Change agent's contribution to recipients' resistance to change: A two-sided story

In the change management literature, most studies on recipients' resistance to change include only the views of agents or of recipients, thereby ignoring that these parties may have different perceptions. In this quantitative study, we include the perceptions of both parties in studying the recipients' resistance and the impact of the agent's leadership behavior. In a sample of 117 agent-recipients groupings, covering 110 different change projects in 90 organizations, we found that agents perceive higher levels of recipients' resistance than do the recipients themselves. Additionally, we found that agents who create space to enable recipients to think and act differently (by employing creating behavior) report higher levels of recipients' resistance, whereas recipients perceive their resistance to be lowered when agents facilitate an emotional connection to the change (framing behavior). The depth of the change appeared to moderate the relationship between agent's leadership behavior and recipients' resistance, indicating that agents and recipients differ in which change leadership behaviors they perceive as increasing or decreasing resistance at different levels of change depth. These findings imply to reconsider the relationship between agent and recipients and we propose some promising avenues for future studies in resistance research.     

Resampling-based Classification Using Depth for Functional Curves

The depths, which have been used to detect outliers or to extract a representative subset, can be applied to classification. We propose a resampling-based classification method based on the fact that resampling techniques yield a consistent estimator of the distribution of a statistic. The performance of this method was evaluated with eight contaminated models in terms of Correct Classification Rates (CCRs), and the results were compared with other known methods. The proposed method consistently showed higher average CCRs and 4% higher CCR at the maximum compared to other methods. In addition, this method was applied to Berkeley data. The average CCRs were between 0.79 and 0.85.     

提炼嘉兴主题文化彰显禾城特色魅力——嘉兴城市主题文化建设构想

为了彰显嘉兴城市的特色魅力,必须提炼嘉兴主题文化。基于嘉兴城市文化的基本特点和嘉兴城市的独特元素,根据城市主题文化提炼的5个原则,嘉兴城市主题文化可以提炼为"棹歌会府,粽子都会",并可从三个方面来构建:一是"以‘棹歌升处,粽香天下’进行城市宣传,推介嘉兴历史文化名城的新形象";二是"以‘棹歌’、‘粽子’进行文化创意,打造嘉兴文化创意产业的新起点";三是"以‘棹歌’、‘粽子’进行视觉形象塑造,构筑嘉兴城市生活的新环境"。     

闻一多书籍装帧封面的视觉要素分析

闻一多是现代一位出色的装帧家,装帧作品虽然不多,但精品不少,尤以封面设计作品较为突出。闻一多的书籍封面设计,在视觉要素运用上,文字新颖多变,图形表现兼容并蓄,色彩运用简洁鲜明,为我国现代书籍装帧艺术的发展做出了贡献。     

美的静悟——视觉冲击力与经典工笔画辨析

经典的绘画作品感染并打动观众，是通过视觉这一感官体验来完成的。因此，在今天展览越来越多、展厅越来越大的情况下，有一些人从简单的视觉体验出发，使“视觉冲击力”这一曾经只运用于设计领域的词汇，在绘画中泛滥，进而波及工笔画领域。文章根据中国传统工笔画的品评标准，结合现代工笔画的绘画创作实践，分析视觉冲击力与经典的工笔画之间的矛盾与联系：经典的工笔画具有一定的视觉冲击，但是具有“视觉冲击力”的工笔画不一定就是经典的画作，真正的经典作品必须具有崇高的审美本质，在经过岁月的检验后，才能焕发出像珍珠一样夺目的光彩。     

Spaces of Pride: A Visual Ethnography of Gay Pride Parades in Italy and the United Kingdom

Gay pride parades represent an active site of production of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), intersexual and queer identities, featuring a spatial and social articulation of political and human rights claims. While the multiplication of these events in different countries suggests the existence of a coherent and cohesive community which shares the same collective identity beyond national borders, different patterns in the organisation, part-taking and social and political connotations given to these events can be observed in different contexts. By means of a comparative visual ethnography of Italian and British Gay Pride Parades, this article investigates how the creation, mobilisation and challenge of quasi-normative LGBT identities occur within the spatial context of gay pride marches. It is argued, in particular, that while gay pride parades are sites in which the socio-political status quo can be successfully challenged, participants are also faced with the possibility of falling prey to dynamics of identity commodification and homonationalism which may ultimately deprive their claims of their subversive potential.     

Young people's orientations to the future: navigating the present and imagining the future

This article discusses the findings of the Imagine Sheppey project (2013–2014) which studied how young people are ‘oriented’ towards the future. The aim and approach of the project were to explore future imaginaries in a participatory, experimental, and performative way. Working with young people in a series of arts-based workshops, we intervened in different environments to alter the space as an experience of change – temporal, material, and symbolic. We documented this process visually and made use of the images produced as the basis for elicitation in focus groups with a wider group of young people. In this article we discuss young people's future orientations through the themes of reach, resources, shape, and value. In so doing, we reflect on the paths that our young respondents traced to connect their presents to what is next, what we call their modes of present–future navigation. We explore the qualities and characteristics of their stances within a wider reflection about how young people approach, imagine, and account for the future.     

摄影中的“新纪实”与“超现实”话语——以塞巴斯提奥·萨尔加多和杰瑞·尤斯曼为例

摄影是“自然之笔”与现实相对应。塞巴斯提奥·萨尔加多用镜头记录了真实的社会生活,其作品所表现的个体与群像在纪实品格外凸显出强烈的视觉美感和深刻性,形成了“新纪实摄影”风格;而杰瑞·尤斯曼的“超现实摄影”与前者相异,他用纯熟的后期暗房合成技术,通过底片叠加创造出现实中不存在的幻景,在具体与抽象之间拓展了作品的精神内涵和时空维度。文章以两位摄影大师为例,从三个维度来比较“新纪实摄影”与“超现实主义摄影”：“标记符”与“象似符”;“视觉寓言”;审美欲求。     

On smoothness of Tukey depth contours

The smoothness of Tukey depth contours is a regularity condition often encountered in asymptotic theory, among others. This condition ensures that the Tukey depth fully characterizes the underlying multivariate probability distribution. In this paper we demonstrate that this regularity condition is rarely satisfied. It is shown that even well-behaved probability distributions with symmetrical, smooth and (strictly) quasi-concave densities may have non-smooth Tukey depth contours, and that the smoothness behaviour of depth contours is fairly unpredictable.