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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Theory of Communication"”.
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William Ernest Hocking's Theory of Communication and Social Discourse
… in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:40:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7500341.PDF: 9073512 bytes, checksum: 1c793e83f11e5090c8a5d496b5c36aa2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Complexity and second moment of the mathematical theory of communication
The performance of an error correcting code is evaluated by its block error probability, code rate, and encoding and decoding complexity. The performance of a series of codes is evaluated by, as the block lengths approach infinity, whether their block error probabilities decay to zero, whether …
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"It's Kind of a Funny Story...": Exploring Sexual Storytelling Among College Students
… face risks associated with sexuality because of college attendance and gender. Through storytelling, college students convey their sexual experiences to their friends and peers, though this process is predominantly focused on the narrator rather than the listener. I investigated how this …
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The Triptych Tetrad: Marshall McLuhan's Neo-Medieval Communication Theory
The work of Marshall McLuhan has often been reduced to the form of catchphrases and "McLuhanisms," such as the "global village" and "the medium is the message" in the field of communication. Though these phrases capture an aspect of his thought, the scholarly understanding of McLuhan's vision …
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Prioritization, security and relay selection in network coded multiple access relay networks
<p>Wireless communication is undoubtedly one of the most significant advancements by the mankind for improving quality of life. Information is transmitted from one point to another via electromagnetic waves. After Shannon's landmark paper ``A Mathematical Theory of Communication'' in 1948, …
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Local to global geometric methods in information theory
… a unified geometric approach. The development of this approach was motivated by the challenges encountered while working on these problems, and in turn, the testing of the initial tools to these problems suggested numerous refinements and improvements on the geometric methods. In ergodic …
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The essential message : Claude Shannon and the making of information theory
… Laboratories, published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," a seminal paper that marked the birth of information theory. In that paper, Shannon defined what the once fuzzy concept of "information" meant for communication engineers and proposed a precise way to quantify it-in his …
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A co-cultural communicative exploration of gay and lesbian transracial adoptive parenthood
… the 1970s. This research used the co-cultural theory of communication to explore how the marginalized population of gay and lesbian transracial adoptive (TRA) parents communicated with the other culturally dominant members of their society. It then analyzed the communication behaviors found to …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for whom images were ‘dead and dumb’, and have focused on the limitations placed …
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An analysis of the Aristotelian rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos in selected musical plays of Rodgers and Hammerstein
… in 1942. Their history changed the history of musical theatre. This dissertation is a rhetorical analysis of the scripts and scores of three of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals, Oklahoma!, Carousel and South Pacific. These texts are particularly well suited to this rhetorical study because …
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Charles Eames and communication : from education to computers
This thesis looks at a variety of projects done by Charles and Ray Eames that emphasize their interest in communication leading up to their 1953 film A Communications Primer. The significance of this film is threefold: One, it is the first film the Eameses produced that showcased, albeit briefly, …
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The Necessity for Communicative Engagement Capability in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions
… in postmodern organizations. While thousands of articles and texts have been written on the topic of organizational change offering models and strategies for accomplishing planned change, the majority of change initiatives fail to meet expectations (Burnes and Jackson; Keller and Aiken). What, …
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A universal, operational theory of multi-user communication with fidelity criteria
This thesis has two flavors: 1. A theory of universal multi-user communication with fidelity criteria: We prove the optimality of digital communication for universal multi-user communication with fidelity criteria, both in the point-to-point setting and in the multi-user setting. In other words, we …
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The effects of visual and verbal/visual organizers on the learning of unfamiliar information with daytime students in two rural community colleges in southwestern Virginia
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of pre and post visual (V) and verbal/visual (V/V) organizers on the learning of unfamiliar information at two rural community colleges in southwestern Virginia. A total of 153 students in five general English and speech classes in the two …
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Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities
The present PhD-thesis seeks new definitions of human subjectivity in an age of technoscience and a networked, globalized, Information Society. The perspective presented relates to Philosophy of Science, which includes the Human, the Natural, the Social and the Life Sciences. The project is …
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Knowledge through communication : a response to the question of how testimony-based knowledge is possible
The aim of this thesis is to offer a response to the question of how it is that a hearer can get knowledge from testimony. The project has two main components. The first is to suggest that the obstacle to getting knowledge through testimony (the obstacle of epistemic vulnerability) is one that can …
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Multi-agent Communication Protocols with Emergent Behaviour
The emergent behaviour of a multiagent system depends on the component agents and how they interact. A critical part of interaction between agents is communication. This thesis presents a multi-agent system communication model for physical moving agents. The work presented in this thesis provides …
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Noise practice in the digital age
Ever since Claude Shannons’ ‘A Mathematical Theory of Communication’ was published in 1948 we have sought to eliminate noise from our sources of communication. The digital age has exacerbated such a phenomenon by allowing us to abstract information into binary code and attenuate the noise that is …
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The story in conversation: towards an integration of speech act theory and conversational analysis.
This thesis is a study of the story in natural conversation. The story is an intuitively recognizable but problematic unit to describe, since the features which distinguish it in conversation are s~ markedly different from the features that characterise a narrative text. An attempt is made in the …
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