Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1940. / Typescript. Includes abstract and vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics, March 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-228).

In the past few years, e-government has been a topic of much interest among those excited about the advent of Web technologies. Due to the growing demand for effective communication to facilitate real-time interaction between users and e-government applications, many governments are considering installing new tools by e-government portals to mitigate the problems associated with user – interface communication. Therefore, this study is to indicate the use of multimodal metaphors such as audio-visual avatars in e-government interfaces; to increase the user performance of communications and to reduce information overload and lack of trust that is common with many e-government interfaces. However, only a minority of empirical studies has been focused on assessing the role of audio-visual metaphors in e-government. Therefore, the subject of this thesis’ investigation was the use of novel combinations of multimodal metaphors in the presentation of messaging content to produce an evaluation of these combinations’ effects on the users’ communication performance as well as the usability of e-government interfaces and perception of trust. The thesis outlines research comprising three experimental phases. An initial experiment was to explore and compare the usability of text in the presentation of the messaging content versus recorded speech and text with graphic metaphors. The second experimental was to investigate two different styles of incorporating initial avatars versus the auditory channel. The third experiment examined a novel approach around the use of speaking avatars with human-like facial expressions, obverse speaking avatars full body gestures during the presentation of the messaging content to compare the usability and communication performance as well as the perception of trust. The achieved results demonstrated the usefulness of the tested metaphors to enhance e-government usability, improve the performance of communication and increase users’ trust. A set of empirically derived ground-breaking guidelines for the design and use of these metaphors to generate more usable e-government interfaces was the overall provision of the results.

Thesis (M.A. Political Science and Public Policy)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed April 1, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. [92-100])

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Comparative Literature, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Orientador: Nelyse Apparecida Melro Salzedas / Banca: Ângelo Sottovia Aranha / Banca: Suely Fadul Vilibor Flory / Resumo: Uma nova ideologia comunicacional caracteriza o nosso tempo. Necessário se faz refletir, cautelosamente, a esfera da informação e o domínio cultural da comunicação. A presente dissertação destaca, como bases do discurso da comunicação, o discurso histórico e o literário, tão bem defendidos por Baccega (1998). Lança, como constelação temática, um caminho crítico da poesia percorrido pelo jornalista-escritor José Castello, levantando a questão: qual a fronteira entre o jornalista e o escritor? Questiona se há mesmo um abismo intransponível entre o jornalismo factual e o jornalismo especializado em literatura. Desenha um caminho, em que se manifesta uma feliz convivência: jornalismo e literatura, no qual a palavra, desafiada, aceita o combate. Privilegia a estética da recepção, metodologia a abrir caminhos, caminhos esses escudados nas obras de Jauss (1979), Iser (1996), Jouve (2002), Perrone-Moisés (1973), Ravoux-Rallo (1993). Elege o Caderno Cultural (Caderno 2) de O Estado de S. Paulo para análise do cruzamento contemplado. Aponta a leitura crítica como uma prática indispensável, para que o leitor se transforme em historiador do cotidiano e sujeito de sua própria história, condições imprescindíveis à formação do cidadão crítico. Pontua a questão do Jornalismo/Literatura como ampla e complexa e busca demonstrar a importância dos "segundos cadernos" e sua interação com o leitor. Revela assim a fronteira permeável entre jornalismo periódico e literatura, como um modo de avançar na complexidade, sem renunciar à unidade, sem desrespeitar as quatro razões de ser do jornalismo: informar, interpretar, orientar e entreter. / Abstract: Our present days are characterized by a new communicational ideology, thus it is necessary to consider curefully both the information range and the cultural field of communication. This actual dissertation highlights, as the basics of the communication speech, the historical speech and the Literary one, so well supported by Baccega (1998). It also sets, us a thematic constellation, a critical path of the journalist-writer José Castelloþs poetry, raising the issue: what is the boundary between the journalist and the writer? It puts in question if there is really un unbridgeable abyss between the factual journalism and the one specialized in Literature. It outlines a path in which a happy companionship is revealed: journalism and Literature and here the word, still defied, accepts the combat. It favors the aesthetic of the reception, this methodology still about to open ways which are well cared in the works of Jauss (1979), Iser (1996), Jouve (2002), Perrone-Moisés (1973), Ravoux-Rallo (1993). It chooses the Cultural Pages of "O Estado de São Paulo" (Section 2) for an analysis of such observed crossing. It points out the critical reading as an indispensable practice so that the reader can turn into a historian of his daily living and master of his own history, such conditions considered quite vital to the critical citizen building up. It depicts the Journalism/Literature issue as something ample and complex and it tries to demonstrate the importance of the "section twos" and its interaction with the reader. It reveals in this manner the allowing passage between the periodical journalism and Literature as a way of progressing in the complexity, without renouncing unity, without disrespecting the four reasons for making journalism, that is: to inform, to interpret, to give guidance and to entertain. / Mestre