13 This article develops a Bourdieusian approach to mediatization. It is argued that the Bourdieusian theories of doxa and fields can make valuable contributions to a critical perspective on mediatization, one that moves beyond the divides between institutionalist, social-constructivist and materialist understandings (e.g., Bourdieu, 1972/1977). Mediatization is here seen as the historically gr...

Dynamic coordination for task allocation in disaster environments under spatial and communicational constraints is a challenging issue in both research and applications. To this end, this paper presents a coordinated task allocation approach for disaster environments by considering spatial and communicational constraints, dynamic features of environments as well as heterogenous capabilities of ...

In this short paper full body movements as communicational actions (such as steps), which are intuitively used to incite someone’s reaction, will be examined. Those movements are referred to as prompts. An observational study was conducted to examine those prompts in a narrow spatial configuration in a “make each other room” scenario. The observed small communicational movements are presented i...

Web-based information systems (WBIS) include the website part and the system part, and easy-to-use website is particular critical to the success of WBIS. This paper argues that the easy-to-use website can only be developed based on the need of use in the user perspective and such need must be captured and modelled as communicational requirements in WBIS analysis. However current analysis and mo...