Communication Technology and New Media Commons^™

Engaging Remote Students Through Planning And Play Using Shared Google Docs, Julian Kilker

UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo

Like many faculty teaching remotely, I faced challenges with student engagement, participation, and feedback, as well as balancing planned and impromptu course activities. In response, I explored using Google Docs to create productive and playful collaborative spaces inspired by Marie Foulston’s informal “Party in a Shared Google Doc” social experiment.

Harold Innis’S Concept Of Bias: Its Intellectual Origins And Misused, Edward Comor

FIMS Publications

Harold Innis is one of the foundational theorists of media and communications studies. In the mid-20th century, he developed his concept of media bias (also called the bias of communication). It remains Innis’s most cited concept, but it is also significantly misunderstood. For example, since his death in 1952, bias has often been applied in ways that are akin to a form of technological or media determinism. This has been an ongoing problem despite the fact that Innis developed his concept as a means of compelling analysts to reject such mechanistic formulations. Indeed, his goal was to promote more self-reflective …

Digital Communication Media: Resources And Distribution Channels On Forest And Land Fires Information In Riau Province Of Indonesia During Covid-19 Pandemic Period, Gumgum Gumilar, Engkus Kuswarno, Herlina Agustin, Nik Norma Nik Hasan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The control towards Indonesian forest and land fires in 2020 is deemed more complicated due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Its rapid dissemination encourages the central and regional government officials to focus the Covid-19 risk reduction through some policies, such as health protocol, social activity and large-scale meeting restrictions as well as independent regional quarantine, causing the controlling process towards the fires to be implemented by collaborating a direct method in disaster-vulnerable areas through digital communication media.

The research is purposed to recognize the use of communication technology in controlling Indonesian forest and land fires during the Covid-19 pandemic period, comprising …

Instagram Use And Young Women's Body Image And Self-Objectification In Egypt, Sara Hussein

Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigates the effect of Instagram use on young Egyptian women’s body image and how it is related to self-objectification. The aim of this research is to understand how Instagram usage affects women’s body image and makes them dissatisfied with their bodies; besides, it also tests how the comments women receive on their Instagram accounts affect them positively or negatively, and how the more hours they spend on Instagram, the more pressure they face to acquire a better body shape. Additionally, it examines the direct relationship between feministic beliefs and body surveillance and self-objectification. Moreover, self-objectification and Cultivation …

Effects Of Website Interactivity On Skin Cancer-Related Intentions And User Experience: Factorial Randomized Experiment, Zhaomeng Niu, Jessica Fitts Willoughby, Elliot J. Coups, Jerod L. Stapleton

Health, Behavior & Society Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Digital media technologies provide users with the ability to interact with content and to receive information based on their preferences and engagement.

OBJECTIVE: We used skin cancer and sun protection as a health topic to explore how modality interactivity, interface tools that afford users greater activity, resulting in greater depth and breadth of mentally representing and experiencing mediated content, and message interactivity, the extent to which the system allows users to exchange messages back and forth on health websites, influenced users' attitudes, knowledge, behavioral intentions, and experience.

METHODS: We employed a 2×2 (modality interactivity: high vs low; message interactivity: …

Conflict Management Video Training For Retail Associates, Tisch Cistrunk-Parmelee

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Retail associates are encountering customer conflict at an ever-increasing rate. Mistreatment by customers includes insults, name-calling, threats, and violence. Job satisfaction for associates is on the decline as a result. This Capstone project proposes retail associates are not trained in managing customer conflict. Forty-six retail associates completed a 22-question survey and watched five embedded video microlessons (lessons between one and three minutes). The video showed retail associates how to recognize, assess, and manage customer conflict through self-awareness and mindful engagement. Through grounded theory and qualitative research methods, this study confirms that retail associates’ job satisfaction can improve with conflict management …

The Myth & Legend Of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial On The Atari 2600: The Fan’S Quick Start And Strategy Guide, Miguel Ramlatchan, William I. Ramlatchan

