The Transformative Capacity of Communication: Integrative Communicative Acts Across the Communicative Spectrum of Civil Society

Abstract

The Transformative Capacity of CommunicationThe communicative spectrum of civil society spans a variety of different forms of communication-both mediated and non-mediated. The latter includes for example negotiations and discussion groups, speeches, debate, deliberation and dialogue whereas the former subsumes the factual and fictional mass media as much as the arts which are conceived of here in all of their diversity and spanning the different categories of the visual, literary, performing and design. Often, the communicative spectrum of civil society is dominated by multiple mass media channels simply because advances in communication technology have taken content and reconfigured and commodified it to fit myriad forms of digital distribution. At the same time, digital technology has broadened the platforms from which it can operate. But it is important to remember that the arts fulfil an equally important role. With this in mind, the communicative spectrum of civil society can be defined to include non-mediated communication in all its forms, news journalism, citizen journalism, participatory media, social media, (community) radio, literature, biography, poetry as well as audio-visual media such as cinema, documentary,

News Hotspot Event Diffusion Mechanism Based on Complex Network

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