The shtetl in the museum: representing Jews in the eras of Stalin and Putin

This article considers the representation of the shtetl in two museum narratives devoted to Jews in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. The first, the state-funded 1939 exhibit “The Jews in Tsarist Russia and the USSR” was organized by the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad and remained on display to the Soviet public until the Nazi invasion in June 1941. The second is the privately funded Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, which opened in 2012. Though conceived under radically different ideological and political circumstances, each exhibition conveys a significant message about the place of Jews in Soviet and post-Soviet society, respectively, and each positions the shtetl as a formative arena for Jewish civic identity vis-à-vis the Russian homeland. Across the chasm of over seventy years, these two museum projects raise strikingly similar questions about how and why cultural institutions are mobilized to define the relationship of Ashkenazi Jews and the state. In both cases, the shtetl plays a significant role in narrating this unequal relationship.     

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虚拟参考咨询服务主要有电子邮件、FAQ、实时虚拟、合作虚拟等四种咨询服务模式。目前国内虚拟参考咨询服务还不够普及，还有很大发展空间，其趋势朝网络信息化和全球合作化发展。     

对网络主体道德行为失范的成因分析

互联网的诞生与发展,迅速地改变着人类的社会生活,但这并不意味着人类从此走向了文明。网络技术从性质上讲是中性的,它在造福人类的同时,也带来了经济、政治、文化、法律、伦理等诸多道德失范问题,衍生了如网络色情、金融诈骗、窃取机密、造谣中伤、制造社会混乱等网络异化现象。网络主体道德行为失范,生存空间的二元性是前提;不良的道德观和价值观是基础;病态心理是动因;网络无法可依、主体教育脱节是外在条件。把握这些成因,对扭转网络主体道德行为失范现象具有重要意义。     

And I Still Love Them: On Touching Loss

In this article, the author performs a re‐membering practice that incorporates a relational materialist theory. It traces the disturbances that follow in the wake of three deaths in her family. Written in an autoethnographic voice, the article is a polyphonic composition of the narrative therapy approach of re‐membering entangled with the spacetimematter of silence, speaking, sitting, staying, presence, absence, loss of momentum, dreams, trees, books, cardiac pace‐makers, writing, breath, ashes, murmuring, suffering. Thus, the dispersed agencies of bodies, human and non‐human, reinvigorate a linguistic practice and the author's personal and professional life.     

The Presentation of Avatars in Second Life: Self and Interaction in Social Virtual Spaces

What do interactions in virtual spaces suggest about everyday life in the digital age? How do interactions in virtual spaces shape everyday life in the digital age? Guided by hypermodern theory, I conduct participant observation in the social virtual world Second Life to provide tentative answers to those questions. I suggest that Second Life is both a social psychological playground where participants enjoy individualistic fantasies and a virtual community where they collaborate on collective projects. When people define the virtual as real, it is real in its consequences. Accordingly, social virtual spaces such as Second Life offer sociologists unique opportunities for research, education, intervention, and hence the development of a virtual imagination.     

When images matter: Internet child pornography, forms of observation and an ethics of the virtual

The arrest of Pete Townshend, lead guitarist for The Who, for downloading and possessing Internet child pornography and the publicity surrounding the case provides an initial point of discussion concerning the emergence of an ethics of the image that is not predicated on the actual evidential status of that image but on more virtual forms of observation. The discussion in this article focuses on three substantive aspects of this event - legislation in the UK and the US, expert psychological discourse, and public discussion in the UK press - in order to present a particular and situated rendering of forms of virtual observation. The context to this discussion concerns the notion that digital imaging technology presages a need for new legislation, law enforcement and social analytical frameworks for understanding and tackling the production, distribution and consumption of images of child sexual abuse.     

Digital identities – overcoming visual bias through virtual embodiment

ABSTRACT

This study sheds new light on the role of identity in virtual environments when virtual representation of self is in support of disabled individuals and the potential impact of their virtual identity on work opportunities. It is widely understood that individuals who live with disability often experience a lifetime of bullying, exclusion, marginalization and rejection. They often experience workplace bias and discrimination. Yet, when they can create an identity and experience embodiment in virtual environments, the results can be extraordinarily powerful – even life-changing. This research builds on nearly a decade of ethnographic research in 3D online immersive social virtual worlds; seven of those years working with disability communities to answer the following: RQ1: In a virtual world where one can choose any avatar form, how does that visual sense of self-representation influence one’s ability to gain access to a social network, to be a leader in that network, and to find work? RQ2: How does realism in representation influence work experiences in these digital worlds? The results reveal the importance of choice in online representation of avatars in creating work and online social engagement. Implications contribute to our understanding of visual bias in the workplace and how emerging virtual reality technologies may open new avenues for meaningful work and social interactions for people with disabilities.     

Colonized Silence: Confronting the Colonial Link in Rural Alaska Native Survivors’ Non-Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse

Though there is evidence linking the history of colonialism and oppression of Indigenous people to the high rates of rape and child sexual abuse experienced by this population today, it is less understood how colonial processes, past and present, condition the decision to disclose or report victimization. Drawing on a survivorship storytelling study of rural Alaska Native survivors of child sexual abuse, this paper underscores the importance of centering colonialism in understanding the culture of silence surrounding sexual victimization among Indigenous people. Results show that reasons for non-disclosure are quite embedded within larger social, historical and political themes of colonialism, oppression, and marginalization. Implications for policy and praxes are discussed, as well as a broader mandate of social change to remove barriers to disclosure.     

性别价值观视野下的农村出生性别失衡原因的综合分析

出生婴儿性别失衡问题是一个关系到国计民生的重大人口社会问题,农村出生性别失衡更是如此。农村出生婴儿性别失衡的直接原因是性别选择性生育;根本原因是偏好男性的性别价值观。农民的性别价值观有其现实的合法基础:生产方式、养老方式、婚居方式、父系制度。调适农村出生婴儿性别失衡的现行政策措施存在三方面的问题:治标不治本;社会问题解决行政强制化;政策目标与生育者个体和家庭利益诉求相矛盾。因此遏制农村出生性别比失衡应坚持三原则:科学的态度;标本兼治;农民个人利益和家庭利益应纳入到政策的考量范围。     

虚拟仿真婴幼儿实验教学模式构建与运行策略——以山东英才学院学前教育学院为例

与传统实验室相比,虚拟仿真实验室在实验类型、成本与实验条件等方面更有优势,在高校实验教学中的地位越来越重要。山东英才学院积极开展教育资源的信息化、虚拟化和仿真化的建设与应用,通过虚拟仿真婴幼儿实验教学体系基点、目标、方案的构建,对虚拟仿真实验进行合理设计,在创新学前教育人才培养机制方面进行深入研究,旨在推动虚拟实验教学模式的形成和有效运行。