Homing blogs as ambivalent spaces for feminine agency

This article discusses a form of lifestyle blogging where women blog about their homes and everyday lives. In these homing blogs, self-representations are characteristically spatially demarcated within the private sphere of the home. As these repeated representations of women in their homes take place in the public space of the internet, homing blogs work towards naturalizing the home as a women’s sphere. Written and commented on mostly by other women, homing blogs represent a feminine form of self-expression and communication that functions as a discursive expression of ongoing social, economic, and cultural changes in affluent Western societies. In this article, Finnish versions of these homing blogs are analysed in the cultural and political context of contemporary Finland, and discussed as a form of intimate publics that reverses the gender politics of other historical, semi-public spaces for the exercise of women’s agency, such as the salon.     

The re-aestheticisation of poverty: blogging hunger in the age of austerity

This paper examines the re-aestheticisation of hunger and poverty with the emergence of austerity blogs. These blogs, which chronicle personal narratives while re-directing gaze in creating food through limited budgets and in sharing the intimate brutalities of hunger, bring a renewed focus and interest to poverty through daily lived experiences of hunger. Beyond personalising hunger in a climate of austerity, blogs as a symbol of articulation of the laypeople for the general public become interstitial spaces between government rhetoric and media representations, making poverty an intimate, personal and present proposition. Blogs as peoples’ archives of social history are hybrid spaces of personal iterations amenable to public consumption and media scrutiny. In the process these can re-mediate and disrupt the social reality of first-world hunger, inviting a gaze through first-hand narratives. Poverty becomes a contested entity online where blogs perform both resistance and reiteration of the neo-liberal stereotypes about the unemployed and those on benefits.     

化学新课程改革与微型化学实验

新一轮基础教育改革中，化学新课程改革在理念和内容上都强调学习方式的转变，即倡导探究性学习．探究性学习的实质，是学生主动参与教学过程，积极从事各种探究活动，亲自发现科学概念和原理，掌握探究技能．事实表明微型化学实验是实现探究性学习的有效手段．     

贝娄小说中知识分子夫妻之间的权力关系

美国诺贝尔文学奖得主索尔·贝娄小说中知识分子夫妻之间的权力关系有三种模式 :竞争、控制、平等 ;两种性质 :压抑性和生产性。作者在小说中 ,对压抑性的权力关系作否定、贬抑的描绘 ;对生产性的权力关系作肯定、赞美的描述。贝娄的小说通过揭示男女知识分子之间的权力关系 ,突出了这些女性人物本身的知识品格和职业道路。     

面向储能的光伏微网成本评价与对策研究

微电网是智能电网的重要组成部分,可以有效协调区域内的电力资源。为研究面向储能的光伏微网电力成本变化情况和优化对策,基于微网多主体结构构建微网电力成本均衡模型,以微网内分布式光伏供应及用户电力需求的统计数据为主要输入对象,并设置变量来区分不同情景下的分布式可再生能源发电量,建立以时间为自变量的微网分布式电力收益函数和用户购电成本函数,刻画微网电力资源调度的动态均衡变化。基于微网电力资源调度实例,发现微网在并网情景下的购电成本小于储能情景下的购电成本（C并=2 033.6元C储=2 633.6元）,且储能情景下购电成本的22.8%都来自储能设施的日折旧费,因此,加大科技研发和增强微网协同管理可以降低微网成本。     

Repelling the “Rutter”: Social Differentiation Among Rural Teenagers

This paper examines low‐income white rural teenagers' management of race and class‐based inequality. It analyzes how these teenagers constructed boundaries to distinguish themselves from outsiders, but also to distinguish themselves from the local abject category of “rutter.” The findings reveal hidden interconnections between race and class in interactional practice, and highlight local processes of differentiation through which actors attempt to deflect stigma and attain credibility. The paper discusses how interactional mechanisms such as “internal othering” and “stigma‐theory” bolster race and class credibility, but reproduce inequality.     

“But we still try”: affective labor in the corporate mommy blog

This article studies three “mommy blogs,” online platforms catering to (in these cases) American mothers of various sub-demographics, through an affective labor framework. Using digital labor and Althusserian subject formation to inform my reading of the common rhetorical gestures made in these blogs, I ask how they conceive of their readership and contributors. I argue that mommy blogs should be understood as sites of digital labor because of the ways in which their publishing conditions and rhetorics establish labored expectations of the “mommy” subject. Contestations of the nature of affective labor in motherhood are reflected by anxieties around digital labor, which play out via ideological conflicts that manifest rhetorically in the blogs under discussion. This analysis is informed by affect theory, Althusser and Butler’s work on subject formation, and the existing feminist literature on digital labor and the mommy blog.     

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.     

Micro‐investment perspective and the potential of the universal basic income

The article evaluates prospects of the Basic Income (BI) as a development policy tool. While BI is a relatively new initiative within development policy, the article argues that it should be seen as a serious option in the future, given the changing geography of poverty and the findings from existing cash transfer schemes. The analysis is carried out as a synthesis of existing findings on BI pilot programmes, along with cash transfer instruments more generally. While not including new empirical data, the synthesis allows preliminary estimates on the likely impacts of abolishing conditioning and targeting in cash transfer schemes. Particular attention is paid to the notion of micro‐investment and the psychological conditions of micro‐investment.     

《花蓝瑶社会组织》与费孝通学术思想

通过重读《花蓝瑶社会组织》,分析了费孝通先生早年的学术研究动向,指出《花蓝瑶社会组织》第一次披露了金秀大瑶山花蓝瑶的人口、家庭和社会生活状况;第一次运用人类学理论和方法深入剖析了金秀大瑶山族团及族团之间的关系及其发展趋向;第一次成功地运用了“微型社会学”的调查研究方法剖析了花蓝瑶社会。