Blog 4: Implication of Communication Policies to Communication Systems

Planning

Communication is a vital management component to any organization. Whether

the purpose is to update employees on new policies, to prepare for a weather disaster,
to ensure safety throughout the organization or to listen to the attitudes of employees,
effective communication is an integral issue in effective management. To be successful,
organizations should have comprehensive policies and strategies for communicating
with their constituencies, employees and stakeholders as well as with the community at
large.
1. Libel/Defamation
The Defamation Act 2013 was passed to help regulation on defamation to deliver
more effective protection for freedom of speech, while at the same time ensuring that
people who have been defamed are able to protect their reputation. It is often difficult to
know which personal remarks are proper and which run afoul of defamation law.
Defamation is a broad word that covers every publication that damages someone's
character. The basic essentials of a cause of act for defamation are: An untruthful and
offensive statement regarding another; the unprivileged publication of the statement to a
third party; if the offensive situation is of public concern, fault amounting at least to
carelessness on the share of the publisher.
A third party is somebody who is away from the person making the
announcement and the issue of the statement. Disparate the original significance of the
word published, a defamatory statement does not have to be printed in a book.
Relatively, if the statement is heard over the television or seen scribbled on someone's
door, it is considered to be published to succeed in a defamation claim, the statement
must be proven to have produced injury to the subject of the statement. This means that
the statement must have hurt the reputation of the subject of the statement. As an
instance statement has cause trouble when the issue of the announcement lost effort as
an outcome of the statement. Defamation law will only consider statements defamatory
that are true. A statement that is true about a person even if it is very hurtful is not
proven to be defamation. In most cases because of the nature, statements of judgment
are not considered false because they are subjective to the speaker.
2. Cultural Hegemony
Cultural hegemony refers to domination or rule maintained through ideological or
cultural means. It is usually achieved through social institutions, which allow those in
power to strongly influence the values, norms, ideas, expectations, worldview, and
behavior of the rest of society.
 Cultural hegemony functions by framing the worldview of the ruling class, and the
social and economic structures that embody it, as just, legitimate, and designed for the
benefit of all, even though these structures may only benefit the ruling class. This kind
of power is distinct from rule by force, as in a military dictatorship, because it allows the
ruling class to exercise authority using the "peaceful" means of ideology and culture.
Cultural hegemony is most strongly manifested when those ruled by the dominant group
come to believe that the economic and social conditions of their society are natural and
inevitable, rather than created by people with a vested interest in particular social,
economic, and political orders.
Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony in an effort to explain why
the worker-led revolution that Marx predicted in the previous century had not come to
pass. Central to Marx’s theory of capitalism was the belief that the destruction of this
economic system was built into the system itself since capitalism is premised on the
exploitation of the working class by the ruling class. Marx reasoned that workers could
only take so much economic exploitation before they would rise up and overthrow the
ruling class. However, this revolution did not happen on a mass scale.
Hegemony describes the dominance of one group, institution, state or organisation over
another. The term is particularly used in political and military fields but also in economic,
religious or cultural backgrounds.
While in a democratic system the different parties can all participate in decision
making, in hegemony the other institutions can’t achieve their opinions and visions
towards the so-called hegemon (the dominating party). Although the theoretical and
judicial possibilities might be given the implementation fails because of the influence
capability and the power of the hegemon. Nevertheless these restrictions can defer
depending on the degree they are exercised.

3. Cybercrime
Cybercrime, also called computer crime, the use of a computer as an instrument
to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and
intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially
through the Internet, has grown in importance as the computer has become central to
commerce, entertainment, and government. Cyber Crimes consist of illegal activity
conducted on a computer. Traditional crimes may be committed while using a computer,
but cybercrime consists of more specific types of crimes, such as phishing schemes and
viruses. Cyber Crime consist some special characteristics, which are as followed.
The most striking feature of cybercrimes is that they are relatively easy to
commit, difficult to detect and even harder to prove. The cyber criminals with basic
computer knowledge and skill can easily destroy valuable database causing huge loss
or damage to the affected victims of the crime. Cyber Crimes are relatively easy, low-
risk, high-reward venture. There is plenty of money to be made.