Distance Learning Faculty & Staff Books

As an instructional designer and technologist, my goal with this book is remarkably simple, to consolidate and create a job aid for a complex and often frustrating/misunderstood quest. Rather than hunting all over the Internet, the map, tips, and information about the game are all gathered and summarized here. Also, rather than being an obscure Easter Egg in Amazon (like an Earnest Cline/James Halliday egg, especially on the hidden Pacman arcade game), I want to make this guide easier to find. Along with the nostalgia, classic video games and the technology and applied message design behind their creation are fascinating, …

Building Engagement In Facebook: A Case Study With Utah State University Extension Sustainability, Kenna R. Kesler, Kelsey Hall, Debra Spielmaker, Roslynn G. H. Brain Mccann

Applied Sciences, Technology and Education Faculty Publications

In order to stay relevant in an online world, Extension must properly use social networking platforms to effectively reach diverse audiences regarding agricultural and natural resource issues. However, few studies have focused on how Extension uses Facebook to effectively accomplish its goal. This study's purpose was to explore how Utah State University Extension Sustainability uses Facebook to engage followers. The researchers conducted a quantitative content analysis of 504 messages posted to the USU Extension Sustainability Facebook page. Graphics and links were the most common post characteristics used by the organization. Text-only posts and posts containing videos were utilized the least. …

What Does A Pandemic Sound Like? The Emergence Of Covid Verbal Art, Karen E. Pennesi

Anthropology Publications

In times of social upheaval, people create and engage with verbal art for entertainment and a feeling of connection. While millions of people were forced to stay home to reduce the spread of COVID‑19 from March to July 2020, verbal artists posted recorded performances online and viewers had more time than usual to watch and share them. COVID verbal art refers to songs, poems, and comedy skits that mention social and physical distancing, quarantine and isolation, hygiene and cleaning practices, everyday experiences during the pandemic, as well as social and political critiques of policies and practices that explicitly mention COVID‑19 …

Effects Of Website Credibility And Brand Trust On Responses To Online Behavioral Advertising, Xiaowen Xu, Tai-Yee Wub, David J. Atkin

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Online behavioral advertising that tracks user data has witnessed a dramatic increase in popularity. Using Psychological Reactance Theory, this study examines the effects of brand trust and website credibility on responses to behavioral advertising via privacy concerns. A 2 (brand trust: high vs. low) by 2 (website credibility: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment was conducted (N = 424). Results suggest that while brand trust influences purchase intention—as mediated via affective reactance— website credibility only exerts modest effects on the dependent variables. Implications for user perception factors and contextual factors—including ad effectiveness in the digital personalized marketing realm—are discussed.

Relationship Between Social Media Screen Time, Sedentariness, And Bmi Among Young Adults, Helen Golod

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Obesity has quickly become an epidemic that affects adults and youth not only in the United States, but also increasingly elsewhere in the global community. Research suggests that most children and adolescents spend a significant amount of time indulging in screen-based leisure, especially on social media. Such behavior may also be linked to sedentary lifestyle, which can impact an individual’s body mass index (BMI). There is a lack of understanding concerning how sedentary behavior moderates the relationship between screen time spent on different types of social media and BMI among young adults in the United States. To address this research …

