Women's experiences of self-reporting health online prior to their first midwifery visit: A qualitative study

Background

Information and communication technologies are increasingly used in health care to meet demands of efficiency, safety and patient-centered care. At a large Danish regional hospital, women report their physical, mental health and personal needs prior to their first antenatal visit. Little is known about the process of self-reporting health, and how this information is managed during the client-professional meeting.

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

ABSTRACT

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.     

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.     

Evolving Ethical Standards in the Digital Age

ABSTRACT

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.     

河北出版集团融资可能性分析

随着2001年以来国家关于新闻出版行业融资问题的一系列政策的出台,各个出版单位纷纷走上融资之路,各种融资方式正在逐步为出版行业所用。而不久前,辽宁出版集团更是宣布其正在推进经营性资产赴中国香港上市的工作,这一举措进一步突破了阻碍出版行业融资的壁垒,必将为出版行业融资带来新的机遇。但是,对于一个企业来讲,能否顺利融资是个复杂的问题,取决于企业自身、所处行业、政策导向以及市场环境的方方面面。简要分析了国家目前对新闻出版行业改革融资的各项政策、新闻出版行业的核心竞争力、河北出版集团的独特优势,论证了河北出版集团的融资可能性,并结合集团特点,提出了几种可以为集团所用的融资方式。     

“左联”时期的文学生产与编辑出版行为

“左联”时期编辑出版文化在文学发生发展过程中扮演何种角色,其意义决不亚于以往从政治因素、时代社会背景、文学文本构成等方面审视文学;“左联”时期编辑出版行为作为在革命、战争的罅隙间生存的新文学发生机制之一,体现在一是“左联”时期的文学生产与编辑出版文化市场关系密切;二是“左联”时期编辑出版行为有意开拓作者群,在其制约下的新文学生产具有鲜明的文化“现代性”。     

高校信息管理系统的安全关键技术

高校信息管理系统面临的安全威胁问题日趋多样化和复杂化,系统通过统一身份认证、访问控制、数字签名等一系列安全技术设计并实现了实用有效的安全防范机制,为高校信息化办公提供有力的保证。     

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.