Worn Grooves

Drawing from visual, material and written archival sources, this article critically explores some of the functions, uses and perceived values of recorded sound during the First World War and in its aftermath. An instrument of communication as well as commemoration, the gramophone helped bridge geographical (and, in some cases, cultural) distances between the home front and the rear, providing civilians with the fleeting illusion of presence, proximity, or even sentimental communion with the front. The article analyses (a) the affective and connective, but also propagandist, values of commercial wartime recordings as they circulated between the home and the front, (b) the popular notion of gramophones as regulatory instruments of civilisation, (c) the commemorative exploitations of recorded sound in the interwar period. The article focuses on the British experience, contrasting it with examples drawn from French and German experiences.     

Is There a Future for Journalism?

A functionalist perspective on the future of journalism would posit that because human society needs journalism, we will find ways to support this communications practice. Yet such a perspective, however consoling, assumes a teleology that is far from guaranteed. What will happen is far from easy to predict; nevertheless, this paper pinpoints several key issues that impact on the future of journalism. It also advances some general propositions and a broad periodisation around UNESCO’s historical role in relation to these issues. The analysis gives particular attention to political and economic matters, the safety of journalists and internet governance. Each of these dimensions entails existential threats to journalism, but some opportunities are also noted. Four paradoxes are also identified, with tensions that may lead to change in one direction or another.     

美国科技博物馆展览开发中公众参与的研究及启示

展览开发是博物馆展览的基础问题,随着公众参与逐渐被提上研究议程,也促使我们去思考展览开发过程中如何引入公众参与。美国的科技博物馆展览开发已经建立了较为完善的公众参与体系:明确的参与者角色、系统的参与理念和阶段式的参与行为,已经获得了普遍的应用。借鉴美国博物馆的经验,我国博物馆展览的开发,应在构建展览评估体系的基础上,进一步了解和认识公众,拓展公众参与的方式,并不断寻求公众的声音。     

继续教育--引领企业"内涵式"发展的必由之路

本文就市场经济环境中企业开展职工继续教育的意义、方向和具体措施提出了初步指导性意见。阐述了走“内涵式”发展道路对企业生存、竞争、拓展的重要意义。     

液压与气压传动教学改革的探索与实践

《液压与气压传动》课程是机械类各专业的一门重要技术基础课。几年来通过优化整合教学内容,充分利用以计算机技术为基础的现代教学媒体,对课程内容、教学手段及教学方法的改革进行了探索与实践,提高了教学质量,较好地完成了教学任务。     

依法行政加强药品监督管理

贯彻《行政许可法》，依法加强药品监督管理，其根本目的是保证药品质量，保障人民用药安全有效。必须加强药监队伍建设，树立公正执法形象，构建健康有序的药品市场，实现药品监督执法的规范化、法治化。     

湘西州经济发展滞后的原因及对策——基于宏观经济政策层面的探索与思考

加快少数民族和民族地区的发展,是我国必须着力解决的一个重要问题。本文对近年来制约湘西州经济发展的政策瓶颈作了分析和阐述,并提出了湘西州摆脱困境,发展经济的建议和意见。     

广西北部湾经济区财税政策效应的实证研究

通过分析广西北部湾经济区2000-2012年的统计数据,采用IS-LM模型对北部湾经济区的财税政策效应进行实证分析,发现存在财税政策较为固定单一等问题,应继续加强经济区政府部门体制改革及创新;继续加大对北部湾经济区的转移支付力度;积极推动适当调整税收制度的相关工作。     

我国城市外来人口社会保障问题研究

研究我国城市外来人口现行的社会保障问题。方法:采用随机抽样中的非概率抽样对北京等14个城市的7000名外来人口的年龄结构、文化程度、职业特征、收入状况和参与社会保险的状况进行问卷调查和统计,用SPSS软件进行相关性分析。结果:我国城市外来人口以青壮年为主,从业范围集中在制造、建筑等行业;外来人口养老、医疗、工伤、失业、女职工生育保险的参保率分别为13.3%、28.5%、31.1%、8.8%、0%。结论:我国城市外来人口各类保险的购买率普遍偏低;参保率与社会保险制度、企业因素、收入水平和外来人口自身等因素之间具有显著的相关性(P<0.01)。     

Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates

ABSTRACT

This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the UK, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual status from a cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) stance that explores how rules, tools, community and divisions of labour, and interacting activity systems, shape doctoral experiences. The focus in this article, having analysed their detailed narrative accounts, is on how academics experience three interdependent activity systems: those surrounding the thesis, the institutional context, and the home-life spheres. Issues related to time, workload and supervision issues, variability in collegial support and impact on personal priorities and time emerged. There is a range of particularities – from easy access to resources/supervisors to inflexible institutional regulations – applicable to this group of doctoral candidates. Negotiating life as an academic with concurrent doctoral candidature provides positive outcomes in terms of teaching, research confidence and general personal and professional development. However, a range of difficulties can also be encountered, particularly in relation to personal and professional relationships, and workload management.