Online interaction across three contexts: an analysis of culture and technological affordances

Students were linked virtually across three contexts: U.S., Malaysia, and China. Differences emerged in how student-created messages were constructed and interpreted; these impacted perceived relational affiliation. Messages constructed by students in Malaysia and China exhibited casual talk, greater self-disclosure, requests for personal information, and greater use of emoticons/emoji. Interactions were perceived as informal, friendly, and positive. U.S. students’ messages often showed institutional talk, less self-disclosure, and more attention to the instructor-assigned task. Asian-U.S. student pairs perceived their interactions as formal, less friendly, and less positive. This study shows how online technologies may be afforded and shaped by culture and interaction.     

Made in China: the cultural logic of OEMs and the manufacture of low‐cost technology

Abstract

This paper investigates the conditions of the manufacture of low‐cost technology in China with the examples of ‘pirated’ VCD players, ‘no‐name’ DVD players, and Shenzhen’s development as a techno‐urban city. It emphasizes the significance of the cultural logic of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and argues that the various transformations and deflections that are derived from ubiquitous OEM experiences have gone beyond the original model of an authorized OEM, experiences that are to some extent embodied in the transgression of brand name and patent hegemonies, which are mainly controlled by high technology companies. OEMs have been associated with China’s current imperative and uninhibited development of low‐cost technology capitalism. ‘Made in China’ signifies the production of any product, legal or illegal, for transnational high technology giants or domestic technology manufacturers. Learning to ‘become an OEM’ in China has partly resulted in excessive technological mimesis that may be part of an unauthorized, underground economy that is based on low‐cost technology. Based on the Shenzhen experience, part of this study will show industrial production‐oriented OEM cultures in which illegal operations and counterfeit trade are incorporated, even in city projects that are shared by municipal governments and Chinese technological companies, and undergo spatial restructuring in the development of the economy, consumerism, and urbanism.     

上海市体育用品制造业技术创新影响因素的实证研究

主要采取文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计法等研究方法,以上海市体育用品制造业为实证研究对象,梳理了历年来上海市体育用品制造业技术创新的现状,评估上海市体育用品制造业技术创新的深度和广度,并基于国内外已有相关研究文献,以已有的技术创新量表,结合本国国情和上海市体育用品制造业的具体特征,设计出相关问卷,采用相对重要性指标来识别并测量上海市体育用品制造业技术创新的障碍因素和政策环境。     

论体育专业大学生就业能力的培养与准备

运用资料法、调查法、逻辑分析等方法,对影响体育教育专业毕业生各种主、客观因素进行分析。结果表明：体育专业毕业生就业形势严峻,高校应向毕业生提供就业能力培养与服务、毕业生自身应积极做好就业准备。高校应提高专业培养质量、切实提高大学生自身素质、重视和加强毕业生就业指导、实现毕业生就业观念的转变。     

产业集群的技术创新:动因、优势与环境

产业集群是当今产业组织发展的重要特征之一,也是开展技术创新活动的重要组织方式。结合国内外产业集群研究的新进展,对产业集群的技术创新动因、技术创新优势和技术创新环境进行分析,有利于寻求促进我国地方产业集群进行技术创新、增强竞争优势的途径。     

高等教育的虚浮及其整治对策

我国高等教育规模已是世界第一,每年有数以百万计的毕业生走出学校,但社会经济文化建设却面临人才危机;我们的专业学分之高、学生听课时间之长亦堪称世界之最,但大量毕业生却因"有知识,没手艺"而难以找到工作。对照培养目标看,学生既缺"创新精神",又少"实践能力"。高等教育给人一种游离于社会和人之外的感觉。应以改革课堂教学、强化实践环节作为突破口对其加以整治。     

Nuclear Power and Antiterrorism: Obscuring the Policy Contradictions 1

Abstract

Some governments are promoting both nuclear power and antiterrorism, but without much attention to connections between the two issues. Nuclear power increases the risk of nuclear terrorism directly and via nuclear proliferation, but this is seldom mentioned by policy‐makers. Governments use a set of rhetorical moves to hide the tensions in their policies concerning nuclear power and terrorism.     

Book reviews

Alice Lam is Professor of Organisation Studies at the School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London. Her research focuses on the relationship between organizational forms, knowledge creation and societal institutions. Her current work examines the changing nature of academic scientific work and knowledge transfer between university and industry.     

对现代图书馆开展知识服务的思考

回顾知识服务的理论研究，认为知识服务就是提供知识的服务，通过对现代图书馆知识服务内容的探讨，进一步提出了实现图书馆知识服务应具备的技术和措施。     

扩招前后大学生阅读倾向比较分析

通过比较分析扩招前后大学生阅读倾向的变化,揭示影响扩招后大学生阅读的若干因素,提出这些因素对大学生素质的提高有着密切的联系,从而引起高校和图书馆的重视。