Tesi: "Communication and culture"

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Johansson, Malin. "Culture is communication". Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Communication, Media and it, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2546.

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I den här uppsatsen har jag undersökt internkommunikationen på ett multikulturellt företag för att se hur olika kulturer visar sig i olika förhandlingsstilar. Mitt material har bestått av sexton mejl mellan en tysk och en svensk affärsman från det multikulturella företaget Volkswagen. Mina frågeställningar var:

1. Skiljer sig Sch och Joh:s sätt att formulera sig och vilken betydelse får det i så fall för förhandlingen? 2. Vilka förhandlingsstilar används? Vad får de för konsekvenser? 3. Hade genomtänkta retoriska strategier kunnat effektivisera förhandlingens gång och i så fall vilka?

För att svara på frågorna har jag gjort en stilanalys kompletterad av en strukturell analys. Jag har även gjort en förhandlingsanalys och till sist undersökt de två kulturerna genom en jämförelse. Min uppsats lutar sig mot Hofstedes teori om kulturella dimensioner samt Ghauris teori om förhandlingens tre faser, för att nämna några.

Viktiga slutsatser är att det finns större och mer betydelsefulla skillnader mellan tyskar och svenskar än väntat. Jag har också kommit fram till att kurser i förhandlingsteknik kan visa sig vara lönsamma för multikulturella företag och det är det jag vill förmedla med den här uppsatsen.

In this essay I want to investigate the internal communication of an transcultural company to see how different cultures are shown in different styles of negotiation. I have been looking at sixteen emails between a German businessman and a Swedish businessman, both working at the transcultural company Volkswagen.

The essay’s research questions are: 1. Do the German and the Swede differ when it comes to manner of speaking, and if so, how does that effect the negotiation? 2. Which styles do they use in negotiation? What kind of consequences do the styles cause? 3. Would carefully prepared rhetorical strategies make the negotiation more effective, and in that case, which strategies would that be?

To answer these questions I have made a stylistic and a structural analysis, followed by an analysis of the negotiation style and strategies. At last I studied the two cultures and made a comparison between them. I have built my essay on the theory of cultural dimensions by Hofstede and Ghauri’s idea about the phases of negotiation, to mention a few.

Conclusions I’ve made are that there are bigger differences between Germans and Swedes then I expected. I’ve also seen that education in negotiation could be profitable for transcultural companies, which I with this essay would like to convey.

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Hansson, Noreke Helena, e Jonathan Wirödal. "Managers' communication : how cultural intelligence affects communication". Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9802.

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As the world becomes more global and companies become internationalized there is a growing urge for companies to work more efficiently. A problem that might rise when people from different cultures work together, is the risk for misunderstandings when managers communicate with people from other cultures. For that reason, managers of internationalized companies need to be culturally intelligent to avoid misunderstandings. Hence, our aim with this dissertation is to see how managers’ Cultural Intelligence (CQ) affects their Communication. In order to see how managers’ Cultural Intelligence affects their Communication we used a quantitative study (survey), where Swedish managers from international companies were target population. In the end though, we found no relation between CQ and managers communication skills. The number of responses from the survey was too small to in order to make any general conclusions. The dissertation may however have some contribution and value for Swedish managers. For companies in general, the dissertation can give some indications that they should consider employees’ CQ and not only managers’ CQ. Communication however, is one of the most prominent factors when it comes to social interaction. Therefore, companies today should consider, when hiring, the new employees’ ability to adapt into new environments.

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Reshetar, Kirill. "Cyber culture and e-communication". Thesis, Молодь у глобалізованому світі: академічні аспекти англомовних фахових досліджень (англ. мовою) / Укл., ред. А.І.Раду: збірник мат. конф. - Львів: ПП "Марусич", 2011. - 147 с, 2011. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/20774.

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Herrmann, Andrew F., e Art Herbig. "Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://www.amzn.com/1498523927.

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Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.
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Shpak, Artur. "Cyber culture and e-communication: steganography". Thesis, Молодь у глобалізованому світі: академічні аспекти англомовних фахових досліджень (англ. мовою) / Укл., ред. А.І.Раду: збірник мат. конф. - Львів: ПП "Марусич", 2011. - 147 с, 2011. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/20776.

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Guilherme, Maria Manuela Duarte. "Critical cultural awareness : the critical dimension in foreign culture education". Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1533/.

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

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

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Kim, Sae-Eun. "Communication, culture and the Korean public sphere". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324185.

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The aim of this thesis is to analyse the public communication activities of Korean people from the Chason dynasty to the present day using the conceptual category of the public sphere theorised by Jurgen Habermas. It is mainly concerned with two fundamental issues: the issue of 'communication and democracy,' and that of 'communication and culture.' Emphasising tradition and culture as among the most significant elements in the consideration of communicative action and the public sphere in the Korean context, the thesis takes issue with the claims to universality in Habermas's theory. My argument is that Habermas's theory cannot easily be applied to non-Western societies unless there is sufficient consideration of their idiosyncratic traditions and cultures. To develop this argument, the thesis addresses the impact of Confucianism on speech acts in Korea and the extent of their difference from those in a Western context. In identifying 'silence' as a key term, the situation of women in Korean cultures is particularly pertinent. The second consideration is the question of political authoritarianism which is responsible for the repression of free expression of opinion in collusion with Confucianism. I have discovered that several kinds of public domains of communication have developed through Korean history, despite those two repressing mechanisms, Confucianism and political authoritarianism, public domains which I suggest are more appropriately called 'the public sphere' according to Habermas's terminology. It is meaningful to filter and interpret various communication activities across historical periods from within the analytic framework of the public sphere. In relation to modem Korea, the thesis focuses on the media-saturated public sphere and the current civil movements to demonstrate the dynamics between power and money and their impact on the democratisation process

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Hegarty, Kelly, e Cydney Marrs. "Perspectives on Interprofessional Education: Communication and Culture". The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623881.

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OBJECTIVES: To examine the potential differences in attitudes between the colleges of pharmacy, nursing, medicine, and social work relating to the “Culture and Communication” IPE activity at the University of Arizona in 2007. METHODS: This was a retrospective study comparing the opinions and attitudes of different groups of healthcare students concerning the IPE activity “Culture and Communication” at the University of Arizona. The independent variable in this study was academic discipline: medicine, pharmacy, nursing, law, or social work. The dependent variables were the attitudes and opinions of the effectiveness of this IPE activity on Culture and Communication. RESULTS: A total of 589 questionnaires (medicine=119, pharmacy=89, nursing=77, social work=21) were completed and included in 2007. Overall, students felt the Culture and Communication IPE activity improved their knowledge of how to identify barriers to communication and reduce the likelihood of miscommunication with other healthcare professionals. The percent of students who believed they had a very high understanding of the barriers to effective communication among health care providers increased from 11.3% before the IPE activity to 34.5% after. The percent of students who believed they had a very high knowledge of how to reduce the likelihood of miscommunication increased from 6.6% before the IPE activity to 37.4% after. There were differences between the groups relating to the different questions that the questionnaire focused on. CONCLUSIONS: There were significant differences between the various healthcare professionals relating to the usefulness and effectiveness of the Culture and Communication IPE activities at the University of Arizona. Overall, students seemed to benefit from and enjoy the IPE activity and would recommend having future students participate in the activities. The majority of students felt the Culture and Communication IPE activity was benificial and allowed for the improvement of relationships and attitudes between the health care professions. There were similar responses between the medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work students.

