Language in Social Science Databases: English Versus Non-English Articles in JSTOR and Scopus

This article examines social science language trends in scholarly communication by looking at JSTOR and Scopus bibliographic data between 1996 and 2012. The results reveal that these two databases contain nearly 90 percent English-language publications. According to our analysis, Scopus continues to add more non-English peer-reviewed content while JSTOR totals are declining. To frame this discussion, the data are considered with reference to larger scholarly communication trends in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This study will be relevant for librarians who are interested in non-English scholarly publishing and collection development.     

Addressing sexual harassment in a sexually charged national culture: a Journal of Applied Communication Research forum

Sexual harassment remains a persistent workplace problem. The 2017 #Metoo movement and what-have-come-to-be routine news stories about sexual hostility, sexual assault, and sexual harassment in American organizations have opened wounds and reinvigorated public commentary. Although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sets forth guidelines for organizations to follow, questions remain about what counts as sexual harassment, and what is an organization’s responsibility in maintaining a harassment-free workplace for its employees. At the invitation of the editor, seven organizational communication scholars responded to a series of questions addressing seven issues related to sexual harassment. These are: sexual harassment policy and training; the responsibilities of bystanders of sexual harassment; organizational culture that provides more support to the harasser than the harassed; the intersection of race with sexual harassment; same-sex harassment and female-to-male harassment; and what can be learned from public movements (e.g. #Metoo). The co-authors’ responses describe sexually harassing situation with which they are familiar.     

Performative face theory: A critical perspective on interpersonal identity work

Power operates not only through ideological and institutional control, but also through everyday interpersonal communication practices that sediment what is and ought to be. However, critical theorizing about power remains scarce within the sub-fields of interpersonal and family communication. To answer questions about operations of power in interpersonal identity work, performative face theory is set forth, which places Erving Goffman’s theorization of face in conversation with Judith Butler’s theory of performativity. Performative face theory suggests that discursive acts cited or repeated in negotiations of face constitute and sometimes subvert naturalized identity categories. Four theoretical principles are provided and an empirical example of childbearing identity is presented. Finally, implications of this novel critical interpersonal and family communication theory are discussed.     

Harmonious communitarianism or a rational public sphere: a content analysis of the differences between comments on news stories on Weibo and Facebook

In studying online political communication in China, many researchers apply theories generated in the West (particularly that of the public sphere) without questioning their applicability in the Chinese context. Others argue that new theories must be generated from the ground up, often basing these theories on traditional Chinese philosophies. However, the applicability of these approaches remains unproven. This research uses a content analysis to compare comments on news stories on Chinese and Western social media sites. It finds that there is little evidence to support either the use of public sphere theory in China or the use of traditional conceptions of Eastern styles of communication. Chinese netizens were no more subtle or harmonious (if anything, they were more divisive) and were less likely to talk with others, attempt to understand others’ opinions or attempt to work towards consensus or resolution. Based on these findings, I propose that future research should attempt to build more appropriate theories based on an understanding of how political ideas are actually produced, transmitted and received in society, rather than continuing to apply foreign or ancient theoretical frameworks without a critical interrogation of their applicability in their context of application.     

East meets West: a new contextual perspective for crisis communication theory

This paper developed a Chinese model of crisis communication by using a contextual perspective capable of identifying influences at the crisis-event level (crisis type, crisis stakeholder, crisis stage, and crisis system) and the societal level (polities, economic systems, and media systems) in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. An analysis of 93 academic works published in 15 journals demonstrated the effects of economic development, politics, and the media on crisis communication practices in Chinese societies.     

信息生态视角下社会事件网络传播驱动机制研究

指出社会事件网络传播历经潜伏期、膨胀期、高峰期和消退期,主要在前三个时期会受到驱动因素的影响。网络用户激愤情绪是社会事件网络传播的表面驱动因素,表面驱动因素在核心驱动因素——事件基本属性和政府对事件的处理状况的作用下形成。社会事件网络传播机制体现了信息生态的基本思想——系统、平衡、动态和人本。通过对驱动因素、驱动点、驱动路径的解析,得出社会事件在社会网络信息生态系统中的驱动机制。     

Mapping user relationships for health information diffusion on microblogging in China: A social network analysis of Sina Weibo

This study applies social network analysis to examining the pattern of relationships among networked users on Sina Weibo, the most popular social networking site in China. Focusing on verified (or V-) users and ordinary (non-V-) users, this study maps three centrality attributes of the social network, in terms of in/out degree, closeness, betweenness, along with cliques, in the dissemination and sharing of health-related information in the virtual community. Findings reveal a ‘spider web’ pattern of relationship among 50 V-users and 50 non-V-users during a regular period of time, highlighting the dominant position of the V-users for health-related information diffusion. Data analysis then reports a ‘drifting dandelion’ pattern of network among those who shared the information about a health-related incident on Weibo. This study also provides further information about the topical categories of health-related messages shared during the regular period as well as the topics concerning the incident. The implications of social networking media for health communication are also discussed.     

