The Development of Communication Theory in Political Science

This paper explores media's role in the wake of the 2008 Constituent Assembly (CA) Election in Nepal. The paper will first discuss some important concepts within the field of political science, and then it will move on to incorporate communication theory. After underlining the concepts, the paper will focus on one particular research study focusing on access to information and how this relates to attitude and knowledge among villagers ahead of the 2008 CA election. Finally it will discuss the findings and conclusion. DOI: 10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2810 Bodhi Vol.3(1) 2009 p.35-43

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Strategie dziennikarzy i ich rozmówców w medialnym dyskursie publicznym

10.18778/7525-749-6 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Edyta Pałuszyńska

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

Political Science ◽

Media Studies ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Communication Theory ◽

Text Linguistics ◽

The Public ◽

Communicative Strategies ◽

Linguistic Strategies ◽

Linguistic Activity

The aim of the research was to analyze the texts with the use of communicative strategies. The author defines strategy as a plan of linguistic activity intended to reach a certain goal. The empirical availability of the strategy as a research tool is limited. Therefore, the texts were examined as communicative events (i.e. as – broadly understood – communicative situations, including their institutional, social, and cultural conditionings). The author assumed that linguistic strategies have several aspects: the textual, the interactional, the situational, and the contextual. These aspects serve as a basis for a typology of strategies. The research belongs to the area of text linguistics. The author puts special emphasis on a feature of text called discursiveness. Discursiveness connects the text with the parameters of the public discourse in the mass media. Some elements of the communication theory, media studies, sociology and political science were used to support the analysis of the situational conditionings of the analyzed utterances. The author adopts the genological perspective – she analyzed the texts as realizations of a particular genre. The basic terms used in the dissertation include discourse, situation, context, and strategy. The author uses these terms to construct her own methodology.

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Program—Southern Political Science Association—1939

The Journal of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0022381600092082 ◽

1939 ◽

Vol 1 (03) ◽

pp. 344

Keyword(s):

Political Science ◽

Science Association

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Information and estimation in image processing

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100125142 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 14-17

Author(s):

B. Roy Frieden

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Optical System ◽

Large Amplitude ◽

Communication Theory ◽

Image Data ◽

Direct Approach ◽

Ill Posed

Despite the skill and determination of electro-optical system designers, the images acquired using their best designs often suffer from blur and noise. The aim of an “image enhancer” such as myself is to improve these poor images, usually by digital means, such that they better resemble the true, “optical object,” input to the system. This problem is notoriously “ill-posed,” i.e. any direct approach at inversion of the image data suffers strongly from the presence of even a small amount of noise in the data. In fact, the fluctuations engendered in neighboring output values tend to be strongly negative-correlated, so that the output spatially oscillates up and down, with large amplitude, about the true object. What can be done about this situation? As we shall see, various concepts taken from statistical communication theory have proven to be of real use in attacking this problem. We offer below a brief summary of these concepts.

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