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The Politics Media Equation:Exposing Two Faces Of Old Nexus Through Study Of General Elections,Wikileaks And Radia Tapes, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Oct 2013

The Politics Media Equation:Exposing Two Faces Of Old Nexus Through Study Of General Elections,Wikileaks And Radia Tapes, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The important identity of a responsible media is playing an unbiased role in reporting a matter without giving unnecessary hype to attract the attention of the gullible public with the object of making money and money only.After reporting properly the media can educate the public to form their own opinion in the matters of public interest. Throughout the centuries, the world has never existed without information and communication, hence the inexhaustible essence of mass media. The government has the power to either make or reject whatever that will exist within its environment. It also determines how free the mass media …


Online Credibility And Digital Ethos: Approaches For Evaluating And Incorporating Networked Information In The Digital Age, Shawn Apostel, Moe Folk Jul 2013

Online Credibility And Digital Ethos: Approaches For Evaluating And Incorporating Networked Information In The Digital Age, Shawn Apostel, Moe Folk

Shawn Apostel

With the near-ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, access to acquiring and publishing online information has never been easier; however, with this advance in information technology comes new challenges for content providers to establish credibility and for students, researchers, and consumers to develop effective ways of evaluating online credibility. For example, students and instructors in writing classes across the world face challenges in creating research projects that did not exist even a decade ago. These issues are not just affecting American universities; therefore, this book addresses an international audience by offering approaches to evaluating the credibility of digital sources, including …


Teaching Creative Thinking: A New Pedagogy For The 21st Century, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter, Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet Jan 2013

Teaching Creative Thinking: A New Pedagogy For The 21st Century, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter, Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Digital Ethos In Research Writing, Shawn Apostel Sep 2012

The Role Of Digital Ethos In Research Writing, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Avoiding Prezilepsy: Organization Strategies To Reduce Motion Sickness Caused By Prezis, Shawn Apostel Apr 2012

Avoiding Prezilepsy: Organization Strategies To Reduce Motion Sickness Caused By Prezis, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Visual Presentation Aids In The Communication Center: Tips And Techniques For Providing Useful Design Feedback, Shawn Apostel Apr 2012

Visual Presentation Aids In The Communication Center: Tips And Techniques For Providing Useful Design Feedback, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Brainstorming In The Cloud: Using Prezi Meeting To Facilitate Feedback During The Topic Selecting And Organizing Stage Of The Composition Process, Shawn Apostel Mar 2012

Brainstorming In The Cloud: Using Prezi Meeting To Facilitate Feedback During The Topic Selecting And Organizing Stage Of The Composition Process, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration, Russell Carpenter, Shawn Apostel Dec 2011

Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration, Russell Carpenter, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

A collection that examines the centers that support communication departments or across-the-curriculum programs as higher education focuses more attention on the communication field. The authors in this text address theoretical issues covering topics such as the importance of communication centers to higher education, the effects of communication centers on retention, critical thinking in the center, ethics, and more. These essays also explore ideas about center’s set-up and use of space, staff training, technology applications, and campus advertising and outreach. Communication Centers organizes cutting-edge knowledge of the theory and empirical research so as to serve practical use to peer tutors and …


Wiki Leaks Revelations In Global Context—The War Between ‘Right To Publish’ And ‘Ethical Code Of Conduct, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2011

Wiki Leaks Revelations In Global Context—The War Between ‘Right To Publish’ And ‘Ethical Code Of Conduct, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its launch. WikiLeaks describes its founders as a mix of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director. The site was originally launched as a user-editable wiki, but has progressively moved towards …


A Critical Study Of Organizational Communication And Organizational Communication Theories- A Historical Perspective, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2011

A Critical Study Of Organizational Communication And Organizational Communication Theories- A Historical Perspective, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Organizational Communication is the study that looks at human communication within and outside the organization. Conrad and Poole (1998) break the definition of organizational communication in parts, by first defining communication and then analyses the organization. These researchers define communication as “a process through which people, acting together, create, sustain, and manage meanings through the use of verbal and nonverbal signs and symbols within a particular context” (Conrad and Poole, 1998, p. 5). In the context of this book, Kenyans and their leaders are communicating their views and final decision through the ballot box to elect their third president, during …


New Media Voices In The Communication Center: Engaging Voice And Multimodality In Eportfolios, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter Nov 2011

