THE MISCONCEPTION OF ONLINE COMMENT THREADS

Web 2.0 has opened the gates to journalism for online audiences which increasingly participate in the production, dissemination and response processes of news. Comment threads in particular have grown exponentially in recent years as readers have embraced the opportunity to bypass the Letters' Editor and publish their opinions directly to a newspaper website. This rise in participatory journalism has led to new challenges for journalists as they have strived to negotiate the often murky waters of user-generated content. To date, research in this field has been mostly limited to national and international news websites despite local news providers having a close connection and engagement with their communities. This paper therefore seeks to fill this gap partially by analysing the content of comment threads on two British local newspaper websites via a content analysis, while also exploring the experiences of journalists via news room observation and interviews. A contradictory picture emerges whereby journalists accept with some reluctance that comment threads possess a democratic function but one which is potentially damaging to the brand as well as resource intensive. This is juxtaposed by more positive findings that reveal buoyant levels of interactivity between readers in comment threads together with a thirst for engagement in public affairs.     

FLOURISHING BUT RESTRAINED

Research concerning user participation in online news has demonstrated that news websites offer a wide range of participatory features, but largely permit users only to comment on already-published material. This longitudinal analysis of Sweden's four major mainstream national news websites focuses on front-page news items to investigate to what extent user participation has increased over time and whether the participatory features present allow users to exert control over key journalistic processes. Its findings indicate that user participation has increased rapidly in regard to processes peripheral to news journalism, but also that users have to a minor extent begun over time to perform work previously reserved for professional journalists.     

美国2006—2008年最佳免费参考网站评介

论文根据美国图书馆协会(ALA)属的参考与服务协会(RUSA)的机器辅助参考部(MARS)2006-2008年最佳免费参考网站的评选结果.择优选择介绍其中部分与我国图书馆的信息检索工作联系密切、对网络信息检索教学工作有实用意义的网站,以期为广大读者和网络用户提供更广泛开放的信息来源,并对国内的参考咨询服务活动有所助益.     

美国近五年来最佳免费参考网站评介

根据美国图书馆协会(ALA)下属的参考与服务协会(RUSA)的机器辅助参考部(MARS)近五年来最佳免费参考网站的评选结果,择优选择介绍其中部分与我国图书馆的信息检索工作联系密切,对网络信息检索教学工作有实用意义的网站,以期为广大读者和网络用户提供更广泛开放的信息来源,并对国内的参考咨询服务活动有所启发。     

Who Gets Vocal About Hyperlocal

This study examined the characteristics of readers who share hyperlocal news in person, over email, and through social media. A reader survey of 10 hyperlocal news websites that operate in a variety of communities in the United States was conducted (n?=?2289). More readers indicated sharing hyperlocal news in person than through email or social media. Higher neighborhood involvement and higher education tended to characterize readers who shared hyperlocal news via each of the three channels. Education moderated the association between neighborhood involvement and sharing news in person and via social media. These results suggested that highly involved readers with little education used social media more than their highly educated neighbors to share news from hyperlocal websites. The study extends the precepts of channel complementarity theory into the domain of online news sharing.     

Attitude and credibility in the prediction of attitude change: A regression approach

This study attempted to determine the amount of variance in attitude intensity that could be expected to be accounted for by prior attitude and credibility. Prior attitude intensity, importance, and involvement along wth source competence, sociability, composure, extroversion, and character were used as ‐predictors. Multiple regression analysis revealed that between 61 and 66 per cent of the variance in attitude intensity can be accounted for by five of these variance in attitude intensity can be accounted for by five of these predictors (except prior attitude involvement, source composure, source character). Some of the predictors appear to account for variance through curvilinear relationships to attitude change.     

