Peter R. Monge (Publications)

Peter R. Monge. USC. Annenberg School of Communication.
Publications

cabemos todos, os necesitamos a todos

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Join the Spanish revolution

Internet: Promoter of political activity by the citizens.

No doubt Internet is more than a media because allow us to communicate but also to communicate between us. Therefore, integrates the functions of diferent devices as television, telephone and mail but furthering their possibilities and capacities.

As happens with a product, which is not just a product, but also a type of behaviour practice,interest, Internet is not just technology, is also the culture which is emebeded into it, and into its different developments and by using them, all can have a voice, all can be in touch and build projects and initiatives born collectively.

Social media, network sites, individuals who create their own blogs, twitters, facebooks, linkediln. Individuals can now talk more freely and, the most important, they can join their effort to achieve a common purpose. The type of political participation performed by users in the virtual sphere emerges by endorsing the meaning which Aristotles gave to politic, understanding it as dialogue, a way for saying which is unfair and which is fair and has utterance by the performance of several actions that users are enabled to achieve as being informed, communicating, associating with others, demanding transparency, identifying the responsible of certain actions with more ease, reducing bureaucracy or communicating by anonymity

Knowing all that is happening now at Spain, I remember with a sense of hapiness a text I wrote, with enthusiam, in 2006 for participating at the IV Congress of Cibersociety. This text aimed to present Internet as a great motivator for the development of political communication done by citizens.

On it I identified seven of the features which makes Internet a very adequate device for motivating the participation of citizens at politic debate. This text encouraged a great online debat with participants about the participation of the society at political sphere, by using the Internet. Razon y Palabra published also the text in its 54 number.

Internet: Impulsor de la Actividad Política por parte de la Ciudadanía,Internet: Promoter of political activity by the citizens. Seven Actions that qualifies it. Razón y Palabra, 54, ISSN: 1605-4806. Razón y Palabra, 54. and it is cited in the following works:

La esfera pública en la blogosfera política ecuatoriana, by Consuelo Albornoz y María Belén Albornoz. Flasco, ecuador, 2010

Cambios en los modos de representación política (Universidad Javeriana)


All issues exposed in that text are alive. Spanish citizens claim for a reform of the electoral law, which beneficiates to the big parties and marginalizes to the small ones. The alternance in the government of the big parties facillitates the corruption and its protection. Now, spanish citizens are expressing not just their disconformity with the government but also a demand, which is based on common sense: the need of making a change in the electoral law, for allowing small parties to have more representants. This, implies, of course, doing changes in the Constitution.

Something must change (Electoral law, Constitution) for nothing continue as is.

Algo debe cambiar para que nada siga como está.

W. Charles Redding (April 13, 1914 – June 10, 1994)

W. Charles Redding(April 13, 1914 – June 10, 1994)

Reframing Online Games: Synthetic Worlds as Media for Organizational Communication

Schultze, U. & Rennecker, J. (2007) "Reframing Online Games: Synthetic Worlds as Media for Organizational Communication," in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol 236, Virtuality and Virtualization, K. Crowston, S. Sieber & E. Wynne (Eds), Springer: Boston, pp. 335-351.

Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime launch video

Organizational Communication, by Kathryn A. Baker, 2002

Organizational Communication, by Kathryn A. Baker, 2002

interpersonal/group communication

Rethinking Organizational & Managerial Communication from Feminist perspectives, by Patrice M. Buzzanell

Rethinking Organizational & Managerial Communication from Feminist perspectives, by Patrice M. Buzanell, 2004

Hanging out in the virtual pub: masculinities and relationships online, by Lori Kendall, 2002

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?, by Guy Deutscher

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?, by Guy Deutscher. August, 26, 2010.

William Gibson, in an interview with Dan Josefsson (1995)

William Gibson, in an interview with Dan Josefsson (1995)

Corporate Training in Virtual Worlds

Corporate Training in Virtual Worlds, by Charles NEBOLSKY, Nicholas K. YEE, Valery A. PETRUSHIN, Anatole V. GERSHMAN

communication types at Second Life

The Rules of Virtual Groups: Trust, Linking and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication

The Rules of Virtual Groups: Trust, Linking and Performance in Computer-Mediated Communication, by Joseph B Walther and Ulla Bunz. Journal of Communication. December,2001.
Rule 1. Get started right away.
Rule 2. Communicate frequently.
Rule 3. Multitask getting organized and doing substantive work simultaneously.
Rule 4. Overtly acknowledge that you have read one another´s messages.
Rule 5. Be explicit about what you are thinking and doing.
Rule 6. Set deadlines and stick to them.

Toward an Integrative Theoretical Perspective on Organizational Membership Negotiations: Socialization, Assimilation, and the Duality of Structure

Toward an Integrative Theoretical Perspective on Organizational Membership Negotiations: Socialization, Assimilation, and the Duality of Structure, by Clifton Scott and Karen Myers. Communication Theory 20 (2010) 79–105 © 2010 International Communication Association

Learning Agency Network Virtual Office

Creating Engagement in Virtual Meetings and Distance Training

VenueGen Whitepaper Engagement

Knowledge Communication

Fostering Knowledge Communication. Concept And Implementation
Rüdiger Reinhardt & Beate Stattkus, Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 8, no. 5 (2002), 536-545

The Concept of Knowledge Communication and Its Relevance to
Management, by Martin J. Eppler, USI Research Note, July 2006, Version 2.2

Knowledge Communication in Design Communities, by Gerhard Fischer and Jonathan Ostwald
Published in: in Rainer Bromme, Friedrich Hesse and Hans Spada (ed.), Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication, 1-32. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.

Knowledge, communication and creativity,(2007) by Arnaud Sales & Marcel Fournier

Barriers and Biases in Computer Mediated Knowledge Communication and how they may be overcome (2005), Edited by Rainer Bromme, Friedich W. Hesse and Hans Spada.