Harry Potter,Riding the Bullet and the Future of Books: Key Issues in the Anglophone Book Business

This paper reviews the current status of the Anglophone (Anglo-American) publishing business and draws some comparisons with publishing in other languages. It then critically reviews the impact of the Harry Potter phenomenon and the questionable progress of e-books in the trade sector, using the example of Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet. It also comments on Amazon’s introduction of the Kindle e-book reader.     

Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry

This paper explores the political economy of the prison telephone industry, with special emphasis on changes in the industry since the mid-1980s. Contrary to the expectations of competition advocates, the principal outcome of deregulation in the prison telephone sector has been a sharp increase in price, as new market entrants compete for monopoly service contracts on the basis of steadily escalating commissions paid to state and private prison authorities—costs which are then passed on to the (literally) captive market through exorbitant end-user rates. The sheer magnitude of such rate increases, together with explosive growth in the national prison population over the same period, has turned the prison telephone sector into a lucrative and largely invisible growth center for the U.S. telecommunication industries as a whole.     

Power from the C-Suite: The Chief Knowledge Officer and Chief Learning Officer as Agents of Noopower

This essay critically considers two corporate executive positions: the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) and the Chief Learning Officer (CLO). I argue that these positions are key instantiations of noopower, or power over thoughts, perceptions, and memories. Theorized by Deleuze, Arquila and Ronfeldt, and Lazzarato, noopower is an assemblage of older forms of power such as sovereign and disciplinary power into a new form that is prevalent in a time where knowledge, perceptions, and images are the hegemonic forms of value. This essay traces the CKO and CLO literatures' theorization and suggested deployment of this form of power in global corporations.     

French and Feminine: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Emasculation of John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Race

French leaders met the September 2002 announcement of preemptive U.S. military action in Iraq with open disapproval. Thereafter, in the build-up to the “Iraq war,” as U.S. military strikes began in 2003 and continued in 2004, France became the target of nationalistic attacks in the United States. Building on this anti-French sentiment, George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign used narratives that cast Frenchness as feminine, assigning “Frenchness” to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry—and thereby characterizing him as unfit for the White House. Specifically, political conservatives sought to strip Kerry of the masculine qualities perceived necessary to serve as president of the United States. Analysis of American political and media discourse from September 2002 to November 2004 shows that the 2004 presidential campaign came to be defined in substantial part by nationalistic and sexist political communications that capitalized upon and reinscribed patterns and norms of hegemonic masculinity while also feminizing and devaluing dissent in times of war.     

被经验的中介和被中介的经验——从传播理论教材的译介看传播学在中国

本文以国外传播理论教材的译介作为视角,考察了欧美传播理论话语在中国的诠释和变异,研究了西方客观经验主义的大众传播理论如何被潜移默化地等同于传播学的过程,同时以《传播理论导引:分析与应用》为例,对我国目前传播学的教学与研究中存在的一些问题进行了探讨,提出应该进一步开阔视野、注重研究范式、重新思考传播理论的教学与应用。     

跨越文化 寻求共识——从文化与认知的视角重新审视向世界传播中国文化的方式

在吉尔兹(Clifford Geertz)所开创的跨文化传播研究中,传统的研究者们始终将目光聚焦于发现不同种类文化间的差异,并在了解差异的基础之上,实现相互理解。这一经典的研究方法所存在的一个最重要问题就是它假设了全人类没有一个共通的认知共性,从而导致文化与认知之间相互循环论证的解释悖论。在本文中,作者将另辟蹊径,试图结合近年来文化心理学与认知心理学的前沿成果,在发现人类认知共性的基础上,寻找跨文化传播中的共识,并重新审视中国文化走出去战略中的核心问题。     

自“名”而“动” 由“人”及“物”——中国古代“媒介”概念的意义变迁

本文运用历史语义学方法,考察了媒介这一传播学关键词在古代中国的意义变迁过程,发现其最早见于西晋杜预的《春秋经传集解》,而非国内传播学教材中普遍认为的《旧唐书》。它最早的意思是媒人和引荐者,该词义在历史文献中一直延续下来,反映了古代中国人在人际传播中对于仪式感的重视。到晚清,媒介的词义发生变化:一是增加了动词的词性,并开始指代更宽泛意义的介绍人;二是超越了指代人的范畴,开始指代起连接、交流作用的事物。这种变化反映了人们传播观念的变化,其原因主要是封建社会的解体和外来文化的进入,这也导致了现代意义中的媒介概念在近代文献中的出现。     

