The graffiti in the men’s toilets tends to be more competitive while in the women’s it is more supportive.
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From crude drawing to advice and support, the scrawlings on toilet walls reveal differing communication patterns between the sexes
Latin American communication scholar Antonio Pasquali warned us of many of today’s social challenges.
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The writings of Venezuelan scholar Antonio Pasquali contain warnings about how we communicate today.
Internet accessibility in Africa is hampered by high prices.
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African countries are among the lowest internet speed but it has the most expensive communication and internet costs.
News outlets sometimes use hashtags to promote their stories.
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When news stories include a catchy hashtag, readers perceived the news topic to be less socially important and more partisan.
Communications systems after a disaster can be affected by behaviour such as the number of times a person tries to access emergency systems.
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Communications networks are a crucial part of any disaster planning. Resilient communications systems determine how effective emergency responses can be.
A good scream can stop us in our tracks.
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The human scream – a response we share with our primate relatives – is more nuanced than you might think.
Between email, Slack and social media, you may need three devices to handle all the interruptions.
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Interruptions are inevitable – but how they happen matters.
On paper, lives were lived, trysts arranged, manifestos mailed and wars waged.
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Will there ever be an electronic equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ or Émile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse!’?
High surf in Vero Beach, Fla. in advance of Hurricane Dorian.
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Social media make it easier to push information out quickly during disasters, but also create challenges for public information officers, who have to judge which reports are credible enough to share.
Boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor engage in some verbal sparring prior to their 2017 bout.
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Whether it frustrates or motivates your opponent can depend on the situation.
What factors contribute to some places having many, while other places have few?
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Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn’t look for one worldwide explanation.
Knowing the right strategies can help parents of children with autism spectrum disorder boost their children’s communication skills.
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Specialists offer a series of tips on how parents of children with autism spectrum disorder can help their children communicate with more people and in different places.
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We haven’t heard anything from alien civilisations, but perhaps they’ve heard us.
A firefly’s light is part of its mating strategy.
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For many people, the gentle blinks of fireflies flashing are a favorite part of summer evenings. An entomologist explains some lightning bug basics.
Gestures and emoji don’t break down into smaller parts, nor do they easily combine into larger words or sentences.
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Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language.
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Successful communication is about understanding feelings.
Conflict can make us lose sight of common goals and interests.
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To solve our global problems we must learn to think beyond our tribes.
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How intrusive can you be when helping someone speak to a doctor?
Despite our differences, when it comes to babies, we communicate the same way all over the world.
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Research suggests that parents and babies communicate in remarkably similar ways despite striking variation in cultural practices.
You have a lot of work to do before you step up to the mic.
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Connecting with an audience in a productive way can mean first figuring out what they think, feel and believe before you start sharing your message.