Making Silicon Valley : Culture,Representation, and Technology at the Tech Museum

There has been much discussion of Silicon Valley, the area south of San Francisco that is home to many high-technology firms. This article explores the cultural discourse of Silicon Valley, paying particular attention to the newly-opened Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose and the strategies of commemoration, identity construction, and exhibition it uses to mirror, focus, and construct a Silicon Valley culture. The Tech Museum successfully captures the dominant ideological elements of Silicon Valley, combining celebration of technology with a fascination with what the museum s literature refers to as the gizmos and gadgets produced by Valley companies. The Tech serves as a material focal point for Valley culture, but fails to provide a coherent direction or message for it.     

Constructing Rhetorical Borders: Peons,Illegal Aliens,and Competing Narratives of Immigration

Recent work in immigration suggests interconnections among race, nation, and immigration. This essay examines these relations, noting the rhetorical dynamics through which symbolic borders emerge and shift, in part through national debates over immigrants. Turning critical attention to mediated representations of Mexican immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s, I argue that Mexican immigrant bodies provided rhetorical space for a national discussion of race and nation. I highlight, in particular, a deportation drive and repatriation campaign that resulted in the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans.     

Making Sense of an Academic Library Web Site: Toward a More Usable Interface for University Researchers

ABSTRACT

Library patrons familiar with Web searching conventions often find library searching to be less familiar and even intimidating. This article describes and evaluates a series of usability research studies employing two different and popular methodologies: user-centered redesign and usability testing. Card sorting and affinity mapping were used to conceptualize how information should be classified and presented on the library's main page. Usability scenarios and think-aloud protocols were used to explore how students, especially those new to the campus, conceptualize the information-seeking process and how they go about conducting a search. Participants included library employees, university faculty, staff, and students. These methods can be replicated by any library, large or small, and demonstrate that even small-scale usability evaluations can improve patrons' understanding of and access to library resources.     

对农电视能否"多予、少取、放活"

温家宝总理在政府工作报告中强调当前解决三农问题的主要指导思想是要“多予、少取、放活”。十六大把“三农”发展作为我国未来5年经济建设和经济体制改革的一个战略重点，强调”要把解决好农业、农村和农民问题作为全党工作的重中之重”。这说明．农业、农村、农民的发展对于全国经济发展，社会稳定以及建设全面小康社会的极端重要性。     

博物馆,生态博物馆,和反博物馆:解决遗产、社会和发展的思路

此探讨遗产与社会和发展间应当建立起新的关系。认为应当反思，从考虑遗产和其特性的方式上，尤其应当关注遗产地情况。在全球化的今天，化被认为是地区性的，——由地理边界划分。遗产的确定取决于它所处于的社会群体对价值的重要性的认识。因此，我们不能忘记民俗和传统的重要性是自发表现的。 地方遗产面对世界性强势化建立的不正当游戏规则的矛盾现实，所进行的运动是寻找有效的解决方法，世界遗产正在引起人们的重视。这样可能提供一种真正的生存，特别是对于小的社区，他们的社会经济结构和他们的价值观和行为动力相关联——确保可持续地发展他们的经济。地方社区才能对全部遗产的博物馆化作出反应。当我们考虑现在范例的时候，博物馆就可作为一种可持续发展的工具，以更加人性化的行动保护全部遗产。     

咏叹伟大首都 弘扬中外文明——首都博物馆礼赞

2005年12月16日,首都博物馆新馆试运行。从此,北京西长安街复兴门外延长线上矗立起一座气势恢弘、引人注目的文化殿堂。她凭借得天独厚的地缘优势,依靠精彩的展陈、丰富的内涵、完善的设施、先进。的技术、科学的管理和周到的服务,成为北京历史与文化的荟萃之地,成为全国人民以及海外朋友熟悉北京、了解中国、展望世界的瑰丽窗口。     

From Practice to Theory and back to Practice: Reflexivity in Measurement and Evaluation for Evidence-based Policy Making in the Information Society

This article presents a comprehensive review of literature and practice on the measurement and evaluation of ICT impact in general and of selected public eServices (eGovernment, eHealth, and eInclusion), within the context of the Information Society paradigm. It calls for a sustained meta-level analysis, in which it is important to have a self-reflexive layer where we evaluate and measure how we evaluate and measure, and what the implications and the trade-offs are. The analysis justifies the call for reflexivity as a necessary step towards advancing our understanding of the impact of ICT within the Information Society domains observed. The article concludes presenting some possible ways of re-coupling the conceptual and technical dimensions of the measurement process and linking the production of measurement data more closely with impact evaluation causal models and hypotheses. It suggests that this could be achieved by refocusing on the micro level and stimulating a gradual micro-macro link through an intermediate (meso) level, which effects need to be described using different measurements and evaluation paradigms. In order to do so it is required to refine and test our theories and models to find out where it would be most feasible to scale up to the global (macro) level and to shape and inform the production of more valid measurement indicators for better informing evidence-based policy making in the Information Society.