Toward a Communication Model for the Socialization of Voluntary Members

Because most socialization/assimilation research focuses on employment as the primary membership role in groups and organizations, the accompanying models have failed to consider the unique characteristics of voluntary membership. In addition, those models have been criticized for being too linear and based on concepts of organizations as containers. Using principles of the bona fide group perspective and a case study, this paper develops a model that emphasizes the unique characteristics of the socialization of voluntary members. The multilevel model also examines how membership in various other groups, such as work and family, influence and interact with individuals’ voluntary memberships. With a focus on communication, the model emphasizes the fluid process of voluntary associations in organizations with ambiguous boundaries.     

Scholarly Information as a Political Economy

The scholarly information system is not a conventional market. It does follow a particular economic structure, but that structure does not follow orthodox macroeconomics. The multiple players who make up the system do compete and, at times, do cooperate, but not on the grounds of the economic theory of textbooks. An analysis that takes the differences into account is the only way to create an understanding of the system.     

The Effect of Television Viewing on Adolescents' Civic Participation: Political Efficacy as a Mediating Mechanism

Pundits, parents, and scholars express concern about youth attention to late-night political comedy shows, such as The Daily Show, suggesting that such viewing is deleterious for an active, efficacious citizenry. Yet as civic participation declines among adults, it appears to be growing among adolescents. This study assessed the effects of television viewing on high school students' civic participation. Results demonstrate that viewing late-night TV and local TV news had a positive, significant effect on civic participation, and this relationship was mediated by political efficacy. Implications for the study of late-night TV and applications to research on political socialization are discussed.     

Explaining Media Choice: The Role of Issue-Specific Engagement in Predicting Interest-Based and Partisan Selectivity

This study analyzes the predictors of 2 types of media selectivity: interest-based (i.e., choice of entertainment over politics) and partisan (i.e., choice of pro-attitudinal over counter-attitudinal or balanced news). Relying on a large survey-based experiment, we find that issue-specific engagement variables, including perceived issue understanding, issue importance, and issue attitude strength, predict interest-based and partisan selectivity above and beyond the influence of general political knowledge, news interest, and strength of political leanings. These results show that the drivers of selectivity are more complex than general political attributes; rather, they are contextual and reflect people’s engagement with particular issues.     

基于图书馆社会化的图书馆学社会化研究

论文分析图书馆社会化与图书馆学社会化的关系,并从图书馆社会化入手,分析提高图书馆学社会化的各种措施和保障制度,提出图书馆学社会化过程中发挥图书馆社会化作用的途径。     

Political Talk Radio and Values: Finding Support for the Two-Value Political Ideology Model

This study found support for the Schwartz (1994) Schwartz, S. H. 1994. Are there universal aspects in the structure and contents of human values?. Journal of Social Issues, 50(4): 19–46. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] two-value political ideology model in relation to political talk radio (PTR) program choice. People who listened to liberal PTR hosts were found to be associated with “universalism.” People who listened to conservative PTR hosts were found to be associated with “security.” Additional values were also found to be associated with listening to liberal and conservative PTR hosts. In addition, discriminant analysis was used to develop a model which could predict PTR listening based on audience values. These findings add to the understanding of the uses and gratifications of listening to political talk radio.     

公共文化社会化发展中政府主导实现方式分析——以上海、宁波、株洲为例

公共文化社会化发展快速推进过程中,如何更好地坚持和实现政府主导,是当前各地公共文化服务体系建设实践中面临的普遍性问题。上海市政府采取出台政策法规、发布采购目录、优选专业社会主体、实施签约服务、履行事后评估等举措,建立公共文化社会化全面主导方式。宁波市政府围绕全市文化强市建设,设置了"全民艺术普及"重大文化惠民工程,以市文化馆为核心全面带动城市社会专业艺术培训机构参与,形成以社会化为主要推进方式的专项突破主导方式。株洲市政府顺应数字化网络化尤其是移动互联网时代云计算、大数据、广互联、融媒体、众主体的公共文化服务特征,采取打通文旅体资源及事业与产业传统瓶颈,创设开放性、兼容性、互动性公共文化社会化平台支撑主导方式。三地各出奇招、各有奇效,对全行业下一步发展深有启发。     

Equity of Access to Cultural Heritage: Museum Experience as a Facilitator of Learning and Socialization in Children with Autism

This article discusses a study focused on investigating the effects of an art museum cultural experience on learning and behaviors of visitors with special needs. The participants, selected by specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, were 10 families with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The author examined how the museum environment, with its opportunities for free‐choice, object‐based, and inquiry‐based learning, helped facilitate their educational and social needs. To record changes in the subjects' content knowledge and behavior, the author employed a mixed‐methods design, including the standardized Social Responsiveness Scale, parent surveys, behavioral observations, task evaluations, and parent interviews. The findings demonstrate that participation in a tailored educational museum program positively influences cognitive and social behaviors of children living with autism, thereby contributing to their overall well‐being. The paper also discusses implications for other museums nationwide working to establish quality access programs with long‐term benefits for special needs communities.     

