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Applications of Telehealth in the practice, upgrading of knowledge, and communication of physicians with their colleagues and patients in Canada was explored in this study. The research used exploratory-grounded theory to investigate the opinions of practicing clinicians regarding the use of Telehealth. The study involved conducting semi-structured interviews with physicians who were using or might in the future use Telehealth in their practice. This study was designed to assess the major advantages and shortcomings that Telehealth has to offer in the field of medicine. The research found that clinicians predominantly had a very positive view of Telehealth, although some minor concerns were expressed with respect to the use of Telehealth in private offices and the home (rather than in the hospital). The data indicated that Telehealth can improve overall patient care by bettering the speed and accuracy of communication and diagnosis and the subsequent treatment of patients, saving physicians and patients time and money, reducing waiting lists, aiding the environment, reducing emergency visits and hospitalizations, addressing shortages of physicians (particularly in rural areas), increasing access to specialists, and enabling convenient distance education. These are just some of the many benefits of Telehealth which outweigh its disadvantages. This study also was designed to extract clinicians’ opinions on avenues for improving Telehealth, which thus led to implications for future research. Barriers to the use of Telehealth were found to include concerns about security and IT support, lack of public knowledge of Telehealth’s existence, and installation and maintenance costs for the necessary equipment in the private sector. The study suggests that Telehealth will become more widely available and accessible to the general public. The study also proposes that, through increased governmental support and funding, Telehealth should be advertised and promoted, researched in more depth (in part, to discourage misconceptions regarding Telehealth), collaborated on by stakeholders, and expanded. / Graduate

This diploma thesis focuses on the role of social network Facebook in the process of English teaching and learning at the second level at Czech primary schools. The theoretical part concentrates on the methodology typically used in TEFL during 20th and 21st century, online teaching and learning as well as communication, describes the history and development of Facebook and deals with the question of online safety. The practical part firstly informs the reader about the development of the research procedure, states the aims and describes the research background. Secondly it deals with the data collection, assessment and evaluation and presents the results acquired from the research. The research was designed to reveal the possible benefits of the use of Facebook in the TEFL process; it consisted of a questionnaire and two types of observation performed by the author of this thesis.

The main topic of this thesis is crisis intervention that is focused on the topic crisis intervention. As a specific feature that is associated with this phenomenon is anonymity. Anonymity includes both theoretical part and a practical part. For this thesis are used domestic resources and foreign resources. Rich source of information are students' thesis that frequently deal with this topic. The practical part consists of a qualitative research focused on a semi-structured questionnaire with workers on a child helpline - Linka bezpečí. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how anonymity affects the communication with the client from the perspective of consultants of Linka bezpečí.

Diploma thesis is concerning the PR communication of Samsung's Telephone division in the Czech Republic. The target of the diploma thesis is to identify key PR tools used in practice by Telephone division of Samsung, analysis and evaluation of those tools together with recommendation of future development for further improvement of the communication quality. The theoretical part includes: introduction into PR, description of strategic PR process, characteristics of PR tools and list of PR advantages and disadvantages. The introduction of Samsung Electronics and its representant on the Czech market - Samsung Electronics Czech and Slovak, s.r.o. is part of the practical section of the diploma thesis. There is also paid attention to characteristics of the Czech market with mobile phones, analysis of PR tools used by Telephone division and on the basis of obtained knowledge are suggested opportunities how to improve quality of PR communication.

