Origins and transformations: histories of communication study

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 727-737
Author(s):  
John Corner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Communication Study ◽  
History Of Study

This is a brief, interconnected review of some of the extensive work published in the last few years on the history of study into communication. It highlights in particular the expansion of this work to include international contexts and the examination of how teaching programmes as well as research activity have helped to institutionalize the area as one with a discrete, if much-debated, academic identity. Different originating contexts, historical links with professional practice and the impact of new media on the recent history both of teaching and research are among the themes addressed.

The impact of hypopituitarism on function and performance in subjects with recent history of traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

Brain Injury ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 639-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Srinivasan ◽  
Brian Roberts ◽  
Tamara Bushnik ◽  
Jeffrey Englander ◽  
David A. Spain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Subarachnoid Haemorrhage ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Intercountry Adoption in Europe 1998–2008: Patterns, Trends and Issues

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Selman
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Peter Selman examines the recent history of intercountry adoption in Europe in the context of the enlarged EU, which contains both receiving and sending countries. The article provides a detailed analysis of the movement of children for adoption between European countries and examines the impact of intercountry adoption on the well-being of children in Europe and current debates in the European Parliament on the future of intercountry adoption in Europe.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social and Digital Medias on Senegalese Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ousmane Sall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
West African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rich History

West African countries especially Senegal, have a very rich history of written and oral communication based on their culture and traditions. Today, Senegal is inescapable about the adoption and use of new technologies in Africa. Senegal experienced a boom of cell phones users over the past 5 years in 2012 for example, we noticed “88% mobile subscriptions” compared with “46% mobile subscriptions in 2008” {world bank,2013}. That explains mobile phones are no more to make a call or to send a text message but also to interact with people around and entertain. In fact, digital communication is expanding in all Senegalese spheres like the workplace, school, universities... in the latter half of the 20th century before the explosion of social media, people only depended on old media like TV, Radio, Newspapers… to get informed. For this study, we are going to focus on how social media are impacting economically and politically on Senegalese society and how young people are managing the transition between traditional media and new media.

scholarly journals Innovating public engagement and patient involvement through strategic collaboration and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Holmes ◽  
Katharine Cresswell ◽  
Susannah Williams ◽  
Suzanne Parsons ◽  
Annie Keane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Patient Involvement ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Patient And Public Involvement ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
North West ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Patient and public involvement and engagement is an important and expected component of health-related research activity in the UK. Specifically within the health research sphere, public engagement (usually defined as raising awareness of research) and patient involvement (usually defined as actively involving people in research) have traditionally been seen as separate but have much to gain from working together towards a common goal of better health outcomes for all. Methods This paper describes a unique approach taken by the Public Programmes Team: a small interdisciplinary team of public engagement specialists, with backgrounds in science, community development, public engagement and involvement, policy, ethics, communications, industry, museums and creative practice, embedded within translational research infrastructure and delivery in Manchester in the North West of England. We propose a new model of professional practice – a 'cycle' of engagement and involvement – innovating across the complementary fields of public engagement and patient involvement, and working inclusively and in partnership with people in health research. Further, our approach capitalises on strategic collaboration offering economies of scale and a joined up way of working. Our ambition is to boldly experiment, learn and reflect, responsibly and based on evidence and partnerships, using methods of engagement that address issues of social justice. Results Here, we report on preliminary case studies exemplifying the impact of our approach, and data relating to achievements and learning between April 2017 and March 2018. Informed by our findings, we propose that our approach has the potential to be replicated elsewhere. Conclusions Our practice and the beginning of its evaluation lead us to believe that our way of working and model of professional practice – the ‘cycle’ of engagement and involvement – is effective in: addressing our vision of making health research relevant and inclusive for everyone; and embedding and joining up public involvement in a busy and fertile translational health research ecosystem.

Travelling in the wrong direction? A critical commentary on the consultation paper Strengthening Probation, Building Confidence

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lol Burke ◽  
Steve Collett ◽  
John Stafford ◽  
Peter Murray
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Wrong Direction ◽  
Local Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Consultation Paper

The Ministry of Justice’s Consultation Paper – Strengthening Probation, Building Confidence – launched by Justice Secretary David Gauke in July 2018, represents a revisionist view of the recent history of the probation service in which many of its assertions are incoherent, disingenuous and disconnected from the lived realities of both those who offend and local communities having to deal with the impact of austerity on local services. In addition, the consultation process itself is disingenuous in that it presents the failure of the Transforming Rehabilitation initiative as one of technical oversights and misjudgements that can be put right through a series of relatively minor adjustments. Answers to the 17 consultation questions, however insightful and helpful they may be, will do nothing to deal with the underlying difficulties of Transforming Rehabilitation.

