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Communication in social media. A new source of power : Based on the posts and comments about sustainability on Zara and H&M’s Facebook accountsGonzález, María Mercedes January 2017 (has links)
The development of communication technology has also created new structures, able to challenge the traditional power roles of the communicative process. Social media have become a fruitful arena of this change due to their users having the possibility to respond to the producers’ messages. Thus, the traditional lineal structure turns to an interactional one and consequently, the lines become blurred between the roles of the dominant and dominated as assumed by the senders/producers and the receivers respectively. Controversial issues shed light on this ‘battle for power’, such as the sustainability actions and reporting of Zara and H&M. These companies are the leaders of the fast fashion industry; one of the most ‘unsustainable’ fields. Through a critical discourse analysis of the posts that the companies launch on their Facebook-sponsored accounts as well as the comments related to sustainability that they obtain from their users, the communicative process occurring in social media can be assessed. The aim of this analysis is to provide an insight into how the communicative process between sender and receiver in social media creates public opinion and affects the development of sustainability discourse. It has been shown that users have found in social media a powerful tool to challenge the companies’ power: they can comment on the informative product in question. Also the users have taken the sustainability discourse as the required ‘object’ when questioning a product’s reliability. The latter is in some way another means with which to challenge the companies’ power.
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The word amongst us : a descriptive study of the perceptions of communication problems in a traditionally hierarchical organisation moving to a more lateral form of collaborative ministryMcKenzie, Monica M., n/a January 1990 (has links)
This paper attempts to isolate some implications for secondary and
adult education emerging from an exploratory study of perceived
effective interactional communication in a religious organisation.
Leaders of the local parishes of the Catholic Church in Australia are in
the process of moving from the traditional basic communication
structure of an hierarchical model to the lateral and collaborative
interaction of a more participative model of management.
This descriptive study records the perceptions of a sample of parish
workers in the Church throughout Australia as they describe some of the
problems they experienced in communication processes and attempted to
identify the reason why these problems emerged. In doing so, they also
identified the more effective communication processes emerging in this
new form of pastoral ministry. They listed a number of attitudes which
they believed would lead to greater communication effectiveness and
without which genuine constructive communication usually does not
take place (Carl Rogers 1957 in Bolton, 1983 p. 259). The media and
written communication are not explored, except in their relation to
effective meeting procedures. Verbal and non-verbal communication
amongst people interacting with one another in the interpersonal
organisational setting is the focus of this work.
The findings of this study point in the short term, to the need for
empowering people engaged in pastoral work with the necessary skills
of effective communication processes. In the long term, the paper
proposes the need for continuing educational emphasis on communication
skills especially in secondary schools when students move towards a
more personalised form of self-assertion.
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