Essays about: "kinds of communication theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words kinds of communication theory.

  1. 1. The state of social media usage to fight malnutrition among children under the age of five years in Tanzania

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Debora Mbilinyi; [2023]
    Keywords : social media; nutrition literacy; malnutrition; behavior change communication; social media usage;

    Abstract : This study has evaluated how Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC), a government institution overseeing nutrition, uses social media to enhance the nutrition literacy of caregivers and parents of children under the age of five years. The study contributes to knowledge on how Tanzania’s resource-constrained health sector’s nutrition communication can benefit from social media by answering the following research questions: Which social media platforms and features does TFNC use to share nutrition knowledge pertaining to children under the age of five years? What kinds of nutrition knowledge pertaining to children under the age of five years does TFNC share on social media? How is nutrition knowledge pertaining to children under the age of five years posted on TFNC social media pages packaged? And, how frequently is nutrition knowledge pertaining to children under the age of five years repeated on TFNC social media pages? These questions have been answered from a social-behavioral change communication perspective that has combined the Media Ecology Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior. READ MORE

  2. 2. Multi-robot coordination and planning with human-in-the-loop under STL specifications : Centralized and distributed frameworks

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Yixiao Zhang; [2023]
    Keywords : Multi-agent systems; Human-in-the-loop systems; Signal temporal logic; Cooperative control; ROS Implementation; Multi-agent-system; Människa-i-loop-system; Signaltemporallogik; Samarbetande styrning; ROS-implementering;

    Abstract : Recent urbanization and industrialization have brought tremendous pressure and challenges to modern autonomous systems. When considering multiple complex tasks, cooperation and coordination between multiple agents can improve efficiency in a system. READ MORE

  3. 3. Control Barrier Functions for Formation Control of Leader-follower Multi-agent Systems

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Tianrun Sun; [2023]
    Keywords : Multi-agent System; Leader-follower System; Formation Control; Control Barrier Function; Connectivity Maintenance; Multi-agent-system; Leader-follower-system; Formations Kontroll; Kontroll Barriär Funktion; Underhåll av Anslutningsmöjligheter;

    Abstract : This thesis studies formation control for a class of general leader-follower multi-agent systems with Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) such that connectivity maintenance is fulfilled for all the neighboring agents. In leader-follower multi-agent systems, only the leader agents are controlled by the externally designed input, while the followers are guided through their dynamic couplings with the neighboring agents. READ MORE

  4. 4. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

  5. 5. An E-sport team's communication with their fans in social media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikation

    Author : Jakob Ernstsson; [2022]
    Keywords : E-sports; team Alliance; Social Media; Fans; Followers; Participatory culture; Convergence culture; Twitter; Semi-Structured Interviews; Text analyses.;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore the social media-communication between the E-sport team Team Allliance and their fans, and doing so with the perspective of Jenkins basic theory on Convergence Culture, also called Participatory Culture, and within this theory-concept, researchers J. Sanderson and J.W. READ MORE