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Dunlop, Victoria. "Communication, culture and identity in family history". Thesis, Dunlop, Victoria (1996) Communication, culture and identity in family history. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52965/.

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Family history is more than personalized and democratized history: it is a self-conscious search, across space and through time, for a more meaningful sense of self in the present. While mass migration and global communications have made traditional determinants of belonging less relevant, contemporary communication structures, increased leisure time and affluence have made it possible for large numbers of ordinary people to both search for their roots without travelling far from home and to travel to distant homelands to seek their past in the present. The collection, organization and dissemination of information about people who, for genetic reasons, are regarded as our forbears, is more than a biological jigsaw puzzle. Family history is biographical, highly contextualized and has an inherent narrative drive. The importance of historical constructions in contemporary relations mean that it is a political, as well as a cultural, activity. Although its genealogical roots are conservative, the majority of its practitioners are ordinary people with ordinary pasts who are accumulating a large body of information about hitherto irrelevant past lives. This knowledge, recognized as a valuable commodity by bureaucratic and commercial institutions as well as social historians, has the potential to transform the way people view their relationship to their history and their place in the world. The construction of family memories, a private and public struggle in which a complex web of texts and materials, both historic and contemporary, interact, is a potentially productive site from which to examine a range of cultural problems - communication structures, political and social formations, intertextuality and narrative processes, constructions of identity and the role of the past in the present. I propose an interdisciplinary framework drawn primarily from cultural studies to examine the family history phenomenon from a number of perspectives. The first section will attempt to explain the growth of family history as a popular pastime in terms of contemporary communication structures, commercial enterprise and political and social formations. It will also examine some of the boundaries of ancestral knowledge, many of which are the result of past biases, the consequences of which persist in the present. Section two is concerned with family history reading practices and the ways in which they sometimes conform to but often resist and criticize cultural and familial myths. Section three explores the significance of the construction of family histories for personal identity and for collective identities based upon common denominators such as race, ethnicity, social class and historical experience, as well as kinship and nation. Finally, in section four, I will examine family history’s potential to resist and transform dominant constructions of the past.

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Tam, Oi Yin. "Communications rivalry : a case study on communication issues between HK Chinese and American co-workers". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/685.

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Bartanusz, Stefan. "Culture et communication parents-enfants : incidence de la culture française et de la culture tchèque sur la communication dans des duos mère-enfant et père-enfant". Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20070.

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Dans notre recherche, nous mettons en parallèle les conduites communicationnelles dans les duos pères-enfant et mères-enfant au sein d'une même culture (comparaison intraculturelle) puis au sein de deux cultures différentes, en France et en République tchèque (comparaison interculturelle). Pour réaliser cette démarche, nous avons choisi la situation de lecture d'un livre illustré. Les enfants sont des premiers-nés âgés de 2 ans et demi à 3 ans, vivant avec leurs deux parents issus de la classe moyenne. Au total, le nombre de sujets étudiés est de 28. Les enfants sont répartis de manière équilibrée : 14 Français et 14 Tchèques (7 filles et 7 garçons). Les résultats nous amènent à conclure qu'effectivement d'un côté, la culture intervient chez les représentants d'un même pays comme un facteur plutôt universel qui détermine la façon de communiquer au sein de la famille, et d'un autre côté, elle apparaît comme un facteur de spécification lié à la culture du pays d'appartenance
We compare the communicative behaviour within the duos fathers-infant and mothers-infant within one culture (intracultural comparison) then those between France and the Czech Republic (intercultural comparison). Thus we examined the structural, functional and pragmatic aspects of the parents-child communication. To realise this approach we have chosen the situation of the reading of an illustrated book. We worked with middle-class families. The infants are first born, aged between 30 and 36 months, living with their two parents. The total number of subjects is 28. The children are divided in a balanced way: 14 French and 14 Czech, and in every sample 7 boys and 7 girls. Thus our results indicate, that indeed in the one hand, the culture plays the role of universal factor which determines the way of the communicating in the family and, in the other hand the culture seems to act as a factor of specification which is linked to the country of origin

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Sousa, Sandra Maria Vieira de. "Intercultural communication: representations of culture and teacher's role". Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/4983.

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Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses
O conceito de Comunicação Intercultural é de uso comum nos nossos dias emcontextos educativos. A nova realidade da língua Inglesa e os novos contextos em que é utilizada são amplamente reconhecidos por professores e teóricos,que reconhecem também a nova realidade cultural, os novos desafios eobjectivos que se impõem para a dimensão cultural no ensino das línguasestrangeiras, especificamente no ensino do Inglês enquanto língua estrangeiranum contexto específico e europeu como é Portugal. No entanto a realidade revela a existência de uma profunda distância entre ateoria e as práticas educativas, o papel do professor continua a devermuito à ideia do professor enquanto transmissor de conhecimentos – isto parece ser especialmente visível no ensino da cultura. A análise dos resultados do meuprojecto de investigação, revela que, apesar da maioria dos professores de inglês em Portugal reconhecerem a importância dos novos contextos culturaisda língua inglesa, bem como a importância de se contrastar e reflectir sobreaspectos e comportamentos culturais, esta reflexão parece permanecermeramente retórica, não conduzindo a um verdadeiro compromisso com uma atitude crítica e por isso mesmo transformadora da realidade. É necessárioque a educação de professores, quer inicial quer contínua, reconheça aimportância de os formar em questões de interculturalidade, de debaterassuntos e clarificar conceitos, para que os professores sejam capazes deadoptar uma nova perspectiva em relação ao mundo e redefinir-se a si próprios enquanto indivíduos e enquanto profissionais. Só através dumprofundo esclarecimentoos professores poderão ser capazes de se comprometerem com uma transformação das suas práticas educativas e coma formação de cidadãos capazes de efectivamente analisar, criticar etransformar o mundo em que vivemos, numa lógica de conhecimento ecompreensão dos ‘Outros’ e da sua própria realidade.
The notion of Intercultural communication is a common concept nowadays ineducational contexts. The new reality of the English language and its newcontexts of use are widely recognised by teachers and theoreticians alike, whoalso recognise the new cultural reality, the new challenges and goals which areraised for the cultural dimension in foreign language teaching, specially the teaching of English as a foreign language in a specific European context suchas Portugal. Nevertheless, there is a profound distance between theory and educationalpractices, and teachers’ roles still owe much to the idea of the teacher as atransmitter of information –this seems to be especially true in culture teaching. The analysis of the results of my research project reveal that even though mostteachers of English in Portugal recognise the importance of the new cultural contexts of the English language and also the importance of reflecting uponand contrasting cultural events and behaviour, this reflection seems to bemerely rhetorical and a true commitment to a critical and transformative attitudetowards social realities is avoided. Teacher training and further educationshould recognise the importance of training teachers in issues of interculturalityand of discussing matters and clarifying concepts so that teachers feel secureand able to adopt a new perspective of the world and redefine themselves as individuals and professionals. Only through a profound enlighteningcan teachers commit to a transformation of their teaching practices and to theeducation of citizens able to effectively analyse, criticise and transform the world we live in, in a logic of knowledge and understanding of ‘Others’ and oftheir own reality.

