ATransC Occasional Update 15

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016

Prof. Hamid Jafarkhani during his presentation at UC3M.

Abstracts Proceedings the First Meeting of the International Society FOR Trans-Disciplinary Communication, 2023

The International Association FOR Trans-Disciplinary Communication (AFTC) is a multi-disciplinary intellectual community whose purpose is, mainly, 1) to support knowledge integrations processes by means of making the intellectual effort to share their new knowledge with scholars and/or researchers and/or students from other disciplines, and 2) to disseminate knowledge, also, with Society at Large. Appendix A of this Foreword provides a brief description of the meaning the phrase “FOR Trans-Disciplinary Communications” means for and in the context of The International Association FOR Trans-Disciplinary Communication (AFTC). The purpose of Appendix A was, and is, to avoid the misunderstanding that the words of the phrase “FOR Trans-Disciplinary Communication” have due to the highly polysemic nature of each of its words. The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS) sponsored the virtual First Meeting of The International Association FOR Trans-Disciplinary Communication (AFTC) in one of its two usual yearly conferences. The virtual presentations were based on acceptances related to the reviews of the below abstracts included in these proceedings The Second Meeting will, probably, also be sponsored by the IIIS in its September 2023 conference. We hope that more people would participate because the Second Meeting will be announced earlier and will have the present proceedings (and, potentially, the full papers) as input.

Public Administration, 2000

Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2018

Aim/Purpose: This is an introductory paper for the Special Series on transdisciplinary communication. It summarizes the various articles in the special series and raises questions for future investigation.

Nursing Outlook, 2005

2009

The purpose of this article is to provide a short description of what is Tran-Disciplinary Communication, why it is important, and how it may be achieved. The article will also insert editorial notes related to the special issue in which it is included. Consequently, we will try: 1. To describe the objective of this Special Issue FOR Trans-disciplinary Communication, 2. To provide a short description of the meaning in which-Trans-disciplinary Communications‖ is used here, 3. To describe the multi-methodical reviewing methodology used in this special issue, i.e. a. the Dual Peer-Review used, for the initial submissions, in the process for the acceptance for the presentation of the accepted papers at conferences organized by the

2012

The following is first in a series exploring key aspects of scholarly communication.

Hello and greetings to all. This year we mark an important benchmark: the Association for Chinese Communication Studies' 30-year anniversary. Congratulations to the ACCS in achieving this important milestone! In a taxi ride to the Convention after our annual ACCS banquet in Salt Lake City in 2018, I had the chance to ask ACCS Past President (1996-1997) and one of our founding ACCS leaders, Professor Ling Chen, about the early days of our Association. Prof. Chen explained that in the lead up to '91 we were a small group of scholars and friends that would gather each year at the annual NCA Convention, united by a sense of collegiality toward the field of Chinese Communication Studies. Led by ACCS Founding President, Professor Guo-Ming Chen, this small group quickly grew into a sizable community establishing the ACCS in 1991. We are now a registered organization and an official affiliate of the NCA. My first NCA convention that I attended in 2003 (Miami, Florida) saw less than 20 papers and sessions on China highlighted in the program. A search for "China" in the 2006 program (San Antonio Convention, 15 years ago), produced hits for 5 sessions and 24 individual papers. The same search in the 2010 program (San Francisco Convention, 10 years ago) came back with 36 total hits (papers and sessions). This year a search for "China" in the 2021 program (Seattle Convention) highlights 69 sessions and presentations. Over the past 30 years the ACCS has hosted hundreds of papers, paper sessions, and panel discussions. We are Sponsoring/Co-Sponsoring 8 sessions at this year's Convention which includes nearly 90 scholars participating as authors, coauthors, chairs, and respondents. These numbers indicate the continued growth of the field, our increasingly interconnected work with and across various interest groups and affiliations, and our continued impact and importance as an Association dedicated to the advancement of Chinese Communication Studies. In reflecting on our past, I want to acknowledge those who came before us. To the leaders that have, throughout the years, collectively worked to make possible what we have today as an Association-Thank You-for bridging connections and building community, for paving pathways, and for creating platforms. All of this would not be possible without your efforts. I also want to take a moment to acknowledge our members, past and present. Whether you attended, presented, reviewed, chaired, or responded for one of our panel sessions, whether you attended one of our banquets, whether you attended one of our social events, or whether you participated in numerous ways-Thank You-for being a part of our community, supporting the work of friends and colleagues, and for helping make up the Association.

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2009

Four features in this news letter they are: (1) Digital Romania: Broadband for All Romanians? Not Yet! (2) The eBario Project: A Rural ICT Internet Access Initiative in Malaysia. (3) Telecommunications Engineering and the Bologna Declaration in Spain.(4) Highlights from ONDM 2009 in Germany.