On May 2, China's State Internet Information Office declared war against online rumors because they "have impaired the credibility of online media, disrupted normal communication order, and aroused great aversion among the public".
Variations of the arguments used in the Soviet Union may be found in medieval apologetics, in Confucian doctrines, in Plato's Republic, and in UNESCO proposals for "a new world information and communication order".
Those efforts have never fully worked, as the China Insider column of May 6 noted in discussing a coming crackdown on Weibo and online rumors: On May 2, China's State Internet Information Office declared war against online rumors because they "have impaired the credibility of online media, disrupted normal communication order, and aroused great aversion among the public".
At the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the 1970s and 1980s, the central debate concerned the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO).
Generalmajor Feuchtinger of 21st Panzer Division watched the gliders descending and, believing the arriving force would threaten his lines of communication, ordered those elements of the division that had reached the beaches to withdraw to the north of Caen.
The goal of social justice movements should not be state-of-the-art mastery over these techniques and technologies, but rather the creation of "citizens' media" (in Clemencia Rodriguez's terms): a new communication order that enables the powerless to shape media production, to use it to produce cultures of direct participation, and in so doing to constitute a new social force.
Moreover, our databases contained only written medical records, and as such, any undocumented verbal communication or orders provided by clinicians to patients regarding warfarin dose adjustment or held doses were unavailable.
Inventory affects sales and marketing, and it is imperative we have fluid communication in order to meet our customers' needs during promotions, holidays and large corporate orders.
Political spin, in politics, the attempt to control or influence communication in order to deliver one's preferred message.
Let us hope that the Haitian and South African governments will enter into communication in order to make that happen in the next coming days".