重拾信任:后疫情时代传播治理的难点、构建与关键

人心的凝聚、社会共识的达成对社会发展来说至关重要,而信任是社会交往和社会协同中最为关键的粘合剂。但在疫情期间,不信任的病毒与新冠病毒一起流行蔓延,信任重建成为后疫情时代社会治理的重要任务。必须认识到,传播格局的改变让传统的传播和舆情治理模式失效:传统主流媒介压舱石作用式微,撕裂与信任丧失成为现实;泛众化传播时代到来,但在管制压力下个性表达退回圈层,隔阂引起偏见与冲突;互联网关系赋权强调情感共振,但目前主流话语的内容表达缺少对关系表达元素的有效利用,传播效果有限。重建信任的后疫情时代亟需传播与舆情治理范式的转型:转变专业媒介和专业传播工作者传播的专业角色,将复杂性范式作为未来传播和舆情治理的基本范式以及创新网络治理的顶层设计。     

Communicated values as indicators of organizational identity: A method for organizational assessment and its application in a case study

Organizational identity (OI) has traditionally been defined as those core, distinctive, and enduring features unique to an institution (Albert & Whetten, 1985). However, organizational research (e.g., Ashforth & Mael, 1996; Cheney & Christensen, 2001; Vaugn, 1997) published in the last decade has prompted that Albert and Whetten's (1985) definition of OI be recast to emphasize message transmission and organizational values among its core properties. Subsequently, this paper advances a revised definition of OI, describes a content analytic method for OI assessment, and then applies it in a case study to determine the communicated values comprising the identity of a specific organization, the United Church of God, an International Association, during its first five years. Results of a longitudinal analysis indicate that United's identity reflects the following values: (a) during its first year of existence family security, obedience, mature love, helpfulness, and ambition; (b) during its third year of operation family security, helpfulness, ambition, obedience, and true friendship; and (c) in its fifth year family security, ambition, helpfulness, obedience, and wisdom. Based on these results, three findings are advanced regarding United's OI. The implications of this study are addressed in terms of what they mean for United and for OI inquiry in general.     

Maintaining and Sharing a Haudenosaunee Identity: Onondaga Collective Memory and Social Media

In this article, I survey the Onondaga Nation's social media outlets in the light of collective memory theory. The article identifies several core topics of the nation's identity narratives which, all together, are perceived as an expression of Onondaga functional memory. The role of wampum belts as medial cues to that memory is highlighted as well as the role of social media in the struggle against the negative effects of native media invisibility.     

Cultural Competence: Toward a More Robust Conceptualisation

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This article revisits LIS literature about cultural competence. It is not the prominent topic it was but is still considered important for addressing diversity, and is still criticized for obscuring racism and power structures in librarianship and society. Articles published in the last four years suggest, however, that library and information studies educators are teaching to engage with these issues. The cultural competence conceptual framework, specifically the environmental domain, can be recast to incorporate engagement with race and power. This more robust framework would enable culturally competent professionals to do more than accommodate difference.     

席勒——传播政治经济学的批判领袖

传播政治经济学的批判领袖席勒 ,不仅是积极活动型的学者 ,而且是以学术成果影响传播实践的典范。其著作启发推动了国际社会对世界传播秩序的讨论和对新秩序的呼吁 ,其思想和见解影响了一些第三世界国家的传播政策和实践。他影响了世界各国传播政治经济学派的学者 ,也影响了传播政治学研究本身     

移动互联网用户阅读交流行为研究

在梳理交流与协作信息行为相关研究成果的基础上,提出移动阅读交流行为模型。实证研究发现,大部分移动阅读用户都会与别人交流阅读内容,26-30岁、本科学历的用户移动阅读交流的比例最高,收入越高的用户交流比例越高;即时通信工具和微博是当前移动阅读交流最受欢迎的公共平台,腾讯、新浪、中国移动、百度的阅读平台是最受欢迎的专门阅读社区;移动阅读用户交流最多的对象是自己的好友,其次是其他读者和作者;交流最多的内容是评论,其次是摘要,再次是阅读笔记、标签、批注等;使用最多的移动阅读交流方法是聊天讨论,其次是发表评论,再次是转发、发表日志心情、关注或收看收听、上传、推荐;移动阅读交流后最多的延伸行为是查询了解相关知识,其次是访问相关链接网站。基于调查分析结论,提出有针对性地改进移动阅读服务内容和方式的策略。     

