Digital crime,trauma, and abuse: Internet safety and cyber risks for adolescents and emerging adults in the 21st century

ABSTRACT

The shift in the technology landscape has altered the technology ecosystem of adolescents and emerging adults in the 21^st century. Yet, with greater use of digital gadgets comes greater mental health risks that technological advancement brings. This study provides a narrative review of contemporary cyber risks faced by adolescents and emerging adults. In particular, this review will cover dangers and effects of cyber-bullying, social media, cyber-dating violence, sextortion, sexting, revenge porn, online dating, catfishing, and scammers, with an emphasis to raise awareness and encourage proactive efforts dedicated to address these social concerns as the digital era continues to evolve.     

Aging in e-place: reflections on online communities for the aged in India

ABSTRACT

In this short piece, I offer a reconfiguration of the term “aging in place” by analyzing media content of web-based senior-focused portals while demonstrating how these online consumer-driven spaces unwittingly re-create new social relations and imagined communities. Building on the sparse body of scholarship on extra-familial, kin-like networks, I reflect on the cultural possibility of internet spaces as surrogate “places” for later life non-kin sociality. In this exploration, I privilege the possibility of enriched selfhood of older Indians by moving away from the conventional gerontological trope of the (Indian) elderly as indivisible familial subjects, as a deliberate process of decolonizing the field of gerontology.     

上网影响个人的社会融合吗?——以陕西和广西为例

上网对个人社会融合的影响是一个有争议的论题。文章使用2010年中国西部调查中陕西、广西两省(自治区)数据,从初级群体、次级群体两个维度考察上网时间与个人社会融合情况之间的关系。分析表明,上网时间的延长会增加个人的社会融合行为。同时,上网程度的加深会强化个人对初级群体的融合。这些结论初步揭示出上网对个人社会融合之间存在正相关关系。     

网络借贷市场参与主体行为策略的演化博弈均衡分析——基于三方博弈的视角

由于监管缺失、信用风险管理缺位，导致网络借贷市场的违约事件持续出现，损害网络借贷市场的参与者利益。本文构建了一个包括网络借贷平台、金融监管机构和投资者的网络借贷市场参与主体的三方行为策略演化博弈模型，从演化博弈的角度分析了网络借贷平台、金融监管机构和投资者的策略选择对网络借贷市场运行的影响，并以拍拍贷平台为案例进行数值模拟分析。研究结果表明：不同初始值的三方博弈结果存在显著差异，网络借贷市场参与主体行为策略的演化博弈不具有稳定中心点、且不存在稳定的均衡点。另外，当金融监管机构采取"严格监管"措施时，惩罚值越高，网络借贷平台越倾向于选择"自律"的行为策略，随着投资者投资额度的增加，网络借贷平台选择"自律"行为策略的概率逐渐降低。最后，提出规范网络借贷市场参与者行为和风险控制的对策建议。     

影子银行、地方政府债务及金融发展动态关系研究——基于省级面板VAR模型

基于2004—2017年中国省级面板数据,运用面板向量自回归(PVAR)模型,使用系统GMM估计、脉冲响应函数、方差分解以及格兰杰因果关系检验等方法分析了影子银行、地方政府债务及金融发展之间的动态关系.结果表明:影子银行、地方政府债务与金融发展水平三者之间存在动态耦合关系.在地方政府融资能力受到约束的情况下,影子银行为地方政府提供了多元的融资方式,在增加政府融资能力的同时提升了政府债务水平;而地方政府债务需求显著推动了影子银行规模的快速发展.同时,影子银行过度扩张危害了金融市场的健康发展,降低金融发展水平,继而使地方政府的融资渠道受到约束.但金融发展并不能有效约束影子银行规模,原因在于,政府融资需求是影子银行的主要动力,若不能控制地方政府的借贷行为则无法从源头解决问题.监管机构在去杠杆的过程中,应该综合考虑影子银行与地方政府债务、金融发展之间的动态关系,如此才能够实现预期的政策效果.     

