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Ethics concerns principles of right and wrong behaviour. Ethics in communication applies to various settings: interpersonal relations, organizational life, mass media, computer-mediated communication, etc. This book provides a valuable synthesis of key perspectives in communication ethics. It focuses on the skills necessary for communicating effectively in this age if information. Understanding the consequences of decisions, being accountable for actions, and ...
The Impact of the internet on journalism takes a reflective turn. Not only has the internet changed journalism, it has forced people to rethink different aspects of journalism, journalism practices, journalism education and the way journalists have framed the discussions about this new medium. The internet promises to have a larger impact on journalism than any of the changes in information and communication technology that have preceded it. Internet has emerged ...
Computer-Mediated Communication )CMC) is any form of communication between two or more individual people who interact and/or influence each other via separate computers through the internet or a network connecion. CMC mostly occurs through e-mail, video, audio or text conferencing, bulletin boards, listservers, instant messaging, and multi-player video games. Switching communication to a more computer mediated form has an effect on many different factors: ...
The broad look at the book on international flow of media materials and the rest focusing on to the emerging areas of media, and monitoring of media performance. The time have indeed bypassed the mechanistic flow studies which were fashionable until the 1980s and that the process of audiovisual communication in the contemporary world is quite complicated and full of paradoxes. At the same time the book can be taken as reminders of the long passage to be made from ...
This book examines how communication processes might be used a t a community level to bring about social change. Communication in this respect is defined as the act of people coming together to decide who they are, what they want, and how they will obtain what they want. Social change will be more sustainable if the affected community owns not just the physical inputs and outputs, put also owns the process and content of the communication involved. The book ...
Interpersonal communication is the universal form of communication that takes place between two individuals, while mass communication is the form of communication which involves communication with mass audiences and the channels through which this kind of communication takes place are referred to as mass media. Both interpersonal and mass communication have made rich contribution to theoretical understanding of the communication process as whole. Scholars in both ...
The modern communication technologies plays an intrinsic part in the development of the strong, interdependent community of the 21st century. They will not only allow for the more widespread and rapid spread of ideas in developing countries, but it will also allow them to participate in the global economy, of which technology is an intrinsic part. The modern communication technologies have changed so radically in the past two decades that we no longer even know ...
Communication is a key thread in the fabric of life. It shapes us mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually. Communication forms and sustains society and at the same time develops and maintains our individuality. It is the nervous system of the social and political body. As communication is central to any society, the tools of communication are essential to its educational and socioeconomic development. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the ...
Visual communication has emerged in the 21st century as the industry with the biggest increase in demand for skilled professionals. Today, our society has become more mobile, and an increasing number of people now look to graphic interface devices to give them visual information wherever they are, whenever they want it. From corporations to governments, there exists a new-found awareness of how important visual communication is in creating and maintaining a ...