The paper proposes that Language Awareness cannot be fully developed if it rests on a view of language from within. The proposal made here is that language is always one of a number of semiotic (communication/representational) modes in use in any act of communication, and that language may not be the central mode. The relations which language contracts have effect language ‘itself’. The fact th...

Major companies, especially banks, invest in interactive distance learning replacing face-to-face training. Research has shown learning gains are mostly due to a shift in instruction. In this study, a WBT about currency management of a major German bank was examined. The communicational features of the WBT comprise a discussion forum, note taking, and automatic messaging of questions and answer...

The aim of this large-scale study was to understand the technology acceptation of learning management systems (LMS) by secondary school teachers and to investigate the instructional use of LMS, distinguishing between informational use and communicational use. The predictive model further includes: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norm, personal innovativeness in the domai...

Computer Aided Systems Engineering (CASE) envirorunents are pushed into market place daily. Novel features are being added to them, and the area is growing rapidly. However, we lack a more profound understanding of the relationhips between CASE envirorunents and systems development process in general. In this paper we try to make some preliminary steps to bridge this gap. We propose a general f...

abstract the purpose of this descriptive– survey research was to analyze effective factors on entrepreneurial mentality of graduate students of university college of agriculture & natural resources, the university of tehran. the statistical population of the study consisted of 686 persons of graduate students (m.sc. & phd levels), out of which 97 people determined as sample using cochran formul...

This article starts from the concept of Communicational Metropolis, proposed by Massimo Canevacci, connecting it to studies Lev Manovich, which explain a growing influence software in our society. With these pillars, reflection is presented on conception softwarized communicational metropolis that emerges use applications for mobile communication devices. These media have become central providi...