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The advent of the internet is the essential factor which had a direct impact on communication. Although many studies have sought to explain and predict the effects of communication on the consumer, however there aren't many systematic studies that explore the effects of the cultural, social, political, technological and economic environment on communication. A descriptive research was conducted by an approach aimed to understand a phenomenon through a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods. Our main contribution is to explore the changes that have occurred on communication in the Middle East particularly in Lebanon in the past 15 years. From the exploration of the development that took place, as well as the effects and aspects of these changes, we were able to create a new model of communication. The new circular model of communication puts in the hands of the advertising and higher education industries, a new model of communication.

The purpose of this article was to analyse the concept of public diplomacy from the perspective of communication actors. Public diplomacy implies the communication between state and non-state actors and the foreign public, and the process of informing, influencing, establishing long-term relations and realizing foreign policy goals. While most studies to date view such communication activities as social interactions, some scholars consider them to be foreign policy activities, in which case the concept of public diplomacy is explained in terms of an interdisciplinary approach. Through the critical literature review, this article argues that public diplomacy shows the interaction between different communication stakeholders and the foreign public, where the former give direct messages and often achieve the desired effects through communication channels. By analysing public diplomacy activities carried out by communication actors, the article concludes that the concept of public diplomacy is clearly defined and more structured in communication sciences.

Do digitally mediated weak-tie appeals to engage in connective action have the same effect everywhere? This study argues that the effect of weak-tie action appeals is contingent on citizenship norms and corresponding social network dynamics such that citizens in countries with higher levels of engaged norms are more likely to be motivated to endorse protest posts than those in countries with lower levels of engaged norms. To demonstrate this, I draw on an original cross-national survey experiment, the results of which show that digitally mediated weak-tie appeals to engage in protest have a more strongly positive effect on motivation to endorse the appeal among Koreans than Japanese respondents. Furthermore, the impact of weak-tie appeals exhibits considerable sensitivity to social network heterogeneity among Japanese respondents. The results of this study suggest that, although technology may in principle empower horizontal networks of citizens, its effect is contingent on norms of political behavior.

This paper addresses the construction of the concepts of populism and anti-populism and their metaphorical realisations in British news discourse, and specifically in the Daily Mail and The Guardian, in 2016, a crucial year for populist politics. The analysis of two corpora made of articles from the two newspapers is based on the methodology offered by Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Approach to Critical Metaphor Analysis. The metaphors of populism emerging from the analysis highlight a substantially standardised use of the metaphor POPULISM IS (UPWARD) MOVEMENT, both for populists and anti-populists, but with diverging evaluations. The authors argue that metaphors play a key role in orienting the public perception of populism based on shared modes of understanding social and political life.

In Zeiten von twitternden US-Präsidenten, Shitstorms, Cybermobbing und Fake-News, verbreitet über die beinahe omnipräsenten sozialen Medien, fällt die politische Meinungsbildung zunehmend schwerer. Erst recht, wenn Politiker die neuen Möglichkeiten ungefilterter, beliebig skalierbarer Online-Kommunikation für populistische Agitation nutzen. Die vorliegende Publikation geht der Frage nach, ob soziale Medien Populismus befördern und damit die Polarisierung politischer Diskurse begünstigen. Dafür wird die Twitter-Kommunikation aller Bundestagsabgeordneten im Vorfeld der Europawahl 2019 mittels kritischer Diskursanalyse nach Siegfried Jäger (2012) untersucht, wobei das Untersuchungsinstrument um ein neu entwickeltes, auf soziale Medien zugeschnittenes Analyseinstrument zur Erkennung von Elementen des populistischen Diskurses erweitert wird.

There is always a considerable debate in the UK and the US about the health of military veterans. Data from representative opinion polls and surveys conducted in the last three decades highlight a persistent set of beliefs about military veterans, held by members of UK and US societies. The majority of British and American respondents think that veterans are more likely to experience disability, ill mental-health, unemployment and homelessness than members of the civilian population. Some of these negative perceptions are accurate for US veterans, since, compared to civilians, they are statistically more likely to struggle with physical and mental health issues and be homeless. However, such perceptions are erroneous for the majority of British veterans.