Differences between the public and private communication of rumors. A pilot survey in Belgium

Liu et al. (2010) and Gelders et al. (2007) called for evidence-based research on differences between public and private sector communication. This article offers such data by focusing on an increasingly important domain of public relations (i.e., corporate communication about rumors vis-à-vis internal and external stakeholders).Our results show government communicators are more frequently confronted with harmful rumors than business communicators but a similar number of respondents from each group have experienced the listed effects and these respondents rate the effects as equally severe. However, fewer public sector communicators have applied most of the proposed strategies, and those who did found them to be in most cases less effective than private sector respondents. In other words, government communicators hear more rumors, experience equally often the negative effects and find them equally severe as business communicators, but they often do not react to them and if they do, they do not find the strategies to be very effective.This study suggests that typical features of public sector organizations, such as the capricious political climate and the influence of party politics, might offer an explanation for these findings.     

Integrated or isolated? The impact of public housing redevelopment on social network homophily

Do mixed income housing programs increase the poor's social network diversity? Using unique, longitudinal, egocentric social network data, this research investigates changes in social network homophily for both Vietnamese and English-speaking original residents of a public housing redevelopment site. Changes in mixing occur for both those who return and those who moved away, but only increases in ethnic mixing were associated with returning to the new site. Thus, changes in social networks may be associated with disruption rather moving to a mixed-income site. Vietnamese residents also experienced increases in ethnic diversity compared to English-speaking respondents. The results raise questions about the social mixing intent of such programs. The high expectations for social network benefits of income mixing housing programs should be tempered.     

农民工共享城市公共资源问题研究——基于苏州市相城区的考察

针对如何让农民工共享城市资源这一社会管理中亟待解决的问题,采用问卷调查法对苏州市相城区农民工享有城市公共资源状况进行实地考察。调查发现,实践中存在着农民工对城市公共资源利用不足、城市公共资源惠及农民工不足的问题,其影响因素主要有政府政策偏好、城市资源状况、市民态度以及农民工组织化程度等。据此,提出了改革户籍制度、将农民工纳入城市公共服务体系以及对农民工实行公共资源分层供给等建议。     

以自主创新促进北京市服务业的发展

目前,自主创新正在加速向服务业渗透,并不断衍伸出全新的服务业态。自主创新极大地改善了北京服务业发展环境,夯实了北京服务业发展基础,对北京服务业发展起到了促进和引导作用。事实也证明了北京自主创新能力与服务业的发展水平有着较高的正相关关系。北京要采取措施,推动服务业自主创新能力的提高。     

对我国与公共卫生事业相分离的医疗保险制度的反思

我国目前建立的狭义的“医疗保险”面临诸多困境“,看病难、看病贵”成为一种社会问题。然而从现实出发,我国处于社会主义初级阶段的国情决定了我们必须探索一条投入产出比高的医疗保险模式实现保障人民身体健康的目标。对于目前已有的制度而言,公共卫生事业是否应与医疗保险制度相结合,是值得反思的问题。     

Why are we more likely to tip some service occupations than others? Theory,evidence, and implications

Ideas about why consumers tip some service occupations more often than others are tested using occupation scores derived from online ratings of 122 service occupations. Results indicate that U.S. consumers are more likely to tip occupations for which (i) workers’ performances can be more easily evaluated by consumers than by managers, (ii) workers provide customized service, (iii) workers’ income, skill and needed judgment are low, and (iv) workers are less happy than customers during the service encounter. Occupations with greater frequency of customer patronage and/or greater likelihood of encountering the same service provider on multiple service occasions are not more likely than other occupations to be tipped. These findings support some and disconfirm other expectations derived from a theory that occupational differences in tipping are attributable to occupation characteristics that more strongly/consistently evoke motives for tipping. They also identify types of services for which counter-normative tipping policies are more or less likely to be successful and suggest sources of resistance that must be overcome if those policies are to succeed.     

Trending Trousers: Debating Kastom,Clothing and Gender in the Vanuatu Mediascape

This paper presents an ethnography of contemporary media practices in Vanuatu, with a particular focus on media narratives and debates around gender equality and women's clothing, exploring how the discourses of kastom, Christianity and ‘modernity’ are being employed and communicated across various media platforms. The use of community media to promote awareness of gender equality through participatory and entertaining content, and the use of mainstream media to communicate a narrative that reinforces existing gendered power structures are each explored. In addition, social media platforms are identified as an emerging communication tool through which users can straddle the line between producers and consumers of media content and narratives, and engage in frank debate around the issue of gender equality.     

上海公共文化服务供给侧改革对策研究

上海公共文化服务供给侧改革需要研究公共服务"要素配置""生产率提升"等问题,让公共文化服务从保基本需求的需求引导型公共文化建设向需求引导型和消费引导型相结合的"大都会公共文化供给机制"转型,打通文化产业与文化事业之间交互配置的渠道,探索适合上海国际文化大都会、国际创意城市建设的公共文化服务新模式,建构政府、企业和公益性志愿机构多主体参与的竞争机制,激发文化服务"全要素生产率"的提升.