Mass Communication Law

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL FREE SPEECH: FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION OF EXPRESSION IN BUSINESS by Edwin P. Rome and William H. Roberts (Westport, CT: Quorum Books/Greenwood Press, 1985—$39.95)

DESK GUIDE TO THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE by Louis F. Cooper and Robert E. Emeritz (Pike &; Fischer, 4550 Montgomery Ave., Suite 433N, Bethesda, Md. 20814—$23.50)

LIBEL AND PRIVACT: THE PREVENTION AND DEFENSE OF LITIGATION by Bruce V. Sanford (New York: Law &; Business/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985—$70.00)

HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF CENSORSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES by Leon Hurwitz (Uestport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985—$55.00)

VIDEO CASSETTES: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND PROGRAMMING FOR THE VCR MARKETPLACE (Practising Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York 10019—$40.00, paper)

LAW OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS: FREEDOM AND CONTROL OF PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA by Harold Nelson and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. (Mineola, NY: Foundation Press, 1986—$26.00)

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: THREE CASE STUDIES by Craig R. Smith (Freedom of Expression Foundation, 414 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003—apparently free on request to educators and educational institutions)     

Strategically aligning a mandala of competencies to advance a transformative vision

Objective:

This paper offers insight into the processes that have shaped the Eskind Biomedical Library''s (EBL''s) strategic direction and its alignment to the institution''s transformative vision.

Setting:

The academic biomedical library has a notable track record for developing and pioneering roles for information professionals focused on a sophisticated level of information provision that draws from and fuels practice evolutions.

Strategy:

The medical center''s overall transformative vision informs the creation of a fully aligned library strategic plan designed to effectively contribute to the execution of key organizational goals. Annual goals reflect organizational priorities and contain quantifiable and measurable deliverables. Two strategic themes, facilitating genetic literacy and preserving community history, are described in detail to illustrate the concept of goal setting.

Conclusion:

The strategic planning model reflects EBL''s adaptation to the ever-changing needs of its organization. The paper provides a characterization of a workable model that can be replicated by other institutions.     

Montessori: Help Me to Do It Myself

There is no East here. West is meeting West. This is all West. All you saw was West. Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey But why is decolonization-defined as the process of unlearning historically determined habits of privilege and privation, of ruling dependency- such a difficult intellectual matter that we cannot acknowledge our past or present location and simply get on with the business of interpreting the other as honestly and objectively as possible? Satya P. Mohanty     

Innovations and communication through innovative users: An exploratory mechanism of social networking website

The study focuses on which users to target and why and how to inspire their participation by applying combination of von Hippel's lead user and user innovation toolkits with Rogers’ innovation diffusion theories. After an investigation of a social networking website, this study finds that individuals with large number of hits are highly active users of new functions. Moreover, they are likely to use toolkits to customize their personal uses and respond to others’ problems. Therefore, they garner appreciation from others in return, achieve higher ranks in the top hit parade, and obtain better-expected benefits from the website's incentive compensation. This study also evaluates the toolkits’ efficacy in the Web 2.0 context and finds that they are not equivalents. This research offers insights useful for web service providers to target innovative users and create an environment using web toolkits to induce user-generated innovation and achieve better effect of innovation communication.     

“求生”——论中华帝国晚期的“司法欺诈”

自14世纪以来,专制的发展造成中国体制内部的法律职业江河日下。在或多或少地被边缘化、甚至被禁止范畴内,由于丰富的专业文献、法律职业的团体精神得以保存。可以追溯到13世纪的格言要求法律人利用其技术对于被指控者＂救生＂。这种职业取向秘密行使而为赦免寻求理由,与皇帝特权不无冲突。这样,法律人的专业并不是简单的官僚专门知识,但作为一种知识解释这些似乎整个国家被规制的准则。     

Visual abilities distinguish pitchers from hitters in professional baseball

This study aimed to evaluate the possibility that differences in sensorimotor abilities exist between hitters and pitchers in a large cohort of baseball players of varying levels of experience. Secondary data analysis was performed on 9 sensorimotor tasks comprising the Nike Sensory Station assessment battery. Bayesian hierarchical regression modelling was applied to test for differences between pitchers and hitters in data from 566 baseball players (112 high school, 85 college, 369 professional) collected at 20 testing centres. Explanatory variables including height, handedness, eye dominance, concussion history, and player position were modelled along with age curves using basis regression splines. Regression analyses revealed better performance for hitters relative to pitchers at the professional level in the visual clarity and depth perception tasks, but these differences did not exist at the high school or college levels. No significant differences were observed in the other 7 measures of sensorimotor capabilities included in the test battery, and no systematic biases were found between the testing centres. These findings, indicating that professional-level hitters have better visual acuity and depth perception than professional-level pitchers, affirm the notion that highly experienced athletes have differing perceptual skills. Findings are discussed in relation to deliberate practice theory.     

The impact of the Prevent duty on schools: A review of the evidence

The UK has emerged as an influential global player in developing policy to counter violent extremism, and therefore it is important to consider the emerging evidence about the impact of this policy in education. The Prevent duty came into force in the UK in 2015, placing a legal responsibility on schools and teachers to implement anti-terrorist legislation and prevent young people from being drawn into extremism or radicalisation. This article reviews all of the material based on empirical studies in England involving school teachers and students published between 2015 (when the duty was introduced) and the beginning of 2019 (27 articles and reports in total), to consider the impact of the policy on schools. The key themes emerging from our analysis of this evidence base are related to (1) the ways the policy is interpreted within Islamophobic discourses, (2) the emergence of Britishness as a key feature of fundamental British values and (3) the implications of framing Prevent as a safeguarding issue. We argue that the evidence gives support to those who have been critical of the Prevent duty in schools, and that it seems to be generating a number of unintended and negative side-effects. However, the evidence also illustrates how teachers have agency in relation to the policy, and may thus be able to enact the policy in ways which reduce some of the most harmful effects.