Here is something you can't understand: the suffocating whiteness of communication studies

ABSTRACT

The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular. The article grounds its framework in personal experience and theories in the flesh to build comradery with feminist of color scholarly forebears and to share with those who struggle to create spaces of change within the academy today and in the future. The authors advocate for an active consciousness of “included exclusion” as the first step toward decolonization. Decolonizing discursive and embodied knowledges creates avenues for social justice and change within the academy and beyond.     

Determination of the peak power output during maximal brief pedalling bouts

The purpose of this study was to propose an optimization procedure for determining power output during very brief maximal pedalling exercise. Twenty-six healthy male students (21-28 years) performed anaerobic tests on a Monark bicycle ergometer with maximal effort for less than 10 s at eight different loads ranging from 28.1 to 84.2 Nm in pedalling moment. The maximal pedalling rate was determined from the minimal time required for one rotation of the cycle wheel. Pedalling rate decreased linearly with the load. The relationship between load and pedalling rate was represented by two linear regression equations for each subject; one regression equation was determined from eight pairs of pedalling rates and loads (r less than -0.976) and the other from three pairs (at 28.1, 46.8, 65.5 Nm; r less than -0.969). The two regression coefficients of the respective regression equations were almost identical. Mean +/- S.D. of maximal power output (Pmax) which was determined for each subject based on the two linear regression equations for eight pairs and three pairs of pedalling rates and loads was 930 +/- 187 W (13.4 +/- 1.6 W kgBW-1) and 927 +/- 187 W (13.4 +/- 1.6 W kgBW-1), respectively. There was no statistically significant difference between the values of Pmax which were obtained from each equation. It was concluded that maximal anaerobic power could be simply determined by performing maximal cycling exercise at three different loads.     

Analysis of visual scanning patterns of pistol shooters

Visual behaviour of pistol shooters of various levels of experience was studied using a video-oculometric technique to record the direction of gaze. A spatio-temporal analysis of the fixation patterns of subjects (five international pistol shooters and five international pentathletes) found that patterns were related to the level of skill. The pentathletes, whose level was lower, positioned their gaze on the weapon sight and visually followed the movement of the weapon towards the target. The pistol shooters appeared to use negative feedback in bringing up their weapons, so reducing the angle formed by the weapon, target and gaze. They fixed their gaze directly on the target or between the target and the weapon. Observations showed a prolonged time of attack (means = 1.107 s vs 0.558 s; P less than 0.001) and a shorter stabilization time (means = 0.714 s vs 1.216 s; P less than 0.001) for the most expert shooters. The psycho-physiological mechanisms which were the basis of these patterns and the reasons why shooters chose them are discussed.     

1998—2017年《中国图书馆学报》论文的计量研究与品质分析

以CNKI数据库的量化数据和《〈中国图书馆学报〉创刊六十周年文选》的质性选编为基础,定义出《中国图书馆学报》(1998—2017)所有论文、《文选》论文和双高论文,采用引用量C、下载量U和引用下载比K三个计量指标,对所有论文和《文选》论文进行计量研究,并对《文选》论文和双高论文进行品质分析。研究发现:C、U和K均服从幂律分布,且论文年均引用下载比逐年递减;分段时间内论文引用和下载之间具有高度正相关关系。由于学术品质不能完全用量化指标代替,建议以提升学术品质作为最终目标,而计量研究的目的则是促进学术品质提升。图5。表4。参考文献21。     

“Trust Me,I’m a Sub-editor”

In this paper, I focus on one particular player in the newspaper production process, i.e. the sub-editor. I analysed the sub-editing process through participant observation in newsrooms in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. Looking at both the sub-editors at work (think-aloud protocol) as well as the articles in various stages of production, and informed by (retrospective) interviews, I have compiled a list of six of the sub-editor’s “production values”. These values guide sub-editors whenever they intervene, and help them to transform a news story into an appealing, correct and credible newspaper article. I took the lead from Östgaard’s “factors influencing the flow of news”, but also from Galtung and Ruge’s “news values” which help reporters to determine which “events” are transitioned into “news”. In doing so, I go beyond the limitations of previous research, in which the types of interventions carried out in the sub-editing stage of newswriting were categorised. By identifying the guidelines driving the alterations made by the sub-editor, I aim to move one step closer towards uncovering the intricacies of the sub-editing process. Moreover, I demonstrate how “the rewrite men” add journalistic value to their newspapers, as perhaps their brand’s strongest ambassadors.