公共图书馆地理空间布局的访问便利性研究

[目的/意义] 公共图书馆地理空间布局影响着读者到馆方式和成本花费，进而影响读者对图书馆访问的体验和频次。[方法/过程] 基于出行链理论和场域理论，围绕公共图书馆地理空间布局，对读者访问公共图书馆的便利性进行了解析，分析了城市公共交通和生活设施分布和公共图书馆网络布局之间的动态关系和量化评价，利用ArcGIS对苏州城市公共图书馆布局进行了案例分析。[结果/结论] 提出建立与公共交通互动关系、接入图书馆馆外空间以及延伸到读者生活圈的策略，以提升公共图书馆地理空间布局便利性。     

情报研究基于内容分析法的科学思想库研究

在分析思想库研究现状的基础上,以15家科学思想库为研究样本,通过对机构网站的内容分析,揭示科学思想库的特点:愿景清晰、资金多元但对政府资助态度不一、人力资源呈高学历多技能的特点、对外联系部门作用突出、出版物对公共的针对性不强、注重web2.0技术在宣传中的应用等。     

互联网慈善信息转发行为研究——基于说服传播理论的双重态度模型

[目的/意义] 通过社交媒介进行信息转发已成为慈善信息扩散的重要手段,对扩大筹款范围和提高筹款效率起着关键作用。旨在探讨影响慈善信息转发行为的关键前因要素及其作用机理。[方法/过程] 基于说服传播理论,从信息渠道、信息来源、信息接受者和信息内容4个层面厘清影响公众转发态度的前因要素;引入双重态度理论,揭示外显态度和内隐态度对转发行为的作用差异。通过SC-IAT实验和问卷调查相结合的方式收集数据,使用结构方程模型方法对模型进行验证。[结果/结论] 研究发现,相较于外显态度通过作用于转发意愿进而影响转发行为,内隐态度可以直接对转发行为进行预测;外显态度的形成受到社会联结强度、来源可信度和信息质量的影响,而内隐态度仅由来源可信度塑造。     

广东省公共图书馆网站信息组织研究

通过调研广东省公共图书馆网站信息组织现状,分析了网站信息组织中存在的问题,提出了以用户为导向、以完善的信息导航系统和合理的信息组织结构为特征的网站信息组织方法,以方便读者更快地获取信息。     

影响视障者访问公共图书馆网站的因素研究——基于LibQUAL+TM模式的视障用户体验

[目的/意义]研究影响视障者访问公共图书馆网站的因素,并针对网站信息无障碍的设计提出具体建议和优秀范例,为图书馆网站更好地服务视障者提供借鉴。[方法/过程]首先,采用内容分析法和调查问卷法,从文献中整理出本研究参考的17项无障碍设计原则;其次,选择百度排名靠前的5家国内公共图书馆,邀请5位视障者利用读屏软件访问其网站并完成一系列任务,获知结果和总体评价;再次,参照LibQUAL+^TM模式,针对17项设计原则设计调查问卷,让视障者对5家公共图书馆网站的各项服务进行评分。[结果/结论]通过对视障者的评价及评分进行综合分析,发现5家国内公共图书馆网站提供的信息服务离读者认为理想的服务水平还有差距,并从网站资源与网站操作两方面探讨影响视障者访问网站的因素,同时列举出国外优秀公共图书馆网站范例。最后,针对国内公共图书馆网站信息无障碍的设计提出加强网站首页的营销功能等10项具体建议。     

门户网站生态性评价及实证研究——以低碳类门户网站为例

结合信息生态的相关理论和门户网站发展状况,基于信息人、信息和信息环境3个信息生态基本要素,提出从“服务性、参与性、互动性”3个方面构建低碳类信息门户网站生态性的评价指标体系,并利用层次分析法确定各评价指标权重。为验证指标的应用价值,结合国内外典型的低碳类信息门户网站进行实证研究。     

Party and Candidate Websites: A Comparative Explanatory Analysis

This study provides a systematic investigation of party and candidate websites across five countries. It examines three prominent features of current online political communication (interactivity, political personalization, and mobilization). Furthermore it assesses to what extent country, party, and source characteristics explain differences in the usage of these features. In total, 63 websites and 416 pages in Germany, Romania, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Great Britain were subject to a systematic content analysis. The findings suggest that differences in party and source characteristics explain variation in levels of mobilization, interactivity, and personalization, with, for example, party websites trying to mobilize citizens while websites belonging to politicians are used as a platform for self-promotion. In general, results show that the division of countries into East and West European is less important.     

Do You Enjoy TV,while Tweeting? Effects of Multitasking on Viewers’ Transportation,Emotions and Enjoyment

The present study seeks to extend the extant body of work on media multitasking by examining the impact of second screen use (tweeting while watching television) on transportation into a narrative and enjoyment of a TV sitcom, mediated through affective experiences. In a between-subjects experiment, participants watched a TV show with or without tweeting about it. The findings support the assumption that media multitasking decreases people’s experience of transportation, which then impairs their emotional responses; reduced emotions further decrease enjoyment of the show. However, trait empathy does not moderate the impact of concurrent TV-viewing and tweeting.     

