开放大学专业构建的探索——以江苏开放大学“农业资源与环境”专业为例

江苏开放大学是江苏全民学习的共享平台和终身教育体系的支持载体,紧密结合江苏经济社会发展,合理设置专业是学校的重要任务之一。笔者以江苏开放大学“农业资源与环境（农业与农产品安全）”专业为例,提出开放大学专业构建的人本主义理念、与社会经济发展需求高度契合的现实选择、满足应用性要求的操作路径和教学过程的“泛”资源思路。     

对“力”的崇拜——评穆时英的《咱们的世界》

《咱们的世界》体现出穆时英对“力”强烈的崇拜,这种“力”包括了以金钱为代表的权力和以身体为代表的蛮力.家道中落的家庭背景让穆时英明白了人情的冷漠,家人对自己巨大期望同自己难以改变家庭现状的矛盾让他认识到自己的能力不足,而这二者正是穆时英对“力”崇拜的原因.     

高歌唱大夙抒爱国豪情——从《预言和创举》论王一桃的政治抒情诗艺术

20世纪50年代,爱国爱港诗人王一桃在广西从教多年,于80年代末定居香港,现已年近八旬,但他保持高度的政治敏感性和异常旺盛的创作激情,笔耕不辍,佳作迭出。近年又出版了沉甸甸的政治抒情诗集《预言和创举》。全书分为冬之卷、春之卷、夏之卷、秋之卷四大卷,别有创意,既有时序更替的本意,更有政治风云变幻的象征。诗集立意高远,气度不凡;政论和诗水乳交融,诗情格调骤然飞升;语言阳刚落地有声,韵律柔美彩色生辉。诗人纵情讴歌了中国特色社会主义如画如诗的美好前景。     

Communication apprehension in the dating partner context

This research project focused upon an inconsistency in the structure of a context specific instrument measuring communication apprehension in dating relationships. A parsimonious, single‐factor, solution for Dating Partner Communication Apprehension (DPCA) emerged from the analysis. Principle component analysis produced a 13‐item solution that maintains high reliability and validity. As hypothesized, validity checks indicated that the DPCA unidimensional model was moderately and significantly correlated with dyadic communication apprehension, interpersonal solidarity, interpersonal communication satisfaction, and a series of relational perceptions in the dating context. A variety of potential applications and explorations of communication apprehension within dating relationships are discussed.     

The Relationship Between Personality Temperament,Communication Reticence,and Fear of Negative Evaluation

This study examined the influence and relationships of the Big Five personality variables of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability (neuroticism), and openness to experience on communication reticence and fear of negative evaluation (FNE). Undergraduates from (N = 336) basic communication or psychology courses completed self-report measures for these variables. Structural equation modeling indicated that only one personality dimension, extraversion, directly predicted reticence, whereas neuroticism was positively related to FNE, and openness was a negatively associated predictor of FNE. The model also showed a strong relationship between FNE and reticence, indicating that FNE moderated the relationship between two of the five personality variables (i.e., openness and neuroticism) and reticence.     

Extended Review

Abstract

DIE UNENDLICHE BIBLIOTHEK: DIGITALE INFORMATION IN WISSENSCHAFT, VERLAG UND BIBLIOTHEK. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, e.V., die Deutsche Bibliothek, Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Bibliotheksverbände. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996. (Gesellschaft für das Buch, Bd. 2). Simultaneously published on the World Wide Web by the Deutsche Bibliothek (URL: http://www.ddb.de) Reviewed by Roger Brisson     

Internet Resources for Politics,Political Science,and Political Scientists

Summary

A typology of information needs for political science allows academic librarians to match local and Internet resources with materials relevant to public users, non-major undergraduates, political science majors, graduate students, and professional political scientists. Recognizing public and non-specialist users, we may distinguish needs for information about politics from that which is specifically political science information. Second, the needs of majors, graduate students, and political science professionals often fall within the bounds created by the discipline's generally recognized subfields. Finally, as academics, graduate students and professionals have functional needs for information that helps them teach, publish, and participate in professional affairs. Because the number of potentially relevant topics is singularly broad and the literature of the discipline spans two and a half millennia, this article emphasizes gateway or directory Web sites appropriate to each type of information need.     

Primacy of Broadcast News: A Mediation Analysis of Recall,Attitudes, and Voting Intentions

This study examines how the order and proportion of scene valence within a television news story influence viewers' processing of political information. The results of the study, based on structural equation modeling and Sobel's mediation analysis, suggest that, in a news story about a political candidate, positive information on the candidate is recalled better if he or she is praised at the beginning of the story and then criticized at the end than if he or she is criticized first and praised later. In addition, there was a strong proportion effect. Stories with a high proportion of positive scenes were more likely to increase the participant's recall of positive information and induce his or her favorable attitudes and voting intentions than those with a low proportion of positive scenes.     

The Thai Vernacular Press and the Woman Politician: Stereotypical Reporting and Innovative Response

Thai women who want to participate in politics find that one of the obstacles they face is the representation created by mass media, especially vernacular newspapers. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the conflict in the representation of a woman politician in Thailand. The study focuses on news reports relating to Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, currently the Minister of Agriculture and Agriculture Cooperatives of Thailand. The news reports from the two largest-circulated local newspapers in Thailand were analyzed to highlight the representation created for Sudarat, and her response strategy. The analysis showed the representational dilemma Sudarat faced to which she creatively responded yet found herself on the losing side.     

The City Personified: The Geopolitical Narratives of Rudy Giuliani

The article examines the growing interest in political celebrity and urban branding within media and cultural studies. It stresses the significance of narrative strategies in political statecraft, with specific reference to the intimate relationship between mayors and cities. It focuses on the figure of Rudy Giuliani, both in his period as mayor of New York between 1993 and 2001, and in his subsequent political and private lives, paying close attention to how the event of 9/11 acted as a pivot in his political career. After conceptualizing the relationship between mayors and cities through a discussion of public discourse, celebrity, and political scale, the paper then identifies three processes by which Giuliani has personified New York: first, through narrative control and self-projection within the New York political sphere, by considering his use of selected city sites as a form of synecdoche in his media strategies, and his marginalization of those who challenged him politically; second, through his elevated celebrity status and visual representation by the media in the aftermath of 9/11; and third, through the genre of autobiography and branding, via his book Leadership and related commercial activities, whereby he shifted the scale of his narrative beyond New York.