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Gerspacher, Katherine. "Communication Culture in Law Enforcement: Perceptions from Officers and Supervisors". Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1401901205.

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Ciszek, Erica L. "Identity, culture, and articulation| A critical-cultural analysis of strategic LGBT advocacy outreach". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3640180.

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This study examines how LGBT activists and LGBT youth make meaning of a strategic advocacy campaign. By examining activist and advocacy efforts aimed at youth, this research brings to light how LGBT organizations use campaigns to articulate identity and, conversely, how LGBT youth articulate notions of identity. Through the lens of the It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit activist organization, this dissertation uses in-depth interviews with organizational members and chat-based interviews with LGBT youth to study the meanings participants brought to the campaign.

Strategic communication has been instrumental in construction of LGBT as a cohesive collective identity and has played a vital role in the early stages of the gay rights movement. This research demonstrates how contemporary LGBT advocacy, through strategic communication, works to shape understandings of LGBT youth.

Instead of focusing on the Internet as a democratic space that equalizes power differentials between an organization and its publics, this study shows that the construction of identity is the result of a dynamic process between producers and consumers in which power is localized and does not simply belong to an organization or its public.

This research challenges the Internet as a democratic space and demonstrates that identity is a discursive struggle over meaning that is bound up in the intimate dance between producers and consumers of a campaign. In contrast to functionalist understandings of public relations that privileges the organization, this dissertation contends that a cultural-economic approach focuses on the processes of communication. A cultural-economic approach gives voice to the diverse audiences of a communication campaign and addresses the role communication plays as a discursive force that influences the construction of identities.

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Shen, Juan. "Patrimoine et audiovisuel : Enjeu de la médiation scientifique dans la communication des connaissances". Paris 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA020126.

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Cette thèse aborde l’étude de la communication des connaissances dans l’industrie audiovisuelle (télévision&vidéo). Elle étudie l’équilibre entre le contenu de l’ensemble des patrimoines et le public culturel international, deux pôles communicationnels. Le lien entre eux est la connaissance des patrimoines, thématisée et internationalisée dans le processus industriel des télévisions et leurs émissions. La médiation scientifique joue un rôle dans le maintien de cet équilibre en mettent l'accent à la fois sur une meilleure vulgarisation et compréhension des connaissances. Ce rôle est réalisé à travers des dispositions interactives entre médiateurs et récepteurs avec une gestion systématique des capitaux patrimoniauxet la création de langages et de liens de connaissances thématiques internationales. Ces liens tissent les divers réseauxen favorisant la coproduction institutionnelle et la bi-distribution des programmes interactifs vers les divers publics culturels de masse et de niche, à l’échelle internationale. L'interrogation et l'analyse se concentrent sur les problématiques de la circulation de la connaissance dans les programmes et les services audiovisuels des grandes télévisions et des institutions patrimoniales dans le cadre scientifique, culturel et éducatif. Elles conduisent à un système conceptuel de médiation scientifique de la communication des connaissances avec pour objectif d’harmoniser le contenu et le public en faveur de la communication interculturelle dans et entre les sociétés de la connaissance.

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Vevea, Nadene N. "Intercultural Communication Competence Theory: Integrating Academic and Practical Perspectives". Diss., North Dakota State University, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28885.

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Over the past five decades, scholars of intercultural communication have attempted to define, describe, and otherwise operationalize the concept of competency in an intercultural interaction. This study constructed a comprehensive theory of intercultural communication competence (ICC) grounded in the extant literature and the practical or everyday understanding of the concept. Using classroom data that was validated by a metasynthesis of existing qualitative or ethnographic studies describing ICC, the academic definitions and lay descriptions were each explored and then compared to find points of convergence and points of divergence. The comparative analysis provided the foundation for the development of tenets: ICC is an outcome; ICC is externally perceived and measured; and ICC is bound by the cultural context in which it takes place, conditions regarding interaction goals and power roles of the interactants, and culture specific elements for the holistic ICC theory proposed by this study. An examination of the implications of the newly constructed ICC theory and its future application and implications were explored.

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Gilmour, Sophia Mawani, e n/a. "Organisational culture and the communication of loyalty : an ethnography". University of Canberra. Professional Communication, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070119.152841.

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Loyalty management has emerged over recent years as a topic of significant importance in both academic and practitioner discourse, articulating the benefits of an extended relationship with key stakeholders including, but not limited to, customers, employees and shareholders. This research explores the theory and practice of loyalty management from a communications perspective. The thesis attempted to discover how the integration or non-integration of internal and external communication affects the communication of loyalty, in addition to how loyalty management contributes towards the organisation�s perceived creation of value. In doing so, it also examines how the practice of customer relationship management (CRM), integrated marketing communication (IMC) and the use of information and communication technology (ICT) plays a role in the communication of loyalty. The research entailed a three-year ethnographic study of a business-to-business financial services organisation specialising in vehicle fleet leasing and management services, comprising a review of relevant academic literature; and participant observation, focus group studies, qualitative surveys and document analysis. Besides evaluating loyalty management from a communications perspective, the thesis contributes towards the body of knowledge on Australian organisations from an organisational culture perspective, as well as exploring communication beyond the traditional boundary of within the organisation itself. Unlike most loyalty management approaches, the holistic stance considers other stakeholders besides customers, in detail. The study does not seek to establish validity and generalisability. Rather, the mainly interpretist approach preserves the form and content of human behaviour by detailing descriptions of the concrete experience of life within a particular culture and of the social rules, patterns and perceptions that constitute it. The findings showed that organisational communication has to be integrated and cohesive to enable the effective management of loyalty. Furthermore, the results confirm that the notion of organisational boundaries comprising �internal� and "external" communication is limited. Involved protagonists, acting together from within and external to an organisation, create, sustain and manage meanings through the use of signs and symbols within a particular context to form a unique culture or community. In addition, the notion of loyalty and the creation of value for the consequent success of the organisation is an important and valid perception for most of the stakeholders. For this organisation, the use of ICT and practice of CRM and IMC has varying degrees of impact, mainly enhancing the communication of loyalty. The detraction of value is caused primarily by the fragmentation of communication between the stakeholders, in addition to the existence of sub-cultures with conflicting needs.

