up the first kind of description of the business while simultaneously undermining the second. A series of business plan presentations and training sessions of a multilevel marketing organization were audio and video-tape recorded in the United Kingdom and the United States and transcribed. These meetings were analyzed by means of a rhetorical discursive action approach. This perspective is informed by principles of conversation analysis (i.e., how participants accomplish social actions through talk on a turn-by-turn basis), rhetorical concerns (i.e., how versions of the world are built up and undermined in relation to alternative, rival versions), and fact construction (i.e., how descriptions of events are formulated to be true, objective, and disinterested). The analysis demonstrated that various conversational practices were used to construct the e-commerce business as legitimate and as a vehicle to fulfill the audience members' dreams and goals, while countering the notion that the business involved processes of selling, persuasion, or convincing. Some of the devices used to accomplish this effect included managing informality of the meetings, positioning the audience as intelligent, reflective people who would not fall prey to a sales pitch, and showing how business techniques grew out of a larger ethic of personal relationships and connections. The study concluded with a discussion of the importance of analyzing actual interaction; training and pedagogical implications; future avenues of study; and ethical, political, and critical implications raised by this thesis.

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Ågerfalk, Pär J. « Information Systems Actability : Understanding Information Technology as a Tool for Business Action and Communication ». Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, VITS - Laboratoriet för verksamhetsinriktad systemutveckling, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-4927.

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This dissertation is devoted to a perspective from which IT-based information systems are conceived as information technological artefacts intended for business action and communication. The perspective has been made concrete through the concept of information systems actability, which is the main concept under scrutiny. The research contributions of the dissertation exist at various levels of abstration. First of all, the dissertation contributes to the understanding of information systems from a social action perspective. Based on identified weaknesses in contemporary conceptualizations of information systems, the concept of information systems actability is developed. This contribution consists of a reconciliation of various views on information system usage quality with its roots in a linguistic tradition including elements from organizational semiotics and the language/action perspective. At a more concrete level, this understanding, and the concept as such, have consequences for the development and evaluation of information systems. Such consequences have been the foundation for a proposed information systems design method, which thus constitutes a further contribution. Another contribution is the outlining of an information systems actability. As a further means of obtaining empirical experience of working with this concept, a descriptive analytic framework has been developed, which constitutes yet another contribution. These three operationalizations, the design method, the evaluation method and the analytic framework, have been developed and empirically grounded through a qualitative case study appproach involving four cases of information systems requirements specification, four evaluations of existing information systems, and two cases of description and characterization of information systems related phenomena from the perspective of actability. The latter two cases imply how further contributions at an even more concrete level, constituted by characterizations of Internet-based information systems and the local electronic marketplace, seen in the light of information systems actability.

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Bruce, Catherine Diane. « Collaborative action research on enhancing student communication in mathematics, building a teacher-researcher community ». Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ62980.pdf.

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Ågerfalk, Pär J. « Information systems actability : understanding information technology as a tool for business action and communication / ». Linköping : Univ, 2003. http://www.ep.liu.se/diss/information_science/2003/07/index.html.

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Oei, Lily, et 黃文慧. « An action research on improving communication satisfaction among teachers in a local secondary school ». Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961319.

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Vasquez, Bronfman Sergio. « Réseaux de communication dans les organisations : une méthode d'analyse fondée sur l'approche langage action ». Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010011.

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Cette recherche part d'une interrogation sur la mise en œuvre du concept de réseau dans l'étude des organisations, et sur les lacunes existantes en matière d'ingénierie d'organisation en réseau. En vue de répondre à cette interrogation, nous avons étudié les méthodes d'analyse de réseaux de communication. La plupart des méthodes existantes dans ce domaine sont fondées sur la théorie des graphes et permettent d'obtenir une représentation de la structure communicationnelle du réseau d'acteurs en y distinguant des cliques (i. E. Des regroupements d'acteurs en fonction de leur fréquente d'interaction) et des blocs (i. E. Des regroupements d'acteurs en fonction de leur position commune dans le réseau, qu'ils interagissent entre eux ou non). Ceci permet de déduire des rôles joues par les acteurs dans le réseau. Mais ces méthodes ne permettent pas d'analyser l'efficacité des interactions et des liens entre les acteurs du réseau. D'où nos questions : I) comment peut-on analyser l'efficacité des interactions et des liens dans un réseau de communication?, et II) pourquoi ces interactions sont-elles efficaces (ou inefficaces)? Nous avons pris comme perspective théorique l'approche langage action (flores), qui est une application de la théorie des actes de langage(Austin, Searle) au management et à la conception de logiciels. Nous avons appliqué cette approche à l'analyse de l'efficacité des échanges dans un réseau de communication. Pour ce faire nous avons construit une méthode fondée sur l'approche langage action, méthode qui a été appliquée dans trois études de cas
This research starts from an interrogation on the implementation of the concept of network in organisational analysis, the gap between the discourse and the implementation of network organisations. In order to answer this question we have studied communication networks analysis methods. Most of those methods are based on graph theory, and produce a representation of the communicational structure of a network of nodes:cliques,blocks,and the roles played by the nodes in the network. But those methods cannot analyse the effectiveness of the interactions and of the links that exist between the nodes of the network. From that point we raise two new questions: I) how to analyse the effectiveness of the interactions and of the links in a communication network?, and II) why are those interactions effective (or ineffective)? Our theoretical perspective is the language action perspective (flores), an application to management and to software design of the speech acts theory (Austin, Searle). We have applied this perspective to the analysis of the effectiveness of the interactions in a communication network. To do this we have build a method based on the language action perspective, and we have test the method in three case studies

