Mobility,education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways

Travel for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This special issue examines, within different cultural and historical contexts, the close relationship between migration, education and social mobility. Adopting the perspective that education includes a broad range of formative experiences, the articles explore different educational trajectories and the local, regional and transnational relations in which they are embedded. Three key issues emerge from the analyses: firstly, the central role of temporality in terms of both the overall historical conditions and the specific biographical circumstances shaping educational opportunities; secondly, the complex agendas informing individuals’ migration and the adjustment of these agendas in the light of the vagaries of migrant life; and thirdly, the importance of migrants’ self-perception as ‘educated persons’ and the invention of new, and the maintaining of old, identities that this involves.     

‘I don't have anything to hide,but … ': the challenges and negotiations of social and mobile media privacy for non-dominant youth

Drawing from interviews and focus groups with teens in a low-income and ethnically diverse high school in central Texas, this paper explores the unique social privacy challenges and strategies of low-income and non-dominant youth. Situating the research in a broader context in which non-dominant teens are increasingly surveilled, I demonstrate how teens manage social privacy in at least three ways. First, they negotiate liminal boundaries of what constitutes a communal or shareable mobile device, which are structured around financial constraints. Second, through nonuse, they actively resist the ways mobile and social media reconfigure social and physical spaces. Third, they deliberately use multiple platforms as a way to cope with evolving privacy settings, social norms, and technological affordances; this is a deliberate strategy intended to resist social convergence. Because low-income and non-dominant youth are increasingly surveilled by adults, peers, and institutions, it is imperative that they find spaces that afford greater freedom of expression, interest-based communities, and privacy.     

移动支付:支付宝服务协议与消费者权益保护

通过对支付宝的服务协议和中国现有的法律框架的评估与分析,以支付宝为例,从与消费者息息相关的安全、隐私、透明度和赔偿责任等方面的具体细节问题,探索了非金融机构在移动支付领域的消费者权益保护中存在的法律问题,并结合相关法律规定探讨了在移动支付服务领域,特别是非金融机构应采取措施更好地保护消费者权益的法律监管.     

Enabling,structuring and creating elite transnational lifestyles: intermediaries of the super-rich and the elite mobilities industry

ABSTRACT

This article considers how the migration industries lens can be usefully employed in understanding how professional intermediaries enable, structure, and create transnational migration lifestyles of the super-rich. In particular, we examine how intermediaries and their services (1) enable the continued sustenance of transnational migration lifestyles for this group of elites; and (2) structure and create elite transnational lifestyles. This article primarily draws on interviews with professional intermediaries who service the super-rich, and content analysis of their websites and brochures. Inspired by insights from the new mobilities paradigm (and in particular the politics of mobility), we argue for an expanded conceptualisation of the migration industries beyond the literature’s current focus on labour recruitment and migration management. Specifically, we suggest thinking of the migration industries as a collection of actors and services that enable, structure, and create different types of ‘migrants’, their spaces and their highly uneven transnational mobilities – including that of the super-rich and their elite transnational lifestyles. We conclude with suggestions for a research agenda that may help to better understand the role of intermediaries in the creation of differentiated mobilities.     

移动新媒体时代大学生思想政治工作的探思

以智能手机为接收与交互终端的移动新媒体已经越来越广泛深入地渗透到大学生的学习和生活中。在给思想政治工作带来积极作用的同时,也造成了一些消极影响。高校思想政治工作者要把握契机,创新方法,充分利用新载体,打造思想政治教育新阵地,加强和改进大学生思想政治教育工作。     

设计理念创新的实现条件与发展趋势——以手机设计为例

设计是满足人们物质与精神需要的富于想像力的开发活动。随着科技的进步,手机的普及,人们对手机的功能与外观不断提出新的要求。手机生产企业要在残酷的手机市场竞争中赢得份额,就要求设计师不断创新手机设计理念,创造出满足广大消费者不断变化的功能需求与审美需求的手机。根据顾客的心理需求,创新设计思维方法,强化个性化、人性化、绿色化的手机设计理念,是手机造型设计理念创新的实现条件与发展趋势。     

新媒体背景下短视频传播凉山彝族文化研究

随着信息技术的发展,数字化时代已悄然进入大众生活。传播媒介迭代更新,作为一种新型社交媒体的移动短视频,以简便性、趣味性、碎片化、多感官性与强交互性等特征,迅速被大众接受。新媒体环境下,短视频创作已经成为社会发展的潮流,短视频的创作既可以促进社会文化的发展,也可以限制原有文化的传播。通过分析移动短视频平台的传播特点,剖析其对凉山彝族文化传播带来的问题与影响,并提出相应的策略,探讨这种变化对彝族文化传承与创新性传播具有重要的意义。     

移动互联新媒体与传统媒体之比较

个性化、即时化与低成本的媒体新平台对传统通信与媒体的格局和产业形态产生了前所未有的冲击,报纸销量锐减,报业巨头陷入困境,实体书店乏人问津。本文对移动互联新媒体报纸与传统媒体作了比较,并对对其如何利用、应对作了探讨。     

Extending pension and savings scheme coverage to the informal sector: Kenya's Mbao Pension Plan

The Mbao Pension Plan is a voluntary individual account savings plan to which all workers in Kenya may contribute without regard to income or age. It is designed to provide a programme that is suitable for the unique nature of the informal sector and to encourage a savings culture for those workers. The key innovation is that low‐income workers can easily make small contributions at relatively low cost, considering the small contributions and small account balances. Participants can conveniently make contributions anytime and anywhere using their cell phones. This savings innovation is made possible by technological innovations that have reduced the costs of cell phones and airtime, and by the entrepreneurial innovation of mobile money. The plan is provided through private‐sector businesses.     

电信与广电业务融合及其走向

电信与广电的业务融合受到多方面因素的制约，融合模式值得探索。从业务融合形态出发，基于电信与广电在业务融合中的优势、劣势，分别就电信与广电融合的业务模式、合作模式、盈利模式进行分析并提出建议，指明电信与广电业务融合模式的方向。