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Brown, Andrew D. "Information, communication and organizational culture : a grounded theory approach". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1833/.

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This research is focused on information and communication phenomena within one industrial organisation. From its intellectual situation within the interpretive epistemological tradition the thesis seeks to demonstrate the utility of the case study approach combined with the style of qualitative analysis known as 'grounded theory' for scholars interested in furthering their understanding of the information dimension of complex organisations. More specifically, a preliminary examination of the data set in conjunction with a theoretical position which posited the socially and cognitive constructed nature of organisations quite naturally led to the case study material being interpreted through the prism of the cultural metaphor. Chapter 1 provides an account of the methodological and research design principles, issues and assumptions on which this research has been predicated. Chapter 2 gives an overview of the data collected in the form of brief summaries of the central themes which have been used to analyse the case study organisation. The cultural perspective on organisations is then presented in Chapter 3. Acquaintance with the content of the cultural approach to Complex organisations is required in order to facilitate the reader's understanding of Chapters 4-10 in which the data are examined and analysed. Chapter 4 gives a short introduction to the case study organisation at which the research was conducted. Chapters 5-8 are detailed case study analyses of four of the organisation's principal subsidiaries. These are followed by a macro-organisational analysis which examines the cultural and information/communication profiles that have been developed for the subsidiaries within the total socio-organisational context. Chapter 9's emphasis on the core categories omits some important aspects of the organisation's culture (its strengths, weaknesses, the issue of control and its relative stability) which are dealt with in Chapter 10. Chapter 11 provides a description and analysis of a new product launch conducted by the organisation: the chapter seeks to evaluate the merits of using an approach which emphasises information/communication and cultural variables for the understanding and analysis of organisational behaviour. Finally, Chapter 12 sets out some of the conclusions that can be drawn from this research project. It takes a critical look at the research design and methodology employed and introduces Kuhn's (1962) concept of a paradigm which is used as a descriptive and analytical tool for evaluating the cultural perspective. Some further conceptualisation of the cases and the new product launch is attempted and process models of complex organisations in general and organisational culture in particular are derived and explained. The inter-relation of information and communication phenomena and organisational culture is further elaborated first normatively in the form of typologies and second prescriptively in terms of the use value of culture for information and communication studies. The conclusions are then summarised and recommendations for further research are made.

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O'Hagan, Ciaran C. C. "London dance culture scenes : formation, drug use and communication". Thesis, London South Bank University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410585.

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Scott, Peter Terence. "Communication of school culture in an Anglican grammar school". Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 1998. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/6f70f4c533aee5a029abec18fa02833add0e6d0dff8e96f7d44bea5c5c6cd7f4/19219100/65077_downloaded_stream_302.pdf.

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This study reports research employing a three-phase methodology to investigate the nature and communication of the school culture of the Anglican Church Grammar School Brisbane. A preliminary survey with open-ended questions was used to obtain general opinion on the nature of the school's culture, how it is communicated and the role of the school's organisation structure in communicating the school's culture.

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Horbury, Caroline R. J. "Organisational change and safety culture : the impact of communication". Thesis, Aston University, 1996. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15325/.

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This research examines and explains the links between safety culture and communication. Safety culture is a concept that in recent years has gained prominence but there has been little applied research conducted to investigate the meaning of the concept in 'real life' settings. This research focused on a Train Operating Company undergoing change in a move towards privatisation. These changes were evident in the management of safety, the organisation of the industry and internally in their management. The Train Operating Company's management took steps to improve their safety culture and communications through the development of a cascade communication structure. The research framework employed a qualitative methodology in order to investigate the effect of the new system on safety culture. Findings of the research were that communications in the organisation failed to be effective for a number of reasons, including both cultural and logistical problems. The cultural problems related to a lack of trust in the organisation by the management and the workforce, the perception of communications as management propaganda, and asyntonic communications between those involved, whilst logistical problems related to the inherent difficulties of communicating over a geographically distributed network. An organisational learning framework was used to explain the results. It is postulated that one of the principal reasons why change, either to the safety culture or to communications, did not occur was because of the organisation's inability to learn. The research has also shown the crucial importance of trust between the members of the organisation, as this was one of the fundamental reasons why the safety culture did not change, and why safety management systems were not fully implemented. This is consistent with the notion of mutual trust in the HSC (1993) definition of safety culture. This research has highlighted its relevance to safety culture and its importance for organisational change.

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Young, Bryan-Mitchell. "Frag| An ethnographic examination of computer gaming culture and identity at LAN parties". Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3612176.

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Utilizing ethnographic methods, this work examines how attendees of computer gaming events held by the Gaming@IU club form a community which uses technology to bring people together rather than isolate them and analyzes the ways attendees perform a unique forms of Whiteness and "nerd masculinity." Known as LAN parties, these computer gaming events are social functions where approximately 200 participants collocate their computers and play videogames with and against each other for up to twenty-four hours straight. Drawing years of fieldwork, this work uses participant observation and in depth interviews to examine how this group uses the computer gaming events to create a third place away from work and school where friendships can be created and maintained.

Based on this data, I examine the ways in which the statements of the LAN party attendees draw on a discourse of racial colorblindness to avoid dealing with the overwhelming Whiteness of these events which is not reflective of the racial and ethnic diversity of the area. I show how an avoidance of discussion of Whiteness and a general inability to articulate their thoughts about race prevents the attendees from interrogating the role the LAN party's organization may play in the racial makeup of attendees.

Focusing on issues of sexual harassment within gaming, I also look at the ways in which the games played and the social norms of the LAN party encourage the performance of hegemonic masculinity while playing the videogames but allow the attendees to inhabit a more complicit form of masculinity which is not overtly sexist. I argue that by embracing non-normative masculinity outside the games but discouraging it within the games, the LAN party participants are professing openness and acceptance but are failing to live up to that ideal.

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Barros, Rayane, e Arbesa Idrizi. "Managing Communication Across Cultures : A qualitative study of leaders' way of communicating with their culturally diverse teams". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95635.

