{"title":"Teacher returnees from overseas programs in the west: a narrative study in Vietnam","authors":"Ngoc Tung Vu, Thi Mai Huong Ta, Thi Thu Huong Le","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1311179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1311179","url":null,"abstract":"In this narrative inquiry research, our focus was on exploring teacher identity within the context of the expanding field of language teacher education and professional development. Utilizing theories of teacher identities to analyze data from interviews and reflections, we observed that conversations and stories were frequently shared in social settings, with overseas teaching practices being a substantial influence on their reflections. The findings indicated that the participants' teacher identities continually changed and dynamically evolved, particularly influenced by their engagement in overseas educational programs. Upon their return, participants expressed hope in maintaining their newly transformed perspectives on teaching and learning. In conclusion, we discussed further research directions and implications to underscore the ongoing significance of this topic.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":"29 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139612039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous distributed problem-solving involving visual objects as boundary objects","authors":"Francis Harvey","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2023.1275695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1275695","url":null,"abstract":"Communication involving visualizations in science and applications involves or even requires coordination. Much visualization research focuses on tasks in research or applications and provides valuable insights that help improve these modes and means of communication. That focus and resulting benefits makes a reduction to tasks or defined goals seem amenable for a more thorough consideration of social and cultural aspects. This contribution to the focus topic Insights in Visual Communication suggests that the boundary object concept can greatly help deepen considerations of social and cultural heterogeneity and adds insights and perspectives to better consider social and cultural aspects of visual communication. The theoretical concept of boundary objects, originating in heterogeneous distributed problem solving research, offer a pragmatic basis for enhancing visual communication to improve meaning production. The overarching issue for developing this direction in visual communication can be formulated through a broad question: In heterogeneous situations, how can research enhance communication involving visual objects for problem solving through a consideration of social and cultural aspects? I consider an example of cooperative design of maps to show how research can benefit from a consideration of boundary objects. The example highlights a cooperative mode of visual communication used in decision making involving both explicit and implicit goals and aspects from a cognitive perspective. The potential for improvements and better solutions in visual communication can benefit from a stronger consideration of the boundary objects concept.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 1116","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asha S Winfield, Hope Hickerson, Deshara C. Doub, Ann R. Winfield, Brigitte McPhatter
{"title":"Between Black mothers and daughters: a critical intergenerational duoethnography on the silence of health disparities and hope of loud healing","authors":"Asha S Winfield, Hope Hickerson, Deshara C. Doub, Ann R. Winfield, Brigitte McPhatter","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2023.1185919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1185919","url":null,"abstract":"Black American women's health outcomes have been altered by a number of factors. Those factors include social determinants of health, lack of culturally competent healthcare providers, and generations of medical racism leading to prolonged pain, delayed care, and sometimes, untimely deaths.This original research article centers Southern Black women's lived experiences through family storytelling to explore generations of health narratives in regard to age, region, and at times, their own acts of silence. Building from theorizing on loud healing, two Black daughters turn the mic on for their mothers by engaging in a critical intergenerational double duoethnography to discuss decades of healing over a 3 months long conversation (in person, over the phone, and on video chat).The analysis of the interviews/dialogue between Black mothers and daughters identified several themes connected to loud healing: (1) some healths lessons quietly taught from intergenerational trauma; (2) the silencing of Black matriarchs occurs in generations not just spirals; (3) loud healing is a faith-filled call to action; (4) Mothers and daughters help turn the mic on for each other; (5) Loud healing is visibility and affirming; (6) the body teaches culturally competent lessons; (7) Trusting loud healing to leave the mic on and door open.Our collective and individual lived experiences reveal the very real impacts of culture, identity, and power on Black women's health and storytelling. By interrogating the past with stories, this group of Black mothers and daughters represents three generations of medical erasures, amplification of voice, and the need for loud healing for loud, tangible change.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" September","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Levi, Eva Hauthal, Sagnik Mukherjee, Frank O. Ostermann
