...Chapter 6: Communication Chapter Outline 1. Introduction of topics and concepts to be discussed in the chapter. a. Mission b. Principles i. Customer Focus ii. Leadership Commitment iii. Inclusion of Communications in Planning and Operations iv. Information Collection, Analysis and Dissemination v. Media Partnership c. Conclusion 2. Case Studies a. Risk Communication During the Washington D.C. Sniper Crisis b. The Homeland Security Advisory System c. A Comparison of Leadership Between Two Outbreaks of Smallpox in the United States: New York City, 1947, and Milwaukee, 1894 3. Additional Sources of Information 4. Glossary of Terms 5. Acronyms 6. Discussion Questions a. General b. Washington, DC Sniper c. Homeland Security Advisory System d. Smallpox Outbreaks 7. Suggested Out of Class Exercises Introduction Communications has become an increasingly critical function in emergency management. The dissemination of timely and accurate information to the general public, elected and community officials and the media plays a major role in the effective management of disaster response and recovery activities. Communicating preparedness, prevention and mitigation information promotes actions that reduce the risk of future disasters. Communicating policies, goals and priorities to staff, partners and participants enhances support and promotes a more efficient disaster...
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..."I hope you guys left the explosives at home." — President Obama welcoming television's "Mythbusters" to a science education event (CongressDaily 2009) The primary aim of science communication is to communicate the scientific method effectively with an entire audience. In order to do this, Olson suggests that the goal is to “move the process out of your head, into your heart with sincerity, into your gut with humour, and, ideally, if you’re sexy enough, into your lower organs with sex appeal” (Olson 2009). The Discovery Channel television show Mythbusters portrays an example of this effective communication, as it breaks the bridge between subjectivity and objectivity by presenting the scientific method in a context of popular culture and myth. Firstly, it does this by arousing scientific interest by referencing popular urban myths, wives tales or movie scenes and testing these by embracing the spontaneity of the cast. This cast plays a vital role in accessing the ‘gut’ and ‘heart’ of the viewers, as they break stereotypes previously formed in the media about scientists but still communicate scientific concepts effectively. Mythbusters accurately communicates the modern image of a scientist by embracing diversity within the scientific field and utilising sex appeal. Finally, the show uses communication techniques to target audiences and demographic that aren’t often targeted by scientific communication. All these factors work together to arouse the interest of the television-viewing audience...
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...Communication Art or Science? Abstract Communication is very important in today’s society. No matter how one feels about communication it is the key for successful personal and professional relationships. There are many individuals that just don’t know how to communicate effectively. It could be from shyness, social or interpersonal skills. Whatever the case they are unable to communicate effectively. Communication is not a skill that is learned it is an art. Either you have it or you don’t. Either you are comfortable in conveying your message in a clear and concise manner, your listening skills are effective, you are able to use nonverbal and verbal communication skills as well being comfortable in presenting information. Not everyone knows how to communicate in a manner that is effective. Many non-communicators play the guessing game. They won’t say what the message is that they are trying to convey or they say half of the message. People are not mind readers. If you don’t communicate the message in its entirety then how can you expect an individual to understand exactly what is being conveyed. Communication is an Art My first thought is what is the process of effective communication? Communication is the process of sharing thoughts, ideas, or emotions with another individual. In order to communicate effectively you must possess some of the following skills: attention, attitude, and feedback. It is important...
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...Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Social Science Research Han Ping FUNG1,* 1 Technology Consulting, Hewlett-Packard, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia *Han Ping FUNG (Email: corresponding han-ping.fung@hp.com) Abstract As more and more ICT tools being developed and used in social science research, it is a good idea to reflect how ICT had effects on social science research as a whole as there is a lacking of such study. This study is underpinned on and concurred with DeLone & McLean’s (1992, 2003) Information Systems (IS) Success Model in which ICT had effects on productivity of social science researchers. This study is based on participative observation approach in which ICT had effects on social science research in the following three ICT application areas: a) Pre-data analysis, b) Data analysis, and c) Post-data analysis. These three ICT application areas had improved a researcher’s productivity in terms of speed, quantity, quality, complexity as well as cost perspective is also discussed. Some concerns of using ICT are also included in this paper which encompasses: a) High learning curve, b) Revised expectation on researcher, c) Research by the convenient of big data, and d) Decrease of social skills of researcher. Limitation, recommendation for future works and conclusion are also included Keywords – Information and Communication Technology, Social Science Research, Information Systems Success Model Introduction In 2010s, social science research is conducted...