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Globalization has helped to increase the movement of people between countries and has also affected organizations through increased international operations. This mean that companies are also significantly more heterogeneous internally than they have been in previous years with more people from different cultures working together. Sweden is one of the countries where this has become increasingly common in connection with more people coming to the country as refugees and workers with visas. In organizations this means that more demands are put on the leadership to handle cultural differences in work teams. For this reason, we chose to focus this study on researching how leaders in Sweden handle communication with culturally diverse teams and what commitments are made in connection with this.Therefore, a qualitative research process has taken place with an abductive approach to draw parallels between theory and empirical material. The study was based on primary and secondary data through interviews with nine leaders and previous research in the areas of leadership, culture, and communication. The results of data collection and analysis highlight important aspects regarding the challenges of leaders in culturally diverse teams and the commitments made to manage it. Hierarchy was an aspect that was raised which meant differences in communication between leaders and individuals from other cultures. Moreover, this meant expectations for leaders to be more direct in offering answers and instructions, which differs from the leader's culture in maintaining an informal level of leadership style and communication (common to all leaders in the study). Among the recommendations was the use of mixed communication tools, perform follow-ups, and do personal meetings to avoid misunderstandings.For all leaders, understanding and an open mindset were of paramount importance. Be vigilant about what certain behavior or modes of communication may be. Adaptations appear to be made to some extent but more thought about culture in communication and how certain information can be perceived. Of further importance is to keep the leaders' own culture in mind when trying to understand others in communication.

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Wouters, Paul. "The citation culture". Amsterdam : Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1999. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/wouters/wouters.pdf.

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Zirignon, Jean-Philippe, e Sanna Lindberg. "Culture, Communication, and Collaboration in Established MNEs : A Qualitative Analysis of the Influence of Culture". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173127.

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Culture is a social phenomenon that affects the daily lives of individuals. How we view the world is often reflected by our national culture forming our values, beliefs, and assumptions about what reality looks like. Since the globalization trend has paved the way for organizations to broaden their horizons, and because markets are no longer bound to geographical locations, culture plays a bigger role than ever before. For organizations being introduced to an increased number of cultures, the requirements of flexibility and adaptability drastically increase for both management and individuals working within these organizations. The organization further creates its own organizational culture, which is present alongside the different national cultures, and guides employees in their daily operations. Further, culture, to a great extent, determines the behaviors of individuals, and thus how one chooses to communicate and collaborate. In previous research, the emphasis on culture is extensive. The influences culture has had on large, international organizations have been widely debated in the academic world, and many practices in global organizations make use of the findings of such research. In addition to cultural research, communication and collaboration have been debated as correlated with culture in separate ways. Since the emphasis on culture has been great, additions have been made of how culture determines how one communicates or collaborates but not enough focus has been on the two and their relationship, and the combination of the three topics. There have also been calls within the academic world for more research on the phenomenon of culture. The authors of this thesis aimed to contribute to research with an attempt to fill this gap, increasing the existing knowledge on culture, communication and collaboration, which individuals and organizations can find useful. This thesis contributes with interesting results that confirmed, added to, and contradicted existing theory. The findings suggest culture as significantly impacting the multinational enterprise through its paradoxical influences, simultaneously affecting the organization in both positive and negative ways. Within the topics affected, communication and collaboration, four central themes were identified. These themes were decision-making, hierarchical and power structures, managing emotions, and managing change. In combination with the theoretical framework of this thesis, a conceptual model of the influences of culture on the topics of communication and collaboration, and on the four themes, was created. In the model, whether the paradoxical influences of culture are primarily positive or negative, is determined by the management of such influencess. This thesis further hints at directions for future research, as interesting findings can benefit from being further researched in detail. The findings of this thesis can be utilized in several ways, applying to an individual as well as an organizational level. By bringing cultural differences to light, one can overcome barriers and benefit from insights and different perspectives in operations, resulting in an increase of effectiveness and reproduction of positive emotions in the workplace. As understandings of culture could diminish barriers and increase humbleness towards individuals' dissimilarities, one seeking development could be greatly enlightened through such understandings.

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Martin, Damion R. "Culture and crisis communication : the use of intercultural communication in public relations crisis management planning". Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/787.

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This study set out to explore how multinational corporations incorporated the issue of culture into the planning process for crisis management. The research used a case study method with unstructured interviews conducted via email, phone and in person, and focused on the U.S. and Japan. Four of the interview subjects were established public relations professionals with experience in both countries, and one subject is a professor of intercultural communications in Japan. All interviews were transcribed and approved by the interview subjects before being analyzed and catalogued into themes. Those themes were then reviewed compared to the intercultural communications theoretical framework of power distance, high-context vs. low-context communications, and individualism vs. collectivism. Results revealed three main themes, including differences in PR between Japan and the United States, belief that culture should play a more substantial role in crisis communications, and actual use of culture in crisis communications. Responses showed that, regardless of a collective belief that culture should play a substantial role in crisis r;;- management, intercultural communication components often take over in emergencies. In conclusion, while all interview subjects saw value in cultural response, the broad scope of what that entails made it an impractical endeavor. Further, responses showed that the planning stage is not the most effective place to integrate culture into crisis communication. Research did suggest, however, that an updated PR model, adapted from the R.A.C.E. method, that incorporates elements of cultural communication consideration between the Action Planning and Communication stages could beneficial.

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Weyant, Jacob B. "Communicating organizational culture in the workplace through writing". Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3149.

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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.
Vita: p. 83. Thesis director: Douglas Eyman. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 8, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82). Also issued in print.

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Herbig, Art, A. Watson, Andrew F. Herrmann e A. Tyma. "The Creation of Profs Do Pop!: A Critical Examination of Popular Culture Communities". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/790.

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Scherer, Brooke Nichole. "Globalization, culture, and communication proposal for cultural studies integration within higher education graphic design curriculum /". [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1476367.

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Bregeon, Marie. "Analyse des rapports à la culture scripturale scolaire chez les élèves de SEGPA de culture pratico-orale et leur évolution". Paris 12, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA120061.