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Varner, Donna. « Inside teamwork : an inquiry into the communication and action of self-directed work teams ». Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261484538.

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Smith, Rebecca Louise. « Inspiring Action : Measuring the Effect of Motivational Frames on Social Movement Mobilization ». PDXScholar, 2015. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2510.

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In order to probe how social movement messages foster participant mobilization, this study utilized an experimental design to investigate collective action frames, core messaging tasks that define problems, assign blame, convey a plan of action, and inspire participation. The study compared the effects of climate change messages that contain motivational frames with those that do not, incorporating the influence of resonance, and exposure to competing and counter frames. Results revealed that motivational frames contributed to mobilization, especially intention to act, under conditions of resonance and with exposure to counter frames. Salience primed participants to respond to motivational frames, however for some, motivational frames decreased intention to act. As social movements and climate change continue to profoundly shape our world in myriad ways, we will be better prepared to address those changes with information provided here.

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Poroye, Adeola Oluwaseyi. « Secure contactless mobile financial services with near field communication ». Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3849_1320751857.

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Camelo, Antonio Nilson. « Christians and Muslims towards a dialogue of life and action for God's people / ». Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Ulubay, Murat. « Resilient Features Of Re-emerging Dyadic Communication Systems In An Interactive Virtual Environment ». Phd thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615502/index.pdf.

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This study mainly focuses on the emergence and utilization of communication systems in the context of joint action where collective cognitive activity is required. Dyads are given an instant messaging medium of communication where only a limited number of characters and symbols can be used for information exchange in order to collaborate on common tasks of finding objects, in a network-based interactive virtual environment (ActiveWorlds), a 3D, multi-agent, virtual reality platform. The restrictions on communication and the requirement of collaboration facilitated the creation of a lexical inventory and a minimalistic communication system, a compressed version of dyads&rsquo
shared Natural Languages (NLs). Across eight experimental sessions, two manipulations are made in order to study their effects on parameters on 4 levels of analysis: (1) Quantitative, (2) Syntactic Complexity, (3) Lexical Category and (4) Speech Act Category. The two interventions are (1) increasing the number of targets from one to two after the first three experiments, and (2) administering a two months break between the 6th and 7th-8th experiments. Increased number of target objects influenced the quantitative parameters that are related to the amount of communication as well as the use scores of lexical, syntactic, and speech act categories
however, the use ratios of several parameters were resilient under this manipulation and rather showed different trends of change characterizing the development of the system towards a more mature state in accordance with the demands of the task structure. The opposing trends of increasing use ratio of Assertive and decreasing use ratio of Directive Speech Acts and decreasing use ratios of the Type/Token Number of Lexical Items in a session, the Number of New Lexical Items in a session and increasing ratio of Turn Success are also characteristics of this maturation. The break administered between the 6th and 7th experimental session did not cause any decay in the acquired skills of using the emerged communication system. The previously negotiated strategies and acquired skills of communication as well as the trends of the use ratios of parameters were resilient. The qualitative analysis of the developing communication system revealed several strategies, including compression of NL words into new lexical items, exploiting the redundancy of characters of written words, and iconicity and indexicality of given symbols. The main drivers of the development of the new communication system appeared to be the processes of integration of communicative with behavioral action. The cognitive capacities enabling this integration and the comprehension of the utterances in the new system is explained by the Cognitive and Communicative Principles of Relevance that are attributed to a comprehension sub-module of a mind-reading module of the human cognitive system.

