Communication in Organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan S. Bisel ◽  
Katherine Ann Rush
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
Upward Communication ◽  
New Information ◽  
Communication In Organizations ◽  
Lateral Communication ◽  
Modern Work

Communication serves a constitutive force in making organizations what they are. While communication can be viewed as merely occurring “within” the organization, communication itself is essential to the creation and maintenance of organizations. Modern research in organizational communication explores this constitutive force of communication as well as the ways downward, upward, and lateral communication patterns determine positive and negative outcomes for both organizations and their members. Supportive, adaptive, and ethical downward communication from organizational leadership enhances members’ productivity and satisfaction while reducing turnover. In addition, candid upward communication from members to management is crucial for detecting and correcting troubles while they remain small and resolvable. Lateral communication through which members make sense of organizational events is key to understanding members’ perceptions, decisions, and behaviors. Finally, new information communication technologies both enable distributed work but also create new and troubling issues for modern work life.

E-Government as a New Frontier for Legal Theory

2011 ◽  
pp. 3738-3746
Author(s):  
Keith Culver
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Student Demand

E-government has the potential to change fundamentally the organization of governments, and the governance practices used in relations with citizens and other governments. Legal theory is clearly affected by these changes. Yet there is no rush to publish on e-government in leading legal theory journals, and there is no visible surge in student demand for courses in e-government. Just as only some areas of governments in developed states have taken advantage of new information communication technologies, so only some areas of legal theory have engaged e-government. Issues in Internet governance and personal privacy dominate legal theory’s engagement with e-government, while e-engagement of citizens plays an increasingly important yet still limited role in governments’ interaction with citizens. Yet there are signs that this gentle pace may soon change, as leading jurisdictions approach completion of the first wave of service transformation at the same time as concerns regarding a digital divide recede under the growth of access to new information communication technologies. New opportunities for e-government may soon make e-government’s progress revolutionary rather than evolutionary, and legal theory will be forced to keep pace.

scholarly journals Cacophony or Empowerment? Analysing the Impact of New Information Communication Technologies and New Social Media in Southeast Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason P. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Impact

The capabilities, tools and websites we associate with new information communication technologies and social media are now ubiquitous. Moreover tools that were designed to facilitate innocuous conversation and social interaction have had unforeseen political impacts. Nowhere was this more visible than during the 2011 uprisings across the Arab World. From Tunis to Cairo, and Tripoli to Damascus protest movements against authoritarian rule openly utilized social networking and file sharing tools to publicize and organize demonstrations and to catalogue human rights abuses. The Arab Spring, or Jasmine Revolution, was an event that was both witnessed and played out in real time online. This article explores the impacts and effects of these technologies on regimes in East Asia, in particular exploring the extent to which they proffer new capabilities upon activists and reformers in the region's semi-democratic and authoritarian regimes. Drawing on data on Internet and smartphone use, as well as case studies that explore the role of these technologies on the 2008 and 2011 general elections in Malaysia and Singapore respectively, this article suggests that the Internet and social networking platforms do present unique opportunities for activists, citizens and social movements.

scholarly journals Making the Introduction of Multi-media Technologies Count in Education Reform in Africa: the Case of Ghana

Comunicar ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Akyeampong
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Formación Docente

