Self‐Efficacy of First‐Generation and Non‐First‐Generation College Students: The Relationship With Academic Performance and College Adjustment

The authors examined whether self‐efficacy mediated the relationship between generational status and 2 academic outcome indicators of 192 college students. A mediation effect was not found with either academic performance or college adjustment. However, high self‐efficacy at the beginning of the year predicted better college adjustment at the end of the 1st year. For college students in general, high self‐efficacy was related to better college adjustment. Recommendations for counselors are discussed.     

Video as Digital Object: Production and Distribution of Video Content in the Internet Media Ecosystem

The media industry is undergoing comprehensive change due to the shifting audience and consumption patterns fostered by the diffusion of the Internet. This article describes how these changes shape established practices of video production and redefine the cultural categories of video and broadcasting. Drawing on an empirical case study of the practices within the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the we show the production of video content to be increasingly unbundled and broken down into several smaller processes, which make it possible to manage and recompose in a variety of ways that transcend established institutional divisions and cultural perceptions. At the same time and as a means of accommodating multiplatform content delivery, video distribution is acquiring flexible and mutating formats that further destabilize the perception of video as a self-sufficient cultural form. In this context, video metadata rises to be an important coordinative medium that provides the cognitive resources for identifying and managing video content within and across particular settings and the link through which the operations of media organizations become entangled with the technical landscape of the Internet.     

Building Universities of Quality: An Analysis of the Views of University Students concerning their Academic Training

The primary objective of this paper has been to define a quality university from the user's perspective, based on what students expressed regarding different aspects of the institution. Two methodologically different formats of collecting information have assisted in testing the coherence of their opinions. A qualitative and quantitative approach helped to evaluate the results.     

Georg von Békésy,Nobel Laureate in Physiology,Experimental Physicist and Art Collector was Born 100 Years Ago

Georg von Békésy was born one hundred years ago, on July 3, 1899 in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated from the University of Bern as a chemist in 1921. He received a Ph.D. in physics in Budapest under the supervision of Charles Tangl in 1923. From 1926 to 1947 he worked in Hungary's best-equipped research laboratory, in the Postal Experimental Institution as a postal engineer. Here he lead basic physical research on ear preparations and on realistic models of the ear, made by himself, to investigate the structure and the working of the ear and, first of all, theinner ear (cochlea). For the results of his research in Hungary, Békésy received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1961. The paper also introduces Georg von Békésy as a passionate art collector and expert.