Interview with Prof. Dr. Jennings Bryant, Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Communication Research (ICR), University of Alabama, Co-editor of the Journal Media Psychology and new President of the International Communication Association (ICA)

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Sandra Normann
Keyword(s):  
International Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Media Psychology

scholarly journals A Graph-Learning Approach for Detecting Moral Conflict in Movie Scripts

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic René Hopp ◽  
Jacob Taylor Fisher ◽  
René Weber
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Moral Conflict ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Connectivity Patterns ◽  
Network Modules ◽  
Central Characters

Moral conflict is central to appealing narratives, but no methodology exists for computationally extracting moral conflict from narratives at scale. In this article, we present an approach combining tools from social network analysis and natural language processing with recent theoretical advancements in the Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars. This approach considers narratives in terms of a network of dynamically evolving relationships between characters. We apply this method in order to analyze 894 movie scripts encompassing 82,195 scenes, showing that scenes containing moral conflict between central characters can be identified using changes in connectivity patterns between network modules. Furthermore, we derive computational models for standardizing moral conflict measurements. Our results suggest that this method can accurately extract moral conflict from a diverse collection of movie scripts. We provide a theoretical integration of our method into the larger milieu of storytelling and entertainment research, illuminating future research trajectories at the intersection of computational communication research and media psychology.

Russian Newspaper Coverage of Somalia and the Former Yugoslavia

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Festus Eribo
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Country Characteristics ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
World Information

One of the results of the New World Information and Communication Order debate was the invigoration of international communication research on images and coverage of nations in the world media. Specifically, the images of Africa outside the continent became a major research question in Western communication scholarship. The results of these studies contend that several variables such as 1) event characteristics, including deviance, interest, and timeliness; and 2) country characteristics, including economic, political, and cultural significance, proximity and national security, appear to affect the ways one nation is covered by the media of another nation.

A History of International Communication Studies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Information And Communication

The intellectual impetus for international communication research has come from a variety of disciplines, notably political science, sociology, psychology, social psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and, of course, communication science and international relations. Although highly diverse in content, international communication scholarship, past and current, falls into distinct research traditions or areas of inquiry. The content and focus of these have changed over time in response to innovations in communication technologies and to the political environment. The development and spread of radio and film in the 1920s and 1930s increased public awareness and scholarly interest in the phenomenon of the mass media and in issues regarding the impact on public opinion. The extensive use of propaganda as an instrument of policy by all sides in World War I, and the participation of social scientists in the development of this instrument, provided an impetus for the development of both mass communication and international communication studies. There was a heavy emphasis on the micro level effects, the process of persuasion. Strategic considerations prior to and during World War II reinforced this emphasis. World War II became an important catalyst for research in mass communication. Analytical tools of communication research were applied to the tasks of mobilizing domestic public support for the war, understanding enemy propaganda, and developing psychological warfare techniques to influence the morale and opinion of allied and enemy populations. During the Cold War, U.S foreign policy goals continued to shape the direction of much research in international communication, notably “winning hearts and minds” of strategically important populations in the context of the East-West conflict. As new states began to emerge from colonial empires, communication became an important component of research on development. “Development research” emphasized the role of the mass media in guiding and accelerating development. This paradigm shaped both national and international development programs throughout the 1960’s. It resurfaced in the 1980s with a focus on telecommunication, and again in the 1990s, in modified form under the comprehensive label “information and communication technologies for development.” Development communication met serious criticism in the 1970s as the more general modernization paradigm was challenged. The emergence of new information and communication technologies in the 1990s inspired a vast literature on their impact on the global economy, foreign policy, the nation state and, more broadly, on their impact on power structures and social change. The beginning of the 21st century marks a transition point as the scholarship begins to respond to multiple new forms of communication and to new directions taken by the technologies that developed and spread in the latter part of the previous century

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