Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM010.
Social norms as concepts of legitimate and appropriate action are basic elements of social coordination and essentially “communication phenomena” (Rimal & Lapinski, 2015, Lapinski & Rimal, 2005). They are negotiated, shaped, understood, learned, and maintained through communication, with mediated public discourses as central forums for the communication and negotiation of norms. Despite...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019COM003.
This dissertation focuses on the online communication and representation of a digital city in Africa: Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon. In particular, it explores the evolution of the web-based reproduction (Couclelis, 2004) of Douala, the largest city of the Republic of Cameroon, from a chronological, spatial and representational perspective, with the purpose of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018COM011.
Wireless networks play an increasingly important role in today’s mobile and interconnected society. People use mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or portable game consoles on a regular basis to interact, retrieve and share information, and to orient and entertain themselves. However, in order to be fully performant these devices need to be connected to the Internet. Thanks to very...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018COM006.
This thesis sets out to explore journalists’ anticipatory reasoning on audience uptake, i.e. on the ways in which the audience will react to news. In order to reach this goal, I conduct an argumentative analysis of various types of newsroom activities. The analysis sheds light on journalists’ reasoning processes concerning audience uptake that lead them to broadcast/publish one certain...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017COM006.
Corporate ethics is a complex field of study that focuses on the sources and role of moral expectations among modern corporate stakeholders. While there has been significant theoretical development and adoption by practitioners on the topic over the past thirty years in the field, ethical scandals persist, almost at unprecedented levels. The pressure to meet short term shareholder financial...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM006.
Augmented reality (AR) technology is becoming increasingly used in marketing as a tool for enhancing consumer experience. Developed and defined in the fields of computer science and human-computer interaction, AR technology simulates an overlay of virtual annotations in the physical environment and interacts with it in real- time (Azuma et al., 2001). Some popular examples of AR include...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015COM010.
During the last decade China has experienced a moment of great commercial expansion into international markets. In this context of constant growth there are also the creative industries and in particular the animation sector that has significantly evolved over the years. The Chinese animation industry is able to produce contents for both the domestic and abroad market for job orders coming ...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; 2015COM006.
In globalized markets, norms for legitimate behavior are scattered and businesses must satisfy often conflicting demands of various stakeholders simultaneously. This is why communicating their Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in a legitimate way is challenging. The present is also a high time for a debate of CSR issues and an era of public scrutiny and mistrust, catalyzed by real-time...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM012.
This paper explores from a perspective of intercultural communication young people’s attitudes towards "others". Moreover, it examines whether this attitudes are related to the fact of having a migration background or not. Is there a difference between youngsters with and without a migration background? Previously released studies have already pointed out that apparently negative attitudes...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM009.
Scholars have consistently found that a positive reputation can lead to many benefits for organizations (e.g., Cable Deephouse, 2000; Rindova et al., 2005; Roberts & Dowling, 2002), thereby constituting a fundamental resource for competitive advantage (Barney, 1991). As a result, academics have advocated for a better understanding of what makes reputations stable to the effects...
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