Contribution of Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1825-1894) to Mexican historiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Irina Veselova
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Impact

The subject of this article is the research activity of Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1825-1894) – a historian, linguist and bibliographer who published a large number of documents on the history of Mexico, namely records on Spanish colonization of the Americas and establishment of the colonial system. Analysis is conducted the formation of scientific views of the Mexican scholar in the context of the impact of external factors, such as the political and socioeconomic situation, as well as public thought. This author reveals the historiographical and methodological foundation of the indicated concept, as well as assesses the degree of influence of the external factors upon the movement of Mexican historical science in late XIX century. Joaquín García Icazbalceta was a persevering scholar, who dedicated most of his life to collecting and publishing of the rare historical writings and documents. He is the author of a number articles, which although are not considered complete research works, are based on reputable sources and shed lights on some aspects of the ancient and colonial history of Mexico. Despite the seeming affinity for Spanish heritage in Mexican culture, Joaquín García Icazbalceta greatly contributed to research on the history of Aztecs, forming and leaving to the future generations of historians a substantial documentary base that allows discovering Mexican history of the XVI century, as well as other periods of history of the country.

From Republic to Empire: Reflections on the Early Provincial Architecture of the Roman West

1970 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
J. B. Ward-Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Recent History ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
The West ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Military Control ◽  
The Impact

Nobody who has worked in the field of late Republican and early Imperial Rome can fail to be aware how remarkably little archaeological evidence we have of any specifically Roman presence in the provinces of which Rome was in political and military control during the last century of the Republic. In the east, where she was faced with a civilization older and richer than her own, this is intelligible enough. But for the student of the spread of Roman institutions and ideas in the west the gap is embarrassing. In Roman Britain we have no difficulty whatever in identifying the Gallic precedents for the settlement that followed the Roman conquest. But what lay behind the Caesarian and Augustan settlement in Gaul itself? In terms of the recent history of the area it would be reasonable to expect that in the south, at any rate, it should have been rooted in local Republican Roman practice; and yet there is remarkably little evidence of any such roots in the surviving remains. Much the same is true of Spain and Africa. Why is this? Is it that the impact of the early Imperial settlement was so strong that it swept away all trace of what had gone before? Or is it simply that the Republican Roman presence in these territories was not of a character to leave any substantial mark on the archaeological record?

Is this the end of the beginning for smoking in China? Challenges, context and change

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Aresh Azizi
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Tobacco use in China is a substantial threat to global health and, after many years of poor implementation of tobacco control, attitudes are changing for the better and substantial actions may be about to follow. This commentary reviews the impact of tobacco and the recent history of tobacco control in China, the context and implications of new encouraging legislation.

1. Born free: a brief history of news media

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Political Assassination ◽  
History Of ◽  
News Industry ◽  
History Of Journalism ◽  
The Impact

In the last decade almost 600 journalists have been killed, chiefly in wars, in acts of political assassination, or by gangsters. ‘Born free: a brief history of news media’ charts the danger journalists face when reporting from war zones and from countries facing dramatic political upheaval. The growth of new media has also triggered a repressive backlash by authoritarian regimes. A brief history of journalism is provided: from the invention of printing by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, through the birth of the news industry in the 18th century, to the impact of radio and television in the 20th century, and to the age of the Internet.

scholarly journals Facilitating Informed Decisions Regarding Microsatellite Instability Testing Among High-Risk Individuals Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1366-1372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon L. Manne ◽  
Neal J. Meropol ◽  
David S. Weinberg ◽  
Hetal Vig ◽  
Zohra Ali-Khan Catts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Microsatellite Instability ◽  
Decisional Conflict ◽  
Educational Session ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Clinical Criteria ◽  
Education Of Patients ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Purpose To evaluate the impact of a CD-ROM intervention in the education of patients with suspected Lynch syndrome (LS) about microsatellite instability (MSI) and immunohisochemistry (IHC) testing. Patients and Methods Two hundred thirteen patients meeting Bethesda criteria were randomly assigned to receive either a brief educational session with a health educator (n = 105) or a brief educational session plus a CD-ROM (n = 108). Assessments were administered at baseline and 2 weeks post-treatment. Primary outcomes included MSI and IHC knowledge and level of satisfaction with and completeness of the preparation to make the decision for MSI testing. Secondary outcomes included decisional conflict, difficulty making the decision, cancer-specific and global anxiety, and level of discussion about MSI testing with family and friends. Results Participants in the education plus CD-ROM condition reported significant increases in knowledge about the MSI and IHC tests, greater satisfaction with the preparation to make a decision for testing, lower decisional conflict, and greater decisional self-efficacy. The effects of the education plus CD-ROM on most outcomes were not moderated by preintervention levels of exposure to MSI testing, family support for MSI testing, or the family history of cancer. Conclusion Incorporation of new media education strategies for individuals at risk for LS may be a valuable component of the informed consent process. As clinical criteria for MSI and IHC testing continue to expand, the need for alternative educational approaches to meet this increased demand could be met by the self-administered computer-based strategy that we described.

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