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Is The Effectiveness Of Social Media Overrated?, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Feeling empowered is not the same as being empowered

Ua42/1/5 Online Learning At Wku, Wku Online

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Online / Online Program Services.

• A Glimpse Inside DELO
• Some of What You'll Find Online @ WKU
• From CARE Students
• Coaching for Academic Readiness & Excellence (CARE)
• CARE Resources
• WKU School of Engineering & Applied Sciences & WKU On Demand Prepare to Launch New Competency Based Education Program
• Topper Orientation Program (TOP) for Online Learners
• The Advisors' Guide
• WKU Online Learning / Tuition Cheat Sheet
• Our Team

Ua52/1 Out Of The Box, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Archives and the records management program.

A Framework For Recommendation Of Highly Popular News Lacking Social Feedback, Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Magdalini Eirinaki, Paula Branco

Faculty Publications

Social media is rapidly becoming the main source of news consumption for users, raising significant challenges to news aggregation and recommendation tasks. One of these challenges concerns the recommendation of very recent news. To tackle this problem, approaches to the prediction of news popularity have been proposed. In this paper, we study the task of predicting news popularity upon their publication, when social feedback is unavailable or scarce, and to use such predictions to produce news rankings. Unlike previous work, we focus on accurately predicting highly popular news. Such cases are rare, causing known issues for standard prediction models and …

Ua35/8 Reveille, Vol. 25, No. 3, Wku Veterans Upward Bound

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about Veterans Upward Bound

• Veterans Upward Bound Celebrates 25th Anniversary
• Awards
• Weather Advisory
• National Suicide Prevention Month

Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Power, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

2017 Talisman yearbook.

• Gibson, Helen. Letter from the Editor
• Edwards, Aly. What's Your Superpower?
• Mattison, Reed. Dangerous Heights - George Clark, Mountaineering
• Voorhees, Jessica. Innovative Energy - Wei-Ping Pan
• Voorhees, Jessica. Counterpunch - Rock Steady Boxing
• Barritt, Brooklyn. B.G. Bosses - Small Business
• Frint, Hunter. Cason's Cove: The Power of Family
• Mitchell, McKenna. Picking Up the Mic - Reuben Bynes, Waco Bell
• Mohr, Olivia. Hidden in Plain Sight - Human Trafficking
• Mattingly, Evan. Voice Off - Noah Hancock, Deaf Persons
• Robb, Hayley. Game, Set, Unmatched - Phillip Cole, Tennis
• Good, Hannah. Damage Control - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Gordon, Zora. …

Ua19/16/2 Womens' Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics related to WKU women's basketball team from August to December 2017.

Prisoner Of Context: The Truman Doctrine Speech And J. Edgar Hoover’S Rhetorical Realism, Stephen Underhill

Communications Faculty Research

In this project, I argue that J. Edgar Hoover’s style of political realism should be studied by critics because it long preceded that of President Harry S. Truman. Thestyle belonged to a stockpile of anti-Communist imagery that helped to shape how the Truman Doctrine speech was drafted and how audiences interpreted its meanings in more local domestic politics. When Truman fınally announced that the Soviet Union had challenged international protocol, I argue that he confırmed the vision that his Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director and other detractors had developed throughout the New Deal to discredit reformers who challenged issues …

Ua19/16/2 Football Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, game statistics and photos related to the WKU football team from July to December 2017.

The Legacy, October 2017, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Ua19/16/2 Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, game statistics and photos related to the WKU basketball team August to December 2017.

Teaching Peace: A Plan For Effective Crisis Communication Instruction Intended Course, Andrew S. Pyle

Publications

Courses: This unit activity is intended for public relations (PR), crisis communication, or journalism courses.

Objectives: The purpose is to equip future PR professionals with critical thinking skills and experience to manage crises. Students demonstrate mastery in two ways: by crafting clear crisis response messages and materials in a narrow time frame, and by applying a crisis communication heuristic to manage a simulated crisis event.

Critical Risk Assessment And Management In Pharmaceutical Industry, Abida Zameer

Dissertations and Theses

Background

Proper implementation of principles of project risk management is well known to minimize the impact of threats to any project. However, the determination of critical success factors which threat the success of pharmaceutical projects at baseline are usually uncertain.

Methods

Data was collected using self-administered structured questionnaire generated solely for the purpose of the current research. The questionnaire was administered via e-mail to professionals employed in the pharmaceutical industry located in Boston area using www.surveymonkey.com. The introduction and purpose of the questionnaire was described in the message accompanying the questionnaire.

Results:

Out of the 14 critical success factors listed …

Team Performance And Project Success, Ijeoma Okoronkwo

Dissertations and Theses

Project Teamwork is a worthy objective aimed at accomplishing high level cooperation, productivity and success but often times this is not so. The level of performance applied towards a project work has a direct impact on the project success or failure.

