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The CBC Current Affairs program Sunday Morning is used as a case study to develop an appropriate theory and conceptual apparatus for the understanding of the relationship between the organisation of news-production and news-product. This relation is first identified as critical to the field of mass media studies in general, and news-research in particular. On the basis of this review a new model of news-as-discourse is proposed. In the examination of the radio program Sunday Morning this model and its conceptual categories are further developed and linked with other research in the sociology of news, the structuralist analysis of narrative, and the cultural study of artistic forms and practices. Sunday Morning is shown to employ discursive practices and formations, and production practices which result in power format radio.

Academic researchers in many disciplines are facing difficulties in disseminating their research outputs beyond the academic community. Particularly, Information Systems (IS) academic researchers have been struggling to make their research more relevant to practice. The diversity of IS research means that should be a wide audience within and beyond academia who could benefit from IS research outputs. This audience includes educators, practitioners, patients, etc. How IS relevant to practice is a central dilemma of IS research. Research relevance is classified according to dimensions such as interesting, implementable, current, accessible “Article style” by many IS scholars. These dimensions are important to be investigated as some academic papers are yet to be beneficial to an audience beyond academia. The Accessible dimension is the focus of this study where accessible means the academic papers should be readable and understood in terms of tone, style, structure, and semantics by the potential audience beyond the academic community. This study investigates the barriers that limit academic researchers in disseminating and communicating their research outputs beyond academia. This study aims to design a communication method to assist academic researchers in disseminating and communicating their research outputs beyond academia. This study consists of three phases, in the first phase a qualitative method is applied by interviewing academics in the Information System and Computing Department at Brunel University to gain a better understanding of how and why academics disseminate beyond academia. Based on communication theories a research framework is adapted to analyse and explain the interview data. In the second phase, short videos are recorded of 10 academics where each explains one of their papers. In the third phase, two different groups are interviewed to evaluate the 10 short videos in regards the Information Quality (IQ) dimensions (i.e. appropriate amount of information, format, and timeliness). By using the thematic analysis technique the academics highlighted three barriers that limit them to disseminate and communicate their research outputs beyond academia. The three barriers are the message (i.e. academic structure and language of research papers), channel (i.e. academic journal and conferences), and social system (i.e. lack of Incentives, lack of time, and lack of support). Moreover, academics emphasised the vital role of feedback loop in their communication with target audience beyond academia. The 10 short videos are designed to overcome two of these barriers (i.e. message and channels). Each short video is evaluated by its academic author on one hand and the potential audience/stakeholders of the short video from the other hand (e.g. practitioners). Thus, the academic authors of the video suggest some changes by adjusting the video structure and adding some examples for more explanations of their research papers. Also, authors concerned about format particularly the visual elements of the video which have to be completely matched with the title of the video. However, the opinions of potential audiences vary based on their information need. For example, some practitioners are concerned with the practical information, in other words, practitioners seek the applicable part of the information provided in the short video (i.e. how to apply something); and others watch the short video to increase their awareness of a particular topic. This study will assist academic researchers to focus on how to disseminate their research outputs to audience/stakeholders beyond academia using media tools (i.e. video). Also, it provides a novel method of disseminating and communicating their research outputs beyond the academic community. Moreover, this study helps to create an interaction platform that enables academic researchers to build a collaborative framework and a mutual understanding with the audience beyond academia.

