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Participation has regained a remarkable presence in the academic debates within Communication and Media Studies, amongst other fields and disciplines. At the same time, the concept of participation has remained vague because of its frequent and diverse usages and its intrinsically political nature, which renders it difficult to use in an academic context. Conceptual clarity is generated through a combination of negative-relationist and interdisciplinary strategies. The former means that an argument is made in favour of a more focussed meaning of participation, on the basis of a comparison with two other concepts, access and interaction. The interdisciplinary strategy consists of a broad theoretical re-reading that focuses on the academic literature where these distinctions are made, or where the independent nature of one of the three concepts is particularly emphasized. At the end of this text, the different meanings of access, interaction and participation are structured, and integrated in a model, which is labelled the AIP model. ; Le web 2.0 a redonné au concept de participation une pertinence pourles études sur les médias et sur la communication. La participation est fréquemmentemployée dans les textes académiques à propos des réalités médiatées et plus précisémentdans celles liées aux médias en ligne. Cet engouement éprouvé par les chercheurss'accompagne souvent d'un manque d'élaboration théorique du concept de participation,ce qui fragilise les recherches empiriques portant sur les pratiques participatives dans et àtravers les médias. Ce chapitre se propose de renforcer l'ossature théorique du conceptde participation par l'utilisation d'un point de vue négativo-relativiste et interdisciplinairepermettant de distinguer accès, interaction et participation. La mise en débat définitionnellepermet de mettre en évidence le lien étroit existant entre participation, pouvoir et prisede décisions, tandis que l'accès et l'interaction sont envisagés comme des conditionspréalables à la participation. La comparaison conceptuelle mène au développement dumodèle aip permettant de cartographier les différentes significations des concepts d'accès,d'interaction et de participation.

This paper reports on a rich, qualitative research study that aimed to discover how undergraduate and culturally diverse students experienced a collaborative, international, online, experiential project to learn about intercultural communication. Student participants in the study endorsed experiential learning in culturally diverse groups about intercultural communication through intercultural communication. The data revealed how participants made sense of and responded to intercultural communication amongst team members by juxtaposing personal experience of working in the online international learning group, their own cultural heritage and the literature available to them. The author concludes that experiential learning is a powerful tool for learning about intercultural communication through intercultural communication in the context of online, international and culturally diverse teams working on business case studies. It is also recommended as an activity that serves the process of internationalising a business communication curriculum and some of the broad aims of global citizenship.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Themes in Politics and the Media -- 1 Media, Politics and Democracy -- 2 Media History -- 3 Political Economy of the Media -- 4 The State and Propaganda -- 5 Journalists and Journalism -- 6 Politicians, Journalists and Spin -- 7 Media, Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- 8 Media, Conflict and Peace -- 9 How Politics and Media are Researched -- 10 Effects of the Media on Citizens and Politicians -- 11 The Political Impact of Media Framing -- 12 The Power of Online Politics -- Part 2: Politics and the Media in New Zealand -- 13 Media Coverage of New Zealand Elections: 2008-14 -- 14 Politicians, Party Professionals and the Media in New Zealand -- 15 The Political Role of New Zealand Newspapers -- 16 Radio and Politics in New Zealand -- 17 The Political Role of Television in New Zealand -- 18 Online Media in New Zealand -- 19 Māori, Media and Politics -- 20 New Zealand Media Coverage of Women and Women Politicians -- Contributors -- Index -- Copyright Page.

The Director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois discusses the nature of information theory and some of its possible applications to research on mass communications. There is an appendix on formulas, how to compute them, and suggested readings.

Language is the most pervasive means of human communication. Drawing on research in communication and in the language sciences, the Handbook presents a rich picture of verbal communication addressing how explicit and implicit meanings are negotiated in conversations, arguments and narratives, covering the media and contexts of verbal communication, the impact of cultural and linguistic diversity and the assessment of verbal communication quality. Louis de Saussure, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Andrea Rocci, University of Lugano, Switzerland.