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Notre travail de thèse cherche à comprendre le fonctionnement et les enjeux des rapports à la culture scripturale scolaire des élèves de SEGPA. Pour cela, il met en exergue les caractéristiques culturelles pratico-orales des élèves de SEGPA et les confronte à celles de la culture écrite de l'école. Il s'appuie sur le corpus théorique élaboré ces trente dernières années et sur les représentations des élèves recueillies à partir d'interviews. Ainsi, il met en relief les différences, les espaces d'opposition et les possibilités d'articulation entre les deux modèles culturels. Il établit ensuite un exemple de pratique pédagogique qui a pour objectif d'articuler les normes et valeurs scripturales scolaires et pratico-orales : il s'agit d'une activité de lecture par des élèves de SEGPA à des élèves de grande section de maternelle
The aim of our thesis is to understand how the relationships of SEGPA pupils towards written school culture operate and what are the stokes in them. For that purpose, we will bring up what the fealures of these pupils oral culture transmitted in school. It relies on the theorical corpus elaborated during the past thirty years, and on the pupils representations collected among them throuhout interviews. Thus, we enhance the differences, oppositions and articulations that can be possible between these two cultural patterns. We settle thereafter an example of a pedagogical practice whose objective is ti articulate the norms and values inherent in these two patterns : story telling from SEGPA pupils to last year nursery school children

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Leshem, Shoshona. "Patterns and perceptions of oral feedback in the EFL classroom in Israel : a study of three culturally different environments". Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341657.

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Ciszek, Erica. "Identity, Culture, and Articulation: A Critical-Cultural Analysis of Strategic LGBT Advocacy Outreach". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18364.

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This study examines how LGBT activists and LGBT youth make meaning of a strategic advocacy campaign. By examining activist and advocacy efforts aimed at youth, this research brings to light how LGBT organizations use campaigns to articulate identity and, conversely, how LGBT youth articulate notions of identity. Through the lens of the It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit activist organization, this dissertation uses in-depth interviews with organizational members and chat-based interviews with LGBT youth to study the meanings participants brought to the campaign. Strategic communication has been instrumental in construction of LGBT as a cohesive collective identity and has played a vital role in the early stages of the gay rights movement. This research demonstrates how contemporary LGBT advocacy, through strategic communication, works to shape understandings of LGBT youth. Instead of focusing on the Internet as a democratic space that equalizes power differentials between an organization and its publics, this study shows that the construction of identity is the result of a dynamic process between producers and consumers in which power is localized and does not simply belong to an organization or its public. This research challenges the Internet as a democratic space and demonstrates that identity is a discursive struggle over meaning that is bound up in the intimate dance between producers and consumers of a campaign. In contrast to functionalist understandings of public relations that privileges the organization, this dissertation contends that a cultural-economic approach focuses on the processes of communication. A cultural-economic approach gives voice to the diverse audiences of a communication campaign and addresses the role communication plays as a discursive force that influences the construction of identities.

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Ramakgoakgoa, Mmametsi Zebedius. "Gross-gender and gross-generational communication in Siyabuswa". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23112.

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The problem addressed in this study is the difference in patterns of verbal and non-verbal communication across gender and generational groups, specifically between members of traditional and urban communities. These differences, it is argued, are linked to differences in values, attitudes, beliefs, views, etc., i.e. cultural differences, between the groups. Misunderstanding in such communicative interaction arises because people are unaware of the role of cultural differences in the construction and interpretation of texts/cases of language use, for example, the gender differences in the way men and women from different age groups and different habitats (rural vs. urban) can generate misunderstanding. In the Ndebele community, there is a marked diversity in communication patterns and practices by gender. These differences in communication patterns between men and women are socially constructed and are related to power. For example, women are not expected to maintain eye contact with their male counterparts in mutual conversation. Where they disregard these communicative norms, it would be regarded as socially unacceptable and such behaviour would be regarded as disrespectful by the traditional members of the society. Non-verbal behaviour may also impede effective communication because there are different systems of using and understanding gesture, posture, silence, touch and physical appearance in different gender, age and rural/urban communities. Copyright
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Herrera, Benjamin A. "The edge of reality: A contemporary analysis of the video game culture". Scholarly Commons, 2015. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/200.

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This thesis explores the contemporary world of video games and analyzes why people engage with single player and multiplayer video game experiences. Based on the uses and gratifications framework, this study examines how college students are engaging with video games and if they prefer single player or online multiplayer video games. Focus groups were conducted with college students to explore the video game culture. The results demonstrated that participants preferred single player video games due to less interruption from social interactions with online multiplayer games, but also to avoid harassment and negative criticisms that continue to plague online multiplayer experiences. Results also suggest that participants seek solitude while engaging with video games in order to become immersed within the game for a more relaxed and fun experience. Gratification dimensions were included from previous research including: arousal, challenge, competition, diversion, fantasy, and social interaction. Several new dimensions not matching previous research were discovered in the data that provided new perspectives on why players engage with single player video games. The participants discussed that single player video games could be played at their own pace, stopped at any time, and then continue their experience at their leisure. Participants were also researching and anticipating new game projects from their favorite developers. Additionally, participants suggest that if the developers made video games they enjoy playing, then the participants would continue to support and follow their future game projects.

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Alfano, Alliete Rodriguez. "Communication and Culture: Implications for Hispanic Mothers with Deaf Children". Scholarly Repository, 2007. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/61.

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The majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The fact that many of these children use sign language as their primary form of communication poses a unique language barrier between them and their hearing families. In addition, for children who are born into Hispanic families, these children have limited access to Hispanic and Deaf cultures unless their families actively pursue involvement with those communities. Data were collected through ethnographic interviews and limited participant observation and analyzed by means of grounded theory methodology. The study investigated how Hispanic mothers communicate with their deaf children who use ASL as their primary language, as well as how these mothers view Deafness as a culture.

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Soyseckin, Idil Safiye. "Identity And Communication In Cyberspace Muds: Gender And Virtual Culture". Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607564/index.pdf.

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This thesis investigates if it is possible to speak about a virtual culture. If so, it seeks to answers to the following questions: Is it possible to mention a culture peculiar to cyberspace or virtual culture is just a mirror of real life culture? Where does the body position? How have been identities experienced? What does fluid and fragmented identity mean? Does it offer a space of opportunities? How has been gender formed on cyberspace? Is removal of gender barriers possible? Answers to all these questions have been explored through text-based virtual reality environments on the Internet called MUDs in which creating alternative identities is possible. A survey and interviews as well as direct and participant observations for the exploration of MUD environments have been conducted. Mostly, MUDs called, LambdaMOO and Aardwolf, and then Cabü
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lsa have become central sites of observations and interviews. The findings show that cyberspace has its rules and limitations which are not independent from the real world. Since gender is a key component indicating the society interacts, culture of cyberspace cannot stay aside. Despite possibility of gender switching, stereotypical gender performances continue to exist. However cyberspace is a new and rich communication environment in respect of facilities it offers and its future structure and form largely depend on the users.

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Scott, Peter Terence, e res cand@acu edu au. "The Communication of School Culture in an Anglican Grammar School". Australian Catholic University. School of Education, 1998. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp215.03092009.

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This study reports research employing a three-phase methodology to investigate the nature and communication of the school culture of the Anglican Church Grammar School Brisbane. A preliminary survey with open-ended questions was used to obtain general opinion on the nature of the school's culture, how it is communicated and the role of the school's organisation structure in communicating the school's culture. From the results of this preliminary survey, a set of ratings was developed and given to randomly selected samples of ex-students, parents, staff and senior students. A descriptive statistical analysis of this main survey was used in providing answers to the research questions concerning the nature of the school's culture, the influence of the school's organisational structure on it, and how the culture is communicated within the school and to the general public. Data from the main survey were used to develop a set of scales, the Communication of School Culture Instrument, which was used to give comparisons of the perceptions of school culture by the four population sub-groups (viz. ex-students, parents, staff & students) of the school. Statistical findings from the surveys and the CSCI were complemented by a series of in-depth interviews of representatives of the school population sub-groups. Analysis of data suggested that, whilst the school's sub-groups generally shared perceptions about the nature of the school's culture, there were significant differences of opinion about how this culture was communicated and influenced by the school's organisational structure. There was also a significant difference of perspective between the adult males and females of the total school population. An analysis of perspective of ex-students from different time periods of attending the school from the 1920s to present, did not show any significant differences in perspective, suggesting a constancy of the school's culture over time. Several other areas of investigation which would be worthy of further attention are the role of mothers and female members of staff in a boys' school, and the impact of boarding students as a sub-culture would be worthy of further study in this school.

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Richter, Karen E. "Policing in Germany, culture and communication in police/public encounters". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58258.pdf.

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Collins, Richard. "Culture, communication and national identity : the case of Canadian television". Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314576.

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Ge, Zhifei Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Microfluidic cell culture chambers with nanoporous walls for chemical communication". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85502.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2013.
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Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals that so far only a tiny fraction of microbial diversity has been cultured in the laboratory. One major reason behind this "unculturability" is that many microbes function in symbiosis, frequently exchanging metabolites to sustain their own metabolism, while key exchanged metabolites have hardly been identified. To advance the culturability of diverse microbes we propose a method to engineer a microfluidic co-culture platform, the Microfluidic Cell Culture Chambers, which mimics natural conditions for bacterial growth. The key innovation is to physically isolate bacteria while allowing chemical communication through metabolite diffusion. In this work, the device enables both high-throughput screening and real-time observation of bacterial growth. In our method, we use a porous material, poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylateco-ethylene dimethacrylate) (HEMA-EDMA), to fabricate a microwell array with 105 individual culture chambers. Pore size of HEMA-EDMA was confirmed by ESEM imaging to be less than 200 nm, adequate for isolating all identified bacteria. We have video-recorded fluorescence labeled Escherichia coli swimming in confined HEMA-EDMA wells and observed that E. coli is unable to travel between culture chambers. Single-strain E. coli is cultured with the device to test biocompatibility of the device. Syntrophic pairs of E. coli were constructed to test the devices' ability to culture inter-dependent species with physical isolation. In future work, culture of quorum sensing strains is suggested to look into inter-species chemical communication in the Microfluidic Cell Culture Chambers. The future device may be applied to recover uncultured microbial species from natural habitat.
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Dailey, Phokeng M. "Communication, Somali Culture and Decision-making about the HPV Vaccine". The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366284195.

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Richter, Karen E. (Karen Emilie) Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "Policing in Germany: culture and communication in police/public encounters". Ottawa, 2000.

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Georgiadis, Elliot Erin. "ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE THEORY AND FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS: APPLYING MEASURES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE THEORY TO THE SORORITY CONTEXT". University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1566227238796242.

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Ongwatana, Pongpranod, e Gaurav Chordia. "How does culture influence communication in multicultural teams in China and India". Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-18447.

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With the increasing trend of globalization, the impact of globalization has lead to a fast changing environment the boundaries for business is diminishing day by day so is the movement of people between different countries and cultures. The requirements of multinational organizations like expansion plans in international market has continuingly increased the need to understand the cultural dimensions of different countries to achieve better results. Therefore the companies are required to understand a national culture’s impact on areas like communication in multicultural teams in different countries which has a high degree of effect on team performance. So our research question revolves around this topic as “How does culture influence communication in multi cultural teams”. This thesis makes an attempt to investigate the influence of national cultures on communication in project teams in China and India by focusing on construction industry based on a number of factors including Hofstede’s (1980) cultural dimensional framework. The researchers intend to explore the cultural factors having major impact on communication in multicultural project teams of both countries. Throughout our research and study, useful lessons on national cultures impact on communication can be drawn for multicultural project team in China and India. It can provide a better insight for the project teams to have concern for and understand why people from different countries and cultures react or respond to various situations in a different manner, giving high emphasis to communication process.

To support our thesis a total of 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers in different companies from construction sector. An empirical qualitative research using semi-structured interviews was conducted from a total of 12 project team members from multinational companies in China and India based on their experiences on cultural influence on team communication when working in project teams. The research revealed that there are significant differences and similarities in communication styles of Chinese and Indian teams, and the differences are mostly attributed to have strong links with cultural aspects. Specially with increasing economical changes the traditional patterns of behavior in communication are changing with time. The results also addressed number of similarities; especially in both the countries, culture continues to dominate most aspects of communication. The major implication is that the knowledge of the cultural differences and similarities would facilitate better team performance. Therefore, by keeping in mind the importance as well as the impact of various national cultures and presenting each member with a better understanding and knowledge about social background of the team mates within the multicultural teams, arguments and conflicts arise due to misconception and pre-judgment can be reduced. Hence it will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the teams working in multicultural environment.

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Maas, Elise. ""Culture managériale" et "culture en action" : analyse des dynamiques communicationnelles et régulatrices associées à ces cultures dans le passage d'un agir individuel à un agir collectif dans l'organisation". Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012VERS007S.

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Cette recherche fera émerger deux niveaux d'appréhension de la « culture » dans les organisations et les mettra en tension. La « culture managériale », concept professionnel, est perçue par le management comme déterministe et utilisée dans un objectif fonctionnaliste. Elle sera assimilée à une régulation de contrôle. La « culture en action », approche scientifique, est le résultat des actions collectives. Dynamique, inconsciente, symbolique et régulatrice, elle sera positionnée comme à l'origine de la régulation autonome. Une méta-méthodologie, construite à partir d'une mise en perspective de méthodologies professionnelles avec l'ethnométhodologie, la régulation sociale et les approches communicationnelles des organisations, mettra au jour un double mouvement interactionniste entre ces cultures. Il induirait que, l'une comme l'autre, participeraient au passage d'un agir individuel à un agir collectif permettant la réalisation du travail d'organisation
This research will develop two different levels of understanding of the spirit of "culture" in organization and confront them. "Management culture", a professional concept, is perceived by management as a deterministic used as a functionalist goal. It will be treated as regulatory control. "Culture in Action", a scientific approach, is the result of collective action. Dynamic, subconscious, symbolic and regulative, it will be positioned as the cause of autonomic regulation. These cultures are analyzed by putting in perspective professional methodologies to a meta-methodology with theories of ethnomethodology, social regulation and communicational approaches organization. The double interactionist motion between these cultures is revealed. It could encourage one and as the other, to evolve from individual action to collective action for the realization of organizational work

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Yiboe, Kofi Tsivanyo. "Enseignement/apprentissage du français au Ghana : écarts entre la culture d'enseignement et la culture d'apprentissage". Strasbourg, 2010. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2010/YIBOE_Kofi_Tsivanyo_2010.pdf.