The Socialization of Emotion: Learning Emotion Management at the Fire Station

In a variety of fields, particularly human service occupations, the management of emotion is a precondition of employee and client well being. Based on qualitative data from participant observation and interviews, this study examines how firefighters are socialized to manage feelings and emotional displays. It concludes that firefighters recognized a need to manage their own emotions and those of their clients in order to deliver adequate service. Veteran firefighters facilitated the use of emotion labor techniques among newcomers by considering the emotion management knowledge and capabilities of job candidates during employee selection processes, providing habituated emotional events, and reinforcing customer service expectations. Newcomers actively participated in their own socialization to local emotion expectations through observational information seeking, retrospective surveillance, and performance of a normative newcomer role demeanor. The article concludes by offering practical and theoretical implications.     

档案管理社会化图景:基于建构和解构取向

在“社会”基础上衍生而出的“社会化”是一个复杂的概念,目前学界对档案管理社会化尚缺乏系统全面的论述。通过多学科文献调研,文章发现现有的社会化理论可以分为建构取向和解构取向,并以此为基础,制定了社会化理论分析框架。将其运用至档案管理领域,从而归纳出建构取向的档案管理社会化和解构取向的档案管理社会化,并且在两种取向下分析出四个象限可能,以期系统全面地描绘档案管理社会化图景。     

Socialization to Work in Late Adolescence: The Role of Television and Family

This survey of college freshmen examines the role of television and family in anticipatory socialization to work. Findings indicate that both sources play a role in the development of work-related values and aspirations, but contribute in different ways. Wishful identification was higher for characters perceived to have higher paying jobs and stronger extrinsic (but not intrinsic) work values. Although causal direction cannot be shown, results suggest that respondents internalized the intrinsic and extrinsic work values they perceived in their parents' jobs, but derived mainly extrinsic work values and desire for easy work from observing their favorite characters at work.     

档案信息资源管理社会化建设模式、作用绩效与措施对策

档案信息资源管理社会化建设，是各级档案部门在经济社会条件下所必须面临的重要课题之一。[第一段]     

Political cartoons as rhetorical form: A taxonomy of graphic discourse

This essay is a taxonomic study of the available means of graphic persuasion as manifested in the art of political cartooning. The authors argue that the neo‐classical canons of rhetoric, slightly modified, provide an adequate superstructure for the production and criticism of graphic discourse. It is further argued that the specific techniques which grow out of the application of the canons reveal significant differences between the means of persuasion available to the graphic artist and those available to the oral persuader. These differences of technique arise from the nature of the medium and force a reconceptualization of the canons of memory and delivery as applied to non‐oratorical forms in general and graphic persuasion in particular.     

The Media as a Policy Instrument in Influencing the Business Model of Professional Soccer: Evidence From Italy

Italian soccer clubs in the first division have individually sold broadcasting rights for their home matches, until new laws imposed pooling and joint-selling those rights through the league and established a mandatory sharing rule to redistribute revenues in order to improve on-the-pitch competitive balance (CB). This article compares the two institutional designs. While reducing revenue inequality, the new regime distorts allocative efficiency and informational rent appropriation, opens up costly ex post renegotiations and antitrust litigations, and does not improve CB.     

日本大学图书馆社会化服务及启示

日本大学图书馆的社会化服务强调为社会服务的图书馆服务理念,大力发展数字化图书馆,构建信息共享平台,注重收集特色馆藏,开展形式多样的社会化活动,真正体现大学图书馆文献信息中心的价值。文章分析日本大学图书馆的社会化服务的发展状况,从而获得某些有益的启示。     

传媒价值创造盈利模式的内涵、策略与应用

未来的传媒是以服务受众的个性化需求为核心的价值创造盈利模式。该种传媒产品能够促使受众的支付意愿提高,最终增加传媒的收入。价值创造盈利模式的五种策略的优先次序为:提供专门的新闻产品>提供独家的新闻产品>利用跨媒介重复使用新闻>提高新闻产品生产和传播的速度>增加新闻产品的数量。     

非洲新闻传播事业的发展逻辑

本文采用文献分析的方法,以传播政治经济学的观点,对非洲从殖民时期到20世纪末的新闻事业发展进行分析,揭示在非洲新闻事业的发展过程中存在着殖民统治、民族独立和民主-商业化等三种新闻发展逻辑,同时展现了非洲新闻业发展中所表现出的独特特征,最后指出,对非洲的新闻传播发展逻辑应该根据非洲国家自身的实际发展情况来定位,单纯的追寻西方和固守传统模式显然都可能缺乏充足的理由。