移动互联网时代教育舆情风险防范与危机应对探析

移动互联网时代,教育舆情的呈现日益显在化,教育舆情的类型日渐多元化,教育舆情的演化日趋复杂化;与此同时,教育舆情处置面临着教育舆情风险不确定性增大、教育舆情冲突破坏性加重、教育舆情危机化解难度升高等诸多新挑战。应该针对当前移动互联网时代教育舆情生成与演化各阶段的特点,做好教育舆情态势的识别与研判,抓好教育舆情风险的预警与防范。同时,明确教育舆情危机应对的责任主体及其处置权限;及时发声,回应社会关切,掌控舆情走向;解决问题,化解矛盾,平息舆情危机;妥善做好相关善后事宜,防止舆情反复及次生舆情事件的发生。     

互联网思维与HRBP模式创新

长期以来,人力资源管理有效性对企业的积极作用得到理论与实务界的普遍认可。随着宏观经济环境的变化,企业纷纷转型升级谋求生存与持续发展,作为企业的支持系统,人力资源管理也必须寻求新型模式以适应新形势要求。在介绍HRBP模式基础之上,运用知识图谱分析方法,进一步厘清HRBP模式的发展历史、现状及未来趋势。然而,企业在实施HRBP模式过程中存在HR人员角色定位模糊、缺乏配套措施支持与HR人员胜任力不足难点,结合“互联网+”时代背景,提出融合互联网思维的HRBP模式,分别融合用户思维、平台思维以及迭代思维解决HRBP模式实施过程中的难点,从而促进HRBP模式创新与发展。     

网络时代的民主

网络的迅速发展对人类民主理论与实践的影响巨大,它既为民主化进程提供了空前的动力与机遇,使 人们畅想民主的新篇章,同时又使民主的发展面临着巨大的挑战。网络技术的发展为直接民主的实现带来了曙 光,使得民主为大多数人所享有成为可能,但也给民主的发展带来多种阻碍,影响着民主理想的实现。作为技术 手段的网络是中性的,其对民主作用的实现需要掌握这个技术的公众及政府的共同努力。这是推动网络民主发 展的正确道路。     

我国互联网市场不正当竞争规制制度的创新——以中国网络视频反盗版联盟诉百度为例

我国互联网市场是目前急需规范的领域,大量不正当竞争行为在互联网市场出现,严重扰乱了互联网市场的秩序,其中互联网版权不正当竞争是典型表现之一。规制互联网市场的不正当竞争行为,创新互联网市场不正当竞争规制制度,不仅应认清现今规制所处的困境,规制之缺陷,还需在规制理念上进行完善,从而进一步建构我国互联网市场不正当竞争之规制制度。     

Information and communication technology adoption in micro and small firms: Can internet access improve labour productivity?

The rapid spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) may increase firms’ productivity with important consequences for job creation and for economic growth. This article contributes to this discussion by analysing the impact of internet adoption on labour productivity and the mechanisms shaping this relationship in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011–2013. The article estimates a reduced form where labour productivity is a function of internet adoption and other explanatory factors. Internet adoption is instrumented using a measure of the availability of financial opportunities for micro and small firms in Peru. Findings indicate that internet adoption: (a) increases firms’ labour productivity; (b) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non‐remunerated workers and expands employment of permanent production workers; (c) leads to the formalization of labour relationships, to the implementation of new organizational practices and to the improvement of training measures. While changes in employment and formalization of workers are linked to labour productivity gains, increases in training measures and organizational changes do not generate any additional productivity increase. Policies oriented to promote the adoption of ICT in micro and small firms can be beneficial to close the productivity gap with larger firms in Peru. Moreover, policies directed to the formalization of the workforce can provide an extra benefit, i.e. additional labour productivity gains in firms adopting the internet. Finally, policies oriented to the development of digital skills are also important to ease the re‐employment of those workers losing their jobs and the achievement of additional productivity gains that new organizational practices can provide.