Re-Imaging an Ancient,Emergent Superpower: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,Public Memory,and National Identity

On August 8, 2008, Beijing orchestrated a grand opening ceremony for the Twenty-Ninth Olympic Games. Amid the People's Republic of China's inexorable emergence as a superpower in the world, the ceremony provided a valuable glimpse into contemporary Chinese political and social circumstances. Employing public memory as the conceptual framework to unravel this momentous spectacle, this essay argues that the Chinese government erected a new national identity, through historico-cultural invocations and reconfigurations of Chinese and global memories. Yet such rhetorical exploits also betrayed the Chinese government's intense pursuit of politico-ideological legitimacy in the globalizing world, which has increasingly been challenged by Chinese and global publics.     

Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2002 convention of the Western States Communication Association.

Museums, memorials, and other historic places are key sites in the construction of collective memory and national identity. The Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming is one such space of memory where the (pre)history of “America” and its native peoples is told. Based on the view of texts as experiential landscapes, it is argued that this museum works to absolve Anglo-visitors of the social guilt regarding Western conquest through a rhetoric of reverence. This rhetorical mode invites visitors to adopt a respectful, but distanced observational gaze. A concluding section assesses the social and political consequences of memorializing in this mode.     

Economy & Pedagogy: Laboring to Learn in Camden County,North Carolina

This paper explores one interview participant's performances of memory as didactic efforts to resist a diverse range of public memories concerning school segregation and desegregation in rural North Carolina. By exploring Mr. Charlie's narratives, this essay provides critical insight into the articulations between capitalism, education, and white privilege, frayed by local resistant memories and community praxis. Mr. Charlie's memories provide the opportunity to reimagine received traditions of race, education, and equality as marked by alternate forms of economic and social relations. Specifically, he articulates a gray education and gray market, and their place outside of traditional white pedagogy and the capitalist economy. These gray pedagogies and economies present larger implications for the ways race has crossed all of our paths.     

Models of Digital Cooperation

ABSTRACT

Three cooperative digital library projects (American Memory; the Publication of Archival, Library, and Museum Materials program; and the Minnesota Digital Library) are analyzed for evidence of the costs and benefits of cooperative digital library projects for digital conversion generally.     

“I Am Who I Am”: Black Masculinity and the Interpretation of Individualism in the Film Barbershop

This essay will provide further insight into how Black audiences interpret a popular culture text by focusing upon how a group of young black men construct Black masculinity as depicted in the film Barbershop. Interestingly, a rhetorical community of young Black men discussed the representations of the characters in the film from a perspective of Black individualism rather than reaffirming identity through a collective orientation toward the culture. This reading contrasts with much of the “ghettocentric” film literature by highlighting how a Black audience's interpretation of a text can focus on individualism rather than on cultural representations and stereotypes.     

不同情绪启动状态下的注意稳定性对记忆广度的影响

情绪和认知是信息加工中的两个子系统,情绪、认知及行为三者之间存在密切的联系。不同极性的情绪会对信息加工起到干扰或者促进作用,情绪的变化可能影响认知加工的过程,也可能对行为反应产生一定的影响。注意是完成信息处理过程的重要心理条件之一,注意对认知和行为也产生了深远的影响。以大学生为被试进行了实验室研究并有效收集了70份数据,结果表明：不同的情绪启动状态对注意稳定性没有显著性影响;注意稳定性、记忆材料对记忆广度有显著性影响。     

网络游戏成瘾者与非成瘾者注意特征的差异

本研究采用PsyTech-EP2009型心理实验台的实验系统对网络游戏成瘾者与非网络游戏成瘾者的注意集中、注意广度两个维度进行测试。网络游戏成瘾者与非网络游戏成瘾者注意集中具有显著性差异:网络游戏成瘾者的在靶时间比非网络游戏成瘾者高,网络游戏成瘾者脱靶次数比非网络游戏成瘾者少。网络游戏成瘾者与非网络游戏成瘾者的注意广度存在显著差异,前者注意广度比后者高。     

基于序列化调节的竞争管理策略研究

事务存储是一种并行编程同步方式,与基于锁的同步方式相比具有易于使用、可扩展等优点。对软件事务存储系统竞争管理策略中的序列化调节机制进行了改进,使竞争管理策略在序列化调节的支持下,更加有效地对冲突进行消解。经测试表明,与传统的竞争管理策略相比,带有序列化调节机制的竞争管理策略在高冲突率状况下的性能有明显改善。     

Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness

Modern information systems not only capture a seemingly endless amount of transactional data, but also tend to retain it for indefinite periods of time. We argue that privacy policies must address not only collection and access to transactional information, but also its timely disposal. One unintended side effect of data retention is the disappearance of social forgetfulness, which allows individuals a second chance, the opportunity for a fresh start in life. We examine three domains in which social policy has explicitly recognized the importance of such a principle: bankruptcy law, juvenile crime records, and credit reports. In each case, we frame the issue in terms of the social benefits of forgetfulness, rather than in terms of individual privacy protection. We examine how different policy approaches to privacy might handle the retention of data and propose a comprehensive policy that includes a variety of strategies. The broad conclusion of the article is that data retention and disposal should be addressed as a part of a broader and comprehensive policy approach, rather than in a piecemeal fashion or as an afterthought.     

优秀运动员"运动寿命"概念的解析

竞技运动训练的终极目的就是使运动员获得最高的竞赛成绩,并尽可能长地保持运动员高水平的竞技能力.作为竞技体育主体的运动员的运动寿命也一直是人们关注的热点,对运动寿命的概念进行了界定,分析了运动寿命与年龄、竞赛成绩的关系以及影响运动寿命的因素.