Communications Media
Engineering and research-driven innovations in the field of communications are addressed here, in addition to business developments in the field of media-wide communications.
innovations-report offers informative reports and articles related to interactive media, media management, digital television, E-business, online advertising and information and communications technologies.
Peer-review science is taking off on Twitter, but who is tweeting what and why?
She and her colleagues from the US, UK and Germany took 1.4 million articles held in the PubMed and Web of Science databases and determined how many times they…
UMass Amherst researcher quantifies the effectiveness of video ads
Online video is a “killer application” of the Internet, predicted to soon make up 86 percent of consumer traffic on the web, says computer science researcher…
What makes telenovelas so popular?
“Stories have the power to change people's behavior,” write authors Tom van Laer (ESCP Europe Business School), Ko de Ruyter (Maastricht University), Luca M….
A step up in wavelength
Millimeter waves are a type of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 0.1 and 10 millimeters long. Because they are susceptible to…
The european project "digital.me" opens its code
The EU’s “digital.me” project brings Fraunhofer IAO together with seven research and industry partners to develop a system for user-controlled social networks…
Social status and power of action of speakers determine the way their statements are perceived
The actual standing of speakers within a society's power structure determines how their statements are perceived. This is the conclusion reached in a joint…