scholarly journals What to study when studying media and communication innovation? Research design for the digital age

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Trappel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Economics ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Media And Communication

Since the final two decades of the 20th century technology mediated communication transforms from analogue into digital with serious implications on human communication. This process is usually called (digital) innovation. This article revisits the scholarly understanding of innovation in the field of media and communication from a normative point of view and subsequently develops an innovation research agenda which builds on this concept. This research agenda is built on the requirements of a democratic public sphere and consists of five levels: structural conditions, content production, communication and media economics, distribution and delivery as well as usage and user experience. Communication Innovation Studies (CIS) should undertake interdisciplinary research on communication innovation to evaluate and measure improvements or deteriorations of democratic values such as freedom, equality, diversity, solidarity and participation.

AI-Mediated Communication: Definition, Research Agenda, and Ethical Considerations

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T Hancock ◽  
Mor Naaman ◽  
Karen Levy
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Intelligent Agent ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Communication Goals

Abstract We define Artificial Intelligence-Mediated Communication (AI-MC) as interpersonal communication in which an intelligent agent operates on behalf of a communicator by modifying, augmenting, or generating messages to accomplish communication goals. The recent advent of AI-MC raises new questions about how technology may shape human communication and requires re-evaluation – and potentially expansion – of many of Computer-Mediated Communication’s (CMC) key theories, frameworks, and findings. A research agenda around AI-MC should consider the design of these technologies and the psychological, linguistic, relational, policy and ethical implications of introducing AI into human–human communication. This article aims to articulate such an agenda.

scholarly journals Regimes reloaded! A reappraisal of Schumpeterian patterns of innovation, 1977–2011

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Fontana ◽  
Arianna Martinelli ◽  
Alessandro Nuvolari
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Industrial Dynamics ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Technological Regimes ◽  
Sectoral Differences ◽  
Innovation Patterns

AbstractOne of the most significant results of the empirical literature on innovation studies of the 1980s and 1990s was that innovation patterns were characterized by important inter-sectoral differences. This finding prompted a lively research agenda that: i) provided empirical characterizations of sectoral patterns of innovation by means of taxonomic exercises; ii) sought to interpret sectoral patterns of innovation as emerging properties of underlying selection and learning processes reflecting the structural properties of technical change at sectoral level (“technological regimes”). In this paper, we reconsider one of the landmark works on technological regimes (e.g., Breschi et al. 2000), reassess its findings, and perform a quasi-replication of their its exercise. Our conclusion is that the proposed distinction between Schumpeterian patterns of innovation (Mark I vs. Mark II) and their interpretation in terms of technological regimes has still the promise of yielding important insights concerning on the connection between inventive activities and industrial dynamics.

Mapping of Digital Innovation Research Themes: A 36-Year Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agung Purnomo ◽  
Andre Septianto ◽  
Elsa Rosyidah ◽  
Mirza Ramadhani ◽  
Mochamad Dafa Perdana
Keyword(s):  
Digital Innovation ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Research Themes

scholarly journals Rethinking the Rethinking

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Göran Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Realism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Oriented Research ◽  
Media Audience

Abstract During the last few decades, the possibilities and limitations of qualitative media audience research have regularly been discussed in media and communication research. Quantitatively oriented researchers have claimed that qualitatively oriented research is incapable of producing general knowledge. From a ‘radical ethnographic’ point of view it has been stated that such knowledge is more or less useless, while other qualitatively oriented researchers have approached the question of generality in a more balanced way, and argued for the necessity to interpret specific events within a framework of more general theories. But these solutions are not satisfactory. The aim of this article is to suggest an alternative conceptualisation of generality. From the meta-theoretical viewpoint of critical realism, this article states that generalisations have to take into consideration the domain of the deep structures of reality. Qualitative media audience research should aim at producing general knowledge about the constituent properties or transfactual conditions of the process of media consumption.

scholarly journals Commodification In Public Sphere; The Fight Of Ideology Through Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Arina Rohmatul Hidayah ◽  
Moch. Mukhlison
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Law Enforcement Agency ◽  
Valid Data ◽  
News Editor

