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Dong Dong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-136). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.5 / Chapter II. --- Youth Culture Practiced in Virtual Community --- p.10 / Chapter III. --- "Background, Research Questions and Research Design" --- p.36 / Chapter IV. --- Style of Chinese University BBS Youth Culture --- p.45 / Chapter V. --- Youth Cultural Community as Identified by Style --- p.68 / Chapter VI. --- Resistance within Contexts --- p.84 / Chapter VII. --- Conclusion --- p.108 / Appendix 1 Captions of Postings & Discussion Threads --- p.111 / Appendix 2 Style of BBS Discussion Threads --- p.114 / Appendix 3 BBS Member's Composition --- p.118 / Appendix 4 Personal Reflections on the Film --- p.120 / Appendix 5 --- p.123 / Collective Discussions in Chinese University BBSs --- p.123 / Bibliography --- p.127

The present study used regression procedures to investigate the relationships between selected communication variables and innate innovativeness. The three general types of variables examined in this study were communication anxiety, communicator style, and selfdisclosiveness. Ten hypotheses were tested together with a descriptive model which was based on the communication variables and their ability to predict innate innovativeness. Results of the tests of the model were confirmed as were the ten hypothesized relationships. The results of the regression analyses performed on the data indicated that receiver apprehension and honesty of self-disclosiveness were negatively and positively associated with innate innovativeness respectively, and were the variables which most significantly impacted the variance of innate innovativeness scores.

This investigation opened with justification of the association of simulation and rhetoric found in the works of Bitzer, Bryant, Burke, and Nichols. It then focused on some advantages that association provides in the classroom: provides learning experiences for diverse groups, applies to problem solving, gives variety to lecture approach, develops social behavior, and increases awareness of alternatives. A list of simulation procedures was provided for specific rhetorical principles: cooperation/competition; decision making; reasoning; recall; perspective; negotiation; and goal setting. Existing, modified, and original games were included. Simulation with a college Interpersonal Communication class provided two case studies. Procedures, results, and evaluative feedback described degrees of effectiveness, and future application and research were also provided.

In the past few years, violence detection has become an increasingly rele- vant topic in computer vision with many proposed solutions by researchers. This thesis proposes a solution called Criminal Aggression Recognition Engine (CARE), an OpenCV based Java implementation of a violence detection system that can be trained with video datasets to classify action in a live feed as non-violent or violent. The algorithm extends existing work on fast ght detection by implementing violence detection of live video, in addition to prerecorded video. The results for violence detection in prerecorded videos are comparable to other popular detection systems and the results for live video are also very encouraging, making the work proposed in this thesis a solid foundation for improved live violence detection systems. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This thesis uses graphic design to explore the experience of an individual attempting to bridge two countries’ distinctly different cultures: Iran and the United States. Each has a particular political relation to the other in history. I am using graphic design as a tool to compare specific and various aspects of the two cultures and how these aspects impact each other based on my personal experience. I use design to explore my place in between two cultures and as a way to make sense of the exchange or replacement of culture that I perceive. Another aspect of my thesis emphasizes how western influences and technology are altering or eradicating traditions in Iran. This thesis demonstrates collation and confrontation of cultural and social elements through the application of design to a set of culturally symbolic objects. The goal is to utilize graphic design tools to elevate awareness about illustrating the cultural and traditional aspects of the two countries. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015 / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-30T11:56:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Vilela Berbel.pdf: 1441607 bytes, checksum: 303f1248102f3db1d5cff112c167b438 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-30T11:56:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Vilela Berbel.pdf: 1441607 bytes, checksum: 303f1248102f3db1d5cff112c167b438 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study propose to contribute with the discussion about the description of the meaning of social communications, in the way as proposed by Niklas Luhmann, from the identification of a spatial dimension of meaning, alongside the objective, social and temporal dimensions already diagnosed by the author. It uses, therefore, intersection of Harisson C. White, Ignácio Farías e Hugo Cadenãs’s analyzes to formulate the concept of "plural worlds," understood as intermediate levels between interactions and social systems, arising from the performation of common sociomaterial elements, narratives, styles, and values. Luhmann did not consider the formation of 'groups' within his scheme of social differentiation plans, highlighting only interactions, organizations and society, and including, only belatedly, protest movements. Likewise, in dealing with the theme of 'culture' he considered it as too broad a theme, unfeasible to social observation. However, this study sustain that in reformulating the concept of culture, it becomes possible to observe other plans of social differentiation that interact with the functional systems, by demarcating 'communication zones' that act in the formation of the systemic choice. Although they are not functional systems, the "plural worlds" formed by the cultural distinction share important characteristics of other social systems, such as the structuring a “medium of symbolic generalization” capable of enhancing the chances of success of systemic communications by reinforcing the form side familiar for the communication that resembles the same pattern of senses they select. It is understood, therefore, that the "plural worlds" formed by culture and social systems are connected by particular communicative contexts that activate immunizing forms of episodic systemic crises arising from the cognitive closure by the compulsive reproduction of previous positive feedbacks. Specifically regarding the legal system, the "plural worlds" allow the balance between stability and instability, change and conservation; and more, by giving rise to the metacode of culture, allow the interpenetration between functional systems and psychic systems / Este trabalho busca contribuir com a discussão a respeito da descrição do sentido das comunicações sociais, proposto por Niklas Luhmann, a partir da identificação de uma dimensão espacial de sentido, ao lado das dimensões objetiva, social e temporal já diagnosticadas pelo autor. Vale-se, para tanto, da interseção das análises de Harisson C. White, Ignácio Farías e Hugo Cadenãs para formular o conceito de “mundos plurais”, entendidos como níveis intermediários entre as interações e os sistemas sociais, que surgem em razão da performação de elementos sociomateriais, narrativas, estilos e valores comuns. Luhmann não considerou a formação de ‘grupos’ dentro de seu esquema de planos de diferenciação social, destacando somente as interações, organizações e sociedade, e incluindo, apenas tardiamente, os movimentos de protesto. Do mesmo modo, ao tratar da ‘cultura’ considerou-o como um tema demasiado amplo, inviável à observação social. Contudo, acredita-se que, ao se reformular o conceito de cultura, é possível observar outros planos de diferenciação social que interagem com os sistemas funcionais, ao demarcarem ‘zonas de comunicação’ que atuam na formação das escolhas sistêmicas. Apesar de não serem sistemas funcionais, os “mundos plurais” formados pela distinção cultural compartilham importantes características de outros sistemas sociais, como a estruturação de um meio próprio de generalização simbólica capaz de potencializar as chances de êxito das comunicações sistêmicas ao reforçar o lado da forma familiar para as comunicações que espelhem o mesmo padrão de sentidos por eles selecionados. Entende-se, assim, que os “mundos plurais” formados pela cultura e os sistemas sociais encontram-se conectados por contextos comunicativos particulares que ativam formas imunizantes de crises sistêmicas episódicas decorrentes da clausura cognitiva pela reprodução compulsiva de feedbacks positivos anteriores. Especificamente quanto ao sistema jurídico, os “mundos plurais” permitem o equilíbrio entre estabilidade e instabilidade, mudança e conservação; e mais, por darem origem ao metacódigo da cultura, permitem a interpenetração entre as sistemas funcionais e sistemas psíquicos ao chamar as consciências à aceitação de suas ofertas comunicativas

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication