The Egyptian protest movement in the twittersphere: An investigation of dual sentiment pathways of communication

During the course of the Egyptian civil movement in 2011, excessive suppression of the protesters caused a great deal of humanitarian concerns across the world. Egyptian protesters were supported not only in the Arabic-speaking world, but also throughout the English speaking world. The Twittersphere¹ became a valuable arena for individuals to communicate amongst each other regarding important social movement issues. This paper is a study of the communication on Twitterverse consisting of both English and Arabic tweets and the sentiments expressed therein during the Egyptian protest movement. We focus on the research questions: what sentiments of Tweeters relate to signals of protest communication?, and how do protest related tweets in two languages in the Twitter sphere, that are a proxy of two different and important cultural groups, compare with each other? In order to understand the protest communications in Twittersphere, we examine a dual pathways model that relates to emotional and goal related sentiments. We apply this model to examine the online protest in Egypt. Our findings reveal the emotions and goal related sentiments that are fundamental for intention to protest across the two languages. We find that anger, fear, pride and hope were the prime sentiments regarding intention to or support of protest, regardless of language.     

Institute of Policy and Management: Aiming at the Ranks of World-class Think Tanks

Established on June 26, 1986 by the consolidation of four former CAS subordinates (namely,the Office of Policy Research, Division of Management Science, Editorial Department of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature, and Section of Optimization and Overall Planning under the CAS Institute of Applied Mathematics), the Institute of Policy and Management (IPM), CAS, is characterized by interdisciplinary studies of social and natural sciences. It applies itself to theoretical, methodological and applied research into national strategies, policies and management for S&T development. It also provides consultancy services for government departments, local authorities and CAS on issues concerning S&T development, social and economic growth, S&T management and administration of enterprises.     

Civil Society and the Shaping of Communication-Information Policy: Four Decades of Advocacy

This article initiates exploratory empirical research on how civil society collective action has reacted to and affected communication-information policy (CIP), a policy domain that has been reshaped by technological and industrial change. It reviews the relevant theory on social movements, citizens groups, and interest groups from political science. Data are gathered on two dimensions of the research question: (1) We quantify the number of public interest advocacy groups focused on CIP in the United States from 1961 to the present, using organizational ecology methods. (2) We track the number of U.S. Congressional hearings held each year on CIP issues. The results show that CIP now exceeds other social movement issues (women, civil rights, the environment, human rights) as a major concern of Congressional activity, that the issues are becoming more interdependent, and that modes of citizens advocacy have undergone drastic changes in recent years.     

Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media

This article discusses how social media research may benefit from social media companies making data available to researchers through their application programming interfaces (APIs). An API is a back-end interface through which third-party developers may connect new add-ons to an existing service. The API is also an interface for researchers to collect data off a given social media service for empirical analysis. Presenting a critical methodological discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with quantitative and qualitative social media research based on APIs, this article highlights a number of general methodological issues to be dealt with when collecting and assessing data through APIs. The article further discusses the legal and ethical implications of empirical research using APIs for data collection.     

Civil Society and the Shaping of Communication–Information Policy: Four Decades of Advocacy

This article initiates exploratory empirical research on how civil society collective action has reacted to and affected communication–information policy (CIP), a policy domain that has been reshaped by technological and industrial change. It reviews the relevant theory on social movements, citizens groups, and interest groups from political science. Data are gathered on two dimensions of the research question: (1) We quantify the number of public interest advocacy groups focused on CIP in the United States from 1961 to the present, using organizational ecology methods. (2) We track the number of U.S. Congressional hearings held each year on CIP issues. The results show that CIP now exceeds other social movement issues (women, civil rights, the environment, human rights) as a major concern of Congressional activity, that the issues are becoming more interdependent, and that modes of citizens advocacy have undergone drastic changes in recent years.     

Facilitating communities of practice as social learning systems: a case study of trialling sustainable sanitation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

While social learning is advocated as critical for inducing large-scale shifts toward sustainability, methodological issues associated with designing the opportunities for social learning or guidelines for practitioners seeking to facilitate such learning in cross-disciplinary teams working on sustainability-oriented projects are lacking. This paper draws on a two-year pilot project in Sydney, in which government, industry and academic partners collaborated to learn about the development potential of urine diversion (UD) systems in practice. The concept of ‘Communities of Practice’ was used to identify inherent challenges and opportunities for social learning. An outcome of the project has been the identification of overarching principles for designing opportunities for social learning in such projects, particularly the need (1) to facilitate community-oriented leadership, (2) to develop strategic exercises for collaborative engagement and (3) involvement of actors beyond the boundaries of the experiment to introduce novelty, diversity and cumulative learning opportunities.     

心理学在社会治理中的作用

推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化是我国全面深化改革的一个总体目标。对此心理学的研究可以提供重要的科学支撑。一方面是因为心理学具有社会科学的学科性质,能够解释很多社会过程和社会问题的作用机制;另一方面,是因为社会治理理念所倡导的多元主体、协商民主、消解矛盾和精细化的思想,都与心理学有密切的联系,需要对人的心理和行为有深刻的理解。未来学界应更多致力于有关社会治理的心理学研究,而且该领域的研究应注重理论本土化和方法多元化,坚持多学科协同创新的定位,处理好基础研究和应用研究的关系,以及科学研究与人文关怀的关系。     

我国少数民族地区民生问题与责任政府建设

当前,各族群众基本生计状态偏下和基本发展机会较少等是我国少数民族地区凸显的民生问题,改善民生是政府义不容辞的责任。引入绩效评价方法,有助于民族区域责任政府建设,应将关系到各族群众切身利益的民生问题纳入政府绩效评价内容之中。与此同时,民族地区政府应在科学发展观的统领下,牢固树立公共服务理念,改革传统的行政体制,不断优化政府绩效考评的内容与形式,促进公共服务的效率和效果,满足各族群众的民生需求。     

理想天平与现实阶梯:心理学视角下的社会分层与公平研究

社会公平是人类永恒的追求,也是贯穿于当代中国社会治理的核心价值理念。然而当前社会存在严重的阶层差异与阶层固化现象,已在很大程度上制约了社会公平的实现。对此,社会阶层心理学从社会客观现实、民众主观感受和心理干预策略几个方面出发,围绕着社会分层阻碍社会公平的心理机制、不同阶层感知社会分层与公平的心理特点以及如何增强阶层流动进而更好地促进社会公平这几个核心问题展开了研究。未来心理学视角下的社会分层与社会公平研究应更加完善本土化的理论,运用多样化的研究方法,并且进一步推进研究成果的应用,为社会治理实践服务。     

和谐社会视野下的民族地区社会矛盾分析

随着改革的深化与发展,民族地区的社会矛盾表现出多样性、复杂性、特殊性等特点,正确处理这些矛盾,对社会和谐、边疆安全具有重要意义。当前民族地区社会矛盾包括人民内部矛盾和敌我矛盾,人民内部矛盾在经济、政治、文化领域有不同的表现形式。对其处理时应当把握防止转化原则、以人为本原则,针对不同矛盾采取不同的处理方式。     

Assessing Anonymous Communication on the Internet: Policy Deliberations

Anonymous communication on the Internet offers new opportunities but has ill-understood risks. This article helps to ground the policy debates by examining some fundamental aspects of anonymous social behavior and current controversies over anonymous communications. It is a companion to the article in this issue, "Anonymous Communication Policies for the Internet: Results and Recommendations of the AAAS Conference." It examines the social character of anonymous communication and the ways that anonymous communication has played important roles for professionals such as journalists and the police. It also explains some of the new technological supports for anonymous communication on the Internet. The openness, decentralization, and transnational character of the Internet challenge the efficacy of traditional control mechanisms and have raised issues related to accountability, law enforcement, security and privacy, governmental empowerment, and e-commerce. Yet, to ban or restrict all anonymous communication online because of the harms it could bring would deny its benefits to those people who may legitimately gain from it. This article helps to understand how to balance these positions.     

Assessing Anonymous Communication on the Internet: Policy Deliberations

Anonymous communication on the Internet offers new opportunities but has ill-understood risks. This article helps to ground the policy debates by examining some fundamental aspects of anonymous social behavior and current controversies over anonymous communications. It is a companion to the article in this issue, "Anonymous Communication Policies for the Internet: Results and Recommendations of the AAAS Conference." It examines the social character of anonymous communication and the ways that anonymous communication has played important roles for professionals such as journalists and the police. It also explains some of the new technological supports for anonymous communication on the Internet. The openness, decentralization, and transnational character of the Internet challenge the efficacy of traditional control mechanisms and have raised issues related to accountability, law enforcement, security and privacy, governmental empowerment, and e-commerce. Yet, to ban or restrict all anonymous communication online because of the harms it could bring would deny its benefits to those people who may legitimately gain from it. This article helps to understand how to balance these positions.     

汶川八级地震灾后新建社区现状分析与政策建议

对汶川八级地震灾区城镇和农村新建社区进行抽样调查,分析其居住条件、管理体制、社会生活、心理状态、就业形势等现状,针对灾后新建社区的管理问题,提出了包括增强社区基础保障、建立社区组织机构、加强社区模式管理、构建社区支持网络、完善社区服务平台、建设新型农村社区在内的政策建议。     

Exploring key indicators of social identity in the #MeToo era: Using discourse analysis in UGC

Recent years have been characterized by the ubiquitous use of social networks as a mean of self and social identity, which offers new opportunities for qualitative and quantitative research in social sciences. The dynamics of interactions on social platforms such as Twitter promote the development of social movements around hashtags, such as #MeToo. According to previous research, this movement has set the beginning of an era. The present study aims to determine the key indicators of social identity in the #MeToo movement in Twitter using textual analysis and sentiment analysis of user-generated content. To this end, we use a cognitive pragmatics point of view to study a corpus of 31.305 tweets. Using the methodological approaches of corpus linguistics (CL) and discourse analysis (DA), we identify keywords, topics, frequency, and n-grams or collocations to understand the social identity of the #MeToo movement. The key indicators of the social identity in the #MeToo Era are validated using association statistical measures of Log-Likelihood and Mutual Information (MI). Our results reveal the polarization of sentiments where UGC is associated with both negative and positive topics. The social identity is particularly strongly correlated with women and the workplace. Finally, regardless the industry or area, these results present a holistic approach to the social identity of #MeToo.     

试论数字图书馆用户的远程培训

论证了开展数字图书馆用户远程培训的必要性，探讨了远程培训的目的和具体内容，并说明了在数字图书馆用户的远程培训中应该注意的一些方面。     

数字学术期刊的长期保存研究

文章介绍了数字学术期刊保存的进展情况，分析了三种不同的保存方法，为我国图书馆保存数字学术期刊资源提供参考。     

社交网站调查的科研数据一致性研究

社交网站为科研调查者提供了新的调查途径与平台,科研调查者可基于不同社交网站平台,在不同调查情景中实施科研调查以弥补单一调查模式样本涵盖率低的缺陷。论文以人人网、腾讯QQ为例,采用验证性因子分析法,研究了匿名调查与非匿名调查获取科研数据的一致性问题。研究结果表明:非敏感性量表下两类调查数据具备完全一致性,科研人员可将所得数据直接整合;对于敏感性量表,两类调查数据不具备完全一致性,科研人员只有对获取数据进行相关预处理后,才可进行数据整合及相关统计分析。     

“3+3”县校合作——西部边疆民族地区农业科技服务新模式

为探索适宜西部边疆民族地区的农业科技服务模式,系统调研了云南等部分边疆地区农业农村发展现状,以及云南农业大学开展的3+3校县合作服务模式在云南省推广应用的实际效果,分析"3+3"校县合作服务模式的运行方式和机制,总结和讨论该模式的特点、实用性和应用前景。"3+3"校县合作服务模式的形式灵活,内容全面,紧密结合高校、基层管理部门及农村农民,双向互动,兼顾多方共赢,具有较为完善合理的管理和服务机制,在我国西部边疆地区具有较好的应用前景。     

论科学信念在化约性与复杂性之间的关系——以系统论的发展为例

科学信念一直是影响科学研究人员的重要因素 ,也是一般大众对科学认识的深层印象。本文从科学信念的三组对立概念入手 ,针对“有序与混沌”、“部分与整体”、“偶然与必然”三项议题深入探讨 ,并直接举系统论的发展为例 ,说明因应三组概念所导引出的三个阶段 :类型学的系统论、方法学的系统论、形上学的系统论。由此而知 ,科学信念转变的关键乃在于其化约性与复杂性之间的拉距或协调     

Alchemy and the history of science. Introduction

Alchemy is part of the cultural experience of early modern Europe and yet has had to overcome problems of demarcation to be considered relevant to the history of science. This essay considers historiographical and methodological issues that have affected the gradual demarginalization of alchemy among attempts to explain, and find things out about, nature. As an area of historical study, alchemy relates to the history of science as part of an ensemble of practices that explored the natural world through natural philosophy and speculative traditions and by functioning as a nexus of social and intellectual life.