New Media Voices In The Communication Center: Engaging Voice And Multimodality In Eportfolios, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Public Accountability And Media : Its Success And Failure In Performing The Role As A Force For Public Accountability, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2011

Public Accountability And Media : Its Success And Failure In Performing The Role As A Force For Public Accountability, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Media accountability is a phrase that refers to the general (especially western) belief that mass media has to be accountable in the public’s interest - that is, they are expected to behave in certain ways that contribute to the public good. The concept is not clearly defined, and often collides with commercial interests of media owners; legal issues, such as the constitutional right to the freedom of the press in the U.S.; and governmental concerns about public security and order. Several international organizations, like International Freedom of Expression Exchange, Freedom House, International Press Institute, World Press Freedom Committee and the …


Applied Visual Rhetoric: Pairing Student Eportfolios With Peer Reviews To Foster Critical Examination And Production Of Multimodal Texts, Shawn Apostel Nov 2011

Applied Visual Rhetoric: Pairing Student Eportfolios With Peer Reviews To Foster Critical Examination And Production Of Multimodal Texts, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Integrating Research And Communication: Collaboration To Support Critical Thinking, Shawn Apostel, Terri Nowak, Russell Carpenter, Leslie Valley, Trenia Napier Sep 2011

Integrating Research And Communication: Collaboration To Support Critical Thinking, Shawn Apostel, Terri Nowak, Russell Carpenter, Leslie Valley, Trenia Napier

Russell Carpenter

No abstract provided.


New Media Voices In The Communication Center: Engaging Voice And Multimodality In Eportfolios, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter Sep 2011

New Media Voices In The Communication Center: Engaging Voice And Multimodality In Eportfolios, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter

Russell Carpenter

No abstract provided.


Stepping Up, Stepping Out: New Directions In The Development Of An Integrated Space, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter Sep 2011

Stepping Up, Stepping Out: New Directions In The Development Of An Integrated Space, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter

Russell Carpenter

No abstract provided.


Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter Sep 2011

Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter

Russell Carpenter

The role of ethos in the communication process as discussed by Michael Hyde in The Ethos of Rhetoric suggests we reexamine the role of space in the Communication Center. Such a space should be created to facilitate and nurture the speech-composing and practicing process through feedback from individuals or groups while also allowing students to move from public to private places. Our chapter will address this use of space by utilizing research conducted in the groundbreaking Noel Studio for Academic Creativity. Our research uses control and experimental groups from communication classes to investigate the relationship between space and oral communication


The Penetration Of Social Media In Governance,Political Reforms And Building Public Perception, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr May 2011

The Penetration Of Social Media In Governance,Political Reforms And Building Public Perception, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue. While we know that social media can play an important role in publicizing political activities such as protests, do we have evidence that such actions have led to substantive political change? Is it possible to develop a set of indicators to more effectively gauge the impact of new technologies and media on questions of political change? That social media can help coordinate large and discrete activities, such as protests and …


Integrating Research And Communication: Collaboration To Support Critical Thinking, Shawn Apostel, Terri Nowak, Russell Carpenter, Leslie Valley, Trenia Napier May 2011

Integrating Research And Communication: Collaboration To Support Critical Thinking, Shawn Apostel, Terri Nowak, Russell Carpenter, Leslie Valley, Trenia Napier

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Traversing Space And Place: Consulting New Media Texts In The 21st Century Multiliteracy Center, Shawn Apostel, Trenia Napier, Leslie Valley May 2011

Traversing Space And Place: Consulting New Media Texts In The 21st Century Multiliteracy Center, Shawn Apostel, Trenia Napier, Leslie Valley

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Two Faces Of Media While Covering Human Right Activities In India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Apr 2011

Two Faces Of Media While Covering Human Right Activities In India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The situation of human rights in India is a complex one, as a result of the country's large size and tremendous diversity, its status as a developing country and a sovereign, secular, democratic republic, and its history as a former colonial territory. The Constitution of India provides for Fundamental rights, which include freedom of religion. Clauses also provide for Freedom of Speech, as well as separation of executive and judiciary and freedom of movement within the country and abroad. In its report on human rights in India during 2010, Human Rights Watch stated India had "significant human rights problems". They …


