Disrupt Adapt: New ways to deal with current challenges in media and communication

In the last couple of years, our world has undergone rapid and far-reaching transformations. Digitalization is changing society through the adoption of new technologies, and influences our ways of living and working. Furthermore, a seemingly never-ending pandemic, an increasingly polarized public, the rise of political conflicts, the threats of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and climate change are fundamentally changing our way of life and changing the way we communicate. This dynamic, complex and uncertain new environment disrupts familiar workflows. Because communication is always strongly embedded in the environment in which it takes place, the latest changes inevitably bring obstacles for communication professionals as well. But instead of feeling intimidated by these developments, why not confront them head on and grow through them? This publication aims to give impulses on how to master and overcome the multifaceted challenges of an ever faster changing, globalized world. The six studies - developed over the course of a yearlong research seminar at Leipzig University - focus on current trends in the fields of journalism and strategic communication and examine what is currently occupying practice and science: digital sustainability storytelling as contributor to corporate success and the potential of corporate podcasts in branding, the use of remote work for employer branding, the pressure companies face to take a stance on socio-political issues, how German political parties use new campaign tactics on social media, and the effects of the increasing threat of violence against journalists. The results show how professionals are dealing with these challenging times, formulate implications for the practical field, and open the pathway for future research

The Computational Attitude in Music Theory

Music studies’s turn to computation during the twentieth century has engendered particular habits of thought about music, habits that remain in operation long after the music scholar has stepped away from the computer. The computational attitude is a way of thinking about music that is learned at the computer but can be applied away from it. It may be manifest in actual computer use, or in invocations of computationalism, a theory of mind whose influence on twentieth-century music theory is palpable. It may also be manifest in more informal discussions about music, which make liberal use of computational metaphors. In Chapter 1, I describe this attitude, the stakes for considering the computer as one of its instruments, and the kinds of historical sources and methodologies we might draw on to chart its ascendance. The remainder of this dissertation considers distinct and varied cases from the mid-twentieth century in which computers or computationalist musical ideas were used to pursue new musical objects, to quantify and classify musical scores as data, and to instantiate a generally music-structuralist mode of analysis. I present an account of the decades-long effort to prepare an exhaustive and accurate catalog of the all-interval twelve-tone series (Chapter 2). This problem was first posed in the 1920s but was not solved until 1959, when the composer Hanns Jelinek collaborated with the computer engineer Heinz Zemanek to jointly develop and run a computer program. Recognizing the transformation wrought on modern statistics and communications technology by information theory, I revisit Abraham Moles’s book Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (orig. 1958) and use its vocabulary to contextualize contemporary information-theoretic work on music that various evokes the computational mind by John. R. Pierce and Mary Shannon, Wilhelm Fucks, and Henry Quastler (Chapter 3). I conclude with a detailed look into a score-segmentation algorithm of the influential American music theorist Allen Forte (Chapter 4). Forte was a skilled programmer who spent several years at MIT in the 1960s, with cutting-edge computers and the company of first-rank figures in the nascent fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. Each one of the researchers whose work is treated in these case studies—at some stage in their relationship with music—adopted what I call the computational attitude to music, to varying degrees and for diverse ends. Of the many questions this dissertation seeks to answer: what was gained by adopting such an attitude? What was lost? Having understood these past explorations of the computational attitude to music, we are better suited ask of ourselves the same questions today

Victoria Police memorialisation: Commemoration and remembrance

This study examined Victoria Police memorialisation, commemoration and remembrance in relation to how police who have been killed in the line of duty are memorialised and how police remembrance practices have shaped police legitimacy. The findings suggested police remembrance practices enhance police legitimacy by communicating symbolic messages of sacrifice for the community

Modelling, Dimensioning and Optimization of 5G Communication Networks, Resources and Services

This reprint aims to collect state-of-the-art research contributions that address challenges in the emerging 5G networks design, dimensioning and optimization. Designing, dimensioning and optimization of communication networks resources and services have been an inseparable part of telecom network development. The latter must convey a large volume of traffic, providing service to traffic streams with highly differentiated requirements in terms of bit-rate and service time, required quality of service and quality of experience parameters. Such a communication infrastructure presents many important challenges, such as the study of necessary multi-layer cooperation, new protocols, performance evaluation of different network parts, low layer network design, network management and security issues, and new technologies in general, which will be discussed in this book

Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises

Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes the concept in a foundational discussion of democratic principles, civil rights, and national identities: is (technological) self-determination an option for every individual to cope with the digital sphere effectively? Can disruptive events provide chances to rethink our ideas of society - including the design of the objects and processes which constitute our techno-social realities? The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy-making, and describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic

The Theoretical and Empirical Paradox of Temporal Change due to Digital Media in Germany and China

