Character education,new media,and political spectacle

Ontario’s new Character Development Initiative is analyzed to determine whether it can be characterized as political spectacle. Examination of official policy texts, media reports, speeches, web pages, webcasts, and events at the Character Development Symposium suggests that the Initiative contains many elements of political spectacle; however, the policy has received little coverage in traditional media. Media coverage is considered as an essential component of political spectacles. In this case, media coverage is limited to digital media produced by the Ontario government itself. This raises questions about the implications of new media forms for the theory of political spectacle. I demonstrate that digital media offer new means for bringing political spectacles to citizens and enable governments to have greater control over their content. Since political spectacles facilitated by traditional media promote the status quo and make critical analysis of public policy difficult, government‐produced digital media might put democracy at even greater risk. Alternatively, government websites post texts that can be analyzed by citizens and used to promote democracy in education. I conclude that the strategic use of language and illusions of democracy, whether brought to citizens through digital or traditional media, are essential components of political spectacle.     

Sound Bites,Spin and Social Change

Abstract

The news media is an essential player in the policy making process. Social work students learning how to scrutinize, and influence, the complex world of social policy can benefit from an educational model that incorporates the media. This article first examines the theoretical framework for understanding the media's role in public policy formation. This framework is then used to construct a classroom exercise for analyzing the public discourse using basic content analysis of media texts. A case example drawn from a study of welfare reform and the media is described. By exploring how social problems are translated into public conversations, students can enrich their knowledge of social problem formation, and learn more effective rhetorical techniques and strategies for influencing the public debate.     

Innovative community theatre for integrated rural development (C.T.H.I.R.D.) in Sierra Leone — the telu workshop experience, 2–16 November, 1986

How can we reach our marginalized and impoverished masses who need to discover how they can raise the quality of their lives, but who are practically untouched by the ‘modern’ mass media or find the materials that these media transmit irrelevant to their survival needs? This article discusses one virtually neglected means of fostering the participation of and dialogue with our rural peoples using the people's media and art forms as tools for development communication.     

Democratic values,empowerment and giving voice: children’s media discourse in the aftermath of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

This study explores the role of children’s news media in establishing meanings of critical situations and promoting notions of active citizenship. A content analysis of three Israeli children’s magazines’ coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin is conducted. Findings suggest differences between religious media and secular media in terms of coverage of values related to democracy. Findings also reveal a variety of ways by which democratic practices of giving voice and notions of empowerment can manifest themselves within children’s media.     

从遵崇公路开通大型报道谈打造广播动态平台

媒体竞争激烈的时代,要提高广播的接受率,就必须紧紧围绕广播的特点,打造出最能体现广播特色、最大限度发挥广播优势的报道形式。广播和其他媒体比起来,是传统媒体中传播速度最快、最能有效进行互动的媒介。只要抓住“互动”这个特点,在广播与听众间、广播媒体间、广播与其他媒体间打造“动态平台”,就能让广播的节目听起来更加生动,更富有感染力。这对广播提高自身竞争力,增强广播节目的可听性会起到积极的促进作用。     

Rhetorics of Alternative Media in an Emerging Epidemic: SARS,Censorship, and Extra-Institutional Risk Communication

This article examines how professionals and the public employed alternative media to participate in unofficial risk communication during the 2002 SARS outbreak in China. Whereas whistle-blowers used alternative media such as independent overseas Chinese Web sites and contesting Western media, anonymous professionals and the larger communities relied more on guerrilla media such as text messages and word of mouth to disseminate risk messages during official silence and denial.     

Using Blogs and New Media in Academic Practice: Potential Roles in Research, Teaching, Learning, and Extension

Compiling a referenced article for publication in a peer-reviewed journal is traditionally the most respected means of contributing to a body of knowledge. However, we argue that publication of evidence-based information via new media – especially blogging – can also be a valid form of academic scholarship. Blogs allow for rapid sharing of research methods, results, and conclusions in an open, transparent manner. With proper references, blogs and other new media can position academic research in the public sphere and provide rapid, reliable information in response to emerging issues. They can also support other traditional goals of higher education institutions, serving as tools for teaching, learning and outreach.     