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore the implications of using online ethnographic participatory design in studying communication with teenagers in the context of Carbon Dioxide Theatre, a climate action research project. By developing multiple methods, tools and activities, the implications are understood throughout the teenagers’ engagement in collaborating and co-creating using online media. The findings are then organized based on the teenagers activity from three perspectives, by following the medium, the story and the feeling. The medium shows how social media platforms such as Snapchat and Facebook Messenger can be used in order to establish a valuable collaboration with the teenagers, the story presents how the teenagers are expressing their views, thoughts and dilemmas regarding the climate action topic, co-creating one Instagram account while the feeling offers emotions raised during the process. Ultimately, inspired from the study process, the paper suggests a design method for online ethnographic participatory design data collection, consisting of a set of cards and maps that can be utilized as a guiding tool in organizing and understanding the empirical data within an exploratory research context. / Carbon Dioxid Theatre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:11:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcia Virginia Mignac da Silva.pdf: 10409465 bytes, checksum: 8f195b420e03f9226935b1892e1d2bff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The "blog explosion" is intensified in the 90 s decade, and won enormous range. In Brazil, this reached an estimated 3 or 7 million blogs and 12.3 million users. There is, at the same time, another expansion: the collective forms of grouping those were becoming increasingly popular in our country. This research began of a proposal for linking the two phenomena, and makes it the context of this research. Blogs were welcomed as democratizing spaces of visibility - premise here challenged, with the hypothesis that happened just the reverse of what was described. Even at the height of its popularity, blogs operated as tools to aggregation and location, and not as devices for horizontal distribution of information and very broad. The association held recently between blogs and social networks (Facebook, Twitter ...) indicates that direction. The problem that lead the research claim that the readings that have become popular blog about the impacts of widespread fetishes that have staining the identification of the type of visibility and sociability, in fact, was produced by them. Then discuss this meant a phenomenon occurring only, or whether it also extends to new forms of online communication. The object of this research is how four collective use their blogs and their effects on the constitution of the groups themselves. Were selected groups that located in regions of entirely different characteristics: the creative core of Dirceu (Teresina, Piauí), O 12 (Votorantim, São Paulo), Dimenti (Salvador, Bahia) and Cauliflower Mincomunidade World (Curitiba, Paraná), and also the blogs of artists Dani Lima (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) and Thelma Bonavita (São Paulo, SP). The theoretical research focuses political relations between media, power, and collective body, especially the contribution of authors such as Kerckhove (2009), Lemos (2003, 2009), Recuero (2003a, 2003b), Primo (2008a, 2008b ) Katz and Greiner (2001, 2005), Santos (2003), Agamben (2009), Lipovetsky (2005), Santos ( 2009), Zizek (1996) and McNeill (1995). The methodological approach combines literature review, field research through application of semi-structured interviews and analysis of examples that constitute the corpus of the research / A explosão blográfica se intensifica na década de 1990, e ganha enorme amplitude. Só no Brasil, estima-se que alcançou 3 a 7 milhões de blogs e 12,3 milhões de usuários. Observa-se, na mesma época, também uma outra expansão: a dos coletivos, formas de agrupamento que foram se tornando cada vez mais populares no nosso país. A pesquisa parte de uma proposta de vinculação entre os dois fenômenos, e faz dela o contexto da sua investigação. Blogs foram acolhidos como espaços democratizantes de visibilidade - premissa aqui contestada, com a hipótese de que sucedeu justamente o inverso do que foi descrito. Mesmo no auge da sua popularidade, os blogs operaram como ferramentas de agregamento e localização, e não como dispositivos de distribuição horizontal de informação de amplo alcance. A associação ocorrida recentemente entre blogs e redes sociais (Facebook, Twitter...) sinaliza nessa direção. O problema que impulsiona a pesquisa é pleitear que as leituras que se popularizaram sobre os impactos do blog disseminaram fetiches que borraram a identificação do tipo de visibilidade e de sociabilidade que, de fato, foi por eles produzida. E, a partir daí, problematizar se tratou-se de um fenômeno de ocorrência única, ou se ele se estende também para as novas formas de comunicação on line. O objeto da pesquisa é o modo como quatro coletivos usam seus blogs e os seus efeitos na constituição dos próprios coletivos. Foram escolhidos coletivos localizados em regiões de características inteiramente distintas: o Núcleo Criativo do Dirceu (Teresina, Piauí), o O 12 (Votorantin, São Paulo), Dimenti (Salvador, Bahia) e Couve Flor Mincomunidade Mundial (Curitiba, Paraná), e também os blogs das artistas Dani Lima (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) e Thelma Bonavita (São Paulo, SP). O referencial teórico prioriza a investigação política das relações entre mídia, poder, coletivos e corpo, com destaque para a contribuição de autores como Kerckhove (2009), Lemos (2003, 2009), Recuero (2003a, 2003b), Primo (2008a, 2008b) Katz e Greiner (2001, 2005), Santos (2003), Agamben (2009), Lipovetsky (2005), Santos (2009), Zizek (1996) e Mcneill (1995). A abordagem metodológica combina revisão bibliográfica, pesquisa de campo via aplicação de entrevistas semiestruturadas e a análise dos exemplos que constituem o corpus da pesquisa

