Liu, Juan
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Frontiers in Communication
Based on a case study of digital games, this paper explores the politics between power and digital capital ingrained in the rapidly expanding Chinese cyberspace. The results show that digital capital and power in cyberspace form a paradoxical relationship that produces four sorts of politics: alliance, semi-alliance, disjunction, and semi-disjuncti...
Alrashidi, Nojoud Abdullah Lagura, Grace Ann Lim Celdran, Ma Christina Bello
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Frontiers in Communication
Background The healthcare system of Saudi Arabia has evolved radically into an institution that is adaptive to global change and is abreast with new advances in medical field to meet Saudi Vision 2030. The concept and practice of the dimensions of learning organization could provide a framework to significantly improve organizational performance. T...
Reichenbacher, Tumasch Bartling, Mona
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Frontiers in Communication
Mobile maps are an important tool for mastering modern digital life. In this paper, we outline our perspective on the challenges and opportunities associated with designing adaptive mobile maps that are useful, usable, and accessible to a wide range of users in different contexts. If we claim for adaptive mobile maps to be successful, we need to ex...
Schneider, Tobias Matthias Carbon, Claus-Christian
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Frontiers in Communication
Selfies are taken to communicate about mental conditions, aims, loves, and commitments. Until now, we lack a unified nomenclature or established classification system for selfies. We can retrieve information about the different types of selfies from various indicators. Most commonly, this is done by analyzing metatags, hashtags, or the linked messa...
Corella, Meghan
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Frontiers in Communication
Although researchers of language and communication have become increasingly interested in both embodiment and conflict in recent years, little is known about how elementary students use embodied actions modeled by their teachers as they engage in peer conflicts. This paper addresses such questions, focusing on the “quiet coyote” gesture and the “op...
Stanek, Ditte Bonde Hestbjerg, Ida Hansen, Karina Ejgaard Tomlinson, Maria Kathryn Kirk, Ulrik Bak
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Frontiers in Communication
Objective The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of a visual social media health campaign. The #1in10 campaign was co-created by the Danish Endometriosis Patient Association and women with endometriosis. Methods Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with campaign participants to evaluate their experience of participating. The i...
Bracken, Louise Clark, Janet Gill, Andrea O'Brien, Fiona Dewey, Rachael Barker, Catrin Carter, Bernie
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Frontiers in Communication
Introduction Parents of babies who required neonatal care are responsible for managing their medicines after they are discharged home. There is wide variation in the information and amount of preparation given to parents prior to assuming this challenging task. The aim of the Parent co-Designed Drug Information for parents and Guardians Taking Neon...
Haworth, Kate Tompkinson, James Richardson, Emma Deamer, Felicity Hamann, Magnus
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Frontiers in Communication
The “For the Record” project (FTR) is a collaboration between a team of linguistic researchers and police in the England & Wales jurisdiction (E&W). The aim of the project is to apply insights from linguistics to improve evidential consistency in police interview transcripts, which are routinely produced by transcribers employed by the police. The ...
Lagerwerf, Luuk Van Mulken, Margot Lagerwerf, Jefta B.
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Frontiers in Communication
Different levels of conceptual similarity in equivalent visual structures may determine the way meaning is attributed to images. The degree to which two depicted objects are of the same kind limits interpretive possibilities. In the current research, visual hyponyms (objects of the same kind) were contrasted with visual metaphors and unrelated obje...
Young, Gillian Mathews, Maria Hedden, Lindsay Lukewich, Julia Marshall, Emily Gard Gill, Paul McKay, Madeleine Ryan, Dana Spencer, Sarah Buote, Richard
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Frontiers in Communication
Introduction Providing family physicians (FPs) with the information they need is crucial for their participation in a coordinated pandemic or health emergency response, and to allow them to effectively run their practices. Most pandemic planning documents do not address communication plans specific to FPs. This study describes FPs' experiences and ...
