Gloria M. Boone

Ramon Llull, a thirteenth century Catalan philosopher and theologican developed a rhetorical and theological system based on the divine attributes of God as recognized and taught by Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. In an age characterized by religious intolerance, he developed an art of persuasion to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity. The spiritual rhetoric of conversion of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) offered a unique intercultural synthesis of Arabic and Christian, Classical and Scholastic views of moralizing and speaking about God. Ramon Llull was a thirteenth century Catalan philosopher, theologian, rhetorician and missionary who sought to develop an art of disputation and persuasion that would convert the Muslims. Jews, Tartars and others to Christianity. In an age of great intolerance and brutality, he proposed a system of conversion-based persuasion consisting of: 1) the study and use of the language and styles of Islam and other Oriental languages; 2) the common ground pr...

As mobile communication becomes more pervasive, there is an increasing need to study the potential uses of wireless organizational communication. The difficulty in analyzing information and communication technology (ICT) in organizational communication is the unintentional split between information processes perspectives and human communication perspectives in the discussions of workplace techno logy. By merging two constructs, organizational informatics and organizational sensemaking, this paper develops a communicative organizational informatics (COI) framework, which provides a robust perspective on how people communicate through the uses of techno logy in organizational settings. This communicative informatics framework offers a powerful lens to study the meanings, understandings, uses and gratifications, and potentials of technology in organizations and how it can facilitate workplace communication. A COI analysis of a personal digital assistant (PDA), a Palm VII, with a live w...

Resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies on gender equality, health care, race relations, the environment, and immigration has been large, widespread, and persistent. Following President Trump’s election, millions of people across the United States protested, creatively using slogans, signs, costumes, chants, and songs. Others engaged in resistance with online videos, songs, memes, and hashtags. By employing the communicative informatics model, we examine the relationship between online communication and the creative and active audience involved in U.S. political resistance in 2017.

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En los 90 los consumidores asociaban la publicidad on line con banners, pop-up y publicidad a través de e-mail. Hoy en dıa, la publicidad on line está surgiendo como un componente muy atractivo de marketing y esta experimentado unos niveles de crecimiento importantes en ...

Individuals are active audience members that use Internet-based social media technologies to create and negotiate social action in online spaces. Communicative informatics is the key to constructing, describing or critiquing social media. Communicative informatics is the discovery of the audience, text/image, technology, negotiated place relationships that create symbolic meaning. Four propositions focus on the communication of the audience: 1) the audience is active; 2) the audience is creative; 3) the audience interacts with technology and 4) place is negotiated in online communication.

Background and Objective: The nature of health communication is changing as people increasingly seek health information on the internet. The objective of this study was to investigate how hospital websites utilize a variety of e-health tools; online communication technologies such as social media, video, podcasts, and interactive formats.
Methods: An inductive content analysis was performed on the websites of 14 top-ranked US hospitals from January 5, 2011 to February 28, 2011. A total of 1,330 web pages were analyzed to identify the types of online communication technologies utilized by hospitals to provide e-patients with health information.
Findings: The findings provided an exploratory look at how hospitals provide web-based health information to patients. All hospitals used social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. Most hospitals offered web-based broadcasting of health information. Online health tools such as body mass index (BMI) calculators and health dictionaries were also a common website feature. Less frequently employed were mobile applications, hospital-patient interaction tools and health blogs.
Implications: The convergence of interactive media formats with web-based communication tools will likely enhance e-patient education and promote patient involvement in ways that alter traditional health care interactions, and may lead to enhanced levels of participatory medicine.

This study explores the nature and extent of Spanish language translation of hospital websites. A quantitative content analysis of 121 U.S. hospital websites located in Hispanic communities was conducted. Results indicate that a significant number of U.S. hospitals fail on their websites to offer equal content for Spanish language users. The study also examines several factors potentially associated with the incidence of website translation. First, organizational factors such as hospital size, ownership type and formal statements of diversity commitment are investigated. Second, demographic factors such as county population size and Hispanic population size are also considered. Hispanics' use of the Internet, the digital divide, culture's impact on Internet use, and eHealth provide a background for discussion of the findings.

After decades of censorship and oppression, Glasnost has allowed religious freedom, expression, and public relations. Soviet media now cover religious press conferences, debates, special events, sermons, evangelical videos, and religious rock operas.

Publikationsansicht. 3284962. The Reform rhetoric of Samuel Seabury of New York :--the battle against Tammany Hall and municipal corruption. (1982). Boone, Gloria M. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio University, June, 1982. Details der Publikation. ...

AbstRAct An extended version of the technology acceptance model (TAM) is applied to study hospital Web sites, one specific area of e-health. In a review of literature, five significant factors from TAM research are identified that are logically related to e-health ...

From a three-step analysis of online communities, a set of five heuristics emerged: interactive creativity; selection hierarchy; identity construction; rewards and costs; and, artistic forms. These heuristics were generated from concepts appearing in past research, and then tested by a ...