ผลของมาตรฐานความงามและประเภทสินค้าต่อทัศนคติและความตั้งใจซื้อผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางของผู้บริโภค, ชญานิศ เหมประชิตชัย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงทดลอง (Experimental Research) ในรูปแบบ 2x2 แฟคทอเรียล (Factorial Design) ดำเนินการทดลองและเก็บข้อมูลผ่านแบบสอบถามออนไลน์ โดยมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาผลกระทบหลักและผลกระทบร่วมกันของ 2 ปัจจัย คือ (1) มาตรฐานความงามในโฆษณา (มาตรฐานความงามแบบดั้งเดิม และมาตรฐานความงามแบบใหม่) และ (2) ประเภทสินค้า (ผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางระดับเคาน์เตอร์แบรนด์ และผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางระดับดรักสโตร์) ที่ส่งผลต่อทัศนคติและความตั้งใจซื้อผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางของผู้บริโภค ผู้เข้าร่วมการทดลองเป็นนิสิตชั้นปีที่ 1 คณะนิเทศศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ที่เรียนวิชาหลักการประชาสัมพันธ์ จำนวน 125 คน แบ่งกลุ่มผู้เข้าร่วมการทดลองออกเป็น 4 กลุ่มตามเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการทดลอง ดำเนินการเก็บข้อมูลในช่วงเดือนเมษายน พ.ศ. 2565 ผลการวิจัยพบว่า มาตรฐานความงามในโฆษณาไม่ส่งผลกระทบทางตรงต่อทัศนคติและความตั้งใจซื้อผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางของผู้บริโภคที่ระดับนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ .05 และประเภทสินค้าไม่ส่งผลกระทบทางตรงต่อทัศนคติและความตั้งใจซื้อผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางของผู้บริโภคที่ระดับนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ .05 อีกทั้งเมื่อพิจารณาในส่วนของผลกระทบร่วมกันของทั้ง 2 ปัจจัย พบว่า มาตรฐานความงามในโฆษณาและประเภทสินค้าส่งผลกระทบร่วมกันต่อทัศนคติต่อโฆษณา แต่ไม่ส่งผลกระทบร่วมกันต่อความตั้งใจซื้อผลิตภัณฑ์เครื่องสำอางของผู้บริโภคที่ระดับนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ .05

An Analysis Of Soccer Referee Demographics And Motivational Factors In The Western Kentucky Soccer Officials Association, Daniel Hasko

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Through a lens of the Knowledge Gap Theory of Mass Communication and the consideration of Media Framing Theory, this research examined the demographics of soccer referees in the Western Kentucky Soccer Officials Association, in addition to the leading motivations for beginning, continuing, and leaving their officiating vocation. With the knowledge of the aforementioned, this paper aimed to lay the groundwork for a strategic communication plan in the officiating community that addresses the alarming trend that is a lack of certified referees in youth athletics. The data was collected through online surveys that were distributed to active referees in the Western …

Pixelated Domes: Cinematic Code Changes Through A Frank Lloyd Wright Lens, William Allen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Panoramic 360-degree documentary videos continue to saturate the visual landscape. As practitioners' experiment with a new genre, understanding meaning and making awaits the academic and marketplace landscape. The new media journey of 360-degree documentary storytelling is ripe for media archaeologist to explore. New media scholar Lev Manovich (2016) believes "we are witnessing the new emergence of a cultural metalanguage, something that will be at least as significant as the printed word and cinema before it" (p. 49) Considering the meta- development of this new media genre, my dissertation seeks to discuss the historical roots of the panoramic image, define 360-degree …

Effects Of Clickbait Headlines On User Responses: An Empirical Investigation, Supavich Fone Pengnate, Jeffrey Chen, Alex Young

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

This study investigates the influence of a conventional method of delivering news headlines, clickbait, on online users’ perceptions and responses. An experiment was conducted on two groups of news headlines—traditional news and clickbait—to provide empirical evidence of the effects of clickbait on online users. The findings suggest that clickbait headlines can evoke users’ arousal and curiosity. In addition, the results from structural equation modeling fill the gap in the literature by providing evidence of the factors influencing users’ intention to read and share online news. The results reveal that while the major determinant of users’ intention to read news stories …

Do I Desire Chatbots To Be Like Humans? Exploring Factors For Adoption Of Chatbots For Financial Services, Moses Sugumar, Shalini Chandra

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

AI-powered chatbots are gaining traction across various industries, especially in the financial sector. Despite these implementations, chatbot adoption and usage among consumers is still low. Grounding on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 (UTAUT2) model and the Belief Desire Intentions (BDI) model, this study explores factors influencing the adoption of chatbots for financial sectors by emphasizing on the role of user desires in addition to human beliefs. Explicitly, the research hypothesizes the role of the humanness in chatbots influencing consumer adoption in the financial services sector. The suggested research model was tested via a sample of …

An Integrated View Of Knowledge Management Enablers, Components, And Benefits: Comprehensive Literature Review, Shuaibu Hassan Usman, Jigish Zaveri, Aminu Hamza

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

The key to success in the 21^st century, knowledge-based economy, will be the effective and efficient management of knowledge. Knowledge Management (KM) has a direct impact on organizational success. KM in a knowledge-based economy entails growth, value, and improving living standards through knowledge creation, storage, and dissemination. This study aims to integrate KM enablers, components, and benefits into a single view through a comprehensive literature search. The integrative view of these three factors would facilitate the understanding of KM initiatives within organizations. This paper performs a comprehensive literature review to explain the KM enablers, components, and benefits. From the …

Podcasting, Jennifer A. Bartlett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Podcasts seem to be everywhere these days, on every topic including current events, games, entertainment, education, business, financial management and more.