This contribution reviews the introduction of old and new information communication technologies in Ghanaian education. It points out how the recent proliferation of multi-media technologies in the country has ultimately encouraged the introduction of ICTs in education. However, the author argues that much of the move to introduce these new technologies into schools and colleges has not reflected the need to re-conceptualise teacher education curriculum practices to base its foundations on constructivist ideas about knowledge and its production. Without this, reforms to introduce new information communication technologies in classrooms risk becoming tools that are again used to reinforce old traditions of teaching and learning based on uncritical transmission of knowledge. Finally, the author argues that changes to the teacher education curriculum in Ghana, and elsewhere in Africa, should also reflect the new professional learning identities and learning experiences that ICT and other media communication tools are meant to foster in the classroom. La presente contribución da un repaso a la introducción de las tecnologías antiguas y nuevas de la información en el sector educativo de Ghana. Señala cómo la reciente proliferación de las tecnologías mul timedia en el país ha alentado finalmente la introducción de las TIC en la educación. Sin embargo, el autor sostiene que buena parte de la motivación para introducir estas nuevas tecnologías en los centros educativos e institutos superiores no ha reflejado la necesidad de reconceptualizar las prácticas curriculares en la formación docente, con el fin de fundamentarlas en ideas constructivistas sobre los conocimientos y su producción. Sin esto, las reformas para introducir las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en las aulas corren el riesgo de ser meramente herramientas que nuevamente se utilizan para reforzar las viejas tradiciones de enseñanza y aprendizaje en base a la trasmisión de los conocimientos sin ningún pensamiento crítico. Finalmente, el autor insiste en que los cambios curriculares en la formación docente en Ghana, y en otras partes de África, también deben reflejar las nuevas identidades de aprendizaje profesional y experiencias de aprendizaje que deben fomentar las TIC y otras herramientas mediáticas en el aula.

Usage of communication portfolios in distributed work environments

First Monday ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chei Sian Lee ◽  
Mary Beth Watson-Manheim ◽  
Arkalgud Ramaprasad
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Distributed Work

The purpose of this study is to examine the use of communication portfolios in distributed work environments (DWEs). A communication portfolio refers to a mix of information communication technologies (ICTs), consisting of either single ICT or multiple ICTs, that organizational communicators use for communication in the workplace. Our results demonstrate that a variety of communication portfolios with different sizes, contents and structuring mechanisms were used organization members in DWEs.

scholarly journals Managerial information system of the organization of the services

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Miroslav Brožek
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
New Information ◽  
Special Software

The aim of this work is creation conception proposal of information system. It is processed on the example of the firm making business on the czech market in the area of selling personal car of premium segment. On the basic of analysis external and internal environment was discovered a need of application of the new information communication technologies (ICT) and related reengineering changes. Submitted model ICT contains account modul, instore modul, servis modul, sales modul, special software of car company and modul e-commerce. Within the framework conception proposal of ICT arised modular arrangement of new environment to new built strategy, thereby this approach is new by classic concept, where exist strategy of firm and management of firm and to them is added as accelerating instrument of these processes information systems.

scholarly journals Learning English With Travel Blogs: A Genre-Based Process-Writing Teaching Proposal

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pascual
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
New Information ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Travel Blog

Current communication is increasingly computer-mediated, dynamic, dialogic, and global, so students should master new information, communication technologies, and digital genres, as well as acknowledge the global role of the English language. Thus, this paper aims to offer a teaching proposal, to be ideally implemented in the secondary education English as a foreign language classroom, on how to develop students’ communicative and digital competences based on a digital genre like the travel blog. First, a corpus of travel blogs was compiled, and the blogs’ communicative purposes and prominent linguistic and discursive features were identified. Next, different lesson plans were designed on the principles of communicative language teaching and task-based learning, together with the corpus-based results. Overall, students are expected to follow a process-writing approach that enables them to interact digitally in travel blogs.

How the New ICTs Matter to the Theory of Law

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Keith Culver
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
New Information ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Legal Subjects ◽  
Legal Normativity

Recent writers concerned with general theories of law have taken little notice of the new information communication technologies (ICTs). This situation ought to change. General theories of law ought to take into account the potential of the new ICTs to enable significant changes in the relations between legal authorities and legal subjects. This paper takes legal positivism as a stalking horse for examination of the way the new ICTs may affect presumptions regarding citizens’ and officials’ knowledge, attitudes, and allegiance to law. The positivist account of legal normativity, key to its general account of law, is significantly threatened by the prospect that e-consultation and e-petitioning may breach presumed differences between officials and citizens in life under law. This argument brings various consequences for the positivist view of normativity and legal system, all inclining toward the conclusion that the positivist view may lose its basis in social fact and so present an unrealistic account of law.

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