基于科技藏品开展情境式传播

当前科技博物馆普遍存在展览水平不高、传播形式单调、拘泥于知识、有形式没内涵等问题。本文依据科技史、科技哲学、博物馆学的研究成果,结合教育学、心理学及传播学等理论,探讨一种基于科技藏品、利用各种媒体手段加强体验和认知的情境式传播方法。科技发展的历史不能重演,但透过情境对科技藏品的展示及其内涵的传播,可以让人们追根溯源,了解科技产生的背景、发展脉络、带来的变化,以及关键人物对科技的贡献等,让人们感受到科技文化的力量,从中受到启发,对未来科技充满向往。     

The ADA approach: retro-archiving data in an academic environment

This article concentrates on the retro-archiving of older digital research data. The ADA approach was developed and used to retro-archive older data files, most of which were between 10 and 30 years old. The origin and main characteristics of the ADA approach are described in the second section of the article. The third section discusses two recent data-archiving pilot projects that were conducted in the Netherlands. The first of these projects, the ADA project, laid the foundation for the ADA approach, which was subsequently applied and tested again in the second project, eDNA, which focused on archaeological data. The final section of the article provides a comparison of the results of these two projects.

基于科学交流过程的学术论文影响力评价研究——以中国社会科学国际学术论文为例

基于学术论文的科学交流过程,本文将学术论文影响力划分为原生影响力、线下影响力、Web 1.0影响力和Web 2.0影响力,并讨论了各类型影响力的产生过程。在此基础上,构建出学术论文影响力评价模型,并对中国社会科学国际学术论文的两组数据(包含1个对照组)进行实证研究。研究发现:(1)学术论文影响力得分与来源期刊相对影响因子及被引频次相关度最高;(2)中国研究机构学者同时作为第一作者和通信作者的学术论文(数据组1)影响力得分在整体水平上与对照组相比还有差距,且两组数据的学术论文影响力得分趋势线都呈右偏态势;(3)学术论文影响力总得分最高的50个研究机构的影响力得分按指数趋势递减,高校是中国社会科学国际研究的中坚力量;(4)在两个数据组共同覆盖的79个学科领域中,数据组1只在24个学科的平均得分大于对照组,并对学术论文覆盖的学科领域按影响力相对大小进行了分类。     

Candidates’ use of informal communication on social media reduces credibility and support: Examining the consequences of expectancy violations

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This experiment (N= 476) investigates how individuals evaluate political candidates who use informal communication on social media. We use expectancy violations theory (EVT) to predict that informal communication will lead to negative evaluations. Our results suggest that politicians’ use of informal communication on social media leads to expectancy violation, which decreases perceived credibility and lessens intention to support a candidate. This effect was not moderated by sex (male versus female) or age (young versus old) of the candidate, nor of participants being the same sex as the candidate. These findings suggest that political figures should use informal communication on social media with caution.     

Support and barriers in long-term recovery after Hurricane Sandy: improvisation as a communicative process of resilience

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This study examines the long-term recovery and resilience processes of households on the New Jersey coast after Hurricane Sandy. Based on theoretical frameworks of community ecology, communication ecology, and the Communication Theory of Resilience, we analyzed focus group interviews and timeline data to examine the sources and forms of support and barrier and provide a detailed account of the ways in which individuals engaged with support and barrier sources. Results show that resilience was enacted through the process of mobilizing and improvising networks of informal and institutional ties, sometimes joining them, to access resources. Communicative processes were central to improvisation, and ineffective communication and coordination constituted a majority of barriers in accessing social support for recovery. Results also detail how processes varied temporally. This study contributes to the literature on resilience as a communicative process, with improvisation at its core, that is enacted through interacting informal, institutional, and physical systems in communities.     

PCARE @10: reflecting on a decade of prison communication,activism, research,and education,while looking ahead to new challenges and opportunities

Drafted a decade after the publication of our inaugural collectively authored essay, the members of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) reflect in this article on recent shifts in criminal justice policy and public discourse regarding the carceral state. Noting a growing consensus regarding the need to reduce national incarceration rates, as well as proliferating discussion regarding police brutality and other forms of state violence, the members of PCARE advocate an orientation of nonreformist reformism when addressing the current climate. Noting that many contemporary developments regarding prisons and policing are promising, we also argue that the prison–industrial complex remains a powerful and violent force in civil society. We begin by describing the complex coalitions that have emerged around prison reform in recent years, claiming that we should temper our enthusiasm for these developments with skepticism informed by a commitment to prison abolition. We then proceed to describe recent developments and tensions related to prison pedagogy, race, and the carceral state, and the gendered politics of policing and mass incarceration. We conclude with a call for critical communication scholars to engage in communication activism with a spirit of nonreformist reform and to humbly learn from the voices and experiences of those communities most directly impacted by the prison–industrial complex. We follow this essay with a response essay drafted by a collective of incarcerated individuals.