China and global internet governance: toward an alternative analytical framework

Drawing on historical methods, this study assesses the conventional “cyber-sovereignty” framework, which has been used to capture and interpret China’s stance toward global Internet governance. This framework focuses on political control and tends to reduce China’s policies to the attempts by an authoritarian state to elevate governments and intergovernmental organizations to be the only legitimate governors of global cyberspace. As it traces the evolution of China’s relationship with the global Internet in the past three decades, the study demonstrates that China’s stance is more complex than the prevalent framework allows and that it is both built upon and different from the US-centric, market-oriented Internet governance scheme. This study recognizes the inadequacy of the conventional framework and invokes a theory of critical political economy of communication, thereby offering an alternative model to explicate the complex power dynamics behind China’s changing strategies. The alternative model advanced in this study is based on the understanding of China’s evolving approach as the product of multifaceted interactions among a group of power-holders that include both state agencies and business units on the transnational level.     

Watching online videos interactively: the impact of media capabilities in Chinese Danmaku video sites

In China, the implementation of a Danmaku social media system to sustain and raise user interest in online video sites is an increasingly widespread phenomenon. Danmaku technology is used to display users’ messages in written text on the online video stream. Little is known about the effects of this form of interactive enhancement. The aim of this empirical study is to evaluate the evolving media capabilities of the Danmaku system and their effects on users’ perceptions of interactivity and their intentions to continue using Danmaku. We draw on media synchronicity theory and apply it to a stimulus-organism-response model. Using this framework, we hypothesize that the media capabilities of the Danmaku system, namely its transmission velocity, parallelism, symbol sets, rehearsability, and reprocessability, elicit increased interactivity, which influences users’ instantaneous intentions to share and to continue the use of the Danmaku system. The results showed that both users’ instantaneous intention to share and their intention to continue to use were significantly affected by the perceived interactivity. Unlike the results of previous studies, our findings showed that all five media capabilities positively affected the users’ perceptions of interactivity. The potential theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.     

The FARSEEING real-world fall repository: a large-scale collaborative database to collect and share sensor signals from real-world falls

Background

Real-world fall events objectively measured by body-worn sensors can improve the understanding of fall events in older people. However, these events are rare and hence challenging to capture. Therefore, the FARSEEING (FAll Repository for the design of Smart and sElf-adaptive Environments prolonging Independent livinG) consortium and associated partners started to build up a meta-database of real-world falls.

Results

Between January 2012 and December 2015 more than 300 real-world fall events have been recorded. This is currently the largest collection of real-world fall data recorded with inertial sensors. A signal processing and fall verification procedure has been developed and applied to the data. Since the end of 2015, 208 verified real-world fall events are available for analyses. The fall events have been recorded within several studies, with different methods, and in different populations. All sensor signals include at least accelerometer measurements and 58 % additionally include gyroscope and magnetometer measurements. The collection of data is ongoing and open to further partners contributing with fall signals. The FARSEEING consortium also aims to share the collected real-world falls data with other researchers on request.

Conclusions

The FARSEEING meta-database will help to improve the understanding of falls and enable new approaches in fall risk assessment, fall prevention, and fall detection in both aging and disease.

     

负面无用评论对消费者真的无用吗?

网络购物在线评论信息包含了大量看似无用的评论,该类评论对消费者产品购买态度是否会产生影响尚缺少相关研究。明晰负面无用评论对消费者购买意愿的影响机理对平台及企业有效管理用户在线评论具有一定的参考价值。本研究以无用评论信息作为研究对象,采用实验法,设置“负面无用评论”“负面有用评论”实验组以及“正面有用评论”对照组,解析负面无用评论对消费者购买意愿的影响及其内在机制,得到结论如下：在正面有用评论集中加入负面无用评论能提高消费者购买意愿,加入负面有用评论则会降低消费者购买意愿;负面评论展现出的无关内容越多,消费者感知到的风险越低,购买意愿越高;品牌熟悉度越高,消费者购买意愿受负面无用评论的影响越大。     

水工美学的理论框架

人文水利要解决的是水与文化、水利与人的关系问题。水工美学的研究对象是山、水、水工建筑物的序结构,是美学四载体形、光、与声、色的最优配置。我们应以诗心、书骨、画眼、园趣、乐感、文蕴、哲理去建构水工美学。     

民族志诗性:论“自我”维度的人类学理论实践

随着人类学界对能动性和实践等概念的关注,传统的"社会中心主义"和结构功能主义的整体论观点告一段落。脱离知识主体及其语境的"客观"科学研究受到质疑,个体的自我意识和主体性得到全新审视,而"自我"、"意识"、"情感"、"修辞策略"开始进入人类学研究领域,成为考察个体的社会实践、社会展演及主观能动性的关键概念。本文参考了反思人类学近年来的相关研究成果,在对文化他者的创造性加以确认的基础上,通过分析文化他者在现实语境中所运用的各种修辞策略来说明"自我"得以展示的途径,目的在于探究"诗性"何以使民族志研究成为可能。     

西南民族大学金·史密斯藏学文献馆的建馆历程

著名藏学家金·史密斯先生用一生的时间从事藏文文献的保护工作,在藏文文献的收集、整理、研究、利用等领域做出了巨大的贡献,为后人留下了大量的藏文文献。他在美国纽约建立了藏传佛教文献资料中心（简称：TBRC）,大量的藏文文献在国内、外藏学界利用起来。同时他也是把藏文文献的原件从国外捐赠给中国的第一位外国藏学家,2012年12月,历时5年的藏文纸质文献的捐赠工作顺利完成。本论文对金·史密斯先生建立TBRC的具体情况,捐赠纸质文献给西南民族大学的事件,西南民族大学金·史密斯藏学文献馆建馆历程等内容进行梳理,以此来缅怀为藏文文献的保护工作付出一生的美国藏学家。     

共生理论视阈下中华民族共同体建构的五维向度

中华民族共同体建构的基本逻辑是一个从"求同存异"到"聚同化异"的过程,旨在构建一个多民族休戚与共、血脉相连的共生关系与共生状态。中华民族共同体的有效建构必须赋予"共生"的理念,以责任、族际、文化、利益、命运为共生单元的建构逻辑,进而推动中华民族政治共同体、文化共同体、价值共同体、利益共同体、命运共同体的全面建构。     

清代台湾嚼食槟榔习俗探析

台湾嚼食槟榔的文化习俗源于明清。清代大陆移民进入台湾,嚼食槟榔渐成时尚,种植槟榔以获利已成为农家经济的一部分。槟榔既是民间礼尚往来之信物,也是解决纠纷的中介物,成为台湾乡村文化生活不可或缺的组成部分。     

民族政策宣传面临的新形势与应对策略

我国团结和谐的民族关系在不断巩固的同时,也面临着许多新情况、新问题,民族地区突发事件的频发度与危害的严重性呈上升趋势,网络和新闻媒体成为民族政策宣传和信息传播的重要渠道和平台,民族政策宣传已进入了国际传播的范畴,面临着新形势、新任务。因此,必须突破传统的宣传模式和理念,建立和创新行之有效的运行机制和保障机制,增强民族政策宣传的效果。