Instant Messaging on Campus: Use and Integration in University Students' Everyday Communication

This article reviews the body of research on the use and role of instant messaging (IM) in campus life, and how IM is a key part of university students' communication. IM is a synchronous form of communication, and its speed, availability information, and support for multiple conversations have made it appealing for young people. With university students, in particular, showing a heavy reliance on IM, researchers have shown great interest in how university students use IM and how it is integrated in their social and academic life. While studies are emerging in various disciplines, no attempt has been made to integrate the disparate findings and approaches. This article synthesizes key findings, provides a map of the literature, and discusses conceptual problems inherent in the study of IM and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) that will help researchers identify key areas of study and opportunities for future investigation.     

利用社交网络增强大学生思想疏导与教育实效性的思考

随着21世纪互联网的发展及计算机网络在初、高等教育中的普及,社交网络在中国各大高校发展得如火如荼。社交网络渐渐地融入了高校大学生的日常生活,潜移默化地影响着大学生的思想活动、道德行为、心理健康及学习态度等。作为影响大学生思想教育新载体的社交网络应该受到各大高校教育者对于大学生思想教育工作方面的重视。社交网络产生的影响不仅促进大学生与同群体及外界的交流,也可能因其信息传播的不当而对产生负面影响。因而,高校教育者面对既是机遇,又是挑战的思想教育新形式的社交网络,必须顺应信息时代的发展,剔除社交网络对大学生思想教育的不利因素,从而开辟大学生思想教育新天地,积极地对其进行疏导和科学的指引。     

浅谈传播学视域下如何提高高校思想政治教育的实效

大众传播的发展对社会生活产生了重大影响,也对当前的高校思想政治教育提出了新的课题。大众传播作为一把“双刃剑”,其不仅带来了机遇也带来了挑战。如何趋利避害,合理利用大众传播？本文试将高校思想政治教育置于传播学的视域下,对这一独特的信息传播过程进行解读,从而立足新视角对如何提高高校思想政治教育的实效提出了自己的看法。     

Content features of tweets for effective communication during disasters: A media synchronicity theory perspective

Users’ ability to retweet information has made Twitter one of the most prominent social media platforms for disseminating emergency information during disasters. However, few studies have examined how Twitter’s features can support the different communication patterns that occur during different phases of disaster events. Based on the literature of disaster communication and Media Synchronicity Theory, we identify distinct disaster phases and the two communication types—crisis communication and risk communication—that occur during those phases. We investigate how Twitter’s representational features, including words, URLs, hashtags, and hashtag importance, influence the average retweet time—that is, the average time it takes for retweet to occur—as well as how such effects differ depending on the type of disaster communication. Our analysis of tweets from the 2013 Colorado floods found that adding more URLs to tweets increases the average retweet time more in risk-related tweets than it does in crisis-related tweets. Further, including key disaster-related hashtags in tweets contributed to faster retweets in crisis-related tweets than in risk-related tweets. Our findings suggest that the influence of Twitter’s media capabilities on rapid tweet propagation during disasters may differ based on the communication processes.     

The Contribution of Domestication Research to In-Home Computing and Media Consumption

This article deals with the contribution made by domestication research to our understanding of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in everyday life, especially in the home. It first provides a sense of the diversity of research in this tradition and how this is evolving. The article then reflects upon and illustrates different elements of research in this tradition, providing examples of how these help to explain patterns of ICT experience, the way people evaluate that experience, and what bearing it has on their lives. To contextualize domestication research further, it considers overlaps with other traditions of research before moving on to the core, and the range of methodologies that have been employed. Finally, the article examines some of the general insights from domestication research, as well as more specific applications to the commercial and policy fields.     

大学生生命观及生命教育认知调查研究

随着社会竞争的日益激烈,大学生就业压力的增加,许多学生在自我约束、人际交往、心理调节等方面反映出来的问题和迷惘日益突出。为了了解“90后”大学生人生观、价值观以及对生命教育的认知状况,对淮安市周边高校做了问卷调查。笔者试图寻找一种适合高校生命教育的内容与方式来实施生命教育,帮助学生树立正确的生命观、人生观,促进学生身心健康发展。     

基于电子网络辅助大学英语教学模式的探索

电子网络是一种现代技术,在信息传输方面具有许多异常突出的优点,在许多领域得到了广泛的应用。利用电子网络辅助大学英语教学,可以使教学信息资源在师生间快捷地进行传递。方便师生的交流沟通,促进教与学的融合。介绍了在大学英语教学中如何利用电子网络进行教学信息的传输,从而改进教学的方式和方法,促进大学英语教学效率和质量的提高。     

