Distributors and film critics: does it take two to Tango?

Previous literature has documented the impact of critics on audience choices of movies. We investigate three issues regarding professional critics in the motion picture industry. First we document whether and to what extent critics and their recommendations exhibit a statistical bias toward specific studios. We show that reviews by a number of critics are significantly affected by the film distributor’s identity. A second question is whether audiences are able to distinguish between biased and unbiased critics. We cannot support the view that audiences put less weight on the views of biased critics; in fact, they may listen to them more. Third, we try to characterize critics who are more prone to bias. Surprisingly, but in accord with reputation models, we find that more reputable critics may be more biased; in particular, critics based in L.A. tend to significantly prefer specific studios.

History Run Wild: The Alternate World of Joan Aiken’s <Emphasis Type="Italic">The Wolves of Willoughby Chase</Emphasis> Series

This article examines the historical fantasy world created by Joan Aiken in the eleven volumes of her Wolves of Willoughby Chase series. In particular it looks at her subversion of historical reality by the creation of an alternative yet recognisable representation of our own world, using a wide range of events, and the remoulding of aspects of language and geography. It also discusses her reasons for writing in this form and explores the character of Dido Twite as heroine and major raison dtre of the series.This revised version was published online in May 2005 with corrections to the article title.     

Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

报业巨人张恨水在专制夹缝中的群众性编辑实践

张恨水的身份具有一定的双重性,其本身是小说家和新闻编辑的合一。上世纪前半个世纪是政治风云变幻的时代,处在专制的夹缝中,张恨水的编辑活动具有很强的群众性编辑实践,是一位报业巨子。     

一种图片分类的序列构造神经网络方法

针对图片数据的分类问题,从动态构造网络的思想出发,讨论了序列构造神经网络的基本方法,并且把其应用于图片分类中。最后给出标准测试集的分类测试结果,并对其进行了比对、分析和讨论。实验结果表明此方法适合多维数据分析,取得了满意的效果。     

鲁迅的编辑思想及其当代意义

鲁迅是一位伟大的战士，他将编辑出版工作当作化事业和民族解放事业的一部分，而为之呕心沥血，无私奉献。其丰富的编辑出版实践，体现了他卓越的编辑出版思想。这种思想，对今天面临严峻挑战的中国 当代出版业而言，无疑具有重大的理论意义和现实意义。     

电视节目制作网络化探讨

数字化、网络化技术的迅猛发展，为电视制作带来了全新的工作模式和理念。现代化的工作流程应该基于网络化结构，在各个职能部门和栏目间传递数据流和文件，采用自动化的业务和管理方式，众多工作可以并行处理。而非线性编辑网以其高效率、低成本优势在电视台节目后期制作中日益得到推广、普及，成为电视台数字化推进工作的龙头和重点。     

基于英文绘本的儿童英语阅读教学策略建构

语言学习依赖于大量的阅读,儿童只有"培养广泛的阅读兴趣,扩大阅读面,增加阅读量,多读书,读好书,好读书,读整本的书",他们的语言能力才会得到长足的发展。目前我们儿童英语学习低效的原因也和缺少阅读、缺少语言环境有关。近年来,笔者在教学中倡导开展英文绘本阅读,扩大儿童的英语阅读量,让儿童尽可能多地接触原汁原味的英语,这无疑是提升儿童英语水平的一条有效途径。     

绘本写话课堂教学策略刍探

以绘本为载体开展写话教学,作为语言教学的有效途径,受到教师的广泛关注。教师应针对学生词汇及阅读量不足、语言能力不强的特征,利用绘本为学生提供广阔多元的写话素材,有效训练学生语言表达技巧,为写话教学提供丰富的教学模板及路径,从而提升学生语文综合能力。文章对绘本写话课堂教学策略进行探讨。     

学术论文中引用图片的版权合法获取及规范标注

近年来,随着对科学研究中诚信意识的不断提高,学者和编辑们对科技期刊论文中图片使用的版权问题越发重视。目前对引用已正式发表的图片所涉及的版权问题已有共识,但是对已公示但未正式出版的图片版权问题鲜有讨论。本文结合编辑工作中图片使用的几种现象及其所涉及的版权问题进行解析,重点讨论预印图片、学术报告图片以及公司产品图片等已公示但未正式出版图片的使用版权问题,旨在解决已公示但未正式出版的图片版权问题,结合版权规范提出具体的处理意见,以供同行参考。