Social media can be conceptualized as an emerging frontier where new forms of social relations causing power differences and other forms of unacceptable social practices develop at the intersection of human collective communicative acts and information technology. This emergence has created a need for considering novel approaches for investigating these emerging phenomena in social media. In th...

The article is devoted to stylistic functions of literary phraseology in media communication. author opinion that the sphere a special type verbalized language consciousness commensurates with actual processes development formulated and argued. Language markers, representative for media, their origin, functional resource, effective forms presentation, analysis ability influence semantic form cu...

This paper describes a media-independent, compositional, plan-based approach to representing attributive descriptions for use in integrated text and graphics generation. An attributive description's main function is to convey information directly contributing to the communicative goals of a discourse, whereas a referential description's only function is to enable the audience to identify a part...

Social media like Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ have become important communication channels. Nonetheless, the distribution and dynamics of that communication make it difficult to analyze and understand. To overcome this, we propose an agent architecture for modeling and simulating user behavior to analyze communication dynamics in social media. Our agent decision-making method utilizes sociolo...

Sperber and Wilson’s (1995) relevance theory is used as a general communication theoretical framework to describe different media technologies and explain the communication that takes place through them. Nine features are deduced that characterize media as more or less deviant from the prototypical communicative situation: faceto-face interaction. It is foreseen that the media of the future may...

This paper explores the news trustworthiness and media credibility of The Economist’s news report on 9 July 2009, and the communicative roles of 846 readers’ responses. Theoretically guided by news translation and cultural resistance and the online public sphere, we applied online field observation and discourse analysis and achieved two main findings: First, although the news report covered th...

Almost all German federal states have introduced or are about to introduce supplementing changes to the curricula concerning new media. These changes not only attempt to include new areas of teaching but also to make teaching goals more obligatory than they used to be in previous curricula concepts. A lot of teachers prefer not to regulate their students' knowledge acquisition process in the fi...