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Burch, Michael Eddie. « Climate Change, Situational Theory of Problem Solving, and Issue Framing Effects ». Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5449.

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This is an exploratory study of the Situational Theory of Problem Solving applied to the context of climate change communication. Selective exposure to politically slanted media is explored as a referent criterion and framing effects are also tested. Relationships between consumption of media characterized as conservative or liberal with referent criterion, Situational Motivation in Problem Solving, problem recognition, involvement recognition, and constraint recognition are tested.

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Griffiths, Charlotte. « Exploring the role and use of values & ; emotions in promoting prosocial action via Instagram ». Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44319.

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Inspired by recent work on value-based messaging in migration-relatedcampaigning to elicit sympathy, this project explores theoretical rationale foremploying values in the field of communication for social change (C4SC),understood in its broad sense as aspiring to engender prosocial behaviour. The project is framed by the main question of how values, emotions and(prosocial) action relate to one another. Historic and more recent sociologytheories related to values, emotions and action such as the Jamesian Theory of Action, Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory, Schwartz’s Refined Theory ofValues, Caprara et al’s Prosociality, inform my theoretical hypothesis that for anindividual responding to a stimulus values are relatively stable frames whichguide goal setting, whilst emotions perform a cognitive function of evaluation,combined they create the impetus for (prosocial) action, though do notguarantee the impetus will be acted upon. Whether evidence that this hypothesis is enacted by traditional C4SC actors is the second endeavour of this project, for which a 42-text comparative analysisis performed to observe whether and how calls to action (CTA), values and emotions are present in existing prosocial campaigning. The texts are sourced from Instagram, the growing visual-first social media platform that offerscomparable units and serves as symbolic representation of the actors’communication. The main finding of this analysis is that values and emotions are present acrossthe range of themes and content producers. Whilst values associated withprosocial behaviour feature strongly across the board, values are present in a multitude of ways, sometimes in provocative or counter-intuitive ways within anindividual text. This diversity is positive for the potential of individual texts to engage a wider audience by reflecting the complexity of each person’s ownvalue profile. Being more subjective, the types of emotions elicited is less clear than valuesspoken to/challenged. Nonetheless the ways emotions are employed provideample food for thought for researchers and practitioners, and there is credible proof that each text will evoke some form of emotional engagement, whichanswers to the criteria in the hypothesis for emotion-facilitated evaluation. The findings on CTAs are informative, particularly when compared between thedifferent C4SC actors studied; there is a tendency for global level campaigningto be more general and national and local level more specific, whilst governmental level demonstrates limited CTAs for social change, focusing oncelebration of progress instead. The findings on the three units of interest in this project demonstrate fertileground for further research into the interplay between values, emotions andaction, as well as demonstrating to practitioners that understanding the value profile of target audiences is a worthwhile step in campaign design, and toconsider how a campaign might provoke certain emotional responses leadingeither to heightened engagement or risking emotional dissonance. The project contributes to C4SC by testing a methodology for decoding CTAs,values and emotions, providing a baseline on how these units are used incurrent campaigning, and proposing various avenues of follow-up research,including connecting this work to intent and impact i.e. the extent to which thecampaigns motivated prosocial action. It builds on the work that inspired me bydefining why an emotional response is useful in prosocial campaigning and howthis relates to values and action.

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PARK, SANG-EON. « MODELING PARAMETERIZED MOBILE ACTIONS IN A WIRELESS PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SERVICE (PCS) NETWORK ». University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1027944662.

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Batra, Jennifer C. « Innovation as everyday action| A case study of organizational discourse and the local meaning of innovation ». Thesis, Purdue University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10146269.

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This study describes and explicates the nuanced nature of commonly adopted buzzwords such as innovation by analyzing how innovation is defined and embedded structurally within a single organization. Working to uncover how the individual construction of a local definition of innovation within the global context of a quasi-academic organization changes as organizational priorities and practices evolve over time, I present the varied framings of innovation at the micro, meso, and macro levels, through two research phases (a) the definition phase and (b) the practice phase over the course of one year.

