Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards refugees

The recent surge in refugee arrivals to Europe has underscored the importance of identity concerns, with politicians and ordinary citizens alike expressing fear that admitting foreigners may result in unacceptable demographic and cultural change. However, scholars have not systematically examined the impact of ethnic diversity on attitudes towards refugees. Group threat theory and the contact hypothesis offer competing predictions: The former would expect diversity to be associated with opposition to refugees, while the latter would expect diversity to generate support for them. We explore individual-level attitudes in nineteen countries using the 2014 wave of the European Social Survey, combined with country-level data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators, the Manifesto Project Dataset, and five different databases of ethnic diversity measures. Crucially, we employ multiple approaches to measuring diversity, including various measures of ethnic fractionalisation, linguistic heterogeneity, polarisation, and other relevant constructs. We find that greater ethnic diversity is associated with decreased support for refugees, but this relationship is not consistent across all measures of diversity. Since the relationship between ethnic diversity and support for refugees is highly dependent on the measure of diversity used, scholars should be wary of drawing strong conclusions about the effects of ethnic diversity without comparing different measures.     

The Willingness to State an Opinion: Inequality,Don't Know Responses,and Political Participation

Most explanations of inequality in political participation focus on costs or other barriers for those with fewer economic, educational, and “cognitive” resources. I argue, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's work on “political competence,” that social position in the form of income also structures political participation through differences in the sense that one is a legitimate producer of political opinions. I test whether income differences in participation persist net of costs by examining nonparticipation in a setting in which barriers to participation are low: answering political survey questions. Lower‐income people are more likely than others to withhold political opinions by saying “don't know” net of differences in education, “cognitive ability,” or engagement with the survey exercise. Further, political “don't know” rates predict voting rates, net of other predictors. Efforts to democratize participation in American politics must attend not only to the costs of involvement but also to class‐based differences in individuals' relationship to political expression itself.     

共有媒体舆情对高校思政课的影响及对策思考

共有媒体舆情改变了传统舆情“自上而下”的传播模式,吸引了包括大学生在内的众多参与者。这种鼓励“参与和分享”的舆情共建体系参与高、影响大,将其与高校思想政治课结合能提高学生的课堂参与,增进教学实效。但不当的结合却会造成理论弱化、学生情感异化等弊端,反而对高校思政课不利。因此,有必要在正确分析共有媒体舆情的现状和对高校思政课的影响基础上,探讨合理结合和改善教学的有效策略。     

食品企业舆情涌现的致错因子体系及作用机理

食品安全关系到公众利益与社会稳定,是国家战略性问题。多发的食品安全事件损害了消费者的身心健康,由其形成的食品安全舆情也损害了企业的品牌形象和声誉。如何正确应对和引导食品安全舆情,对于食品行业和企业以及应急管理研究来说都是一个亟待解决又颇具挑战性的课题。运用系统分析、应急管理与故障树等有关理论和方法,进行食品安全突发事件舆情及其形成和传播机理、食品安全舆情涌现的致错因子体系与作用机理,并以A食品公司为例进行案例分析。     

游戏 情绪 权力：元宇宙中舆情传播的 核心面向与演化逻辑

作为未来媒介的元宇宙，其塑造舆情传播行动逻辑的原点在于：元宇宙实现了身体与行动的数字化耦合，赋予舆情主体“游戏人”的角色属性与行动逻辑；虚实关系的变迁，使得情绪与共情代替观点与解读成为元宇宙中舆情演化的核心动力；DAO与Web3.0的技术结合，让舆情行动的权力规则走向平权化，实现了一种开放的共治逻辑。基于此，元宇宙中的舆情治理尤其需要关注虚实互构的特殊场景对人行动意识的影响，通过虚实结合的系统方案来应对未来风险。     

触动式新闻初探

触动式新闻是近年来在新闻界颇有争议的一个问题,也是新闻教学中急待解决的一个课题.本文试图从理论与实践的结合上,对触动式新闻的定义、长处、产生的必要条件及对记者素质的要求做一些探讨.     

党的先进性建设在“两新”组织中的时代特征和实现方式

"两新"组织是指在我国改革开放进程中出现的新经济组织和新社会组织。党的先进性建设在"两新"组织中具有鲜明的探索、实践和创新三大时代特征。党的先进性建设在"两新"组织中的实现方式主要有思想引导和理论教育方式、创新党组织设置和组织整顿方式以及制度建设和法治建设方式。     

美国对台政策中的公众舆论因素分析:以1958年台海危机为例

选取发生在1958年的第二次台海危机为案例,通过对艾森豪威尔政府处理台海危机的具体决策过程的细致考察,从实证的角度分析了公众舆论在美国对台政策决策过程中的作用和影响。在危机爆发的最初阶段,公众舆论对台海危机可能引发中美之间的战争的高度担忧,使艾森豪威尔政府处理台海危机的难度加大,不得不将重点之一放在平息和引导公众舆论方面。危机的第二阶段,在公众舆论压力下,艾森豪威尔政府试图寻求避免因沿海岛屿问题而卷入冲突的解决之道;最后阶段,艾森豪威尔决定派国务卿杜勒斯亲赴台湾,以公众舆论为主要理由之一,最终压蒋介石从沿海岛屿收缩兵力,并保证今后不主动挑衅大陆。     

网络民意的失控及其舆论传播影响分析

网络舆论提供了个体与大众之间平等对话的条件,但网站信息的同类搜集和网址链接,以及"虚拟社区"的集体民意同质性,往往导致信息的自主"协同过滤"(collaborative filtering).网民受众所能听到和看到的只能是自己的"回音"和"影子",这种狭隘的民意氛围又很可能导致"群体极化"(group polarization)现象的产生,"民意"很可能只是完全的自我情绪发泄和不可控的符号暴力.网络舆论环境极有可能导致"假民意"的流行,并为那些偏离常规的行为提供某种合法性和不可控性,出现"多数人暴政"的危险.对网络舆论必须进行有效的调控和引导.     

论新闻信息流量原理在深度报道中的应用

从联接新闻传播三要素的关键因素———新闻信息出发,用新闻信息流量原理分析了如何科学有效地增加深度报道的信息量,并且在原有原理的的表达式中增加一个函数,使新闻受传者能对深度报道的有效信息量予以全面合理的考量,最终为深度报道创造了一个行文理论基础,使新闻传播者能够制作出真正具有“深度”的新闻报道作品。