THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL IN CRISIS JOURNALISM

The mass media are expected to play a key role in providing relevant and accurate information during a crisis. While numerous studies have explored how well the media perform in providing information during crises, less attention has been given to journalism's ritual aspects, such as those related to remembering, celebrating, mourning and sharing among members of a community. In the culturalist tradition, journalism is as much about ritual and meaning-making as it is about providing information. One of the most important ways of performing this ritual function is through live, on-the-spot journalism—a form of journalism that has becoming increasingly commonplace due to technological developments, and at the very least, it is connected with crisis news coverage. Based on interviews with broadcast media journalists about their decision-making strategies and motives during two crises (11 September 2001 and the Anna Lindh murder in 2003), we link crisis communication with journalism's ritual and symbolic functions. We argue that key journalistic strategies such as immediacy and competition are motivated just as much by rituals related to affirming community and journalistic organisational needs as by informational motivations. We conclude by suggesting that in times of crisis, the roles of psychologist, comforter and co-mourner should be considered journalistic role conceptions especially in a live, 24-hour news culture.     

论高校图书馆在创新教育中的重要作用

论述高校图书馆在创新教育中的重要作用,阐明高校图书馆如何应对新的挑战。     

高校图书馆重点用户隐性需求的开发

以需求类型为切入点,析出高校图书馆的六个用户群体,指出情报服务的重点是学校的中、高层管理人员和教学、科研人员。提出隐性情报需求的概念,分析了隐性需求的十个特征和开发隐性需求的四个必要条件及五种思维方法。     

论古籍善本数据库在数字图书馆工程建设中的重要地位

从图书馆解决保管和利用古籍善本的矛盾，为中外学者研究利用古籍善本提供有效的服务，建设中国数字图书馆重点资源库和样板工程，及在全球推广中华优秀传统文化等方面，论证了古籍善本数据库在中国数字图书馆建设中的重要地位。     

从整理出版清初曲阜三颜著作看地方文献为读者服务的重要意义

颜光敏、颜光猷、颜光敩系同胞三兄弟,世称"曲阜三颜",是清初杰出的颜氏家族代表人物。该文介绍了曲阜师范大学图书馆为了研究清代历史、文学史和文献学史的需要,如何整理出版"三颜"的诗文创作,又如何利用信史、列传、家乘及墓志铭等材料对作家本人及其作品予以深入细致的研究考证,为读者提供参考。     

地方院校图书馆要围绕教育职能做文章

提出了以教育职能为主是地方院校图书馆职能的合理定位的观点，分析了高校图书馆教育职能的内涵，论述了地方院校图书馆如何围绕教育职能开展工作的若干措施。     

基于知识网格的区域数字图书馆建设框架

在讨论网格与Internet/Web差异的基础上,指出区域数字图书馆的建设应以知识网格为基础平台进行。给出了基于知识网格的数字图书馆框架,并分析了框架系统的主要构成模块以及实现的关键技术。     

对地方高校图书馆参与重点学科建设的探讨

从分析重点学科在高校发展中的地位、重点学科与图书馆的关系入手,以作者所在的省属地方高校图书馆为例,着重从构建重点学科文献信息资源体系、建设重点学科信息服务体系、技术安全保障三大方面,探讨地方高校图书馆为重点学科建设服务的途径与方法。