The identity curation game: digital inequality,identity work,and emotion management

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The research examines an understudied facet of digital inequality: how digital inequality impacts identity work and emotion management. The analysis reveals how unequal access to digital resources shapes how well youths are able to play what I call the identity curation game. Digital resources determine youths’ ability to succeed in this game that is governed by three implicit rules: (1) constantly update or be sidelined, (2) engage in constant reciprocated identity-affirming interactions, and (3) maintain a strategy of vigilance to remove traces of failed identity performances. This article draws on Symbolic Interactionism and pays particular attention to Hochschild’s theory of emotion management. Drawing on these frameworks, the findings reveal how under-resourced youths experience connectivity gaps that disrupt their ability to play the identity curation game, as well as the resulting emotional consequences. Under-resourced youths manage distinctive negative emotions arising from connectivity gaps that hinder their digital identity work, as well as engaging in distinct kinds of suppressive work to police their own emotions including longing, envy, shame, frustration, and stigmatization. In making these linkages, the research reveals the cascading effects of digital inequality among youths where constant connectivity is the sine qua non of social inclusion.     

Evolving Ethical Standards in the Digital Age

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Ethical standards in social work have matured significantly since the formal inauguration of the profession in the late 19th century. This article traces the global evolution of ethical standards in social work, focusing especially on current challenges in the digital age. The author discusses changes over time in social workers’ understanding of ethical issues and development of conceptual frameworks and protocols for managing them. Social workers’ increasing use of digital technology poses novel and unprecedented ethical challenges pertaining to privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, professional boundaries, conflicts of interest, documentation, client abandonment, and professionalism, among others. The article outlines emerging ethical standards designed to help social workers manage ethical challenges in the digital age.     

Older audiences in the digital media environment

Relying on Jensen and Helles’ model for studying the Internet as a cultural forum, this study aimed to explore the extent to which traditional media are displaced by innovative communication practices within the older audience of new media. The study was based on a cross-European survey of 1039 Internet users aged 60 years and up. Results indicated that older Internet users are significantly more inclined to use traditional mass media than new social media and prefer synchronous to asynchronous mass media. This audience, however, is not homogeneous, as four subsegments were identified. These groups differed in their media repertoires, sociocultural background and leisure preferences. The findings suggest that despite the increasing percentage of older Internet users, this audience tends to adhere to familiar media practices, with only a minority making intense use of new practices. With very few cross-national differences, this tendency appears to be universal, suggesting overall media use traditionalism and a second-level digital divide among the older audience.     

论信息能力与信息资源利用率

信息能力是影响科研工作质量和进程的重要因素。对此,提高科研人员的信息能力,是提高科研工作效率的重要途径;同时,图书情报部门不但要担负起用户信息能力培养的工作,而且还要不断提高自身的信息资源管理水平,这是提高信息资源利用率,发挥图书馆社会职能的有效途径。     

美学的命运——论数码时代的人文事业

随着数码时代的到来,人文文化面临着更为严峻的冲击,美学则首当其冲,其学科的重建已势不容缓。但深入地看,美学面对日新月异的审美文化现象所表现出来的失语症,主要在于它并未真正发挥自身的作用,而并非美学言说本身不再拥有意义。通过人文学科的文化自审和对美学史的重新审视,当代美学能够重新拥有自己的学术生命。     

A penalized likelihood approach to image warping

A warping is a function that deforms images by mapping between image domains. The choice of function is formulated statistically as maximum penalized likelihood, where the likelihood measures the similarity between images after warping and the penalty is a measure of distortion of a warping. The paper addresses two issues simultaneously, of how to choose the warping function and how to assess the alignment. A new, Fourier–von Mises image model is identified, with phase differences between Fourier-transformed images having von Mises distributions. Also, new, null set distortion criteria are proposed, with each criterion uniquely minimized by a particular set of polynomial functions. A conjugate gradient algorithm is used to estimate the warping function, which is numerically approximated by a piecewise bilinear function. The method is motivated by, and used to solve, three applied problems: to register a remotely sensed image with a map, to align microscope images obtained by using different optics and to discriminate between species of fish from photographic images.     

Do the rich get digitally richer? Quantity and quality of support for digital engagement

This paper asks what predicts having access to and using social support networks that might help an individual in using the Internet. Following the course taken by the digital divide or digital inclusion research, this paper uses socio-cultural, socio-economic, social, and digital indicators to predict access to and the type of potential and actual social support networks that might help an individual in using the Internet. In addition, the paper examines the quality of the support received which is neglected in most investigations that mainly focus on quantitative indicators of support. The study draws on a representative survey conducted in the Netherlands; 1149 responses were obtained. The results show that while there are no real inequalities in access to and use of support, the quality of the support that people access is unequally distributed replicating existing patterns of disadvantage. Thus, access to support is another level at which the digital divide manifests and strengthens itself. Those who experience most problems online also seem to have the most difficulty obtaining high-quality support even when it is available, creating an even larger ‘gap’ between those who do and do not need support.     

Using digital storytelling as a source of empowerment for rural women in Benin

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Digital storytelling offers a combination of traditional storytelling and new technologies that is attracting attention from feminist researchers aiming to co-create research in empowering ways for participants, allowing them to collaborate, build shared awareness of issues, and share their priority issues with decision-makers and power-holders. This article focuses on digital storytelling in research into the role of Mothers’ Associations in influencing families, communities, and political decision-makers to promote girls’ education in Benin.     

中国数字经济卫星账户框架设计研究

数字经济日新月异的发展对现行统计核算体系提出了挑战。本文主要针对其在经济生产、收入分配和资本核算方面的挑战，研究了中国数字经济卫星账户框架的设计原理及可行性。首先，探讨了数字经济活动对现有核算体系中生产核算、收入分配核算、资本核算、金融核算的影响，包括数字经济核算与中心框架中产业单位、交易特征、生产者、生产范围、收入分配等的关系。然后，基于国内外数字经济相关分类和中国核算实践分析了中国产业、产品分类的国际可比性和可行性，形成了对数字经济生产核算、资金流量核算和资本核算的专门性设计，并构建了一般性的核算指标。在框架设计的基础上，对2012-2017年中国数字经济主要产业部门的增加值进行了初步测算。最后，结合中国数字经济研究现状，对中国开展数字经济核算工作提出了建议，即建议深化中国数字经济卫星账户核算体系及相应的核算方法体系、研究开发中国数字经济高频大数据的获取方法、完善中国数字经济产业产品分类标准及相关统计规章制度。     

A ‘Tripadvisor’ for disability? Social enterprise and ‘digital disruption’ in Australia

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We explore how social enterprises can use platform technologies to plug ‘informational gaps’ in the provision of disability services. Such gaps are made more apparent by policies promoting self-directed care as a means of giving service users more choice and control. We use a case study of a start-up social enterprise seeking to provide a TripAdvisor style service to examine the potential for social innovation to ‘disrupt’ current models of service. The case study suggests that any disruptive effects of such changes are not due to new digital technology per se, nor to novel platform business models, but rather rest in the manner in which the moral orders which justify current patterns of social disablement can be challenged by social innovation.