Chaos theory, informational needs, and natural disasters

This study applies chaos theory to a system-wide analysis of crisis communication in a natural disaster. Specifically, we analyze crisis communication during the 1997 Red River Valley flood in Minnesota and North Dakota. This flood, among the worst in modern American history, consumed entire metropolitan areas, displacing thousands of people. The conditions and decisions leading to the disaster, and the subsequent reactions are retraced. Communication related to river crest predictions (fractals), the shock at the magnitude of the crisis (cosmology episode), novel forms of reorganizing (self-organization), and agencies that aided in establishing a renewed order (strange attractors) are evaluated. Ultimately, we argue that preexisting sensemaking structures favoring rationalized, traditional views of a complex system led officials to make inappropriately unequivocal predictions and ultimately diminished the effectiveness of the region's crisis communication and planning.     

体育教学中师生互动的现状分析

体育教学过程是一种特殊的人际互动过程，教学过程中师生之间的互动关系构成了课堂教学的主要过程，同时是影响教学效率的一项重要因素。本文主要探讨不同的体育教学活动过程中师生互动的相互影响，教师、学生开启的师生互动行为的性质特征。     

论馆员的情商与高校图书馆的服务质量

阐述了馆员的情商是决定高校图书馆服务质量的重要因素，指出高校图书馆服务中存在的情商问题，论述如何在馆员的情商与读服务的良性互动中提高高校图书馆的服务质量。     

"普通话教学与测试互动性研究"探索一

普通话教学与测试是一体两面的统一体，教学服务测试，测试指导教学。文章阐述了普通话教学如何为测试服务的问题，并详细介绍了逆序训练法。所谓逆序训练法就是以说话为突破点，辐射PSC的其他三个测试项，重点培训受试人普通话口语表迭能力。普通话教学为测试服务，但又不仅仅是服务于普通话水平测试本身。     

论武术与中国传统文化的相互影响

武术在其整个的发生发展过程中，受中国传统文化的影响是全面而又深刻的，与各种不同文化形式和层面有着密切的联系。其影响不仅表现为武术自然地受到传统文化环境性熏陶，还在于习武者学会自觉地运用传统文化规范拳技、阐述拳理、指导实践。同时，武术作为民族体育文化的代表，又会对我国的民族精神、文学、戏曲和民俗等产生重要影响。     

"The policy exists but you can't really use it": communication and the structuration of work-family policies

Although work-family benefits are increasingly important organizational policies, limited research addresses the impact of communication on benefit utilization. However, communication is significant because the perceived appropriateness of work-family benefits emerges through interaction. For example, when coworkers complain about "picking up the slack" for those using family leave, their discourse may impact future decisions of other workers regarding whether they utilize the work-family benefits available to them. We apply Giddens' (1984) Structuration Theory to examine organizational members' discursive responses to conditions (and contradictions) present in utilizing work-family benefits in a governmental organization. We argue the daily discursive practices of individuals can either reinforce or undermine formally stated work-family initiatives, and in turn discuss the implications of this "structuration" of policy.     

国外基于任务的信息交互研究现状与进展

[目的/意义]本文旨在对国外基于任务的信息交互(Task-Based Information Interaction, TBII)的研究成果进行系统的综述,并以此为基础构建TBII的集成化研究框架。本研究有利于为今后探索TBII的研究提供理论基础。[方法/过程]基于文献调研的方法,对国外基于任务的信息交互研究的现状与进展进行了归纳总结。[结果/结论]研究发现国外学者对于该主题的研究涉及TBII基本概念、TBII阶段的划分、TBII子活动的影响因素和TBII活动完成的影响因素四个主题。研究构建的TBII集成化研究框架将以上四个主题按照一定的逻辑关系进行整合。该框架的功能如下:第一,可以揭示TBII各活动阶段的交互关系;第二,可以识别出用户、任务、TBII活动阶段、信息系统及任务产出、效果、绩效之间的关系机理;第三,提出了TBII研究的四种基本研究路径。     

大学图书馆参考咨询服务中沟通的障碍与对策

沟通在大学图书馆的参考咨询服务中发挥着重要的作用。文章分析了图书馆参考咨询服务中馆员和读者在沟通上存在的问题,提出了解决参考咨询服务中沟通障碍的相应对策。参考文献5。     

Accommodating Translational Research

This is an article in a series illustrating the way scholars in communication have pursued translating their research into practice. The translational nature of communication accommodation theory and examples of its application are the focus of this contribution.     

Communicating Knowing Through Communities of Practice: Exploring Internal Communicative Processes and Differences Among CoPs

Knowing is an enacted, communicated process that is difficult to observe, let alone manage, in organizations. Communities of practice (CoPs) offer a productive solution for improving knowledge and knowledge management, but the communicative processes that enact CoPs have not been explored, leaving CoPs as an organizational black box. This research extends CoP theory as a means to determine the presence of a CoP and distinguish between various CoPs, and as a practical means to evaluate the communicative processes of organizational knowledge. CoPs enact the communicative nature of knowing through the elements of mutual engagement, negotiation of a joint enterprise, and shared repertoire. Specifically, two groups of volunteers are examined through a combination of participation, observation, and interviews in order to explore CoP theory as a dynamic system for examining and evaluating organizational knowledge.