Do Parenting and Family Characteristics Moderate the Relation between Peer Victimization and Antisocial Behavior? A 5‐year Longitudinal Study

Past research has demonstrated that relationships with peers and parents play salient roles in various child outcomes. However, little research has examined the confluence of these two factors in the context of peer victimization. In particular, little is known about which family and parental factors mitigate or intensify the impact of adverse peer relations. The current study bridged this gap by testing whether maternal support and family conflict moderated the association between peer victimization and antisocial behavior. Moderation effects were found for girls but not boys. Cross‐lagged path analyses of nationally representative longitudinal data (N = 1046; 53 percent boys; Time 1: M_age = 10.7) showed that, among girls, higher levels of maternal warmth and mother–child communication significantly attenuated the link between early peer victimization and later antisocial outcomes. By contrast, greater family conflict significantly increased antisocial outcomes among girls who experienced peer victimization. For boys, early peer victimization significantly predicted antisocial outcomes, regardless of parenting and family factors. All findings remained significant even after controlling for preexisting antisocial tendencies and demographic factors, as well as for the stability of victimization in the model.     

论生物安全法的风险防控机制

在风险社会背景下，生物安全法的风险防控机制旨在平衡现代生物技术研发应用、生态环境开发利用与生态保护和公共卫生安全保障之间的内在张力，体现并遵循生物安全法的价值理念。风险防控机制由风险评估、风险管理和风险沟通三方面组成，其有效运行需以科学判断的风险评估为前提，适度运用“成本-效益”分析手段，实现风险管理的最优化路径选择，并突破单向度的路径依赖，以实现全面的风险沟通。     

Exploring intergenerational communication and stress in refugee families

More than half of the refugees who have resettled to the United States in recent years have been youth. Refugee youth have often witnessed or experienced violence and family separation prior to resettlement and face barriers to successful resettlement such as language and educational challenges. These factors elevate risk for mental and emotional distress, and protective factors like strong familial relationships are important to promoting mental well‐being. This study utilized focus groups with 36 refugees ages 18 to 25 from four ethnic groups to explore conceptualizations of and communication about mental and emotional distress within and outside of family systems. Youth reported a nuanced conceptualization of their premigration and postmigration stressors and their patterns of communication about distress in three domains: (a) exposure to traumatic stress prior to resettlement, (b) stressful experiences in resettlement, and (c) communication about mental health inside and outside of family groups.     

Reconceptualizing the generation in a digital(izing) modernity: digital media,social networking sites,and the flattening of generations

As digitalization binds society to an apparently perpetual acceleration, questions about the nature of time and speed have gained new urgency in the social sciences. Yet, theorizations of these issues have neglected their implications for social life and generations. Linking these lacunae, this article articulates how digital media and social networking sites (SNS) shape social life through cultural transformations in the generation. This article rationalizes predominant patterns of SNS user behaviors in the context of social theoretical and philosophical frameworks informed by Mannheim, Simmel, Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt, social presence, action, and acceleration theories to offer a relational reconceptualization of the generation as a set of social relations and processes for visualizing changing conceptions of time and speed in a digital (izing) modernity. This article introduces the concept of general and local generationing processes to articulate the processual nature of the generation and to assert that trends in SNS use and content production are underwritten by grammatical logics that collectively “flatten” separate traditional generations to form a cross-demographic and cross-temporal digital generation.     

社区应急疏散动态协作调度优化研究

针对灾民数量和路网通行时间的动态性以及灾民疏散反应系数的随机性，本文提出了社区应急疏散协作调度优化流程，并以疏散灾民数量最大化和疏散成本最小化为目标，构建了社区应急疏散多种运输方式协作调度优化模型，并给出了求解该模型的改进多目标遗传算法。然后，论文使用Tansmodeler模拟社区应急疏散协作调度优化过程，加载疏散灾民动态需求和历史出行时间表，并对模型和算法进行验证。结果表明，该模型和算法可以在有效刻画疏散灾民数量和路网通行时间的基础上，为不同时刻的交通工具配置及疏散路径选取提供决策。     

Communicating Geographical Risks in Crisis Management: The Need for Research

In any crisis, there is a great deal of uncertainty, often geographical uncertainty or, more precisely, spatiotemporal uncertainty. Examples include the spread of contamination from an industrial accident, drifting volcanic ash, and the path of a hurricane. Estimating spatiotemporal probabilities is usually a difficult task, but that is not our primary concern. Rather, we ask how analysts can communicate spatiotemporal uncertainty to those handling the crisis. We comment on the somewhat limited literature on the representation of spatial uncertainty on maps. We note that many cognitive issues arise and that the potential for confusion is high. We note that in the early stages of handling a crisis, the uncertainties involved may be deep, i.e., difficult or impossible to quantify in the time available. In such circumstance, we suggest the idea of presenting multiple scenarios.     

Collecting text messages from college students: Evaluating a novel methodology

Social interaction, particularly in older adolescents, increasingly involves computer‐mediated communication. Although studies of public computer‐mediated communication are increasingly common, studies of private text messaging remain rare. As approaches for obtaining such data evolve with technological advances, developmental scientists need designs in which to use such approaches that reduce sampling biases in both participants and text messages. In this study (n = 854; 46% male; 22% African American, 60% European American), we examined selection biases in the participant sample (i.e., factors associated with actual participation), procedural biases in the participant sample (i.e., factors related to failed data capture due to technological or procedural issues), and selection biases in the sample of text messages (i.e., based on self‐reported reasons for texting). Findings from our study suggest that studying human interaction directly through analysis of text message data is not only feasible, but also may be successfully undertaken with minimal biases regarding sample selection and text message selection among those who are engaged in research and engaged in text messaging outside of the study context. However, biases may occur depending on the type of platform (iPhone vs. Android) used by participants for texting.     

Symposium on political communication and social movements: audience,persuasion, and influence

ABSTRACT

This article argues that an important contribution that political communication can offer social movement studies is a more variegated understanding of social movement audiences and their role in social movement strategy and processes. Specifically, the article introduces a coarse typology of social movement audiences and discusses the importance of understanding differences in the goals of these audiences and what kinds of influence, from messaging or other forms of pressure, may be important to affect different audiences in movements’ favors. The article also examines the ways in which audiences are active, shaping what messages they are exposed to, consume, believe, and act upon. The call of the article is to bring a concern for audiences into social movement studies in the hopes of wedding these more media and communication-focused concerns with the kinds of structural and material influences social movement studies is so accomplished in investigating.     

传播学视域下中国文化“走出去”译介模式探索—以《浮生六记》英译为例

随着中国文化“走出去”的步伐加速,翻译的跨文化传播重要 性愈发突显。基于美国学者拉斯韦尔提出的传播学经典5W传播模式,以 林语堂和Shirley M.Black英译《浮生六记》为例,尝试在传播学视域下 构建以译介主体、译介内容、译介途径、译介受众、译介效果的译介模 式,探讨中国文化如何更为有效地“走出去”。     

明清西方力学在华传播路径研究

明清西方力学在华的传播为中国近代力学发展奠定基础,其传播路径反映了社会文化差异、受众认知特点等在跨文化传播过程中的作用。中国古代知识的积累及明清时期的实学思潮成为西方力学知识在华传播的基石;17世纪初西方力学的发展水平、中西文化差异及明清受众对西方科学的态度转向影响了西方力学在华传播路径的形成;在诸多因素的推动下,西方力学在明清时期呈现出理论与技术各异的传播路径。该路径的形成既是中国传统文化通过重构以吸收西方力学知识的过程,也是中国近代力学发展的缩影。