THE NEW MEDIA AND OUR POLITICAL COMMUNICATION DISCONTENTS: DEMOCRATIZING CYBERSPACE

This article argues that the new interactive media have a 'vulnerable potential' to enhance public communications and enrich democracy, which can be realized only through appropriate policy support and imaginative institution building. After outlining the main shortcomings of the prevailing political communication system, certain elements of redemptive potential, inherent in distinctive features of the Internet, are identified. The policy implications of this analysis are then drawn for the public-service obligations of mainstream media, to ensure open access to new media platforms, and to create a 'civic commons' in cyberspace.     

结构性社会问题传播中的五大误区

由于某些制度性、政策性的因素或社会发展中的不可逾越的阶段影响所致,我国不可避免存在着结构性社会问题,本文认为,它们具有全面性、长期性、潜伏性和艰巨性等特点。在全面考察近年新闻传播的基础上,本文指出,在传播结构性社会问题中,媒体出现了结构性失衡、舆论监督力度不足、低俗化、模式化等问题,需要引起有关各方的高度重视。     

NEW MEDIA AND DISTANCE EDUCATION: AN EU-US PERSPECTIVE

This paper presents an overview of the development of new media in the secondary and higher education systems of the European Union (EU) and USA. A combination of driving forces in pedagogical thinking, technological progress and business models have raised new expectations for the wide-spread use of educational technology, such as by providing major market opportunities as in the adult training segment. Many public sector and private commercial initiatives for connecting schools to the Internet, first adopted in the USA, and then in member states of the EU, have met with marked success. Most of the secondary schools are, or are being, wired, if but to a limited extent. The diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the EU schools is particularly rapid given their initially low penetration rate. If American organizations are indeed leading the development of online courses and programmes in the higher education sector, European universities have now realized the importance of investing in this field. However, for new media to significantly improve the educational process in the EU and in the USA, they must be embodied in the complex school or university environment, and be nurtured by new partnerships between business and the academy.     

历史连续性中的“青春党建”:后革命时代走出青年政治冷漠困境的探索

中国共产党在革命战争年代形成的经典党建实践,与后革命时代社会主义市场经济背景下的"青春党建",形成了一种历史的多维张力。这种张力既是党建传统的延续,也是新传统的开创,是历史连续性与历史阶段性的统一。作为这种"敢为人先"探索的主体,浙江嘉兴的"青春党建"工程根据后革命时代去政治化、去神圣化、世俗化的实际,在对党外和党内青年群体的培养重点、活动方式、活动载体、活动内容方面作了一系列创新实践。在理论上深入探讨这一实践,对于保持党的青春活力,保持党的先进性,扩大党的社会基础和增强党的阶级基础和彰显其存在的不足以求在后续实践中改进,都有着十分重要的意义。     

伊拉克战争后沙特阿拉伯与美国关系探析

为了探讨伊拉克战争后沙特阿拉伯与美国的关系,采用历史与现实相结合的研究方法,最后得出结论后萨达姆时代的伊拉克并不能影响沙特阿拉伯和美国的关系.沙特阿拉伯的诸多石油优势、地缘政治地位、在阿拉伯和伊斯兰世界的特殊地位及沙美关系较好的历史基础,这些均是伊拉克无法取代的.巴勒斯坦问题和极端伊斯兰原教旨主义者的活动使两国关系受损,但是这不能从根本上影响到沙美关系.从长远看来,双方在各方面互有所需,仍将是盟友关系.     

论地方电视媒体的媒介生态环境

地方电视媒体在央视、省级电视台以及境外电视机构的挤压下,其生存空间和媒介生态环境的现状都不容乐观。如何在激烈的市场经济的角逐中发挥出地方台应有的优势,获得更大的生存空间?它需要从改革组织机构、规划合理的人力资源和明确行业定位三方面来改善其低效的组织资源、落后的人力资源和封闭的政策资源等具有瓶颈性的媒介生态环境。     

美国进步时代的廉政建设及其对中国的启示

19世纪末20世纪初既是美国历史上一个具有关键意义的转折时期,也是美国历史上政治腐败的高峰期。贪污受贿、收取回扣、巧取豪夺、偷盗欺诈、内部人交易等形形色色的丑闻充斥着当时的美国社会。对这个时代美国社会的腐败现象进行描述,剖析导致腐败的主要原因,系统介绍当时美国所采取的反腐措施,对于正在经历着深刻的经济和社会变革,面临着一些与美国进步时代相似问题的转型时期的中国来说是非常必要的,这可以为廉政建设提供有益的历史借鉴。     

关于民国时期中国国际化问题的新思考

用国际化视角研究现代中国的观点,在过去几十年的大部分时间里不为西方史学界主流所认可.事实上,在中国现代意义上的国家的诞生过程中,中国已经融入全球体系当中.自1912年中华民国建立后,与更为宽广的世界的相互作用往往以决定性的方式影响着中国的发展面貌,正如中国在世界历史发展过程中所起的作用一样.如果不是特别注重从国际化的角度来考察,简直无法正确地理解现代中国史.要研究那个时代中国国际化的历史,我们就不能将国内和国外截然分开,而是应该以同步研究国内外的国际化进程为目标.     

儿童信息危机与对策探析

儿童信息危机包括信息泛滥、信息污染、信息虚拟和信息图像化，其主要影响体现在三个方面：儿童加速了“成人化”倾向，呈现出“催赶式”的成长状况；儿童读写能力下降，深度思考和逻辑思维能力欠缺；儿童无法准确提炼有效信息，易受不良信息和虚拟信息的误导。应对儿童信息危机的对策如下：保护儿童的权利，与儿童共享信息权；注重儿童的媒介参与，加强媒介素养教育；制定和完善国家信息政策，颁布儿童互联网保护法律；加强信息监督管理，提高专业人员的媒介自律精神；注重印刷媒体的使用和推广。     

Clean diesel and dirty scandal: The echo of Volkswagen’s dieselgate in an intra-industry setting

In 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that German car manufacturer Volkswagen had illegally installed software to produce fake NOx-emissions results. This study aims to analyze how the German news media framed VW’s role. Furthermore, since the scandal shifted from a single company to an industry-wide crisis, this contribution also aims to establish whether the German news media reframed the crisis as an industry-wide phenomenon in 2018. The results show that the Dieselgate was reframed in 2018 as an industry-wide scandal where the conflict, morality, and attribution of responsibility frame were most dominant. We argue that the first wrongdoer in an industry creates a crisis history, which potentially becomes an intensifying factor for competitors who are confronted with similar crises in a later stage. Findings extend the theoretical premise of an organizational reputation as postulated in SCCT, as the organizational reputation is most likely influenced by changing industry-wide perceptions as well.