Does money talk? A framing analysis of the Chinese Government’s strategic communications in the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank1

This study investigates the public relations strategies employed by the Chinese Government to convince other countries to join the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). A framing analysis was conducted to examine the presence, valence, and evolution of the framed messages involving soft power resources and the dimensions of the relationship between organizations and the public. The findings included the following: (a) China’s economic strength was the predominant soft power resource; (b) the relational frames disclosed China’s strategic intention in attempting to expand the narrow space that is currently available for the country’s international activities by expressing willingness to obey the rules of the existing US-dominated economic order; and (c) international newspapers showed more interest in and more negative attitudes toward the relational dimension of trust, which indicates the need for the Chinese Government to continue to dispel doubts about the geopolitical role of the AIIB.     

投资者现状偏见及其影响因素的实验研究

现状偏见是影响投资者决策的一个重要因素,现有的研究主要利用前景理论对其进行阐释。框架效应、投资者情绪以及信息结构在投资者现状偏见中发挥着重要作用,本文利用实验的方法研究了三者对投资者现状偏见的影响,研究结果表明:差值投资组合框架中投资者被试的现状偏见程度高于比率投资组合框架中投资者被试的现状偏见程度;三种情绪组中均存在投资者现状偏见,积极情绪下被试的偏见水平较低,消极情绪下被试的偏见水平较高;被试选择信息结构确定的选项是选择信息模糊选项的5倍,投资者被试对外在现状赋值的偏见程度小于自我现状赋值。     

符码、分类与架构:符码理论的主要思想及学术争辩

伯恩斯坦以符码为核心,从阶级出发,以分类与架构为经纬建构了符码理论,以此探讨上层阶级通过对符码进行隐而不显的操控完成学校教育的控制,进而达到"文化再制"与"权力再制"的目的,试图阐明符码、文化传递与社会再制之间错综复杂的关系。由于伯恩斯坦思想进出多个领域,导致学者常依不同的参照点来定位他的思想特性,因而引发了一些学术上的争论,如符码与教育不平等、符码控制与学校自主性、解释范围过于宽泛和理论范式的完整性等。多少有些吊诡的是,这些批判性争论不仅没有减弱符码理论的解释力,其批判的深度和丰富性反而进一步证明甚至强化了符码理论的重要价值。     

Clothing and social movements: Tibet and the politics of dress

The ‘cultural turn’ in social movement studies has brought a renewed outlook on new social movements and lifestyle movements. In this development on the symbolic challenge of contemporary movements, research has expanded to both music and art. However, little is known about the role of clothing in movements and how activists use it for social change. In making the case for a greater consideration of clothing’s tactical use in identity work, this paper explores the case of the Tibetan Lhakar movement. I argue that for Lhakar activists, clothing is the materialization of the political consciousness of the movement and symbolically acts as a mechanism of communication in shaping its political goals. By using social media to observe individualized collective actions of wearing Tibetan clothing, the paper demonstrates how activists frame and create new political opportunity structures for civic participation in a one party state that controls all speech and movement.     

重构时间:《新女性》与20世纪30年代上海殖民现代性的电影表现

现代性神话与“新”的观念密不可分。“新”的实质在于对时间的重构。而作为视觉媒介的电影将作为抽象的时间概念的“新”物质化和视觉化了。电影《新女性》是体现30年代上海现代性的典型的视觉文本,重新审读影片对相互冲突的时间的融会、规范和安排,可能得到对30年代上海殖民现代性最好的阐释。     

Effect of framing on cognitive processing in public relations

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of message framing on cognitive processing by employees of an internal organizational message. A between-subject factorial experimental design with random assignment was used to test the moderating role of message frames on cognitive processing. Subjects in the study produced a significantly different number of thoughts in response to messages with different frames. The different frames presented also resulted in generation of different topics of thought for participants. This difference in cognitive response to a message may point to a difference in the salience of the message for the audience. The results of this study underscore the need for public relations practitioners to understand the needs and motivations of internal audiences and to contextualize internal messages for increased effectiveness in persuasion.     

Framing Child Sexual Abuse: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Newspaper and Television Coverage, 2002–2012

ABSTRACT

The way in which the news media frame child sexual abuse can influence public perception. This content analysis of the child sexual abuse coverage of eight national news organizations in the United States from 2002 to 2012 includes the two dominant events of the Catholic Church and Pennsylvania State University child sexual abuse scandals. Census and systematic stratified sampling techniques were applied to articles obtained from the Lexis/Nexis Academic database, resulting in a sample of 503 articles. Intercoder reliability was ensured by double coding a randomly selected sample. Study findings indicate a shift in the attribution of responsibility of child sexual abuse among news organizations over the past decade from an individual-level problem with individual-level solutions to a societal-level problem with institutional culpability. Nevertheless, individual-level solutions continue to be framed as the best possible solution.     

Upper Middle Class NIMBY in Phoenix: The Community Dynamics of the Development Process in the Arcadia Neighborhood

This article highlights the role that neighborhood activism plays in the development process. The article particularly highlights the Arcadia Camelback Neighborhood Association's (ACMNA) fight against, and collaboration with, developers at the intersection of 44th Street and Camelback Road in Phoenix, AZ, where issues of place, community empowerment, and attitudes of not-in-my-back- yard (NIMBYism) played out. The role of neighborhood activism is evaluated using interview, survey, and archival data, including news media reports and meeting minutes, with regards to the ACMNA and struggles to stave off development. The results of the research point out that the community is essential in shaping the development process and that without community support including collaboration between communities and developers, major development projects face a difficult road to completion, this is particularly evident when wealthy neighborhood NIMBY campaigns are at the forefront of the debate over development.     

Keynote Address: Impact of the Future on College Health

Abstract

Objective: The authors investigated the effect of gain-framed (GF) compared with loss-framed (LF) messages on exercise behaviors in normal weight and among overweight/class I obese. The authors also examined which groups would have significantly improved exercise behaviors over time. Participants: Sixty-four undergraduates were randomized to the 4 groups by message type and weight category from September 2008 to December 2011. Methods: After screening, students received messages and attended an exercise instruction session. Results: There were no significant differences between GF or LF message groups among normal weight or overweight/obese on the primary outcomes at posttest. After receiving the GF messages, the overweight/obese group was the only group to have a significant increase on all 3 primary outcomes: fitness center attendance (p = .038), combined moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity (p = .005), and strength training (p = .037). Conclusions: The exercise behaviors of undergraduate students who are overweight or obese can benefit from GF messages.