NEW MEDIA AND DISTANCE EDUCATION: AN EU-US PERSPECTIVE

This paper presents an overview of the development of new media in the secondary and higher education systems of the European Union (EU) and USA. A combination of driving forces in pedagogical thinking, technological progress and business models have raised new expectations for the wide-spread use of educational technology, such as by providing major market opportunities as in the adult training segment. Many public sector and private commercial initiatives for connecting schools to the Internet, first adopted in the USA, and then in member states of the EU, have met with marked success. Most of the secondary schools are, or are being, wired, if but to a limited extent. The diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the EU schools is particularly rapid given their initially low penetration rate. If American organizations are indeed leading the development of online courses and programmes in the higher education sector, European universities have now realized the importance of investing in this field. However, for new media to significantly improve the educational process in the EU and in the USA, they must be embodied in the complex school or university environment, and be nurtured by new partnerships between business and the academy.     

传播政治经济学的学术脉络与人文关怀

传播政治经济学是传播学的重要研究流派之一,其学术发展与资本主义体系在全球范围内的建立、急剧扩张以及与之相抗争的社会运动的发展密切相关.这一学派不仅弥补了侧重行政导向与市场导向的美国主流传播研究之缺失,而且解构了主流传播研究的知识生产与社会权力关系.传播政治经济学对当前资本主义高度商业化、集中化、去管制化、国家化的传播制度与传播现象进行了深刻的批判,体现出全球传播政治经济学学者们在不同层面与场域所进行的超越资本主义的社会转型的各种努力.     

论地方电视媒体的媒介生态环境

地方电视媒体在央视、省级电视台以及境外电视机构的挤压下,其生存空间和媒介生态环境的现状都不容乐观。如何在激烈的市场经济的角逐中发挥出地方台应有的优势,获得更大的生存空间?它需要从改革组织机构、规划合理的人力资源和明确行业定位三方面来改善其低效的组织资源、落后的人力资源和封闭的政策资源等具有瓶颈性的媒介生态环境。     

儿童信息危机与对策探析

儿童信息危机包括信息泛滥、信息污染、信息虚拟和信息图像化，其主要影响体现在三个方面：儿童加速了“成人化”倾向，呈现出“催赶式”的成长状况；儿童读写能力下降，深度思考和逻辑思维能力欠缺；儿童无法准确提炼有效信息，易受不良信息和虚拟信息的误导。应对儿童信息危机的对策如下：保护儿童的权利，与儿童共享信息权；注重儿童的媒介参与，加强媒介素养教育；制定和完善国家信息政策，颁布儿童互联网保护法律；加强信息监督管理，提高专业人员的媒介自律精神；注重印刷媒体的使用和推广。     

Clean diesel and dirty scandal: The echo of Volkswagen’s dieselgate in an intra-industry setting

In 2015 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that German car manufacturer Volkswagen had illegally installed software to produce fake NOx-emissions results. This study aims to analyze how the German news media framed VW’s role. Furthermore, since the scandal shifted from a single company to an industry-wide crisis, this contribution also aims to establish whether the German news media reframed the crisis as an industry-wide phenomenon in 2018. The results show that the Dieselgate was reframed in 2018 as an industry-wide scandal where the conflict, morality, and attribution of responsibility frame were most dominant. We argue that the first wrongdoer in an industry creates a crisis history, which potentially becomes an intensifying factor for competitors who are confronted with similar crises in a later stage. Findings extend the theoretical premise of an organizational reputation as postulated in SCCT, as the organizational reputation is most likely influenced by changing industry-wide perceptions as well.     

融媒体时代下医学院校官方微信公众号建设探析——以福建医科大学为例

探讨福建医科大学官方微信公众号在建设中遵循媒体规律、搭建服务功能、引领思想政治教育、传播校园文化的成效，分析其文章阅读量、传播指数WCI、推送位置和传播效果，结果表明，可基于新闻价值与信息性质准确传递思想内涵，以全程、全息、全员和全效为官微发展创新赋能，推进医学人文精神传播，构建思想政治教育融媒体的官微模式。     

Risk‐Taking and the Media

In recent years, media formats with risk‐glorifying content, such as video games that simulate illegal street racing (“bang and crash” games), films about extreme sports, and risky stunts have emerged as top sellers of the media industry. A variety of recent studies conducted by several researchers revealed that exposure to risk‐glorifying media content (e.g., video games that simulate reckless driving, smoking and drinking in movies, or depictions that glorify extreme sports) increases the likelihood that recipients will show increased levels of risk‐taking inclinations and behaviors. The present article (1) reviews the latest research on the detrimental impact of risk‐glorifying media on risk‐taking inclinations (cognitions, emotions, behaviors), (2) puts these findings in the theoretical context of recent sociocognitive models on media effects, and (3) makes suggestions to science and policymakers on how to deal with these effects in the future.     

Won't somebody please think of the children? Or,South Park fanfic and the political realm

Comedy Central’s South Park has proved a bone of contention for traditional guardians of youth culture. From the denunciations of pressure groups on one hand, to academics attempting to claim South Park for various political positions on the other, it is ironic that a show addressing the failure of official pedagogy has had so little attention paid to its young fans. Academics argue over the ‘message’ of South Park, in a socio-political sense, or denounce it for irresponsibly embracing post-political cynicism. Yet as Mendes et al. have argued, to draw a false division between youth entertainment and some pre-conceived notion of the political realm is a fallacy: young people’s engagement with and meaning-making practices derived from popular culture are political in themselves. This paper uses a politically informed conception of discourse analysis developed from Laclau and Mouffe to code the top-rated South Park fanfics from Fanfiction.net, a site whose primary demographic is teenagers, in pursuit of the messages young people perceive and make of the show. This project prefers concrete data over impressionistic views of ‘young people’, and attends to what teenage fans make of and do with the text, rather than imagining them as passive consumers absorbing inherent messages.     

总统电台演讲中情态隐喻功能分析

本文分析总统电台演讲中情态隐喻的人际功能，揭示情态隐喻对实现总统政治目的重要作用。     

Media coverage and issue visibility: State legislative responses to school bullying

Dealing with the schoolyard bully is an age-old problem; however, legislators have only recently tackled it at the state level. This study examines the adoption of anti-bullying policies from the policy diffusion and innovation perspective with an emphasis on the role of print media coverage. The study contributes to the policy diffusion literature by examining both national and local media coverage as conduits for diffusion and adds to the expanding views of the diffusion process beyond the traditional geographic proximity argument. Further, it provides the first examination of an emerging policy area important to education policy scholars. The findings show issue saliency via national media coverage drives policy adoption beyond any geographic proximity.