Teams are the basic structure of how project activities and tasks are being organized and managed within companies and organizations. Therefore, the success or the failure of a project depends largely on the overall performance of the teams assigned to the project. This increased attention towards teams has forced many organizations to focus on improving the overall performance of …

The Minero Magazine, Volume Xxv, Fall 2017, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Cover Stories: Chasing the Dragon, UTEP's Dream Team, Feminismo de Frontera, ¿Al César o a Dios?

Listening To Pictures: Converging Media Histories And The Multimedia Newspaper, Katie Day Good

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This article revisits the early twentieth century as an overlooked period of media mixing and technological convergence in newspapers. Comparing a short-lived audiovisual form of journalism— the Radio Photologues of the Chicago Daily News—with contemporary audio slideshows produced by online newspapers, it argues that newspapers have long been meeting grounds for experimental combinations of existing and emerging media. It calls for a broader historical perspective in discussions of convergence in digital journalism by drawing attention to the complex intermingling of media forms, sensory engagements, and storytelling conventions that have appeared in newspapers in times of technological transition. Additionally, it highlights …

#Nodapl: Social Media, Empowerment, And Civic Participation At Standing Rock, Hayley Johnson

Faculty Publications

The struggle for environmental and social justice within American Indian communities is one that has been ongoing since the beginning of United States history, but the main catalyst to effect change and to promote and disperse the American Indian narrative has emerged through the power of social media in today's hyperconnected society. This article examines the power of social media to effect change, as well as a hyperconnected society's ability to empower historically disadvantaged groups that have often been misrepresented within traditional media outlets. The historic movement occurring at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and the #NoDAPL protests illustrates the capacity …

Nbc Peacock North Fall 2017, Peacock North Staff

NBC Peacock North Newsletter

Highlights include: Spanning the World With Len Berman --Marilyn's Page --Inside SNL --Two NBC Sports Vets to Join Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame - Radio City Music Hall -- Tributes to Silent Microphones -- Sacred Heart University Examines Fake News

Luchadoras: Resistencias Contra La Violencia De Género Por Las Mujeres En La Región De San Ramón, Olivia "Livey" Beha

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This qualitative study describes the dynamic resiliency-building process against gender-based violence in two rural coffee-producing communities in the region of San Ramon, Nicaragua. It examines the methods and efficacy of economic empowerment and educational interventions facilitated by the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives Augusto Cesar Sandino (UCA San Ramón) in addressing gender inequality, preventing gender-based violence, and increasing access to resources for women in the cooperatives of El Privilegio and Danilo Gonzales. This complex ecology, comprised of the interactions between women, their communities, available resources, and institutions, is assessed through the lens of women’s individual perspectives as they engage in three …

Applying Agile Lean To Global Software Development, Piyansh Gupta

Dissertations and Theses

Although challenges of Global Software Development (GSD) are well known in the industry, practitioners and the organizations look for ways to improve results and overcome challenges. Companies have tried to implement many workable solutions possible to solve issues like poor communication, lack of trust, low morale and many other such issues prevalent in the distributed setting. With the success of agile, the methodology gained interest in leveraging its benefits to alleviate some of these challenges. Similarly, lean was also implemented in distributed software development to resolve issues. While each methodology provided some improvement in the results achieved in global software …

Demo 27, Columbia College Chicago

Alumni Newsletters

Alumni newsletter from Fall - Winter 2017 entitled "DEMO 27." This issue is 60 pages.

Developing Ict Skills Of Stem Teachers In Mexico: The Key Role Of The Tutorial Function, Alexander N. Chen, David Mccalman, Mark E. Mcmurtrey, J. Gabriel Domínguez Castillo, Víctor Manuel Cab Pech

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

It is well documented in distance education literature that one of the factors that are considered essential to the success of an online course is the tutorial function. The role of counselor consists of assisting and encouraging students, building learning activities, and developing support strategies for the use of technology. The tutor thus was assessed as one element of great importance in on-line education, and, to some, an essential feature of this mode. In this paper, the importance of the tutorial function and its effect on the development of skills for using information and communication technology (ICT) in science, technology, …

Jaringan Komunikasi Dalam Partisipasi Gerakan Sosial Lingkungan: Studi Pengaruh Sentralitas Jaringan Terhadap Partisipasi Gerakan Sosial Tolak Pabrik Semen Pada Komunitas Adat Samin Di Pati Jawa Tengah, Dwi Retno Hapsari, Billy K. Sarwono, Eriyanto Eriyanto