{"title":"Visualizing emoji usage in geo-social media across time, space, and topic","authors":"Samantha Levi, Eva Hauthal, Sagnik Mukherjee, Frank O. Ostermann","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1303629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1303629","url":null,"abstract":"Social media is ubiquitous in the modern world and its use is ever-increasing. Similarly, the use of emojis within social media posts continues to surge. Geo-social media produces massive amounts of spatial data that can provide insights into users' thoughts and reactions across time and space. This research used emojis as an alternative to text-based social media analysis in order to avoid the common obstacles of natural language processing such as spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, slang, and sarcasm. Because emojis offer a non-verbal means to express thoughts and emotions, they provide additional context in comparison to purely text-based analysis. This facilitates cross-language studies. In this study, the spatial and temporal usage of emojis were visualized in order to detect relevant topics of discussion within a Twitter dataset that is not thematically pre-filtered. The dataset consists of Twitter posts that were geotagged within Europe during the year 2020. This research leveraged cartographic visualization techniques to detect spatial-temporal changes in emoji usage and to investigate the correlation of emoji usage with significant topics. The spatial and temporal developments of these topics and their respective emojis were visualized as a series of choropleth maps and map matrices. This geovisualization technique allowed for individual emojis to be independently analyzed and for specific spatial or temporal trends to be further investigated. Emoji usage was found to be spatially and temporally heterogeneous, and trends in emoji usage were found to correlate with topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, several political movements, and leisure activities.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":"111 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139616440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk communication: lessons from an ethnographic, pragmatic, and Canadian regulatory perspective","authors":"Y. Bhuller, Colleen C. Trevithick-Sutton","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1235055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1235055","url":null,"abstract":"In a regulatory context, it is important to understand how effective risk communication fits into the overall risk assessment, management, and decision-making process. This includes recognizing the intersections between risk analysis and the 3Ps: policy, politics, and publics, and understanding the barriers to effective communication. Risk communication is especially challenging when it requires the audience to follow and act on authoritative information or advice. Risk communicators must factor attributes such as risk perception, tolerance, and behaviors, and tailor the delivery of messages to diverse audiences. This paper captures the discourse from an intradepartmental workshop on risk communication with participants from Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. The workshop provided an opportunity to discuss and share references to existing frameworks, pertinent documents, and examples of effective risk communication strategies based on the authors' ethnographic and pragmatic experiences. The workshop aimed to strengthen risk communication by better understanding the value in collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, applying a systems thinking lens, and finding opportunities to experiment and evaluate risk communication strategies for regulatory purposes.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139616619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handbook of culture and glocalization, edited by Victor N. Roudometof and Ugo Dessì (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022: pp. 400)","authors":"Paula Muraca","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2023.1304113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1304113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139619700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melanie Conroy, C. Gillmann, Francis Harvey, Tamara Mchedlidze, S. Fabrikant, Florian Windhager, G. Scheuermann, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Christopher N. Warren, Scott B. Weingart, Malte Rehbein, Katy Börner, Kimmo Elo, Stefan Jänicke, A. Kerren, M. Nöllenburg, Tim Dwyer, Øyvind Eide, Stephen Kobourov, Gregor Betz
{"title":"Uncertainty in humanities network visualization","authors":"Melanie Conroy, C. Gillmann, Francis Harvey, Tamara Mchedlidze, S. Fabrikant, Florian Windhager, G. Scheuermann, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Christopher N. Warren, Scott B. Weingart, Malte Rehbein, Katy Börner, Kimmo Elo, Stefan Jänicke, A. Kerren, M. Nöllenburg, Tim Dwyer, Øyvind Eide, Stephen Kobourov, Gregor Betz","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2023.1305137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1305137","url":null,"abstract":"Network visualization is one of the most widely used tools in digital humanities research. The idea of uncertain or “fuzzy” data is also a core notion in digital humanities research. Yet network visualizations in digital humanities do not always prominently represent uncertainty. In this article, we present a mathematical and logical model of uncertainty as a range of values which can be used in network visualizations. We review some of the principles for visualizing uncertainty of different kinds, visual variables that can be used for representing uncertainty, and how these variables have been used to represent different data types in visualizations drawn from a range of non-humanities fields like climate science and bioinformatics. We then provide examples of two diagrams: one in which the variables displaying degrees of uncertainty are integrated/pinto the graph and one in which glyphs are added to represent data certainty and uncertainty. Finally, we discuss how probabilistic data and what-if scenarios could be used to expand the representation of uncertainty in humanities network visualizations.","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139625154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilaria Riccioni, Alessia Bertolazzi, Anna Tereszkiewicz, Magdalena Szczyrbak, Ramona Bongelli
{"title":"Editorial: Uncertainty management during and about the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Ilaria Riccioni, Alessia Bertolazzi, Anna Tereszkiewicz, Magdalena Szczyrbak, Ramona Bongelli","doi":"10.3389/fcomm.2024.1357832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1357832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507157,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Communication","volume":" 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}