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On the Role of Communication and Culture in the Reproduction of Social Systems
Although the relationship between communication and culture has received significant attention among communication scholars over the past thirty or more years, there is still no satisfactory explanation as to how these two are related and how culture evolves in communication. It forces … Continue reading
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Persistent and Pervasive Community: New Communication Technologies and the Future of Community
Two affordances of digital communication technologies, persistent contact, and pervasive awareness are ushering in a fundamental change to the structure of a community. These affordances break from the mobility narrative that has described community since the rise of urban industrialism, … Continue reading
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The Forgotten Marxist Theory of Communication & Society
Marxist political economy of communication analyses the role of communication in society and capitalism. This paper shows what it means to take a historical and materialist approach for analyzing communication and society. In the German-speaking world, Marxist communication research has … Continue reading
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Origins of Human Communication
Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the … Continue reading
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Creative Tensions: A new Approach for Understanding
Creative Tensions is a physically activated collective conversation in which participants share where they stand on a topic by virtue of where they stand in the room. Inspired and provoked by a pair of speakers who approach the topic from … Continue reading
The Internet as a Self-Organizing Socio-Technological System
The Internet is a global socio-technological system that is based on a technological structure consisting of networked computer networks that works with the help of the TCP/IP protocol and stores objectified human knowledge, human actors permanently re-create this global knowledge … Continue reading
Leader Emergence through Interpersonal Neural Synchronization
Great leaders are often great communicators. However, little is known about the neural basis of leader–follower communication. Only recently have neuroscientists been able to examine interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) between leaders and followers during social interactions. Here, we show that … Continue reading
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The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen: Communicating Engagement in a Networked Age
The powerful potential of digital media to engage citizens in political actions has now crossed our news screens many times. But the scholarly focus has tended to be on “networked,” anti-institutional forms of collective action, to the neglect of advocacy … Continue reading
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Organizations as Networks of Communication Episodes
Over the last decades, the idea that communication constitutes organizations (CCO) has been gaining considerable momentum in organization studies. The CCO perspective provides new insights into key organizational issues, such as the relation between stability and change, between micro-level and … Continue reading
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Social Networks, Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns
A key property of modern cities is increasing returns to scale—the finding that many socioeconomic outputs increase more rapidly than their population size. Recent theoretical work proposes that this phenomenon is the result of general network effects typical of human … Continue reading
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