Building a System of Indicators to Evaluate the Right of a Child to Play

This study presents the results of a research project whose objective is to propose measures to evaluate the right of children to engage in play, as recognised in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. After exhausting documentation and statistical sources, a lack of measures related to this right was clear. This led to the formation of discussion groups about play with schools, families and social agents. From this, an initial matrix was developed and submitted to experts who selected the most suitable measures. This resulted in the SIDERJU matrix, composed of measures for the structure, process and result.     

Playful organisations: Undecidability as a scarce resource

This article explores how organisational play becomes a managerial tool to increase and benefit from undecidability. The article draws on Niklas Luhmann's concept of decision and on Gregory Bateson's theory of play to create a conceptual framework for analysing the relation between decision and undecidability. With an empirical point of departure in Danish public school policy and two concrete examples of games utilised in school development, the article analyses how play is a way for organisations to simultaneously decide and also avoid making a decision, thus keeping flexibility and possibilities intact. In its final sections, the article discusses what happens to conditions of decision-making when organisations do not just see undecidability as a given condition, but as a limited resource indispensable for change and renewal. The article advances discussions of organisational play by exploring the consequences play has for the very conditions of organising and for key concepts in organisation theory.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
James Paul Gee, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Alastair Pennycook, English and the Discourses of Colonialism
Allan Bell and Peter Garrett (eds.), Approaches to Media Discourse
Isabella Paoletti, Being an Older Woman: A Study in the Social Production of Identity
Karl Erik Rosengren, Communication: An Introduction     

Using the Internet to Meet Sexual Partners: Research and Practice Implications

ABSTRACT

Recent research studies suggest increasingly widespread use of Internet sexual networking sites to initiate sexual relationships among men who have sex with men. Concerns are growing in regard to use of such sites in promoting participation in higher-risk sexual activities by providing easier access to partners who are willing to participate. One such activity surrounds substance abuse including using crystal methamphetamine and is commonly termed “party and play” (PNP) during sexual encounters, particularly unprotected anal sex. Current studies indicate conflicting results on PNP and the meeting of sexual partners from the Internet. A critical examination of these studies is presented along with recommendations designed to support future scholarly inquiry.     

The Assessment of Elaborated Role‐play in Young Children: Invisible Friends,Personified Objects,and Pretend Identities

Role‐play (i.e., pretending in which children imagine and act out the part of another individual) was assessed with child interviews and parent questionnaires about invisible friends, personified objects, and pretend identities in a sample of 208 young children. Children who engaged in role‐play did not differ from other children in age or vocabulary comprehension. However, they were better able to generate a pretend conversation than other children and were rated by their parents as less shy. The overall pattern of results suggests that the capacity to interact with imaginary others (in and out of the lab) is more closely associated with individual differences in personality than developmental level.     

论长沙电视台电视剧差异化生存策略——以《雍正王朝》《走向共和》《恰同学少年》为例

长沙电视台,一个名不见经传的内陆电视台,在1999、2003、2007三个年度拍出了风靡全国的《雍正王朝》、《走向共和》、《恰同学少年》三部电视剧。追求差异化的生存策略是它取得成功的重要条件,这一策略的关键点就是内容创新、传播途径创新、功能创新和风格创新。     

“费”的博弈论观

:各种形式的乱收费直接导源于政府公共支出的不断膨胀。从理论上来看 ,收费过程表现为一种各经济行为主体相互之间的博弈 ,并且都存在各自的优超策略从而实现均衡。现实中的博弈虽然有异于理论上的博弈 ,但同样存在各自的优超策略 ,从而同样可以实现优超策略均衡。在收费制度的改革过程中 ,政府政策的目标区域即是这种处于纳什均衡的博弈结局状态空间     

简练:简约与丰厚的结晶──论鲁迅小说的语言风格

简练是鲁迅小说最显著的语言风格。它言简意丰，显示出作者非凡的语言才能和表现技巧，显示出作品语体涩而有味、深而有力、奇诡峭拔的个性魅力．鲁迅小说语言的简炼，来自于表现力和创造力的语言修辞，来自于独具特色的语言结构，来自于巧用词句的个性发挥，来自于普通词语的艺术处理．     

Collection and Research of Population Data in China

正Population Data and Its Function In the rapid social and economic development,the government is attaching great importance and concern to data-a kind of basic,major,objective and authoritative information-in decision-making and management process of daily services.Data is playing an increasingly important role.