Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard-of-hearing people

This review article examines how different types of communication technologies, from the specialized medical to generic social devices, influence belonging and sociality among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people. The emphasis is on DHH adolescents and young adults who may be impacted differently across countries, given state-specific policies regarding the status of sign language and deaf education, and based on different availability, affordability, and accessibility of communication technologies. We introduce different perspectives on deafness, ranging from pathological to cultural, a heuristic on which we build to explore DHH socialities as complex and evolving. We then analytically review ethnographic research on how cochlear implants impact DHH people's belonging to the “deaf world” and/or the “hearing world,” and how they navigate between these worlds. Then we move on to technologies such as text messages and social media, which enable DHH people to extend their socialities beyond local communities. Belonging is a fluid phenomenon, and technologies which are in a constant process of innovation and development may influence it in complex ways. We argue that to explore questions of belonging, identity, and sociality among DHH people, and how they are shaped by technologies, (visual) ethnographic methods are particularly productive.     

上海新型显示产业发展策略研究

新型显示是全球电子工业继集成电路和计算机大发展之后,又一个具有高度影响力的新兴电子信息产业和新的经济增长点,是21世纪最具代表意义的战略性的高科技产业,聚焦新型显示技术重点领域,着力突破若干关键核心技术,大力发展新型显示产业,既是上海高新技术产业化的重要任务,也是上海服务国家战略、参与全球显示技术角逐的客观要求。在对世界新型显示技术及产业发展趋势进行归纳分析后,重点探讨上海“十二五”时期推进OLED、LCOS和3D等技术及产业发展的基础优势、瓶颈制约、所需突破的关键技术及政策建议。     

The Politics and Poetics of Spaces and Places: Mapping the Multiple Geographies of Identity in a Cultural Posthuman Era

As transcendent technologies, information communication technologies (ICTs) exist beyond the divergent equivalence of human categories of difference such as race, gender, and class, as well as operating outside traditional binary oppositions such as good/bad, love/hate, and rational/irrational. While a material grounding in earlier forms of embodied social experience remains a necessary prerequisite of interaction with virtual systems, a vast collection of technological applications now exhibit some degree of agency as they interact with humans and their environment. This development has enormous consequences for human life, human flourishing, and social organisation, raising significant ethical concerns relevant to public and policy debates. It is, therefore, pertinent to explore key epistemological questions relating to the radical and accelerated remapping of the limits of what it now means to be human. While this article does not purport to offer a pragmatic solution, it constitutes an interdisciplinary conceptual platform from which to consider the nature of the evolving human-nonhuman-machine relationship and the possible implications for humanity, civilisation, and other forms of social organisation in the modern hypermediated world. It is suggested that, by reflecting on the various representations of contemporary technoculture and biotechnology from the perspective of the arts and humanities, it may be possible to isolate those important questions which relate to subjectivity, ethics, community, and social transformation in order to prepare the groundwork for a comprehensive and critical theory of technology.     

Differences in Emerging-Adult Women's Body Image and Sexuality Outcomes According to BMI and Dating Status

ABSTRACT. Emerging adulthood is a crucial time for the development of body image and sexuality concerns among women. We collected self-reported data from 184 women to determine possible differences according to body mass index (BMI) classification and dating status. Multivariate analyses of variance and follow-up univariate analyses of variance were conducted to determine differences in body image and sexuality outcomes according to both BMI (normal weight vs. overweight) and dating status (dating vs. not dating) as well as interaction effects of BMI and dating status. First, results indicated differences between normal-weight and overweight women for body satisfaction, body self-consciousness, and body image avoidance. Overweight women had lower satisfaction, higher self-consciousness, and more avoidance. Differences were also found between women who were dating and those who were not dating for body satisfaction and self-consciousness: Women not dating had lower satisfaction and higher self-consciousness. Second, whereas results indicated that women of varying BMIs did not differ on sexuality outcomes, differences were found according to dating status for sexual attitudes, esteem, and self-schema, such that women not dating had more conservative sexual attitudes, less sexual esteem, and lower self-schemas. No significant interaction effects were found.     

超精密机床的发展及其关键技术

本文根据作者长期从事超精密机床研制的实践经验，并在翔实资料的基础上，叙述国内外超精密机床的发展过程和现状，以及设计超精密机床所遇到的关键技术及其解决途径．     

基于课程链的新工科单片机课程改革研究

新工科提出的主要原因是我国传统工程教育培养出的工程人才与当前社会经济发展新需求不相适应,迫切需要通过工程教育转型升级来培养新型工程人才,为我国从工程教育大国向工程教育强国转变提供支撑。为此,该文提出基于课程链的新工科单片机原理及应用课程改革。通过统筹课程链前端和后端的课程体系,设计出更符合社会企业要求的培养方案。研究结果表明,明确创新课程教学内容与教学手段,增加多维度的实践训练;加强校企合作,促进创新协同培养模式的形成,推动课程教学的创新改革与发展,以适应新工科教育的发展思路与总体目标。     

À propos de l’article de François-Xavier de Vaujany, « Les figures de la gestion du changement sociotechnique »

The approach adopted by François Xavier de Vaujany draws from “structurationist” research in English-speaking social sciences, a current that shares with the sociology of technology a vision of the contextual and negotiated nature of the links between technical and organizational phenomena. Various trajectories in the way organizations use new information and communication technology can be compared; and the role, examined that specific mediators play in the appropriation process. This approach provides stimulating input in discussions about the impact of new technology on organizational change.     

发达经济体与新兴经济体竞争力比较——基于全球竞争力指数视角

在经济全球化的今天,发达经济体与新兴经济体之间的竞争日益激烈.首先,选取30个发达经济体和29个新兴经济体的基本要素指标、效率因素指标和创新因素指标,对发达经济体与新兴经济体竞争力孰强孰弱这一问题进行研究.其次,通过对各指标的计算和比较,得出新兴经济体竞争力仍比较弱的结论.最后,提出新兴经济体要想提升自身竞争力必须从政治制度、宏观经济运行、教育发展、基础设施建设等方面进行改进和完善的政策建议.     

新兴国家视野下的沙特阿拉伯与全球治理

新兴国家的快速崛起成为推动全球治理变革的最大动力,沙特的新兴国家身份虽然存在模糊性但也无可置疑。沙特能够成为新兴国家的代表并在全球经济治理中发挥重大作用,从根本上来说在于沙特具有自身的独特优势和重要地位,主要表现在其拥有的多重代表性、丰富油气资源、巨额金融资金以及温和亲西方的外交政策特点等方面。从新兴国家与全球治理的关系来看,沙特在当前和今后的全球治理中占有重要的一席之地,也将发挥其重要作用。