Critical literacy,self-protection and delinquency: the challenges of participatory media for youths at-risk

While pedagogy is predominantly viewed from the perspective of classroom instruction, educators worldwide invariably play a critical pastoral role of shaping the personal development of their students and nurturing in them life skills. With the avid use of participatory media by young people in peer interaction, educators need to be aware of the attendant risks and opportunities so that they may offer counsel and render appropriate advice. To this end, through interviews with 36 Singaporean male juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk, this study explores how these youths utilise participatory media in their peer interaction. The findings indicate that for this vulnerable youth population, participatory media such as social networking sites can become a platform through which they are unwittingly drawn into criminal behaviour and post-rehabilitation, participatory media may offer an insidious route to recidivism. Participatory media complicates peer interaction by presenting risk factors such as network transparency, negative peer modelling, network seepage and network persistence, all of which have implications for these youths sliding further into delinquency and criminal activity. This article concludes with recommendations on the strategies which youths-at-risk can employ to avoid the risks of participatory media.     

Visual media,attitude formation,and attitude change in nursing education

This research examined the effect of visual media on attitude formation and attitude change in nursing education from 1960 through 1982. Meta-analysis was used to obtain a quantitative index of effect. Screening of over 700 sources resulted in 70 potentially useful studies. Analysis of these studies, according to the established criteria, yielded a final pool of 16 studies. An estimate of the effect magnitude was calculated for each study, then averaged to determine the overall effect size index. Visual media had an effect size of 1.27 standard deviations —a large effect. In addition, several studies had assessed attitude retention; there was an effect size gain of.34 standard deviations. A number of conclusions may be drawn pertaining to the effect of visual media on attitude change and attitude change retention and the theoretical frameworks around which to design instruction, particularly visual media.     

概念术语规范,学科成熟标志——我对远程教育中有关媒体概念的思考

本文主要从概念、术语规范与学科成熟性的角度,分析了远程教育、教育技术理论研究中经常与媒体混淆的几个术语。媒体、符号、信息;媒体与技术;媒体技术与教育技术的区别与联系,并对远程教育媒体的概念作了界定。     

School Library Media Specialist-Teacher Collaboration: Characteristics, Challenges, Opportunities

The most successful school library media specialists are those who collaborate with teachers as full partners in the instructional process. Without assertive action by the school library media specialist, however, school administrators and teachers are likely to be more aware of the media specialist’s administrative role than the roles of teacher, instructional partner, and information specialist. Reductions to library media staff and finding common planning time are examples of serious challenges, but these are not insurmountable. In the context of well-planned instructional projects, collaboration with teachers is a primary way that school library media professionals can demonstrate that their work is a vital part of the academic life of their schools, and a positive factor in improving student achievement.     

Information,Instruction, and Learning: A Hypermedia Perspective Originally published in 1991, PIQ 4.3

Hypermedia as defined by Osgood (1987) is a tool for linking nonlinear information presented in the form of graphics, animation, video, and sound. One important question for instructional designers regarding hypermedia is how it can be used as an instructional or learning tool that enhances rather than inhibits learning. Creating hypermedia applications is a quick and easy alternative to creating courseware with older authoring systems and languages which took many hours to learn. This ease of application creation, combined with a tremendous increase in information available to our society, has resulted in a proliferation of hypermedia databases in school, university, and industry settings that is gradually moving into homes. Many of these databases are simply information media. This paper identifies important issues related to classifying a hypermedia-based information system appropriately. Based on a discussion of these issues, a call for systematic research which clarifies the role that hypermedia-based information systems can and should play in an instructional or learning environment is set forth.     