人格对即时通讯服务持续使用影响的实证研究

基于认知视角,借鉴信息系统持续使用研究,分析了大五人格对即时通讯服务持续使用的影响。研究发现:大五人格中的神经质、外向性、开放性和尽责性通过感知有用性、感知易用性和感知娱乐性对即时通讯服务持续使用产生间接影响。     

Grieving for a Lost Network: Collective Action in a Wired Suburb

Critics have argued that information and communication technologies (ICTs) disconnect people from their social networks and reduce public participation. Research in support of this perspective has been biased by two assumptions. The first is a tendency to privilege the Internet as a social system removed from the other ways people communicate. The second is a tendency to favor broadly supportive strong social ties. Survey and ethnographic observations from Netville, a 2-year community networking experiment, suggest that weak, not strong ties experience growth as a result of ICTs. By examining a unique and underexplored stage in the life cycle of a community networking project, the end of a networking trial, this article demonstrates how ICTs facilitate community participation and collective action (a) by creating large, dense networks of relatively weak social ties and (b) through the use of ICTs as an organizing tool.     

Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication,by Ronald E. Rice,Maureen McCreadie,and Shan-Ju L. Chang. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press, 2001. xiii + 357 pp., $45.00. ISBN 0-262-18214-9.

Critics have argued that information and communication technologies (ICTs) disconnect people from their social networks and reduce public participation. Research in support of this perspective has been biased by two assumptions. The first is a tendency to privilege the Internet as a social system removed from the other ways people communicate. The second is a tendency to favor broadly supportive strong social ties. Survey and ethnographic observations from Netville, a 2-year community networking experiment, suggest that weak, not strong ties experience growth as a result of ICTs. By examining a unique and underexplored stage in the life cycle of a community networking project, the end of a networking trial, this article demonstrates how ICTs facilitate community participation and collective action (a) by creating large, dense networks of relatively weak social ties and (b) through the use of ICTs as an organizing tool.     

A structural analysis of ICT-based intervention on reading habits in Uganda

Information and communication technologies have opened up new opportunities for cultivating a reading culture, where people go beyond instrumental to leisure reading, in developing countries. But the research on information and communication technology (ICT) and reading has been conducted mainly in western countries. This paper explores the potential of ICT-based interventions for fostering a reading habit among university students in Uganda. A cross-sectional survey design was employed and data were collected using a self-designed instrument from eight universities in Uganda. Structural equation analysis using Partial Least Squares was used for statistical analysis of the data. Major findings from 337 valid responses indicate that ICT usage, home culture, school culture, and disposable income significantly impact the reading habits of university students in Uganda.     

由信息素养教育看大学生外文信息检索能力的培养

良好的信息素养是大学生学好英语的一种基本能力,而信息网络化和英语国际化使信息采集的途径更加便利也更加广泛。本文基于对本校大学生英语学习信息素养的随机调查,通过分析大学生外文信息检索的现状,提出了培养大学生外文信息检索能力的几种途径。     

Using a Heuristic-Systematic Model to assess the Twitter user profile’s impact on disaster tweet credibility

Journalists, emergency responders, and the general public use Twitter during disasters as an effective means to disseminate emergency information. However, there is a growing concern about the credibility of disaster tweets. This concern negatively influences Twitter users’ decisions about whether to retweet information, which can delay the dissemination of accurate—and sometimes essential—communications during a crisis. Although verifying information credibility is often a time-consuming task requiring considerable cognitive effort, researchers have yet to explore how people manage this task while using Twitter during disaster situations.To address this, we adopt the Heuristic-Systematic Model of information processing to understand how Twitter users make retweet decisions by categorizing tweet content as systematically processed information and a Twitter user’s profile as heuristically processed information. We then empirically examine tweet content and Twitter user profiles, as well as how they interact to verify the credibility of tweets collected during two disaster events: the 2011 Queensland floods, and the 2013 Colorado floods. Our empirical results suggest that using a Twitter profile as source-credibility information makes it easier for Twitter users to assess the credibility of disaster tweets. Our study also reveals that the Twitter user profile is a reliable source of credibility information and enhances our understanding of timely communication on Twitter during disasters.     

