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.     

Nurturing Authority

When considering the role of local journalism in a networked media environment, it is crucial to examine how audiences attribute news with the power to define social knowledge. In particular, television news programs need to appeal to audiences by reinforcing a sense of local journalistic authority to assert the parameters of who and what is worthy of coverage. This article presents the findings from interviews with a range of commercial television news viewers in Sydney, Australia. It positions viewership in the context of people’s wider engagement with news, and in relation to their interpersonal and digital social interactions. The paper argues that local audiences have conflicting attitudes to the role of television news, both contesting and re-inscribing the programs with the power to demarcate social, political, and cultural knowledge. It traces how local audiences challenge the ability of news to convey boundaries within the community through processes of exclusion, connecting the contestations to the lived experiences of the individuals. It identifies that television news programs nurture journalistic authority in terms of their local relevance, and it contributes insights on the significance of local news by engaging with the means by which audiences themselves attach social power to journalism.     

民族志视野中的武陵土家族村落文化研究——以百顺村饮食服饰变迁为个案

土家族是生活在祖国腹地武陵地区的历史悠久的山地少数民族.在现代多元文化互动的背景下,土家族村落文化的变迁主要表现在经济生产方式、社会结构等诸多方面.变迁并不是传统文化的丧失,而是在其中产生出新的文化因子.     

知识渊博型教学风格在高职高专英语课堂教学中的应用

教师渊博的知识不应随意引用到高职高专英语课堂上。高职高专公共英语课堂教学内容的拓展应从学生所学的专业技能出发,遵守适度原则。为此。教师在追求自身专业知识结构多元化的同时,要注重各种知识在课堂教学中有选择的合理应用。     

当代大学生阅读倾向中值得关注的几个问题

本文阐述了当代大学生阅读倾向中所存在的层次性、盲从性、功利性、指定性、消遣性几个主要特征,就如何加强对大学生阅读的引导提出了相应的对策。     

基于全息系统下的营销的三种境界

基于全息系统的视角,提出营销学的三个层次：产品营销、品牌营销、文化营销。分别从营销的概念、消费者细分,以及营销战略与对策等几个方面对传统营销学体系提出质疑,并在总结创新的基础上构建全息系统下的营销学新体系。     

浅谈高校图书馆建筑设计

图书馆是保存和传递文献信息的重要机构,是人类文化的宝库。高校图书馆是高校知识交流、信息交流和学术交流的中心,是一个全心全意为读者服务的开放型、多种功能组合的综合性文献信息部门。因此,作为高校的标志性建筑,它的设计应传承合理的传统设计理念,融入新的设计元素,要注重图书馆的适用性、人文性、智能性和绿色生态性。     

高职院校校园文化建设透析

当前高职院校的校园文化建设存在着建设滞后、缺乏规划、创新不足等问题.造成这些问题的主要原因包括领导重视不够、理论研究不足、认识片面、经费场地限制等.应从各个方面入手,大力加强高职院校校园文化建设.     

高职院校图书馆建设存在的问题和对策

高职院校图书馆存在着藏书结构与教育教学的发展不相适应、网络平台信息内容不足、影像资料播放缺乏场所、人员技术水平和观念不适应发展等问题.给出了解决问题的思路:建立机制,提高图书采购的针对性和有效性,创建多维共享型专业教学资源库,强化教职工业务技术和职业守则的培训、提高.     

从金牌体育到生活体育——体育文化的本质回归

社会的发展影响着人们生活方式的改变,体育生活化的出现标志着一种社会文化的创建,代表了一种国际性的生活标准和趋势。随着北京市景山街道黄化门社区“体育生活化示范区”的出现和探索,标志着中国体育文化发展道路上理论和实践的一个重大突破：体育从追求国家金牌转向关注个体的全面发展和全人类的健康,体育在一个新的层次上服务于生活。体育走向大众,体育进入生活也是体育在当代社会的必然取向,也是体育的本质回归。