A Call to Educate,Participate, Invoke and Indict: Understanding the Communication of Online Hate Groups

This study analyzes the messages in hate group websites using a grounded theory approach. Through this process of interpretive inquiry we propose four prominent themes—educate, participate, invoke, and indict—that characterize the messages examined in 21 hate groups. These message themes speak to the: (a) education of members and external publics; (b) participation within the group and in the public realm; (c) invocation of divine calling and privilege; and (d) indictment of external groups including the government, media, and entertainment industries, and other extremist sects. In advancing a substantive grounded theory of online hate group communication, we also explore the potential of these themes to ostensibly reinforce the hate group's identity, reduce external threats, and recruit new members.     

图书馆为弱势群体服务的实践与探索——以青岛市图书馆为例

文章阐述了弱势群体的构成及其基本特征,详细介绍了青岛市图书馆针对弱势群体开展的服务实践,并从图书馆员的素质和服务水平、服务设施建设以及文献资源建设等方面,提出进一步改进弱势群体服务的措施.     

和谐校园视域下大学生“弱势”群体思想政治教育“五强五建”工作模式的探索

本文从大学生弱势群体界定出发,认为做好大学生弱势群体思想政治教育工作能为高校和谐校园建设提供新的动力源泉、充实新的和谐理念,为此,需要强化"五个教育",充实大学生"弱势"群体思想政治教育的内容;建立"五个制度",完善大学生"弱势"群体思想政治教育的制度。     

命运之悲，生存之痛——东西、鬼子的作品比较

东西与鬼子同获鲁迅文学奖,他们的作品都关注残疾人与民工等弱势群体,两位作家从不同视角关注弱小者生存状态。两位作家来自于相同的文化环境,所以他们对弱小者的选择与悲剧情怀的推崇并不是一种巧合,而是因为他们内心打上了南方这块贫瘠土地的深深烙印。     

Collaborative partnerships to increase resilience among AIDS orphans: Some unforeseen challenges and caveats

Abstract

Previous research has attested to the power of metaphor-rich stories to enable resilience during individual therapy, but this has not been researched in a group context. We aimed to ascertain if the reading of brief stories in a group setting, with no other therapeutic intervention, would prove to be a valuable, inexpensive and accessible protective resource for the empowerment of AIDS orphans. We followed a quasi-experimental design, incorporating pre and post-test double control groups and a mixed methods approach to data collection. However, some very interesting methodological, ethical and practical challenges surfaced during implementation concerning: the meeting of community expectations; the identification of appropriate participant groups; the administration and suitability of research instruments; ensuring continued attendance of participants; and dealing with the emotional needs of participants without endangering the validity of the results. This article reports on these challenges and makes suggestions around issues that need to be resolved if future research partnerships with community members who care for AIDS orphans are to yield useful and valid research results.     

Decisional Regret Theory: Reducing the Anxiety About Uncertain Outcomes During Group Decision Making Through Shared Counterfactual Storytelling

People want to live in a predictable world, yet regularly face uncertain outcomes from decision choices. Here, a decision-making theory of communication is proposed. Faced with decisions, people experience anxiety as they anticipate choice-regret. The communicative dynamic of Decisional Regret Theory (DERT) is the production, sharing, and reconstruction of predecisional imaginary narratives that allow alternative decisional outcomes to be anticipated. DERT predicts a type of shared communication (counterfactual storytelling) under specific circumstances (anticipation of making a meaningful decision). It further predicts listener responses: (a) reproducing the story, (b) altering the story, (c) creating an alternative story, or (d) disconfirming the story. Exemplars of counterfactual communication during jury decision making are offered, together with a model describing the emergence of group counterfactual storytelling.     

Nothing about us without us! Youth-led solutions to improve high school completion rates

This Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) study represents a collaboration with six students from alternative education to inquire about the experiences of vulnerable youth – students in alternative education and youth who have dropped out of school. Utilizing the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique, youth researchers asked their peers what helped and hindered their retention and success in mainstream and alternative education. Youth researchers engaged in authentic participation and took part in the iterative phases of YPAR – critical reflection and social action. Their involvement empowered them to advocate for their peers by disseminating the results and recommendations to key stakeholders within the community. Youth researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 participants. Overall, the findings show that relationships with staff and peers, flexibility, psychosocial and academic supports, and personal circumstances are vital in helping vulnerable students succeed in school. Engagement in YPAR provided insight into working with vulnerable youth in a manner that promotes agency and social change within educational institutions.     

中国农村低收入群体社会保护的政策安排

社会保护政策安排是专门针对一个国家或社会的低收入群体,其政策目标是为了减少贫困和促进社会公正。改革开放以来,中国针对农村低收入群体的社会保护政策主要归结为区域性和开发性扶贫政策、传统社会救助政策以及农村最低生活保障制度。从社会保护政策的演进与转型中,可以得出：农村最低生活保障制度作为一项旨在保护农最低收入群体基本生存权利的不可或缺的社会救助制度,是对原有的社会保护网的一种修补,是一项适宜的制度选择。     

公共图书馆开展弱势群体服务现状及对策

在分析我国公共图书馆开展弱势群体服务现状的基础上,指出公共网书馆开展弱势群体服务工作中的一些不足之处,并提出相应对策。     

单科院校弱势学科权益问题探讨

目前在教育法学上尚未见到有关某学科权益问题的定义，而弱势学科问题确实是单科院校存在的一种现实问题，本文借“弱势群体”的含义对弱势学科的内涵与存在的权益问题进行探讨，并就有关问题提出了相应的对策。