Research trends and collaborations by applied science researchers in South African universities of technology: 2007–2017

This paper analyses the publication patterns of researchers in the field of applied sciences at Universities of Technology in South Africa. Aspects investigated include publications in SCOPUS-listed journals; number of citations and countries of publication. Collaborative research patterns at national and international levels were also investigated. A bibliometric analysis approach was followed using SCOPUS as the main source of data and analysing the articles published in selected applied science disciplines. Results show that researchers in the field of applied sciences in universities of technology have increased their number of publications over the past 10?years and are also working in conjunction with other researchers both nationally and internationally. The analysis is an important addition to the field in South Africa which helps in measuring how institutions are positively responding to government incentives in research. The results are also important to information professionals who are increasingly playing an important role in research impact assessments.     

A different type of dirty work: Hidden taint,intersectionality, and emotion management in bureaucratic organizations

This study explores the intersectionality among identity markers, such as gender, race, and class, and emotion management in two bureaucratic organizations – municipal courtrooms and airport security checkpoints. We name and explore a new type of dirty work called “hidden taint,” which we describe as a larger, encompassing category of dirty work that involves the experience and dynamic co-construction of taint. Utilizing qualitative methods including participant observation and interviews, we compare how hidden taint is experienced in each bureaucratic context. The results focus on the relationship between (1) hidden taint and the co-construction of emotion norms and (2) hidden taint and power dynamics. This study extends communication theory by naming and describing hidden taint as a new type of dirty work, extending literature on emotion management and intersectionality by exploring their connection to dirty work in occupations with varying levels of prestige, and detailing how emotion management is co-constructed between employees and patrons in bureaucratic contexts.     

An impulse to exploit: the behavioral turn in data-driven marketing

Industry advocates argue that by tailoring services and commercial solicitations to match media users’ personal interests, data-driven marketing benefits both consumers and businesses. This article shows, however, that advertisers and marketers who are taking up ideas and techniques from behavioral economics tell their clients a very different story about the aims and use of digital marketing and consumer surveillance. Listening in on this discourse demonstrates that some digital marketers conceptualize their own practices as forms of social control, appropriating concepts from behavioral economics to identify consumers’ cognitive and affective biases and target their vulnerabilities. Behavioral economics recognizes that economic decisions are not simply dictated by rational self-interest; rather, such choices depend on cognitive heuristics and habits, and can be manipulated through the design of “choice architecture.” This article discusses implications of the behavioral turn in data-driven marketing for critical advertising scholars, public advocates, and regulators.     

Placing Facebook

Facebook is challenging professional journalism. These challenges were evident in three incidents from 2016: the allegation that Facebook privileged progressive-leaning news on its trending feature; Facebook’s removal of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm Girl” photo from the pages of prominent users; and the proliferation of “fake news” during the US presidential election. Using theoretical concepts from the field of boundary work, this paper examines how The Guardian, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter editorialized Facebook’s role in these three incidents to discursively construct the boundary between the value of professional journalism to democracy and Facebook’s ascendant role in facilitating essential democratic functions. Findings reveal that these publications attempted to define Facebook as a news organization (i.e., include it within the boundaries of journalism) so that they could then criticize the company for not following duties traditionally incumbent upon news organizations (i.e., place it outside the boundaries of journalism). This paper advances scholarship that focuses on both inward and outward conceptions of boundary work, further explores the complex challenge of defining who a journalist is in the face of rapidly changing technological norms, and advances scholarship in the field of media ethics that positions ethical analysis at the institutional level.     

高校图书馆图书采购招标的再思考

近年来,图书采购招标成为图书采购的主要方式,它改变了传统的采访模式,对采访工作提出了新的要求。文章结合实际,论述了采购招标形势下采访工作的新变化、新要求,以及采访人员应采取的相应对策。     

促进我国政党关系长期和谐的若干对策研究

我国的政党关系是团结和谐的关系。和谐的政党关系为社会主义和谐社会提供了坚实的政治基础和广泛的力量支持。促进我国政党关系的长期和谐,要加强和改善共产党的领导,充分发扬社会主义民主,加强中国共产党领导的多党合作制度建设,使执政党建设与参政党建设互相促进。     

从政治体制维度解析新加坡人民行动党长期高绩效执政之谜

新加坡人民行动党自1959年上台执政以来,历经多次大选,连战连胜,至今仍保持执政地位。这在多党竞争选举体制的条件下,堪称奇迹。人民行动党之所以有如此超强的执政能力和卓越执政绩效,首先在于制定了正确的发展战略,但说到底还是取决于构建和运作了一套能有效贯彻其战略的政治体制,主要体现在政党体制、政府机构权力分配和运作机制、公务员选拔培养机制、反贪防腐机制等方面。     

对加强新时期思想政治教育创新的几点思考

进入新世纪,军队建设面临的内外部环境发生了深刻变化,官兵的思想观念、行为方式、价值取向等呈现出新的特点,因此加强思想政治教育创新,不断研究新情况,解决新问题,在观念、内容和方式方法上不断赋予思想政治教育新的生命和动力就显得尤为重要。     

辅导员应具备的四种工作意识

从辅导员在新时期育人工作中应具有的责任意识入手,分析当今辅导员应具备责任意识、合作意识、平等意识、自我发展意识等四种意识理念,明确了角色意识,才能自觉地履行角色职责、调控角色行为,以实现辅导员工作向专业化、职业化、职能化的发展。     

当代网络思想政治教育探析

在新的时代条件下,网络思想政治教育日益突显。网络思想政治教育的发展和建设需要从理论创新、网络平台建设、人员队伍建设等方面进一步加强以促进其发展。