Tracing the Sources

This article explores health journalists’ sourcing patterns in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium across a range of different media including newspapers, magazines, radio, television and online health news websites. A cross-sectional quantitative content analysis of health news items collected in February 2015 (N?=?981) was established to examine the number and origin (e.g. industry, citizens, experts) of sources (N?=?1998) mentioned in health news stories with particular attention paid to differences across various media types. Despite recent claims of media convergence, cross-media comparisons are scarce and, for a specialized beat such as health, nonexistent. The key findings of this study indicate that ordinary citizens and academic experts constitute the two largest source categories. The small share of industry-related sources confirms journalists’ skeptical attitude towards content provided by the industry. But on closer inspection, large differences can be observed across various media types. On the one hand, ordinary citizens occur with relatively high frequency on television but hardly make an appearance in online news items. Academic sources, on the other hand, are dominant online but nearly absent in television news items. In sum, this analysis demonstrates that health journalists’ source uses differ across various media platforms.     

The relationship between student communication motives and perceived instructor communicator style

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student communication motives (i.e., relational, functional, participatory, excuse‐making, sycophantic) and perceived instructor communicator style (i.e., friendly, impression leaving, relaxed, contentious, attentive, precise, animated, dramatic, open, dominant). Participants were 228 undergraduate students enrolled in a variety of communication courses at a small Midwestern university. Results indicate that (a) the perceived instructor communicator style attributes of impression leaving, friendly, and contentious predict student use of the relational motive, (b) the attribute of friendly predicts student use of the functional motive, (c) the attributes of animated, contentious, and friendly predict student use of the participatory motive, (d) the attributes of attentive and contentious predict student use of the excuse‐making motive, and (e) the attributes of contentious and friendly predict student use of the sycophantic motive.     

Anger,fear, uncertainty,and attitudes: a test of the cognitive-functional model

The cognitive-functional model of discrete negative emotions and attitude change (CFM; Nabi, 1999) attempts to bridge the theoretical gap between “emotional” and “rational” approaches to persuasion by focusing on how emotions motivate attention to and processing of persuasive messages. As a first test of the CFM, this study explored the effects of 2 emotions, anger and fear, and 2 levels of expectation of message reassurance, certainty and uncertainty, on attitudes toward domestic terrorism legislation. Results supported a main effect for emotion type, suggesting that anger promotes deeper information processing than fear, and a main effect for reassurance certainty level, with uncertainty promoting deeper information processing. The expected interaction between emotion type and reassurance expectation level was not found. Implications of these findings for the model and persuasion research generally are discussed.     

高校学报网站的功能定位

针对目前国内学报网站访问量普遍偏低,影响力小的现状,分析高校学报网站的特点,指出高校学报网站的功能定位应有别于专业性科技期刊网站,应立足于校内读者及作者这2个中心,把为校内教师及广大作者提供方便、快捷、优质的服务及开展信息服务作为其主要功能,有效地扩大高校学报的影响.     

Participatory Communication with Social Media

Abstract Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and content shares to engage users via participatory communication. This marks a shift in how museums publicly communicate their role as custodians of cultural content and so presents debate around an institution's attitude towards cultural authority. It also signifies a new possible direction for museum learning. This article reports on a range of initiatives that demonstrate how participatory communication via social media can be integrated into museum practices. It argues that the social media space presents an ideal opportunity for museums to build online communities of interest around authentic cultural information, and concludes with some recent findings on and recommendations for social media implementation.     

Binge-Watching as a Predictor of Narrative Transportation Using HLM

ABSTRACT

This study explores the changing state of television by measuring binge-watching and its association with narrative transportation, using longitudinal data. The analysis based on a Hierarchical Linear Modeling found that the amount of binge-watching had a positive logarithmic association with transportation—the effect power lessens as binge-watching rate increases. Further, one’s typical binge frequency weakened the relationship between viewing session length and transportation. Overall, more frequent binge-watching reduces its effect power on transportation. Implications for theory and industry are also discussed.