O estudo tem por objetivo principal descrever o perfil do pesquisador brasileiro que publica nos periódicos científicos da área de Ciências da Comunicação. Consideramos como pesquisador brasileiro aquele inserido no sistema acadêmico e de pesquisa do país, independentemente de seu local de nascimento. O corpus é composto pelos cinco periódicos científicos brasileiros mais bem classificados dessa área, ou seja, aqueles que compõem o estrato A2, segundo o WebQualis triênio 2010-2012, sistema de avaliação de periódicos da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes). São eles: E-Compós, Revista da Famecos, Galáxia, Revista da Intercom e MATRIZes. Foram estudados artigos de todas as edições publicadas entre os anos 2000 e 2012. Os periódicos tiveram seus artigos analisados por meio dos títulos, autores, titularidade e filiação acadêmica desses, palavras-chave e referências bibliográficas. A partir dessa listagem, traçou-se o perfil mais recorrente do pesquisador que publica nos periódicos A2, levando-se em conta titularidade, universidade e tema dos artigos, a partir das palavras-chave e título. Pode-se afirmar, dessa maneira, que o perfil predominante é feminino, com título de doutor, sendo a maioria dos artigos publicada por pesquisadores da Universidade de São Paulo sobre estudo dos meios (midialogia). Por trás da pesquisa empírica, o objeto teórico é a epistemologia das Ciências da Comunicação, considerando o conceito de campo científico segundo Bourdieu e levando em conta para o funcionamento e institucionalização deste as questões colocadas pela sociologia da Ciência. Quanto às referências bibliográficas, podemos destacar que os autores europeus, em especial os franceses, constituem a maioria das citações feitas pelos autores brasileiros nos periódicos do corpus, porém são poucas as obras recorrentes nas referências bibliográficas, o que, por um lado, significa que os pesquisadores têm citado novos autores e obras, mas o dado também aponta para a falta de unidade da área de Comunicação em torno de nomes e obras fundadoras e referenciais. / The study\'s main objective is to describe the profile of the Brazilian researcher publishing in scientific journals of Communication Sciences area. We consider Brazilian researchers those inserted into the country\'s academic and research systems, regardless their place of birth. The corpus of this research is composed by the five Brazilian scientific journals highly rated in this area, ie those that comprise the stratum A2, according to the WebQualis 2010-2012 period, periodic assessment system of Higher Education Personnel Training Coordination (Capes). They are E-Compós, Revista Famecos, Galáxia, Revista da Intercom and MATRIZes. We studied articles from all editions published between 2000 and 2012. The journals had their articles analyzed through the titles, authors, academic degree and affiliation of those authors, keywords and references. From this list, we traced the most applicant\'s research profile that publishes in journals A2, taking into account academic degree, university and subject of articles, from keywords and title. It can be said, thus, that the predominant profile is feminine, with Phd\'s degree and most of the articles are published by researchers from University of São Paulo about media studies (medialogy). Behind the empirical research, the theoretical object is the epistemology of Communication Sciences, considering the concept of scientific field according to Bourdieu and taking into account its institutionalization and the issues raised by the sociology of science. As for references, we can highlight that European authors, especially French, constitute the majority of citations made by Brazilian authors in the corpus, but there are few recurring works in the references, which on the one hand, means researchers have cited new authors and works, but the data also points to the lack of unity of the Communications area around central names and reference works.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly integrated aspect of daily life. Particularly, businesses have been incorporating AI into many of their features from customer support to product personalization. While there has been a body of research exploring the interpersonal impacts of AI and human participants, there is limited research on the effects of human-like AI on its influence in the purchasing process. Taking the theoretical framework of the Computer Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm, I utilized a 2 x 3 experiment to measure if the perceived sex of an artificial intelligence impacts consumers' purchase intention, trust, and sense of agency. Participants interacted with either a male-gendered or female-gendered AI chatbot, or a static website, which then recommended a water bottle based on the participants' preferences. The study indicated significance with both male and female participants preferring the control website over both AI sexes. The study also indicated significance in women participants feeling more overall agency than men participants during the experiment. The results indicate a potential need for a new level of human realism before CASA can be framed within some AI applications. / MACOM / Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly integrated aspect of daily life. Particularly, businesses have been incorporating AI into many of their features from customer support to product personalization. While there has been a body of research exploring the interpersonal impacts of AI and human participants, there is limited research on the effects of human-like AI on its influence in the purchasing process. Taking the concept that people naturally treat human-like technology as real humans, I have evaluated whether consumers' purchase intention, trust, and sense of agency are impacted while interacting with either a male-gendered or female-gendered AI chatbot , or a static website, which then recommended a water bottle based on the participants' preferences. The study showed that both male and female participants preferred the control website over both AI sexes, and women participants overall felt more agency than men participants during the experiment. The results indicate that there may need to be a new level of human realism before users will treat some AI applications as fellow humans.

The purpose of this study was to attempt to observe and quantify some of the effects of an experiential interpersonal communication training program on the individuals involved. The program studied was Speech 360, a laboratory communication course offered at North Texas State University. The design of the study involved three basic student groups -- a.) the fall 1970 Speech 360 students; b.) the Spring 1971 Speech 360 students; and c.) a control group of students similar to those in the course, but who were not involved in the training program.

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