As podcasts have now become a recognized source of entertainment, news, and information, how can we become familiar with listening to podcasts and integrating them into our work in libraries? The following resources offer a few places to get started. Given the nature of the medium, some sites are optimized for viewing and listening on mobile devices.

‘The Robinhood Effect’ - Digital Technology In Global Financial Markets And Its Effects On Investor Decision Making, Ben Steib

Honors Theses

We are currently experiencing a revolution that is larger, arguably, than the industrial revolution, it’s the Internet, also known as the World Wide Web. The Internet has transformed how we live — how we talk, how we work, how we go about our daily business, and how we manage our finances on a global and individual level. In the late 1990s, an investor would search the World Wide Web and, within seconds, find 3,372 websites with the term "investment,” today, the same search for “investment” yields 1,860,000,000 results. Today, as proven with GameStop and other popular ‘meme stocks,’ social media, …

การสำรวจปัญหาและแนวทางพัฒนานโยบายเพื่อส่งเสริมอุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทยผ่านมุมมองซอฟต์พาวเวอร์, กฤชพนธ์ ศรีอ่วม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) เพื่อสำรวจปัญหาและสถานการณ์ของอุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทย และ 2) เพื่อนำเสนอแนวทางพัฒนานโยบายเพื่อส่งเสริมอุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทยผ่านมุมมองซอฟต์พาวเวอร์ งานวิจัยนี้เป็นงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ใช้การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกผู้ที่มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องในระบบนิเวศอุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ ได้แก่ ผู้ผลิตคาแรคเตอร์, อาจารย์มหาวิทยาลัยในสาขาที่เกี่ยวข้อง, หน่วยงานส่งเสริมสนับสนุนจากทั้งภาครัฐและเอกชน, ผู้ผลิตสินค้าคาแรคเตอร์, และกลุ่มผู้บริโภคทั้งชาวไทยและชาวต่างชาติ รวมทั้งหมด 15 ท่าน เป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูล โดยผู้วิจัยประยุกต์ใช้แนวคิดเกี่ยวกับซอฟต์พาวเวอร์ 6 ด้าน มาเป็นกรอบในการศึกษาแนวทางส่งเสริมต่ออุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทย ได้แก่ ความเป็นไทย การศึกษา การส่งออกและการร่วมมือระหว่างประเทศ การประยุกต์ใช้ดิจิทัล ผู้ประกอบการจากอุตสาหกรรมที่เกี่ยวข้อง และภาครัฐ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า อุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทยเผชิญกับสถานการณ์และปัญหาที่แตกต่างกันตามแต่ละภาคส่วน โดยปัญหาที่เป็นจุดร่วมของทั้งระบบนิเวศคือ ความเข้าใจต่อโครงสร้างของระบบนิเวศอุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ และไม่มีหน่วยงานที่รับผิดชอบโดยตรง เป็นต้น โดยผู้วิจัยหยิบยกปัญหาที่มีความสำคัญเหล่านี้มานำเสนอเป็นแนวทางพัฒนานโยบายเพื่อส่งเสริมอุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทย ประกอบไปด้วย แนวทาง 3 วาระ ได้แก่ วาระที่ 1) แก้ปัญหาและสร้างตัวตนแก่อุตสาหกรรมคาแรคเตอร์ไทย วาระที่ 2) พัฒนาต่อยอดคาแรคเตอร์ไทย วาระที่ 3) สร้างความผูกพันธ์ระหว่างคาแรคเตอร์ไทยกับผู้บริโภคในวงกว้าง ตลอดจนนำเสนอความเป็นไทยในแง่มุมต่าง ๆ ผ่านคาแรคเตอร์ไทย