Die Arbeit untersucht theoretisch und empirisch-quantitativ wie sich das Zeitverständnis aufgrund von digitalen Medien ändert und vergleicht dabei Deutschland und China. Ausgehend vom Konzept der De-Westernisierung werden dabei zunächst die zentralen Begriffe wie Zeitverständnis, kultureller Kontext und kultureller Wandel durch digitale Medien geklärt. Das Zeitverständnis basiert auf neun Dimensionen: Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft, Lebenstempo, interagierende Erfahrung, instrumentelle Erfahrung, Fatalismus, Zukunft als geplantes Handeln und Zukunft als vertrauensbasiertes Handeln. Mittels kulturvergleichender Befragung in Deutschland und China (n=300) und multivariater Auswertungsverfahren wird gezeigt, dass die Dimensionen entgegen der Hypothesen auf Basis von medienphilosophischen Theorien alle ansteigen und ein Paradox der Zeit entsteht. Dies kann als Erklärungsgrundlage dafür dienen, dass Zeitkonflikte entstehen und das mentale Wohlbefinden beider Kulturen durch digitale Medien beeinträchtigt wird.:Contents 1. Research Desiderates and Research Question…………………………………………9 2. Discussion of Theory Development………………………………………………….11 a. Brief Summary of Theory Development…………………………………..…11 i. Reasoning for Article 1 to Article 4………………………………….11 ii. Key Findings: The Field in 2021..……………………………………12 b. Limitations and Challenges of Theory Development………………………..19 i. Researching in the Tradition of Cultivation Analysis?........................19 ii. Modeling Cultural Change…………………………………………...19 iii. The Forgotten Sub-Dimension Past?....................................................21 iv. Surveillance, Filter Bubbles and Internet Censorship – An Update….23 3. Discussion of Empirical Results……………………………………………………...25 a. Brief Summary of Findings…………………………………………………...25 i. Reasoning for Article 5 to Article 8…………………………………..25 ii. Key Findings: The Field in 2021.…………………………………….25 b. Limitations and Challenges of Method and Findings………………………...34 i. General Remarks……………………………………………………...34 ii. Trans-Cultural Research in Practice…………………………………..36 iii. Response Patterns of German and Chinese Participants……………...38 iv. The Role of Off-liners in Digitally Induced Temporal Change………39 v. Disadvantaged Communities………………………………………....40 vi. Modeling Micro-Meso-Macro Level in Data Analysis……………….41 vii. Structural Equation Modeling………………………………………...43 viii. Interpreting in the Light of Culture Standards………………………..49 8 4. Summary……………………………………………………………………………...53 5. References…………………………………………………………………………….60 6. Appendix……………………………………………………………………………...69 a. Publication Strategy…………………………………………………………..69 b. List of Submitted Articles…………………………………………………….71 c. Versicherung………………………………………………………………….73 d. Article 1………………………………………………………………………74 e. Article 2………………………………………………………………………88 f. Article 3……………………………………………………………………...110 g. Article 4……………………………………………………………………...134 h. Article 5……………………………………………………………………...148 i. Article 6……………………………………………………………………...161 j. Article 7……………………………………………………………………...190 k. Survey Questionnaires……………………………………………………....210 i. German Version Onliners……………………………………....…...210 ii. German Version Offliners…………………………………………...240 iii. Chinese Version Onliners……………………………………...........258 iv. Chinese Version Onliners…………………………………………...283 l. Declaration of Co-Author from Article 7……………………………...........30

Practicing Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty has become a hotly debated concept. The current convergence of multiple crises adds fuel to this debate, as it contextualizes the concept in a foundational discussion of democratic principles, civil rights, and national identities: is (technological) self-determination an option for every individual to cope with the digital sphere effectively? Can disruptive events provide chances to rethink our ideas of society - including the design of the objects and processes which constitute our techno-social realities? The positions assembled in this volume analyze opportunities for participation and policy-making, and describe alternative technological practices before and after the pandemic

Educational Learning Theories: 2nd Edition

This open textbook was the result of a remix of pre-existing open materials collected and reviewed by Molly Zhou and David Brown. Learning theories covered include the theories of Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Dewey, Bronfenbrenner, Eriksen, Gardner, Bloom, and Maslow. The textbook was revised in 2018 through a Round Ten Revisions and Ancillary Materials Mini-Grant. Topics covered include: Behaviorism Cognitive Development Social Cognitive Theory Experiential Learning Theory Human Motivation Theory Information Processing Theoryhttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/education-textbooks/1000/thumbnail.jp

Design revolutions: IASDR 2019 Conference Proceedings. Volume 4: Learning, Technology, Thinking

In September 2019 Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University was honoured to host the bi-annual conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) under the unifying theme of DESIGN REVOLUTIONS. This was the first time the conference had been held in the UK. Through key research themes across nine conference tracks – Change, Learning, Living, Making, People, Technology, Thinking, Value and Voices – the conference opened up compelling, meaningful and radical dialogue of the role of design in addressing societal and organisational challenges. This Volume 4 includes papers from Learning, Technology and Thinking tracks of the conference