The Effects of Darkness and Lightness Cues in the Visual Depiction of Political Actors Involved in Scandals: An Experimental Study

Reports about political scandals have increased lately. Yet the general impact of news visuals and the specific role of lightness and darkness cues in images of scandalized politicians remain unclear. With the help of an experiment, the present pilot study examined the influence of candidate images and the effects of particular image backgrounds (light versus dark). While the foreground of the image depicting a politician involved in a scandal remained unchanged, the background was systematically altered. The results revealed that a light background had a positive effect on recipients’ attitudes toward the politician. In contrast, participants exposed to a dark image background demanded a more severe punishment for the politician.     

White lies: a racial history of the (post)truth

In the aftermath of the 2016 election of President Trump, a veritable cottage industry of opinion pieces, blogs, and articles emerged overnight, most of which seemed to agree that only the post-truth could explain how a racist, misogynistic, neo-nationalist member of the economic elite could win a presidential election. This article, in contrast, is inspired by Barbara Christian’s injunction that we question why a given statement, concept, or theory is now acceptable when before it was not. Operating in this spirit, we critique post-truth critics for neglecting the material tradition of ideological criticism in favor of epistemological explanations for understanding post-truth literature; we then offer two case studies—American drug policy and housing policy—to illustrate the racial amnesia required for claiming that only now do we live in a post-truth era.     

Susceptibility to Deception in a Political News Interview: Effects of Identification,Perceived Cooperativeness,and Ingroup Vulnerability

This article explores people’s susceptibility to political deception. Participants watched a news interview in which a politician either answered all the questions or deceptively evaded a question. In Study 1 (n = 202), deception is perceived through the dodge being irrelevant for voters who do not identify with the politician. In Study 2 (n = 618), partisan voters consider the politician more deceptive, and acting more deceptively, when the politician has their opposing party affiliation, independent of whether he dodges. When the politician shares their party identification, voters identify with the politician more and consider his responses more relevant. Findings are consistent with theoretical positions of identification, the cooperative principle, and social identity.     

全球化和信息化背景下高校思想政治理论课的教学困埔与教改策略

在全球化和信息化的时代背景下，我国大学生群体出现了政治信仰迷茫、理想信念模糊、价值取向扭曲、社会责任感缺乏等一系列不容忽视的问题，高校思想政治理论课教学正面临着严峻挑战。因此，研究高校思想政治理论课教学困境的成因，并寻求教改策略，是当前摆在广大思想政治理论课教师面前的一项重要课题。     

A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Political News Discourse-A Case Study of News Report about Iraq

Critical Metaphor Analysis is a new method of critical discourse analysis. It aims at revealing attitudes, believes, emo?tions and ideologies of a specific group by comprehensively adopting the knowled...     

North Korean women defectors in South Korea and their political participation

This study examines the political participation intentions of North Korean women refugees. Previous literature tends to highlight the sufferings and difficulties that female refugees experience as they leave their homelands and settle in a new country. Few studies have been directed toward the political dimension of refugee life. The empirical results show that North Korean women defectors hold generally participatory attitudes toward politics and mostly liberal opinions on policy issues. Furthermore, among the socio-demographic variables, age and marital status are generally influential in the intention of political participation among the North Korean women defectors. Among the political attitudinal variables, attitude toward environmental policy consistently affects political participation intention. With respect to defector-specific variables, satisfaction with life in South Korea is influential, whereas cultural adaptation is not.     

批评语篇分析概述

文章综述了批评语篇分析在国内外的发展状况,并列举了其中的代表人物以及他们的主要贡献。最后对其在国内外的发展状况作出评价,并预测批评语篇分析的研究前景。     

新形势下高职院校宣传思想工作的问题与对策

党的十六大对高职院校的宣传思想工作提出新的要求。审视高职院校的宣传思想工作，还存在着制约教育发展和人才培养的一些问题，必须正视和关注这些问题，以寻求强化高职院校宣传思想工作的对策。     

高职高专学生思想状况调查分析与教育对策

紧密围绕贯彻《中共中央国务院关于进一步加强和改进大学生思想政治教育的意见》精神,根据课题组调查结果,对当前湖北省高职高专学生的思想的主要特点及思想深处存在的矛盾与困惑进行了分析,就新形势下大力推进高职高专学生思想政治教育工作提出了对策。     

作为幻象的意识形态：齐泽克意识形态理论研究

当代著名后现代哲学家齐泽克以其独特的写作和论述风格,为我们提供了他的幻象意识形态理论。该理论在逻辑前提中把意识形态当做与现实或实在对立的幻象来批判,又在具体论述中把幻象与实在之间的关系模糊化甚至同一化,并进而模糊和取消了现实或实在与意识形态之间的区分和对立关系。这就使得任何意识形态批判实际都已不可能,因为幻象意识形态已成为无法打倒的“崇高客体”,我们所做的似乎只能是“穿越”意识形态幻象,触摸实在界的面庞:意识形态已经一方面具有准物质形态的现实感或实在性,另一方面又以一种非物质的形态获得了永恒性和常在性。这就是幻象意识形态的本质特征。基于此,齐泽克以其对幻象的批判成就了对当代或后现代资本主义社会意识形态现象的批判和揭露。