Language Discourse- A Critical Analysis Of Michel Focault's Work On Language Discourse With Special Reference To His Masterpiece "The Archeology Of Knowledge", Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Apr 2011

Language Discourse- A Critical Analysis Of Michel Focault's Work On Language Discourse With Special Reference To His Masterpiece "The Archeology Of Knowledge", Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Discourse generally refers to "written or spoken communication or debate". The following are three more specific definitions: (1) In semantics and discourse analysis: A generalization of the concept of conversation to all modalities and contexts. (2) "The totality of codified linguistic usages attached to a given type of social practice. (E.g.: legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse.)" (3) In the work of Michel Foucault, and social theorists inspired by him: "an entity of sequences of signs in that they are enouncements (enoncés)" (Foucault 1969: 141). An enouncement (often translated as "statement") is not a unity of signs, but an abstract …


Presentation Aids That Move: Providing Feedback On Visuals Composed On Rich-Media Software, Shawn Apostel Mar 2011

Presentation Aids That Move: Providing Feedback On Visuals Composed On Rich-Media Software, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Noel Studio Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration In The Communication Center, Shawn Apostel Mar 2011

Noel Studio Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration In The Communication Center, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Challenges Before Traditional Media In The Age Of Digital Media-How To Integrate It With Digital Media-The Way Ahead, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Mar 2011

Challenges Before Traditional Media In The Age Of Digital Media-How To Integrate It With Digital Media-The Way Ahead, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

You may have heard of digital media, but you may have no idea what it is and how it can help you out when it comes to marketing. It's definitely important that you get up to speed so you can use this to benefit your business. Basically digital media refers to any type of electronic media out there. Today media can be accessed in many ways, including with hand held devices like mobile phones, laptops, desktops, mp3 players, and more.Digital media must be stored in an electronic way, so there is a lot of digital content on the internet today, …


Stepping Up, Stepping Out: New Directions In The Development Of An Integrated Space, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter Feb 2011

Stepping Up, Stepping Out: New Directions In The Development Of An Integrated Space, Shawn Apostel, Russell Carpenter

Shawn Apostel

No abstract provided.


Unlearning Rules And Embracing Creativity: Using Prezi To Rethink Powerpoint, Shawn Apostel Dec 2010

Unlearning Rules And Embracing Creativity: Using Prezi To Rethink Powerpoint, Shawn Apostel

Shawn Apostel

As instructors, we should encourage our students to think rhetorically about visual presentation aids instead of relying on simple, prescriptive rules of design. Prezi provides us with a unique opportunity to rethink the way we use PowerPoint.


Changing Mutual Perception Of Television News Viewers And Program Makers In India- A Case Study Of Cnn-Ibn And Its Unique Initiative Of Citizen Journalism, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2010

Changing Mutual Perception Of Television News Viewers And Program Makers In India- A Case Study Of Cnn-Ibn And Its Unique Initiative Of Citizen Journalism, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The Indian television system is one of the most extensive systems in the world. Terrestrial broadcasting, which has been the sole preserve of the government, provides television coverage to over 90% of India's 900 million people. By the end of 1996 nearly 50 million households had television sets. International satellite broadcasting, introduced in 1991, has swept across the country because of the rapid proliferation of small scale cable systems. By the end of 1996, Indians could view dozens of foreign and local channels and the competition for audiences and advertising revenues was one of the hottest in the world. In …


Community Radio:History,Growth,Challenges And Current Status Of It With Special Reference To India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Oct 2010

Community Radio:History,Growth,Challenges And Current Status Of It With Special Reference To India, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting content that is popular to a local audience but which may often be overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Modern-day community radio stations often serve their listeners by offering a variety of content that is not necessarily provided by the larger commercial radio stations. Community radio outlets may carry news and information programming geared toward the local area, particularly immigrant or minority groups that are poorly served by other major media outlets. Philosophically two distinct approaches to community radio can be discerned, …


History Of Communication And Its Application In Multicultaral,Multilingual Social System In India Across Ages, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Sep 2010

History Of Communication And Its Application In Multicultaral,Multilingual Social System In India Across Ages, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The history of communication dates back to the earliest signs of cavemen.Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication. Human communication was revolutionized with speech perhaps 200,000 years ago, Symbols were developed about 30,000 years ago and writing about 7,000. On a much shorter scale, there have been major developments in the field of telecommunication in the past few centuries.