This thesis project is situated within a single Mid-Western quasi-academic organization specializing in informatics and health care research, and implementing targeted innovation strategies at the time of this study. Through the use of a mutli-methodological approach I layered the elements of d/D discourse inherent in interview data within the organizational context to present a glimpse into socially constructed view of commonly used buzzword innovation. By analyzing the interviews of 25 individuals at all organizational levels, with prior social network analyses and modified Delphi Method results, I found that employees shift their framing of innovation to align individual meanings with organizational perceived meaning (funded action and executive activities), individuals almost unanimously agreed that the organization by its nature of existence was innovative, but often struggled to name an innovation produced in the last year. Second, investigator-level innovation and staff-level innovation varied in its examples with investigators naming products and people. In addition, there are several possible rationales for why the definition of innovation changes over time but the reliance upon federal funding bodies may strongly shape perceptions at all levels. This study contributes to understanding how the changing nature of individual, organizational, and societal language and institutional structures affect and, in turn, are affected by employees’ lived experiences and organizing processes, practices, and texts. Specifically, this study provides a case study of such changes by developing understandings about how innovation is framed or defined by the individuals within the organization and how this definition changes in practice as it is applied within the organizational context. Additionally, this study contributes to the innovation discourse and materialities in addition to its pragmatic contribution to organizations that seek to engage in the innovation market to obtain competitive advantage.

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Leonard, Anné. « Communicating affirmative action during transformational change a South African case study perspective / ». Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09282005-135714.

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Underiner, Tamara L. « Cultures enacted/cultures in action : (intercultural) theatre in Mayan Mexico / ». Thesis, Connect to this title online ; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10218.

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Wang, Yuanyuan. « Browser-based and mobile video communication alternatives for Deaf people ». Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5753_1319028741.

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This thesis o ers some prototypes to provide browser-based and mobile video communication services for Deaf people and evaluates these prototypes. The aim of this research is to identify an acceptable video communication technology for Deaf people by designing and evaluating several prototypes. The goal is to nd one that Deaf people would like to use in their day-to-day life. The thesis focuses on two technologies | browser-based systems and mobile applications. Several challenges emerged, for example, speci c Deaf user requirements are di cult to obtain, the technical details must be hidden from end users, and evaluation of prototypes includes both technical and social aspects. This thesis describes work to provide South African Sign Language communication for Deaf users in a disadvantaged Deaf community in Cape Town. We posit an experimental design to evaluate browser-based and mobile technologies in order to learn what constitutes acceptable video communication for Deaf users. Two browser-based prototypes and two mobile prototypes were built to this e ect. Both qualitative data and quantitative data are collected with user tests to evaluate the prototypes. The video quality of Android satis es Deaf people, and the portable asynchronous communication is convenient for Deaf users. The server performance is low on bandwidth, and will therefore cost less than other alternatives, although Deaf people feel the handset is costly.

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Neves, David Telles. « Participation and dialogue in development ». Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007456.

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"Participation" is a frequently articulated requirement within the context of community development. Yet despite this, the concept of participation is neither comprehensively theorised, nor entirely unproblematic. The theoretical paucity surrounding participation is particularly marked within accounts of its interactional and relational dynamics . This thesis is accordingly concerned with theorising the interactional and relational features of participation in, and for, development. To this end a small development intervention, constituted as an agricultural co-operative within a rural area of South Africa, is examined. In this inquiry the phenomenon of participation is viewed through the lens of dialogical-activity. This enables explication of the "joint activity" directed towards participatory development, within the focal research setting. The overarching theoretical framework for this thesis is conferred by Activity theory. Orientated towards examining the collective and artefactually mediated nature of human action, Activity theory is foregrounded in Y. Engeström's (1989; 1999b) analytic schema of the Activity System. This Activity System framework is expanded by the inclusion of communicative and semiotic elements; an inclusion effected by reference to R. Engeström's theory of communicative action (1995,1999), which in turn, draws on theoretical precepts gleaned from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. The resultant fusing of dialogue and activity therefore serves to extend Activity theoretical insights. The results of this research are based on data collected from a multitude of sources within the focal participatory development research setting, including internal project documentation, interview transcripts and field notes. The dialogical Bakhtin-derived an alytic categories of speech genre , voice and social language were drawn on in order to examine this textual data , and to explicate the interactional and relational features of participatory development. Analysis of these served to reveal the polyphony of (speech genre constituted) voices, wherein the phenomenon of participation is disparately accentuated. The results chapter moreover discusses the substantial mismatches and discontinuities in the referential object invoked by the various roleplayers, within the focal research context. This thesis considers the sources of these discontinuities and tensions, including how they point to historically constituted contradictions within participatory development. It furthermore briefly examines the opportunities and affordances these offer up for expansive new forms of activity. Finally, in re-examining participation and development, the complex, and sometimes antithetic relationship that exists between these two concepts and their associated social practices, are considered.

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