理发师能为自己理发吗——《图书馆这一行》浅评

《图书馆这一行》是一位美国图书馆工作者写的图书馆职业信息指南。本文评价了其研究与写作特色,并归纳了三点阅读价值,认为值得一读。     

Emergency Communication Challenges in Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

In response to Hurricane Katrina's extensive destruction and related public health threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deployed more than 1,000 staff to its emergency operations center and to affected areas. Among them were members of CDC's Emergency Communication System. This paper describes the strategies and tactics used by health communication specialists during the pre-event, response, and post-event stages to address a range of emergency communication exigencies. It highlights three difficult challenges for CDC communication specialists during Hurricane Katrina: rapid dissemination of health messages; adaptation of health messages for diverse audiences, locations, and circumstances; and phasing of key risk messages during the emergency response.     

Emergency Communication Challenges in Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

In response to Hurricane Katrina's extensive destruction and related public health threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deployed more than 1,000 staff to its emergency operations center and to affected areas. Among them were members of CDC's Emergency Communication System. This paper describes the strategies and tactics used by health communication specialists during the pre-event, response, and post-event stages to address a range of emergency communication exigencies. It highlights three difficult challenges for CDC communication specialists during Hurricane Katrina: rapid dissemination of health messages; adaptation of health messages for diverse audiences, locations, and circumstances; and phasing of key risk messages during the emergency response.     

科学与实用:从疏离到整合--关于完善我国图书馆学研究的思考

“科学”与“实用”是图书馆学研究不可或缺的两个维度，通过对图书馆学研究的发展历程进行理性的回顾与反思发现，以往的研究中存在着二者相互疏离的现象，影响了图书馆学的健康发展，因此，实现两者的整合，是发展图书馆学、完善图书馆学研究的基本途径和必然选择。     

电子图书，想说爱你不容易——从APABI电子图书的利用率谈其在图书馆的发展瓶颈及解决对策

论文介绍了APABI电子图书的资源情况,说明了其在图书馆利用率较低这一现实情况,并做了读者调查和原因分析,引出了电子图书在图书馆的几个发展瓶颈,并进行详细阐述和分析,最后在解决对策方面提出了一点意见和建议。     

Market uncertainty and mimetic isomorphism in the newspaper industry: a study of Taiwan's mainstream newspapers from 1992 to 2003

Mimetic isomorphic theory explains the process through which organizations in the same environment imitate each other's actions to become more similar to each other. Adopting the theory, this study examined the content of Taiwan's three major newspapers from 1992 to 2003 to investigate the relationship between market uncertainty and mimetic isomorphism. The data analysis shows that the uncertainty in Taiwan's newspaper industry created an environment of mimetic isomorphism, and the findings are congruent with the predictions of mimetic isomorphic theory.     

清末北洋大学堂学生的首次留美之路——以上海图书馆馆藏盛宣怀档案中盛宣怀与傅兰雅的通信为例

在清末尝试官派学生出洋的背景下,1901年夏,盛宣怀向美国柏克莱加州大学教授傅兰雅提出带领北洋大学堂学生赴美学习的委托。经过多次协商,两人最终达成一致,派遣学生进入柏克莱加州大学学习。在留学期间,由傅兰雅担任学生们的监督,负责管理他们的学习和生活。北洋大学堂学生的此次留美尝试,也是清末留学运动初兴时期的一个缩影。     

2001-2010年国内情报学研究回顾与展望——基于知识图谱的当代学科发展动向研究

文章基于CSSCI数据库,利用Netdraw、Citespace和VOSviewer,分别来构建2001-2010年中国情报学研究主题演变(含热点、前沿)、知识来源谱系、机构合作网络的可视化知识图谱,对近十年我国情报学的研究热点、研究前沿领域、知识基础、研究机构间合作情况进行了归纳和分析。