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriel Prado Peroni.pdf: 2042508 bytes, checksum: 23092fdadc7c70e9ddb3be7ab40ef90c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-19 / The objective of this piece is to dissert on how the acceleration of online communication interferes positively or negatively on news production on the internet as well as on the results of this production. The intention was to demonstrate how, once exposed to the logistic of the speed, the online news could bend on two paths: the first one an efficient journalism which, even though made under the influence of the acceleration, presented a satisfactory result, agreeable to the immediacy expected from the online public. On the other hand, the online speed can deteriorate the good quality journalism concept, offering its public contents which will not be satisfying. Those are superficial and trivial news, when not simply forged. What will determine the benefic or malicious outcome of online journalism will be the criteria adopt by each communication vehicle and by its employees, the journalists themselves. The methodological and theoretical bases are works from thinkers from the new media and from others from the worldwide computer network as the international Pierre Lévy and, from Brazil, Eugênio Trivinho, as well as media critics like Paul Virilio and, from Brazil, Eugênio Bucci. Press and Journalism history were also considered. The subject of the research being a selection of 12 news from four Brazilian websites UOL, G1, Globo Online and Agência Estado, extracted inside the period from July 2007 to June 2009. The analysis should elucidate the follow premise: how the accelerating process adopted on communication vehicles acts on the origins of news productions which may or not offer quality to its public. The result sought being to contribute on an overall reflection of the journalism in the cyber cultural era / O objetivo deste trabalho é dissertar sobre como a aceleração dos meios de comunicação online interfere positiva ou negativamente na produção das notícias na internet bem como no resultado dessa produção. Buscamos mostrar como, submetidas à lógica da velocidade, as notícias online podem enveredar para dois caminhos: o primeiro diz respeito a um jornalismo eficiente, que, mesmo realizando sob o dorso da aceleração, apresenta um resultado satisfatório, condizente com o imediatismo desejado pelo internauta. Por outro lado, a velocidade da internet pode acabar degradando o conceito do jornalismo de qualidade, oferecendo ao internauta conteúdos que deixam a desejar. São notícias descontextualizadas e superficiais, quando não são falsas. O que vai determinar o efeito benéfico ou maléfico do jornalismo online será o critério adotado por cada veículo de comunicação e seus respectivos funcionários, no caso, os próprios jornalistas. As bases teórico-metodológicas são os trabalhos de pensadores das novas mídias e da rede mundial de computadores tais que Pierre Lévy e, no Brasil, Eugênio Trivinho, bem como de críticos das mídias tais que Paul Virilio e, no Brasil, Eugênio Bucci. Trabalhamos também com histórias da imprensa e do jornalismo. O corpus da pesquisa constitui-se de uma seleção de 12 notícias de quatro portais brasileiros UOL, G1, Globo Online e Agência Estado, extraídas dos respectivos sites entre julho de 2007 e junho de 2009. A análise do corpus deverá permitir elucidar a seguinte hipótese de trabalho: como o processo acelerativo adotado pelos meios de comunicação está na origem de uma produção noticiosa que pode oferecer qualidade ou não ao internauta. O resultado que ambicionamos é contribuir para uma reflexão sobre o jornalismo na era da cibercultura

The current stage of the World-Wide-Web development called Web 2.0 has a considerable effect on the online communication both inside and among businesses. Social media is the strongest trend in this area. Integration of these media into the internal and external communication strategy has become essential for businesses in order to attain a sustainable competitive advantage. The main objective of this thesis is to map the possibilities and technologies of contemporary corporate online communication with regard to the development of Web 2.0. The next goal is to provide recommendations on their use with their possible advantages and disadvantages. The thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part deals with the concept of Web 2.0, main characteristics, technologies, and possible future development. The next part is devoted to specific tools and technologies for the internal and external online communication of businesses. The final part of the thesis is practical and has been written in collaboration with the Microsoft Corporation. The goal of this part of the thesis is to conduct a survey about the use of Internet communication by young people in the Czech Republic. Based on this survey recommendations are set out on how to effectively reach and communicate with this target group through the Internet.

The video game industry is one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. The fact that playing video games has become such a popular recreational activity among youths and adolescents has created a need for research investigating the effects of video game playing. Because of the role of the English language as a global lingua franca, most video games are released in English. Since most video games are released in English, many believe that the utilization of video games can help learners of English to improve their knowledge of how to utilize the English language. The aim of this study is to investigate whether video game playing does positively influence the English receptive vocabulary level of ESL learners. In addition, the present study also investigated the influence of other factors, such as the utilization of online communication tools, the average time spent playing video games, and the type of video games played, on English receptive vocabulary level. The study was conducted using quantitative research methods. Since the aim of the study was to investigate the relation between two separate aspects, the study had to utilize two separate elicitation methods for the data collection: one questionnaire (that was supposed to determine each informant’s video game habits) and one vocabulary test (that was supposed to get an approximation of each informant’s receptive vocabulary level). When the data had been collected, the tests were corrected, and the participants were categorized according to the previously mentioned variables. The mean scores of the categories were later examined and compared to each other. Differences between groups that were of high importance were further examined, with a t-test, to determine whether the difference was statistically significant or not. The results of the study show that the vocabulary level difference between ESL learners that do play video games and ESL learner that do not play video game is insignificant. The results further show that the utilization of online communication tools while playing video games positively influences vocabulary level, as the mean score difference on the vocabulary test between OCT users and OCT non-users was revealed to be significant by the t-test. The analysed data thus show that the influence of the utilization of online communication tools on English receptive vocabulary level are more significant that the influence of playing video games.