建立网络时代的政治思想传播话语

网络社会的人们用一种新的符号来表达内心的感受 ,用新的行为方式来创造虚拟世界和美的情感 ,新的社会话语产生。要做好网络时代的政治思想教育工作就必须了解和掌握网络时代话语和网络时代政治思想的特点 ,并通过建立网络时代的政治思想传播话语 ,来达到有效的政治思想教育传播绩效     

社会网络交往与政治信任——基于JSNET数据的实证分析

文章使用2009年八城市"社会网络与职业调查"数据,考察了当前中国大城市居民的政治信任状况,并在此基础上探索个体网络交往和公共参与交往对居民政治信任水平的影响。实证分析发现,春节拜年网和社交餐饮网指标对政治信任水平无影响关系甚至存在负面影响,但是对于公共事务的关心程度和社团参与程度,与政治信任水平存在正向关系。因此,发展社团组织、鼓励群众关注公共事务,是提升城市居民的政治信任的有效渠道。     

“互联网+”助推民营经济发展路径探析

在“互联网+”时代,新技术迅速发展,各种信息变得更为透明,民营经济若想充分利用现有资源,探索出适合企业的发展路径,就必须充分利用好互联网平台,将互联网与企业深度融合,充分发挥“互联网+”中“+”的作用。但是由于在利用互联网探索发展路径的过程中,存在领导层网络意识淡薄、难以改变旧有的商业模式、构建网络平台能力差、与合作企业之间存在信任短板等方面的问题,导致在平台利用上缺少一定的条件。在这种情况下,民营企业要充分认识“互联网+”,并且抓住机遇,融入“互联网+”的大潮中,树立互联网思维模式,努力构建网络信息中心平台,提升民营企业互联网接入水平,政府也应搭建相应的网络平台促进民营经济转型升级。     

民族政策宣传面临的新形势与应对策略

我国团结和谐的民族关系在不断巩固的同时,也面临着许多新情况、新问题,民族地区突发事件的频发度与危害的严重性呈上升趋势,网络和新闻媒体成为民族政策宣传和信息传播的重要渠道和平台,民族政策宣传已进入了国际传播的范畴,面临着新形势、新任务。因此,必须突破传统的宣传模式和理念,建立和创新行之有效的运行机制和保障机制,增强民族政策宣传的效果。     

高校网络思想政治教育发展探讨

本文主要针对网络领域出现的新情况,就网络思想政治教育所涉及的模式、方法和手段、内容、环境、教育对象和教师队伍等要素的变革和发展进行分析探讨。     

Networks for Welfare Provision: Getting a Grip on Processes of Social Exclusion by Evaluating Network Effectiveness

It has been repeatedly stated that the topic of network effectiveness has often been neglected. This has led to a situation of ‘network euphoria’ amongst practitioners and policymakers with regard to the creation of networks as a means to (re‐)organize welfare provision. Starting from a case study of networks for welfare provision in two Belgian cities, this article focuses on the effectiveness of service delivering networks at the client level, which is understood as the contribution of the network in improving the conditions of life of those being served or targeted by the network. Therefore, we focused on the collective efforts via these networks (e.g. by creating a night shelter or by conducting case consultations) to look after a population of homeless people who face multiple problems and are not able yet to benefit from welfare provision. Our findings revealed that these networks were able to realize a ‘collaborative advantage’ by filling in service gaps and by overcoming fragmentation of care. Nevertheless, these networks equally maintained criteria that restricted the accessibility or usefulness of welfare services provided to homeless people. In the concluding section, we highlight some of the factors that could help us to explain our findings and highlight the tension between the effectiveness of networks at the client level and the effectiveness at the organizational level.     

Evaluating social exclusion interventions in university-community partnerships

Most university-community partnerships (UCPs) involve elements of community-level social exclusion interventions. As such, they face substantial challenges in management and evaluation. This paper highlights the central challenges associated with evaluation of UCP and other social exclusion interventions at the community level, and suggests methods to overcome them. The main body of the paper presents a case study based on a four-year action research involving evaluation of a social exclusion intervention initiated and implemented by a UCP in Israel. The case study highlights the challenges faced by the evaluation team, the solutions provided, and the contribution of the evaluation to improvement and accountability.     

Beyond interviewer effects in the standardized measurement of ego-centric networks

The effects which interviewers exert on the collection of ego-centric networks have recently come into the focus of methodological considerations. Studies consistently show that the size of networks varies depending on the interviewer. We would like to expand on this research strand by pointing to different aspects which have so far gone unremarked in the discussion. First, size is mainly analysed as a network measure which is influenced during data collection, while other common measures such as network density or composition have not received sufficient consideration. Second, large-scale surveys using face-to-face interviews usually allocate interviewers to a single sampling point. Differences between sampling points (locality effects) are attributed to interviewer effects. Hence, we disentangle the effects of the locality and interviewer. Third, the discussion on interviewer effects often follows an “actor-oriented” consideration of how data collection situations are structured by interviewers. Expanding this approach from a relational perspective, we consider the relationship between the interviewers and respondents and whether this relationship influences the collection of network data. To test our hypotheses about the influence of interviewers, the locality and the interviewer-respondent relationship on different network measures, we use data from the 2010 German General Social Survey (n = 2827 respondents, n = 220 interviewers). The multilevel analyses show that the relationship between the interviewer and the respondent is not very relevant. Furthermore, the analyses show that interviewers have an influence on the network size but not on measures of their composition. However, evidence on the prevalence of locality or interviewer effects is mixed. Finally, homophilous interviewer-respondent relationships have very little effect on network characteristics. We find evidence of training and fatigue effects on network size. However, much of the variation in network size caused by the interviewer still remains unexplained. We draw conclusions on how to organize interview situations in surveys.     

Investor commitment to serial entrepreneurs: A multilayer network analysis

Social networks are complex systems composed of interdependent organizations and people with diverse network structures. Understanding network dynamics, such as exchange commitment, requires a methodological toolkit that does not assume away complexity. In this study, we extend a technique for analyzing longitudinal, multilayer network data called network alignment. We introduce a novel metric – intersect proportions – for analyzing similarity between divergent graphs. We demonstrate the application of network alignment and intersect proportions to the context of investor commitment to startups and entrepreneurs. Using this technique, we are able to disentangle exchange commitment across complex networks.     

Are Hearing Voices Networks Compatible with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis?

The most extensively evaluated intervention for auditory hallucinations is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp), which is usually delivered in statutory settings by experienced clinicians. In contrast, peer support networks, such as the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), operate informally using peers to normalise and manage voices. This article compares these two approaches to identify points of synergy and difference. Its analysis suggests the two approaches share many features, but also deviate in important ways that could compensate for each other. Instead of competing with each other as might first be thought, they may actually be complementary. Further, HVN may align comfortably with the values and principles of social work. Social workers seeking to engage with voice hearers may be advised to study the underlying principles of each approach to guide the way in which they can capitalise on intervention opportunities to better assist voice hearers.