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L’enseignement/apprentissage d’une langue étrangère en situation scolaire suppose l’intégration de multiples facteurs sociaux. Cette recherche s’intéresse aux stratégies communicatives en classe de français langue étrangère dans quelques lycées au Ghana. Nous avons filmé neuf séances (6 heures) dans trois lycées de la municipalité de Cape Coast. L’analyse des données est basée sur les différents comportements verbaux et non verbaux retenus au cours de la transcription des séances filmées. Ainsi, nous puisons dans des concepts de l’ethnographie, en nous enrichissant des outils anthropologiques, sociologiques, psychologiques, didactiques, interactionnistes, linguistiques, etc. Les résultats montrent que l’inférence en tant que technique d’enseignement joue plusieurs rôles et peut contribuer au développement des stratégies communicatives en classe de FLE. Cependant, l’approche dans les lycées ghanéens se heurte à une incompréhension entre la culture européenne et la culture de socialisation des élèves. Par ailleurs, l’alternance des langues en classe de français langue étrangère prend diverses formes contrôlées par les enseignants. En outre, la communication non-verbale se reflète également dans les échanges à fonction communicative complexe que les enseignants et les élèves jouent en classe. Enfin, l’analyse révèle l’importance de l’affectivité dans l’acquisition des langues étrangères à l’école même à l’âge de la fin de scolarité
The teaching/learning of a foreign language in the school set up require the integration of multiple social factors. This research attempts to describe patterns of communication in French as a foreign language class in some senior high schools in Ghana. Lesson sessions are videotaped in three schools in the Cape Coast municipality. The results show that inference as a teaching technique plays several roles and may contribute to the development of communication strategies in foreign language classroom. However, the approach is hampered in Ghanaian schools by a misunderstanding between the European culture and the culture of socialization of the students. Moreover, code switching in French as a foreign language classroom takes many forms controlled by teachers. Different linguistic codes within the class are therefore limited to only metalinguistic discourse. In addition, nonverbal communication is also reflected in various complex communicative functions that teachers and students play in class. Finally, the analysis reveals the importance of emotion in the acquisition of foreign languages in Ghanaian secondary schools

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Saied, Kaj. "News Media in War Culture". Thesis, Karlstad University, Karlstad University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1476.

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Fear has found its latest instrument in the news media. The discourse of fear in news presentations produces gasping meanings, which we can compellingly indulge in. Fear not just being entertaining, but one of the ways in which we relate to reality, is used as a protection mechanism of our status quo. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the extent to which Fox News tends to use, and further reproduce, the fear discourse to form identities and meaning. The method utilized in this thesis is frame analysis, which is a form of discourse analysis. The primary results indicate that Fox News undeniably uses the fear discourse, for entertainment and the proliferation of the status quo - meaning system. In addition, Fox News applies fear blatantly in the news presentations, as acts of courage and virtuous loyalty to reporting.

Key words: Fear, Frame analysis, Meaning, News media, Infotainment.

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Grech, Lisa Marie. "The effect of culture on cross-cultural conflict resolution behaviors". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2331.

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This study attempted to investigate whether there were differences in the conflict behaviors chosen for members of the same culture versus members of a different culture when accounting for Chinese cultural value conservation.

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Bouillaguet, Emilie. "Organisation, information et communication de "l'espace culturel" : approche d'un cas d'entreprise et modélisation : Fondation La Borie-en-Limousin (CIFRE)". Thesis, Limoges, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIMO0106.

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Cette recherche se donne pour but de rendre compte des conditions d’émergence et de production du sens dans le système d’organisation, d’information et de communication de l’entreprise culturelle. Placée sous les lumières complémentaires de la sémiotique, de la sociologie et des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, cette étude vise à interroger la vie et le désir culturel d’une entreprise particulière, pour mieux rejoindre l’horizon problématique de son milieu d’immersion : le milieu de la « culture » en France. Effectuée dans le cadre d’une Convention industrielle de formation par la recherche en entreprise (CIFRE), cette recherche se base sur une enquête de terrain et sur une observation menée pendant plus de quatre ans à la Fondation La Borie-en-Limousin. La vie de l’entreprise est donc considérée en tant que corpus d’étude, en tant qu’objet hétérogène et complexe mais néanmoins délimitable, et capable de fournir un appui solide à l’analyse d’enjeux nationaux : ce désir absolu de « rendre la culture accessible », le parcours et le dispositif d’une action culturelle, l’idéal d’un « développement » de la culture, la difficile négociation de ses identités culturelles, l’imprévisibilité du système d’information et de communication, etc. Ainsi, le travail de modélisation construit peu à peu le concept d’ « espace culturel », monde abstrait visant à stabiliser les caractéristiques de tous milieux en charge de la question culturelle et ouvrir de possibles voies à la transposabilité de ce modèle, à l’attention de celles et ceux qui font l’art et la culture en France
This research aims to show how meaning can emerge and be produced within the organisation, information and communication systems of a cultural company. Conducted within the complementary frameworks of semiotics, sociology and Information and Communication Sciences, this study scrutinizes the cultural life and desire of a particular company, in order to better grasp the general questions that arise, in this field, to its receiving environment—the French “culture” sector. This research was undertaken as part of a Ministry of Higher Education scheme for education through industrial research (Convention industrielle de formation par la recherche en entreprise, CIFRE). It is based on a field survey and on observations carried out over four years at the La Borie-en-Limousin Foundation. Life within the foundation is considered as the corpus under study, a complex and multifaceted one, but also one that can be circumscribed, and used as a basis for an analysis of national issues such as: how to account for the absolute desire to make “culture” accessible, how to set up and implement a cultural event, how to approach the ideal “development” of culture, how to negotiate between different cultural identities, how to deal with an unpredictable information and communication system etc. The modelling work thus gradually builds up a concept of “cultural space”—an abstract world used to stabilize the features of all environments which deal with culture, and open up possible ways to transfer this model for all those involved in arts and culture in France

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