High-Tech Campaigns: Computer Technology in Political Communication

Impact of Technology on Education in Islamic Countries in Middle East in the Political Communication Era

Technology is inherently neutral and can be used in equal measure for good or evil. Interestingly, this determination is a matter of perspective. Technology enables or enhances a number of activities. Fundamentally, technology can be used to improve teaching and learning, to make administrative operations more efficient and effective, to help discover knowledge and to help improve access to inf...

Do Campaigns Really Change Behavior? New Understanding of the Behavioral Effects of Advertising, Political Campaigns and Health Communication Campaigns

High Tech Programmers in Low-income Communities: Creating a Computer Culture in a Community Technology Center

Lessons learned from Oakes’s school reform framework (1992) can help us understand similar issues in non-school settings and how to think about equity minded reform in these settings. In this paper, we will apply Oakes’s technical, normative, and political dimensions in the case of the Computer Clubhouse, a Community Technology Center, to illustrate how the barriers to change in afterschool set...

Technology in Organizational Learning: Using High Tech for High Touch

This study describes the use of technology to enhance an experiential adult learning process, which occurred in a participatory organizational climate assessment. In this case, computer software and hardware capabilities enabled greater hands-on involvement by employees, and promoted the self-discovery of knowledge that was then converted into action strategies for organizational improvement. I...

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...