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...Services, Social Sciences, Psychology, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities Humboldt State University Natural Resources and Conservation, Visual and Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities Los Angeles Film School Film Colorado Mesa University Business/Commerce, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Psychology, and Biology/Biological Sciences Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design Art & Design University of Northern Colorado Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Social Sciences, and Communication and Media Studies Western State Colorado University Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies, Social Sciences, Psychology, and Visual and Performing Arts Colorado State University Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, and Social Sciences Quinnipiac University Health Professions and Related Programs, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Psychology, and Social Sciences University of South...
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...Support Services, Social Sciences, Psychology, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities | Humboldt State University | Natural Resources and Conservation, Visual and Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities | Los Angeles Film School | Film | Colorado Mesa University | Business/Commerce, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Psychology, and Biology/Biological Sciences | Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design | Art & Design | University of Northern Colorado | Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Social Sciences, and Communication and Media Studies | Western State Colorado University | Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies, Social Sciences, Psychology, and Visual and Performing Arts | Colorado State University | Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, and Social Sciences | Quinnipiac University | Health Professions and Related Programs, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Communication, Journalism, and Related...
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...2745 KATHIR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING COIMBATORE Community - BC Branch Name | OC | BC | | MinimumCut-off | MinimumCut-off | | CIVIL ENGINEERING | 128.25 | 94.75 | | COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGG. | 100.75 | - | | ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGG. | 97.25 | - | | ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGG. | 115.5 | - | | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | 143.75 | 121.25 | | 2755 NEHRU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY COIMBATORE Community - BC Branch Name | OC | BC | | MinimumCut-off | MinimumCut-off | | AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING | 90 | - | | AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING | 103 | - | | CIVIL ENGINEERING | 150 | 138 | | COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGG. | 146.5 | - | | ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGG. | 102 | - | | ELECTRONICS AND INSTRU ENGG. | 118.25 | - | | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | 145.25 | 131.5 | | 2710 KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (AUTONOMOUS) COIMBATORE Community - BC Branch Name | OC | BC | | MinimumCut-off | MinimumCut-off | | AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING | 180.75 | 178.75 | | CIVIL ENGINEERING | 188.75 | 187.25 | | COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGG. | 184.25 | 182.25 | | ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGG. | 187 | 184.25 | | ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGG. | 184.5 | 182 | | ELECTRONICS AND INSTRU ENGG. | 179 | 173 | | ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGG. | 172.75 | 166.5 | | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 181.25 | 178.25 | | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | 187.5 | 186.25 | | 2736 DR.N G P INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ...
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...Basic information about the Communication Minor The Minor in Communication requires 18 hours, or six courses. All students pursuing the minor must take two foundation courses that together total six credit hours. The courses are Communication Foundations 1, which is basically a writing class, and Communication Foundations, which basically a presentations or speech class. After taking the foundation courses, students can take three courses -- or nine credit hours -- in a Communication specialization. There are three specialization areas: Media, Health Communication and Public Policy, and Business and Organizational Communication. The sixth course in the minor is an elective. It can consist of any course in Communication beyond the foundation courses, or an independent study, or an internship. Here is a list of the foundation courses, specialization courses and elective-course requirement: I. Foundation (6 hours) COMM 101: Communication Foundations I COMM 102: Communication Foundations II II. Specialization (9 hours) A. Media COMM 225: Science Writing and Editing COMM 325: Communicating Science Using Digital Media COMM 330: Science and Film COMM 270: Introduction to Public Relations COMM 334: Video Editing COMM 430: Documentary and Corporate Video COMM 439: Special Topics in Media B. Health Communication and Public Policy COMM 240: Health Communication COMM 242: Writing in the Biomedical Sciences COMM 270: Introduction to Public Relations COMM 340: Biomedical...