大学生人际交往存在的问题及促进策略

良好的人际交往能力以及良好的人际关系是人们生存和发展的必要条件。大学生作为一个特殊群体,面对激烈的竞争和日益强大的社会心理压力,如何认识和正确处理大学生人际交往中存在的问题具有极其重要的意义。     

解读网络文化对师范院校校园文化的多元渗透与参与

网络文化对师范院校的校园文化发挥着举足轻重的影响,它使师范院校校园文化的内涵向着追求自由、直接和重视自我意见表达的方向发展;扩大了学生的交往空间,增强了他们的社会责任感,缩短了社会化时间;使校园文化呈现出多样性、开放性和包容性的特点。但同时,它也影响了师范生师范技能的标准性,抑制了师范生思维能力的发展,影响了师范生正确人生观、价值观、职业观的树立。在新时代,反观传统师范院校校园文化的不足,探讨和摸索怎样利用新技术、新型文化形式,建立符合师范生能力全面发展的校园文化成为一个亟须解决的问题。     

浅谈大学生人际交往与心理素质提升

良好的人际交往与人的心理素质健康发展是紧密相连的,心理素质健康发展是在每个成长阶段逐渐形成的。在当今社会科技、经济飞速发展的时代中,人才竞争激烈,大学生有良好的人际交往能力才能更好地全面发展,但是良好心理素质的培养是一个长久的过程,是在成长的各阶段养成的。目前,大学生在人际交往中出现的各种问题应该引起社会的关注。在高校学生管理工作中发现,人际交往对大学生全面发展具有重要作用。该文对如何提升大学生心理素质进行分析,以促进大学生全面发展。     

新媒体传播对转发意愿及品牌态度的影响研究

传统传播环境下企业营销传播活动对用户品牌态度形成具有显著影响,但社会化媒体的发展极大地改变了企业营销传播的生态环境,现阶段企业的社会化媒体传播并未获得预期影响力,需要从理论上对企业社会化媒体传播的策略及其影响因素进行创新性研究。本文采用实验研究方法,基于企业传播信息内容主题、信息源、传播策略与用户再传播意愿和品牌态度间关系的理论假设,实证研究发现:企业社会化媒体传播对用户品牌态度有正向显著影响;信息内容主题类型、信息源、传播组合策略对用户再传播意愿有显著影响;用户再传播意愿对用户品牌态度的影响不显著等。研究结论丰富了企业社会化媒体传播的理论研究,对企业社会化媒体传播实践具有指导意义。     

利用网络平台加强大学生思想政治教育

随着网络技术的迅猛发展,人们的生活学习和工作对网络的依赖性也在加强,如何利用好网络这一平台加强大学生的思想政治教育工作是摆在大学生和大学思想政治教育工作者面前的一项迫切任务。网络信息量大、传播快捷并且具有匿名性,为此就要建立机制确保网络思想政治信息的准确性和可靠性,加强网络道德自律,充分发挥网络优势,避免消极因素,切实利用好网络平台做好大学生思想政治教育。     

对社交网络工具在高校图书馆中应用的研究

高校大学生对社交网络工具的依赖促使了图书馆必须要改变自己的传统服务方式以适应学生获取信息的习惯。这就要求图书馆员必须要熟练掌握多种社交网络工具的特点以及使用方法,通过对这些社交网络工具的使用,更好地服务于学生和教师的信息需求。     

Electronic journals and their unbundled functions in scholarly communication: Views and utilization by scientific,technological and medical researchers in Japan

In recent years, electronic journals are in common use in scholarly communication and we can interpret this situation in various ways. On the one hand, we can say that scholarly communication is now much dependent on electronic resources. On the other hand, it would be too simplistic to say that scholarly communication is now greatly dependent on electronic resources because researchers seldom use other electronic resources. The purpose of this article is to show the position of electronic journals in scholarly communication based on Japanese researchers’ information behavior and estimation. The main focus is on distinguishing the function of scholarly journal and the electronic form. A questionnaire was sent to 1427 physicists, 1026 chemists and 1276 pathologists in universities and other research institutes all over Japan, of whom 775 (54.3%), 494 (48.1%) and 541 (42.4%), respectively, supplied answers. The main results are as follows. Japanese researchers in STM fields use electronic journals as a matter of course, and other electronic resources to some extent, for accessing information; but this shift to electronic resources seemed to be not a transformation but a modification of traditional patterns of use. Researchers still rely on traditional scholarly journals for accessing information and publication, although their recognition has begun to change.