‘Agonised Weeping’: Representing Femininity,Emotion and Infanticide in Edwardian Newspapers

Newspaper reports of actual or suspected infanticide were by no means unusual in early twentieth-century England, yet few of these ever resulted in conviction on the capital charge. This article traces the ways in which both local and national newspapers reported on one of the rare cases which a woman was sentenced to death for the murder of her baby: the 1909 trial of Alice Cleaver at the Central Criminal Court. Despite clear evidence of her guilt, newspapers focused instead on the ways in which the defendant had conformed to ideas about respectable femininity, and were united in depicting Cleaver as deserving of judicial and public sympathy. Comparing press reports of the trial with unpublished Home Office papers also reveals the deliberate silence of the press on matters which conflicted with the ‘standard’ representation of infanticide cases—including the fact that Cleaver had a learning disability.     

Willingness to communicate,communication apprehension,introversion, and self‐reported communication competence: Finnish and American comparisons

The purpose of this research was to make comparisons between Finnish persons and persons from other populations, particularly those from the United States, on a variety of common measures of communication orientations. The results of the study indicated that differences between Finnish and United States samples do exist, but the differences are primarily restricted to willingness to communicate and introversion. Data relating to communication apprehension and self‐perceived communication competence for the two cultures are remarkably similar. However, these two variables appear to be much less predictive of willingness to communicate for Finns than they are for Americans.     

报业生态中的免费报纸：综述、解析与展望

本文以免费报纸作为探讨的对象,时免费报纸的兴起与发展、国外的免费报纸发展状况及我国的免费报纸发展各自进行了评述.在此基础上用理论的视野对免费报纸出现的原因、免费报纸作为营销手段,作为报业环境变化的应对之策等层面进行分析;最后提出了免费报纸持续性发展的展望.     

马哈蒂尔与传媒

本文通过阐述马哈蒂尔反对传媒过度自由化、促使华文传媒政党化、希望新闻报道有建设性三个内容 ,探讨马哈蒂尔实行比较严厉的新闻政策的原因与成效。     

电视广告中女性刻板形象的成因与对策研究

电视广告中女性刻板形象主要有贤妻良母型、性感美女型、小鸟依人型、强势女人型等类型,其成因是多方面的,对社会健康发展造成的消极影响也是多方面的。因此,必须更新观念,建立和健全一系列制度和机制,营造一个更加健康的传媒生态环境。     

EDITORIAL

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Books and Journeys

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Shedding the Stereotypes

Summary

While it is very difficult to predict exactly what a librarian's job will entail in 50 years, there is no doubt in the author's mind that the profession will be a successful one. Exploring today's societal and technological trends allows one to propose an idea of patterns and expectations typical of the next generation of librarians and the challenges that come in managing this talented, yet demanding, group.     

Greater São Paulo newer library automation

As a follow up to a 1981 on-site sabbatical study, automated projects or activities in academic, public and special libraries or information centers in the Greater Sao Paulo area that developed from 1981 to the end of 1987 are described. Among the 27 Greater Sao Paulo libraries and/or information centers that were surveyed, the Division of Information and Systems of the Institute of Technological Research of Sao Paulo State, the Division of Library, Documentation and Information of São Bernardo do Campo, the Regional Library of Medicine, and the System of Libraries of the University of São Paulo were among those answering the survey questionnaire which indicated having made further advancements in the aspects of functions, processes and/or routines in areas of librarianship. The Library of the Company of Data Processing of the State of Sao Paulo and the Sao Paulo School of Business Administration of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation reported automation in several of their library functions. The Library of the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research, a library almost fully automated by the end of the 1970s, reported even newer automated efforts.     

大学出版社转企改制研究综述

随着我国出版体制改革的不断深入,大学出版社转企改制已成为业界关注的问题。本文从大学出版社转企改制的基本问题入手,对转企改制过程中校社之间关系处理、改制后公司治理结构的建立与健全、劳动人事制度改革及激励机制与约束机制的建立等方面的研究进行综述。     

美国、挪威、日本监狱图书馆比较研究与借鉴

监狱图书馆是对犯人施行教育和矫正的重要文化设施,也是犯人狱中唯一能够接触到的文化场所。从刑罚模式视角指出监狱图书馆缘起及争议,简单梳理美国、挪威和日本三国监狱图书馆的发展概况、并在对立法情况、主管部门和人员构成进行选择性比较的基础上,总结出影响监狱图书馆发展的政治、经济及文化等因素,并分析其对我国监狱图书馆发展的借鉴意义。     

Beyond “J-Tweeters”

Based on a survey (N?=?1613) directed to members of the Norwegian Journalist Association (NJ), this paper presents an extensive overview of the ways in which comparably older and newer online platforms have been incorporated into the professional lives of Norwegian journalists. While plenty of research is available that explores the uses of Twitter by journalists, the results presented here suggest that Facebook is by far the most frequently used platform throughout the journalistic process—from collecting information, distributing content and engaging with readers. Statistical analyses provide further insights into which variables appear to influence certain modes of usage across the studied platforms. Based on the results, the argument is made that the advantages of using Facebook as a platform for journalistic practices are obvious due to its popularity among the general public, but that this utilization of one platform over others also could be problematic. As Facebook continues to gain leverage towards the newspapers they host, questions of journalistic practices need to come to the fore.     

“There’s nothing I hate more than a racist:” (Re)centering whiteness in American Horror Story: Coven

This article examines race and racism in the popular cable horror-drama American Horror Story: Coven. Centered around a feud between a white witch coven and a black, voodoo group of witches, Coven overtly deals with the issue of racism, but presents racism as a phenomenon contained in the past; something that does not happen anymore. Using critical post-race theory and scholarship on colorblind racism, whiteness, as well as black feminist theory, I show that although the narrative of Coven explicitly decries racism, it simultaneously invests in colorblind racist narratives and dialogue. Whiteness is central in Coven, operating through discourse that ignores racial difference and contemporary forms of oppression and erasure. Coven uses graphic depictions of violence against black bodies, makes explicit connections between black sexuality and animals, and uses exotic and aggressive stereotypes of black women to tell its story. Thus, Coven’s narrative both condemns racism and relies on it. This article shows that the contemporaneous presentations of explicit anti-racist dialogue and racist imagery work to (re)place whiteness at the center of Coven, a TV show that purports to forward a message of equality and justice for those who are different.     

Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill: Thirty Years of Police Literature

This study applies the methodology of content analysis to 30 years of law-enforcement literature to determine whether online access to scholarly research in social work and mental health made a difference in police policy toward the mentally ill. Keywords from the controlled vocabulary of these fields were found in the body of content analyzed prior to easily accessible online resources in 1997, yet the number of articles on the subject grew from approximately one per year prior to 1998 to nearly five per year by 2011. The imprint of these two fields from outside of law enforcement was discernible in the best practices followed by police agencies.