This paper wants to present a critical perspective in reading the discourse that has been played on social media in the last few days. With literature review method, the KPK Taliban is a form of discourse in which ideological values which are basically the principle of a person or group in determining the direction and purpose of how to proceed, are modified in such a way as to be sold or made into public commodities for political interests. The use of the term Taliban which is associated with hardline of Islam, wants to form an Islamic government in accordance with Islamic laws, is considered have a high 'selling power' so that it can be used to reduce the image of KPK as a law enforcement agency. Like a word, every journalist will try to make interesting headline to get a high view of readers. This term can seem to describe that there has been an internal radicalization in KPK that has created a system of eradicating selective corruption based on the ideology of investigator. From this point of view, social media can be said to be an easy facilitator to explore discourses of this kind. Due to the absence of a gate keeper or news editor, anyone who has an interest in them is free to release any statement even if it is not accompanied by valid data. Even rational and critical discussions such as the basic concept of public sphere are transformed into irrational  

scholarly journals Communicating Without Conventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-27
Author(s):  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Psychological Point

For obvious and very good reasons the study of human communication is dominated by the study of language. But from a psychological point of view, the basic structure of human communication – how it works pragmatically in terms of the intentions and inferences involved - is totally independent of language. The most important data here are acts of human communication that do not employ conventions. In situations in which language is for some reason not an option, people often produce spontaneous, non-conventionalized gestures, including most prominently pointing (deictic gestures) and pantomiming (iconic gestures). These gestures are universal among humans and unique to the species, and in human evolution they almost certainly preceded conventional communication, either signed or vocal. For prelinguistic infants to communicate effectively via pointing and pantomiming, they must already possess species-unique and very powerful skills and motivations for shared intentionality as pragmatic infrastructure. Conventional communication is then built on top of this infrastructure - or so I will argue.

Conceptualising employee involvement in service innovation: an integrative review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marit Engen ◽  
Lars Fuglsang ◽  
Tiina Tuominen ◽  
Jon Sundbo ◽  
Jørn Kjølseth Møller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Employee Involvement ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Activities

PurposeEmployees are considered as important contributors to service innovation, but the literature is not unanimous about what employee involvement in service innovation entails. To advance theoretical understanding of the topic, this paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing employee involvement in service innovations, reviews existing research on the topic and proposes a research agenda.Design/methodology/approachDifferent modes of employee involvement in service innovation are distinguished based on two dimensions: (1) the intensity of employee influence on service innovation and (2) the breadth of the innovation activity in which employees are involved. This conceptual framework is abductively developed through a literature review of empirical service innovation studies to identify and analyse whether and how these modes of employee involvement are manifested in the service innovation literature.FindingsThe findings delineate six modes of employee involvement in the reviewed service innovation studies. Employees are primarily seen as having a strong influence on situated innovation activities but a limited influence on systemic innovation activities. The findings show that more research is needed to assess the connections between different modes of employee involvement.Practical implicationsThe findings can be used by practitioners to assess the possibilities different modes of employee involvement may bring to service innovation activities.Originality/valueThe proposed conceptual framework and the analysis of current research and research gaps in service innovation studies provide a clear research agenda for progressing multidimensional understanding of employee involvement in service innovation.

Digital or Information Divide

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Hulicki
Keyword(s):  
Developing Economies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Economic Stratification ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Successful Collaboration

In different regions of the world, the growth in home broadband adoption and development of e-services depends on a number of factors which can decrease digital divide in size or can result in widened “gaps” between developed and developing economies as well as between rich and poor regions or social groups. These factors comprise both drivers of, and barriers to, development of broadband access and growth of e-services as well as human communication and digital interactions in terms of comprehension and relationship building (i.e., the successful collaboration in contemporary society). Using a human communication point of view, this chapter provides insight into a concept of information divide, specifies the distinction between digital and information divide, examines each of the factors that condition the mass-market broadband adoption, and considers the impact of techno economic stratification for the development of web-based e-services.

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