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...THE KENYA UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES CENTRAL PLACEMENT SERVICE University of Nairobi, Kenya Science campus Telephone : 0723954927, 0734879662 Email : kuccps@uonbi.ac.ke Website : http://kuccps.uonbi.ac.ke P.O. Box 105166 – 00101 Nairobi KENYA UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES CENTRAL PLACEMENT SERVICE (KUCCPS) PROCEDURE FOR ONLINE APPLICATION FOR PLACEMENT TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 2013 KCSE EXAMINATION CANDIDATES 1 INTRODUCTION The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (Placement Service) was established as a Body Corporate under Section 55 of the Universities Act No. 42 of 2012 with its functions being to, among others co-ordinate the Placement of Government Sponsored Students to Universities and Colleges. A placement Policy and procedure for placement was subsequently developed and approved by the Board of the Placement Service. Based on the total declared capacity for programmes under Government sponsorship, and the performance analysis of the 2013 K.C.S.E Examination results, the Placement Service has set the cut off point for admission to bachelors degree programme at B of 60 points for male candidates and B- of 58 points for female candidates. In addition, all Candidates with a minimum overall grade of C- are eligible to apply for diploma programmes. The Placement Service therefore wishes to inform the 2013 K.C.S.E Examination Candidates that the online application system will open for application on Monday, May 19, 2014 at 0000 hrs and will close on...
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...Technical Institute CO2520 Communications Junnie Clercin Mr. Johnson The social science approach is a set of beliefs that describes the aim of communication research was to describe, predict, and explain human behavior with the ultimate goal of discovering universal laws that apply across situations and contexts. With the assumptions orienting toward behavior they believed that the “aim of communication research was to describe, predict, and explain human behavior with the ultimate goal of discovering universal laws that apply across situations and contexts. I think the social science contemporary approach to communication is being used in these theories. A lot of the studies that are being done were based on the mental and social health of the people. Elderly people’s minds do a lot of changing in their life times and it is extremely usual for them to go up and down on a scale. The study points out that elderly people have to deal with long term issues with sicknesses and condition. The social sciences are academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, history, social studies, and sociology. I believe that Social Science approached was used to communicate in this abstract because the different studies were based on either the husband or the wife. The social science approach in communication concentrates on the individual...
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...Behavior and Communication Deborah Tebet BCOM/230 06/15/2015 Wayne Moore Behavior and Communication 3M is a company that has been in business for many years. It was founded back in 1902 in Two Harbors, Minnesota under the name Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. The company was founded by five business men, and since it started it has grown over the years offering various services and products, it has expanded globally with businesses in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Europe and the Americas ("3m Science Applied To Life ", 2015). The motto for 3M is Science Applied to Life, meaning that innovation is the way of life and new ideas are constantly being processed and in progress to develop the latest product. The company offers an array of services and products ranging from health care, manufacturing, commercial solutions, mining, oil and gas, safety, electronics, and energy to name a few ("3m Science Applied To Life ", 2015). Mr. William L. McKnight joined the company in 1907 as a bookkeeper, becoming president in 1929 and chairman of the board in 1949. Mr. Knight is known for molding the company’s culture in innovation and collaboration ("3m Science Applied To Life ", 2015). He believed that using innovation and creating new ideas through collaboration with not only his peers and existing employees, but also with others like researchers and scientists would be the way to implement the company’s services and products to enable sustainability by protecting...
