Academic Articles & Research Papers

Towards Sensorial Approaches to Visual Research with Racially Diverse Young Men

This is a collaborative ethnographic research project that highlights the artistic, literary contributions of racially diverse young men. It uses Critical Race Theory to question conventional, Eurocentric educational approaches that histori...

Knowledge, attitude and human papillomavirus vaccination among market women in North-Central Nigeria

Abstract Non-vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has serious implications on population health. This study therefore investigates the awareness and knowledge of HPV and its vaccines, attitude towards HPV vaccines, and adoption ra...

Scenario-based Assessment Exercises and the Perceived Learning of Mass Communication Students

One of the biggest challenges faced by online learning systems is the absence of opportunities for the practical exposure of the students, especially in professional degree programmes. The theoretical knowledge they gain is undoubtedly more...

‘One Stop’ Therapy has a Satisfying Performance on AF Patients with Interatrial Communication: Evidence from Pooled Clinical Experience

Background: Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) has been reported to be a viable alternative to prevent thromboembolic events for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. Interatrial communication closure, such as atrial septa...

شخصية الأميرة في عروض مسرح الطفل المصري "عرض شمس وقمر نموذجًا"

    سلط البحث الحالي الضوء على العرض المسرحي الغنائي الاستعراضي "شمس وقمر" والذي يبعث من خلاله رسالة قيمة للصغار والکبار والتي تدعو إلى کيفية الاعتماد على النفس، وبث قيمة وأهمية العمل في نفوس الجميع صغارًا وکبارًا، وتنتمي إلى الدراسات الوصف...

Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research

The replication crisis has highlighted the importance of reproducibility and replicability in the social and behavioral sciences, including in communication research. While there have been some discussions of and studies on replications in ...

Modeling a High Concentrator Photovoltaic Module Using Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems

Currently, there is growing interest in the modeling of high concentrator photovoltaic modules, due to the importance of achieving an accurate model, to improve the knowledge and understanding of this technology and to promote its expansion...

Using and integration of ICT in a diverse educational context of Santander (Colombia)

The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the academic context caused a change in the way teaching and learning is carried out. It also broadened the usually formal educational contexts and the way these are acc...

Wi-Fi technology and human health impact: a brief review of current knowledge

An enormous increase in the application of wireless communication in recent decades has intensified research into consequent increase in human exposure to electromagnetic (EM) radiofrequency (RF) radiation fields and potential health effect...

Implementing media literacy in the classroom

Social networks use a variety of models from the spectrum of web technologies. These tools were designed for entertainment and communication purposes, and the most commonly used among students are the social media tools. Knowing this, teach...

Modernism, Postmodernism, and Communication Studies: A Rereading of an Ongoing Debate

Recent writings in communication studies have tended to represent the relationship between modernist and postmodernist thought as bifurcated and oppositional in character. Such representations, I argue, result from inadequate characterizati...

Beyond the dichotomy of communication studies

The trend of globalization has sharpened the debate on the culture-specific and culture-general approaches to communication studies. As the demand for culture-specific approaches in scholarly research is increasing due to the impact of glob...

The Relevance of Phonology to Communication Studies

The notion people have of the relationship between phonology and some other fields of study is that they are totally different and independent of one another. Some think that communication studies are independent of phonological studies. In...

Get Set for Communication Studies

This volume assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. For students who have never studied Communication Studies before, it will give an idea of what to expect. For students already studying Media or Communication Studies at school or colle...

Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies

Abstract While the periodizing concept “post-truth” (PT) initially appeared in the United States as a key word of popular politics in the form “post-truth politics” or “post-truth society,” it quickly appeared in many languages. It is now t...

Scholarly Communication of Communication Studies

Scholarly communication (sometimes called “scientific communication”) refers to studies of the dissemination of knowledge through scholars' activities including memberships in professional organizations, hiring practices, and academic publi...

Futures of Communication: Communication Studies∼Creativity

This paper proposes that applying models from within creativity research to the discipline of communication will provide innovative ways of examining communication that pushes current knowledge of cultural production beyond established rese...

Knowledge linkage structures in communication studies using citation analysis among communication journals

Predator-Prey Interactions and Eavesdropping in Vibrational Communication Networks

Due to human perceptional bias in favor of air-borne sounds, substrate-borne vibrational signaling has been traditionally regarded as a highly specialized, inherently short-range and, consequently, a private communication channel, free from...

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context. Within the European Union project NeWater, stakeholder processe...