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How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?
Money & Business

How is new organisational knowledge created in a virtual context?

...communication, into virtual contexts of communication. Through close analysis of the ICT-mediated dialogical interactions between the members of a project team and the occasional face-to-face interactions between certain members of the project team and other organizational members, we show how knowledge creation emerges via three core dialogical processes: dialogues with...
Adventure in the Amazon
Nature & Environment

Adventure in the Amazon

...which empowers local indigenous communities in the North Rupununi to promote their own community solutions to current and emerging challenges. Our aim is to promote local indigenous solutions to current and emerging challenges through the use of accessible information and communication technologies. Visit Project COBRA to see how you can help support this initiative....
The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story
Society, Politics & Law

The Heidelberg Project: A Detroit Story

...community? Over the course of the last century Detroit moved from being the epicentre of the automotive industry to becoming the embodiment of America’s urban woes. Deindustrialization, disinvestment and White flight have left much of the city a mere shadow of its heyday when Ford’s factory alone employed over 90,000 workers. In this collection we explore the last 50...
Cyborgs and cybernetics
Science, Maths & Technology

Cyborgs and cybernetics

...communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading University, cyborgs are a technological evolutionary step forward from humans. With increasingly intelligent robots and nano-technologies, can man keep up with the machines? This material forms part of The Open University course T209 Information and communication technologies:...
The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
OpenLearn Ireland

The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s

...community life and farming and the development of manufacturing industry in the West of Ireland...Explore the articles in this collection . The period of the 1950s to 1980s was the beginning of modernisation in community life and farming and the development of manufacturing industry. Much of this was due to the work of Father James McDyer who was appointed curate to...
Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...communication Albert Mehrabian (1972) first proposed that only a small percentage of communication is words spoken (7%) and further studies have shown that 65% to 93% consist of nonverbal cues (e.g., Bonaccio et al., 2016). Therefore, vocal elements, such as tone, plus facial expressions, eye contact, attentiveness and posture have much more of an impact than we may...
The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...communities or communal living situations where a space is set up along certain principles and people who share those values are encouraged to join. Of course the recent economic situation provides one important reason why there may be an increase in people looking to live in such ways. An alternative to adult children remaining at home, or retired parents moving in with...
The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...communication technologies, there’s been speculation in some places that language as we know it may become obsolete in the near future!...This short animation examines how social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture...