kommunikation.medien ist das eJournal des Fachbereichs Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Salzburg.

"Mutantfrog Travelogue smartly pointed out that repetitive questions aren't only limited to nationality or race, but also profession. I'm sure doctors get asked the same questions over and over and over again. I always try to take the questions and remarks in good stride—sometimes there are jerks, because, well, there are jerks everywhere."

Extrafeet, Inc., announced today that some exciting new features have been added to their location aware game, "Plan X: Global Domination". Plan X now has a complete messaging system, providing users with two-way threaded chats, the ability to "blast" notes to multiple players at once (in your league), and many more tools that make the game more social, like strengthening the communication process between friends and enemies. Plan X combines virtual collectable cards with location-aware gaming.

the Out to Dinner project, an initiative aiming to bridge the gap between LGBT Americans and those still on the fence when it comes to matters of LGBT rights by bringing them together to share a meal.

lesenswertes von Unternehmen, Sprache, Glaubwürdigkeit – Corporate Speech; & Wordings #pr #communication

"Comprehensive yet accessible, this key Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the fast growing and increasingly important area of ‘public communication of science and technology’, from both research and practical perspectives."

"A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed."

"One analogy I always liked to tell hearing people: Imagine if you lived in a world of telepaths, where everybody could communicate with each other except for you."

In the New York Times Magazine this weekend, Jennifer Kahn took a hard look at a mental disorder so disturbing that dealing with it honestly is incredibly rare: psychopathy. Many people probably aren't even aware that "psychopath" isn't just a term for someone with a crappy personality, but is a disorder that's believed to be biological in origin, where the sufferer just basically can't feel empathy. Kahn focused on the parents of fledgling psychopaths, parents whose situation should cause extreme sympathy, since attempts to treat this condition have largely been fruitless. from comments: "...have you ever met a psychopath? I'm betting that you have, you just didn't know it at the time. They can be very good at "playing human".

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