Understanding Communication and Aging

Understanding Communication and Aging
Author: Jake Harwood
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1412926092

The book examines key topics such as interpersonal and family relationships in old age, media portrayals of aging, cultural variations in intergenerational communication, and health communication in old age.

Perspectives on Knowledge Communication

Perspectives on Knowledge Communication
Author: Jan Engberg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-08-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000916189

This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives. The volume seeks to draw connections between different disciplines’ traditionally disparate studies of knowledge communication, defined here as the communication of domain knowledge between experts of the same discipline, experts of different disciplines, or non-experts with an interest in developing expert knowledge. Featuring work from scholars across linguistics, corporate communication, and sociology on diverse professional environments, chapters focus on one of three central aspects in the communication of expert knowledge: the textual carrier of the interaction, the roles and relationships between parties in these interactions, and the contexts in which the texts and communication occur. Taken together, the collection elucidates the value of an approach that supposes that expertise is co-created in interaction under the conditions of human cognitive systems and that knowledge asymmetries can offer both challenges and opportunities to better understand and generate new forms of communication and specialized knowledge. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in language and communication, professional communication, organizational communication, and sociology of knowledge.

Knowledge Communication

Knowledge Communication
Author: Peter Kastberg
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3732904326

Knowledge Communication as a research field emerges as a response to the communicative core challenges of the knowledge society. At ist center is the question of how to produce and transform specialized knowledge into interactions to gain value for this kind of knowledge. The field’s foundational concepts concern a transactional understanding of communication, an ideology of convergence between communicators and an appreciation of knowledge as construction. These stem from critical discussions of insights harvested from three parental disciplines: Language for Specific Purposes, Public Understanding of Science, and Knowledge Management. In their synthesis, these foundational concepts define Knowledge Communication as a means of strategic communication. In lieu of this, the research agenda of Knowledge Communication presents a novel prism through which to discern and investigate communicative core challenges of the knowledge society.

Knowledge Communication in Global Organisations

Knowledge Communication in Global Organisations
Author: Nils Braad Petersen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-12-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000823954

While organisations become more and more global, they also become more and more dispersed and virtual. This challenges the sense of a shared organisational identity and the ability of employees to communicate personally held knowledge. To address these challenges this book offers an innovative multidisciplinary approach to knowledge communication in global organisations. The book develops a multidisciplinary analytical lens through which to understand employee identity formations and knowledge communication practises. Using detailed analyses of interviews from a real organisation, the book builds an understanding of how 21st century employees make sense of a virtual organisational reality characterised by multiple simultaneous projects and virtual, dispersed teams. These analyses are conducted using a new discourse analysis method for analysing research interviews, Discursive Sensemaking Analysis. Using these methods and findings, researchers, project managers and HR professionals will be able to analyse their own organisations to discover how employees make sense of the complexity of 21st century global organisations.

Scientific Knowledge Communication in Museums

Scientific Knowledge Communication in Museums
Author: Alberto Rovetta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-02-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319683306

This book explains the general principles of scientific and technical communication in the context of modern museums. It also examines, with the aid of informative case studies, the different means by which knowledge can be transmitted, including posters, objects, explanatory guidance, documentation, and catalogues. Highlighting the ever more important role of multimedia and virtual reality components in communicating understanding of and facilitating interaction with the displayed object, it explores how network communications systems and algorithms can be applied to offer individual users the information that is most pertinent to them. The book is supported by a Dynamic Museums app connected to museum databases where series of objects can be viewed via cloud computing and the Internet and printed using 3D printing technology. This book is of interest to a diverse readership, including all those who are responsible for museums’ collections, operations, and communications as well as those delivering or participating in courses on museums and their use, communication design and related topics.

Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication

Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication
Author: Rainer Bromme
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0387243194

What are the barriers in computer-mediated communication for cooperative learning and work? Based on empirical research, the chapters of this book offer different perspectives on the nature and causes of such barriers for students and researchers in the field.

Knowledge, Communication and Creativity

Knowledge, Communication and Creativity
Author: Arnaud Sales
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2007-07-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848607598

′The book is a theoretically rich and sophisticated contribution to the development of knowledge society studies and to the analysis of the many puzzles of intellectual innovation. It will surely become a sourcebook for anyone interested in creativity and knowledge production′ - Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago and University of Konstanz ′Gathers together some of the most interesting social-scientific thinking currently underway in Europe and North America... presents sociology in its most engaging and contemporary form′ - Canadian Journal of Sociology Knowledge, communication and creativity are obsessions of contemporary modern societies. The rhetoric of information, imagination, improvisation and play have invaded our daily lives and work spaces. However, little attention has been paid to the sociological relationships among these elements, let alone their impacts as processes driving social change. This book offers penetrating explorations into the creative processes that are tied to knowledge production, shedding new light on: " the impact of a general increase in knowledge on individuals, lifestyles, institutions and technologies; " how new communication and information technologies are transforming social relationships, communities and the international public sphere; and " understanding the ties between creativity, communication and the production of knowledge.

Knowledge Communication: Transparency, Democracy, Global Governance

Knowledge Communication: Transparency, Democracy, Global Governance
Author: Claudiu Mesaroș
Publisher: Editura Universității de Vest
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9731253491

Knowledge communication is a subject intensely discussed nowadaysas there is much buzz in the academia about the crisis of scientific authority. Fundamental research but also popular culture, special magazines, traditional books, find increasingly rarer common terms with new audiences like web 2.0 practitioners and various multi-media consumers. There are even pedigree cultured people that seem to accept no more traditional communicating supports and act conflictually towards them. Some voices claim that general audiences are superficial and consumerist; but on the other hand many speak about lack of openness for the general audience from scientists themselves. The audience of science is therefore fundamental and all the papers in this volume touch it in many ways. Another direction that will be consistent with all these papers along the book is the knowledge as a resource for cultural and regional policies, tourism industry and so forth. Transparency, globalization, regionalization, have no meaning without distinctive specters of regions and local cultures that assert themselves besides traditional European countries.

Human Communication

Human Communication
Author: Sherwyn P. Morreale
Publisher: Burnham
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2001
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 9780534566302

This book offers a unique and unified approach to competence and the basic processes of human communication backed by skill assessment. Beginning with the premise that all forms of communication have the potential to be viewed as competent depending on the context or situation, the text helps readers develop a framework for choosing among communication messages that will allow them to act competently. The theoretically-based and skills-oriented framework emphasizes the basic themes of motivation, knowledge and skills across interpersonal communication, electronically mediated communication, small group communication, and public speaking.

Knowledge Management for Leadership and Communication

Knowledge Management for Leadership and Communication
Author: Jon-Arild Johannessen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839820446

With the establishment of the innovation economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is becoming a reality. As this occurs, new forms of leadership arise, generated by the interaction between leadership functions and neurology. This innovative book asks the question: what are the key value creation processes in the innovation economy?