Access and Express: Professional Perspectives on Public Library Makerspaces and Intellectual Freedom

This study examines the roles of makerspaces and librarians in public libraries, as defined by nine librarians instituting makerspace services. It explores their understanding of creative spaces and library policy, specifically the foundational principles of intellectual freedom and access. Using constructivist discourse analysis tools, this study analyzes interview data to illuminate a concept of access grounded in expression, incorporating hands-on activities, tools, and social connections. This study has implications for practitioners and policymakers in reconsidering access as a positive liberty enabled by social contexts, and librarians’ enzymatic roles in facilitating those contexts.     

‘What on Earth are They Doing in a Racing Car?’: Towards an Understanding of Women in Motorsport

Abstract

Motorsport is an under-researched area of socio-historical study. There is particularly limited academic understanding of female involvement in the social world of motorsports. Therefore, this paper focuses on the role of the media in presenting and establishing motorsport for women. In particular, a documentary analysis of articles published by a UK national newspaper group from 1890, and a case study of an all-female UK-based motor-racing championship are used to account for gendered processes that have influenced attitudes and behaviours towards women motor racers. The motor car emerged through technological progress in an overtly masculine-dominated industrial period. Traditional assumptions and biologically deterministic attitudes towards women were used by men to position motoring and motor-racing as a male preserve. Newspaper reporting throughout the 1930s suggests an era of heightened success for women motor racers as a result of gaining access to a key resource in the form of Brooklands motor-racing circuit. Following the Second World War, there was increasing commercialization and professionalization of male-dominated motorsport, as well as renewed marginalization and trivialization of female participants within the newspapers. These processes continue to influence perceptions of women in contemporary motorsport.     

浅析台湾电子书平台的运营特色和创新实践--以台湾电子书店Readmoo平台为例

电子书产业是信息社会中涌现出来的新兴业态,近些年来展现出巨大的发展潜力,台湾地区由于市场规模小,资源紧缺,往往难以实现产业发展中的规模效应。针对这一现状,台湾电子书平台在运营中另辟蹊径,以“创新性”“体验性”和“社交性”为发展方向,致力于丰富电子出版物的内容,提升平台的服务质量,培养读者的阅读兴趣,在实践中不断壮大电子出版市场。本文以台湾地区电子书城Readmoo平台的经营经验为例,深入分析台湾电子书平台的创新实践和运营哲学。     

传统媒体融合发展的阶段和策略

媒体融合发展是当前国内传统媒体面临的迫切任务,从媒体融合发展的趋势和规律看,笔者认为传统媒体的融合发展过程可能需要经历三个主要的渐进发展阶段,为此,传统媒体也要采取有针对性的发展策略。     

网络与多媒体辅助教学在大学英语课堂中的运用

网络与多媒体辅助教学在大学英语教学中既具有优势也存在使用误区。要在英语课堂中合理地使用网络与多媒体辅助教学,教师必须真正理解现代教育技术的内涵,并能科学地选择最佳的教学媒体来实施教学。     

Communicating via photographs: A gendered analysis of Olympic athletes’ visual self-presentation on Instagram

The purpose of this study was to examine Olympic athletes’ self-presentation on Instagram, a social media outlet on which users post photographs as their primary communication mechanism, in order to develop an understanding of the ways in which athletes use this medium as a communication and marketing tool to build their personal brand. Additionally, this research sought to understand whether differences existed between the utilisation of Instagram by male and female athletes. Drawing on Goffman's (1959) theory of self-presentation, this study examined eight purposively selected Olympic athletes’ Instagram photos. Findings revealed similarities to previous research on athletes’ use of written social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, as the majority of photos posted by athletes were personal in nature, thus reflecting backstage performance strategies according to self-presentation theory. The results indicated that female athletes were more likely to share photos of themselves and photos taken in private settings, but male athletes who posted a wider variety of photos encouraged greater engagement from their followers. Personal brand management implications for athletes and sport organisations are examined in greater detail in the discussion.     

When postcolonial studies meets media studies

This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of media studies, as well as contesting the narrow boundaries of literary studies for engaging in contemporary postcolonial media/ted cultures, this essay attempts to argue for the importance of postcolonial media studies.     

利用SAN技术实现视频流应用中的海量信息存储

提出了通过建立SAN存储区域网和磁盘阵列来实现海量存储的设计思路。     

新媒体技术在高职院校思想政治教育工作的应用研究

将新媒体技术应用到高职院校的思想政治教育工作中,不仅能够极大地扩宽思想政治教育的覆盖面,还能够向学生传播最新的思想政治教育内容。为促进新媒体技术在高职院校思想政治教育工作的进一步应用与发展,本文以《新媒体技术在高职院校思想政治教育工作的应用研究》为题,对新媒体技术在高职院校思想政治教育工作中的作用进行深入而全面的分析,并在此基础上全方位、深层次地探究了新媒体技术在高职院校思想政治教育工作的应用现状。     

浅谈网络媒体与传统媒体的关系

本文从网络媒体与传统媒体的差异和联系阐述了网络媒体与传统媒体的发展变化。网络媒体的飞速发展使传统媒体实现向数字化的飞跃。以网络为代表的新媒体与传统媒体合作，既是技术合作，又是强强组合。二者是互为补充、共存共生、优势合作、共同进步的。