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...AE&I) Engineering or Sciences 1INTRODUCTION Are you tired of slow modem connections? Cellonics Incorporated has developed new technology that may end this and other communications problems forever. The new modulation and demodulation technology is called Cellonics. In general, this technology will allow for modem speeds that are 1,000 times faster than our present modems. The development is based on the way biological cells communicate with each other and nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS). Major telcos, which are telecommunications companies, will benefit from the incredible speed, simplicity, and robustness of this new technology, as well as individual users. In current technology, the ASCII uses a combination of ones and zeros to display a single letter of the alphabet (Cellonics, 2001). Then the data is sent over radio frequency cycle to its destination where it is then decoded. The original technology also utilizes carrier signals as a reference which uses hundreds of wave cycles before a decoder can decide on the bit value (Legard, 2001), whether the bit is a one or a zero, in order to translate that into a single character. The Cellonics technology came about after studying biological cell behaviour. The study showed that human cells respond to stimuli and generate waveforms that consist of a continuous line of pulses separated by periods of silence. The Cellonics technology found a way to mimic these pulse signals and apply them to the communications industry (Legard...
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...Proceedings: International Conference on Transfer of Forest Science Knowledge and Technology Communication Barriers to Applying Federal Research in Support of Land Management in the United States Vita Wright1 Abstract Barriers to effective communication between researchers and managers can ultimately result in barriers to the application of scientific knowledge and technology for land management. Both individual and organizational barriers are important in terms of how they affect the first three stages of the innovation-decision process: (1) knowledge, where an individual is exposed to innovation and develops an understanding of how it works; (2) evaluation, where an individual evaluates advantages and disadvantages and forms a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward innovation; and (3) decision, where an individual engages in activities that lead to a choice to either adopt or reject the innovation. Communication studies provides insight into potential influences to the communication and use of research results by federal land managers. Effective communication refers to the development of a common understanding between the research communicator and the manager or practitioner about both the existence and utility of an innovation. Communication research reveals that people frequently report leaving the same encounter with different perceptions of that encounter. So, it is not surprising that a scientist presents results in what they perceive to be clear terms and then...
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...The Challenge of Communicating Science to the Public By Charles R. Chappell and James Hartz Developments in science and technology affect virtually every aspect of our lives, from our physical health to the kinds of cars that we drive. Improvements in technology have contributed substantially to increased productivity in U.S. industry. Yet in recent years, political pressures to balance the federal budget have eroded the proportion of the budget devoted to basic research, the underpinning of scientific and technological advances. Scientists have understood the potentially debilitating consequences of this, but many citizens have not. President Clinton's budget for fiscal 1999 would begin to reverse this trend, if Congress accepts his proposals, but our information media still need to do a much better job of helping scientists communicate the substance and importance of their work. As visiting scholars at the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, we conducted a survey of 2,000 journalists and editors and 2,000 scientists and engineers to determine how the two groups felt about each other. We also wanted to find ways to improve their relationship and thus increase the amount of accurate and useful scientific information in the media. The results of the survey, published in our recent report, "Worlds Apart," showed that neither scientists nor journalists think the media do a good job of explaining science to the public. We asked both groups to rate...
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...distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.[1] The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also sometimes regarded as social sciences include history, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, law and linguistics. 2. What is the scope of humanities? 1. History, Anthropology, and Archaeology study human social, political, and cultural development. 2. Literature, Languages, and Linguistics explore how we communicate with each other, and how our ideas and thoughts on the human experience are expressed and interpreted. 3. Philosophy, Ethics, and Comparative Religion consider ideas about the meaning of life and the reasons for our thoughts and actions. 4. Jurisprudence examines the values and principles which inform our laws. These are: Arts, Music, Dance, Drama and Literature. 3. What is the different between the humanities and the sciences? Both the sciences and the humanities seek understanding; both offer explanations of various bits of the world. At a very abstract level, though, the kind of things each tries to explain is different. Science and the humanities are both ancient and great traditions and I doubt if there is anyone who would set them up in an antagonistic zero-sum confrontation the way people tend to do in the case of science and religion. Both are vital and necessary elements of...
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