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Fokus penelitian ini melakukan analisis struktur jaringan komunikasi dalam gerakan sosial lingkungan pada komunitas adat Samin di Pati Jawa Tengah, khususnya analisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi sentralitas jaringan komunikasi dan kontribusinya untuk mendorong partisipasi masyarakat dalam suatu gerakan sosial lingkungan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif, mencakup analisis struktur jaringan komunikasi dengan UCINET dan analisis statistik dengan Path Analysis. Hasil temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) struktur jaringan yang terbentuk pada Komunitas Adat Samin di Dukuh Bombong, terkait isu rencana pendirian pabrik semen memiliki kohesifitas yang rendah, pola jaringan komunikasi yang terbentuk menyebar dan mengalami fragmentasi, (2) faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi tingkat …

Komodifikasi Wartawan Di Era Konvergensi: Studi Kasus Tempo, Wahyudi Marhaen Pratopo

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Penelitian ini berusaha menjelaskan terjadinya komodifikasi pekerja media (wartawan) dalam industri media massa di era konvergensi dengan studi kasus Tempo. Peneliti mengembangkan kerangka pemikiran dari teori ekonomi politik komunikasi, yang pintu masuk pertamanya adalah komodifikasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan paradigma kritis dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan metode studi kasus. Penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa pertumbuhan Tempo dari sebuah majalah menjadi konglomerasi merupakan akumulasi kapital sesuai dengan tujuan kapitalis. Tempo terus mengembangkan bisnis dan inovasi untuk beradaptasi dengan perkembangan industri media serta teknologi media baru, termasuk dengan penerapan konvergensi media dan konvergensi redaksi. Dalam pelipatgandaan kapital dan pelaksanakan konvergensi redaksi itu terjadi komodifikasi pekerja …

Pesan Efikasi Dengan Pendekatan Ancaman Dalam Komunikasi Kebijakan Publik: Studi Eksperimen Pengaruh Penerimaan Pesan Efikasi Terhadap Motivasi Proteksi Dalam Kebijakan Perpajakan, Nico Aditia

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Strategi pendekatan rasa takut banyak diterapkan untuk kampanye kesehatan, kecelakaan, atau bidang lain yang menampilkan ancaman fisik dan terbukti efektif dalam mempengaruhi penerima pesan. Oleh sebab itu, pendekatan ini juga dimungkinkan untuk dapat digunakan dalam kebijakan publik. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menguji pengaruh penerimaan pesan efikasi terhadap motivasi proteksi dalam pesan program Amnesti Pajak. Hubungan kausal tersebut dianalisis menggunakan model Extension of Extended Parallel Process Model melalui uji analysis of variances. Extension of Extended Parallel Process Model sendiri merupakan model baru yang masih jarang dikaji yang dikembangkan oleh So (2013). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan terdapat …

Menangkap Wajah Digital Indonesia, Ummi Salamah

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

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Design And Validation Of Patient-Centered Communication Tools (Pact) To Measure Students' Communication Skills, Gloria R. Grice, Nicole M. Gattas, Theresa Prosser, Mychal Voorhees, Clark D. Kebodeaux, Amy Tiemeier, Tricia M. Berry, Alexandria Garavaglia Wilson, Janelle Mann, Paul Juang

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

Objective. To develop a comprehensive instrument specific to student pharmacist-patient communication skills, and to determine face, content, construct, concurrent, and predictive validity and reliability of the instrument.

Methods. A multi-step approach was used to create and validate an instrument, including the use of external experts for face and content validity, students for construct validity, comparisons to other rubrics for concurrent validity, comparisons to other coursework for predictive validity, and extensive reliability and inter-rater reliability testing with trained faculty assessors.

Results. Patient-centered Communication Tools (PaCT) achieved face and content validity and performed well with multiple correlation tests with significant findings for …

External Funding Bulletin, Fall 2017, Uno Office Of Research And Creative Activity

Sponsored Programs Bulletins

This bulletin features recent award recipients.

Mortification And Apodiorizo: Re-Framing Apologia, Kevin T. Jones, James Richard Briscoe

Faculty Publications - Department of Communication and Cinematic Arts

Image restoration strategies and apologia have been used for years to explain how speakers engage in verbal self-defense. Kategoria has expanded our understanding of apologia when rhetors counter with an accusation to explain or justify their behavior. In recent years, however, a new tactic has emerged in apologia in which speakers admit to the transgression but then accuse the media of invading their privacy by stalking their families. Following the accusation, these speakers draw a boundary with the media and the audience regarding what the media can and cannot do. This strategy is unique because the rhetor does not attempt …

“Not To Disclose Information Sources”: Journalistic Privilege Under Article 19 Of Iccpr, Edward L. Carter

Faculty Publications

International law took a significant step in recent years toward protection of journalists’ sources and newsgathering processes. The international law journalistic privilege previously had been upheld by international tribunals, but it was not until 2011 that the United Nations Human Rights Committee adopted an interpretation of freedom of expression that included journalistic privilege. The presence of the privilege within freedom of expression, as recognized in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is important for several reasons. As part of freedom of expression, the privilege may not be overcome without a showing of necessity and proportionality, …