Media effectiveness, essentiality, and amount of study: a mathematical model

An in‐depth investigation of the relationship between media effectiveness, essentiality, and amount of study was presented. Overall, effectiveness explains 48% of the variation in the amount of study. Students who found the media more effective studied the media more. Those media that were more effective were studied more. The relationship between effectiveness and amount of study is different for each medium. This is because media differ in their degree of ‘essentiality‐versus‐optionality’. Thus, the amount of study depends on a combination of effectiveness and essentiality. The relationship between effectiveness, essentiality, and amount of study is different for each student. This is because students differ in their ‘sensitivities’—their sensitivity to effectiveness and to essentiality. The final equation used effectiveness, essentiality, and sensitivity to explain 74% of the variation in the amount of study. The analysis was informed by a mathematical model.     

流媒体在远程教育应用中的技术与心理分析

流媒体又称流式媒体 ,是指在Internet/Intranet中使用流式传输技术的连续时基媒体 ,它是融合了网络技术之后所产生的技术 目前 ,流媒体技术正越来越多地应用于远程教育 从流媒体的基本含义和原理出发 ,从心理学的角度探讨基于流媒体技术在现代远程教育中的应用     

论网络时代公众的传媒接近权

网络时代下的因媒介传播的变化,导致公民对媒介接近权的实现和突破,本文重点讨论了社会公众如何利用传媒接近权,掌握的传播"话语权",推动国家的法治进程.     

新媒体语境下中国动画电视剧的生产、播出与创 作

新媒体语境下,中国动画电视剧的生产、播出与创作发生了诸多变化。运用实证与规范分析的研究方法,拟通过厘清这些变化的表现、产生的原因以及由此带来的种种影响等,为认清当前中国动画电视剧的产业现状提供一种新的角度,即媒体形态的变化会直接带来内容产业生产、播出与创作的连锁反应。     

文化、传统皮影戏和交互式媒体设计

在我们的设计教育中,我们试着在新媒介的非线性交互结构和传统的打印媒介以及电影图象式的线性结构之间寻找差异。因为交互的可行性是通过技术来提供给今天的许多设计者用数字媒介来做他们的设计工作的。在这篇文章里,我们探讨了如何提高交互式媒介设计的技巧。我们探索了采用传统文化作为起点的可能性。传统皮影戏类型学,在最新的交互式媒介构思中也作了考虑。     

Implementing media education in the Hong Kong secondary curriculum

The tremendous influence of today's mass media can hardly be matched by the sum of its works from the past. There are more sources of media, more types of information and entertainment, more interactive modes for consuming these messages of the mass media in a more interconnected global village available than ever before. Since many pupils spend much of their time on the media, the call for media education is urgent. This article first describes the aims and objectives of media education, then portrays the power of the media and how the education sectors have responded. Finally, it argues for the need to implement media education into the secondary curriculum in response to proposed curriculum reform in Hong Kong.     

The relevance of media education in primary schools in Hong Kong in the age of new media: a case study

In this age of new media, children are exposed to media messages at an early age. What can we do when the mass media exert such a great influence on children? One proposal has been for the introduction of a new school subject: media education. Though media education has not been part of the official curriculum in Hong Kong, some schools, both primary and secondary, have tried it out. This paper argues for the desirability of introducing media education in primary schools in Hong Kong, with regard to social change, recent education reform and learning initiatives of primary pupils. It then draws on the findings of a study conducted in a local primary school to examine the views of pupils, parents, and teachers on the effects on pupils of the implementation of media education lessons and campus radio projects in this age of new media.     

Media,mental imagery,and memory

Recent research indicates that the human information-processing system can gather and store a limited amount of information at any one time. An individual receives stimuli in many forms: auditory, verbal, visual and others, and combinations of these. Stimuli can be presented by single and multiple-channel media; in multichannel presentations interference affects processing and retention. Thirty-two students at the University of Oregon were tested to determine the effects of media on mental imagery and memory. The model incorporates a dual-coding hypothesis, and five single and multiple-channel treatments were used. An erratum to this article is available at .