Citizen-Centered Journalism and Contested Boundaries

This article explores the existence of a “citizen-centered journalism” that sees citizens as crucial participants in the construction of news and as co-creators of their own worlds. Through qualitative case studies of three news organizations, the article examines the motivation for using a citizen-centered approach, the news routines that are required to do so, the categories of content produced, and the perceived impact of this approach. The results suggest these news organizations are working in partnership with communities and striving to give a voice to historically marginalized communities. The journalists, however, see citizen participation as complementary to professional journalistic routines that favor verifiable information, rather than assigning inherent value to it for its own sake.     

Back to the Future

The emergence of “fake news” during the Brexit referendum and Trump election campaign sent news organisations scurrying to establish teams of journalists to debunk deliberately misleading stories and verify facts. This paper examines steps to counter false stories and asks whether normative values of objectivity are about to enjoy a comeback. Typical markers of objectivity (freedom from bias, detachment and fact-based reporting) date back to the nineteenth century and, despite being ingrained in the Anglo-American news culture, have always been subject to challenge. Recently, the growth of partisan and populist media has illustrated deep distrust in traditional news outlets and is questioning whether it is time to jettison objectivity. But are we experiencing a backlash? Through interviews with senior UK-based journalists at legacy news organisations and analysis of editorial policy statements prompted by a UK parliamentary inquiry, the paper explores how fake news is rekindling debate about objectivity and its potential to make quality journalism stand out. It argues that legacy news organisations in the United Kingdom have seized the opportunity to highlight the value of normative practices that draw on familiar components of the objectivity paradigm. But few have the financial strength to bolster the rhetoric with additional editorial resources.     

Placing Facebook

Facebook is challenging professional journalism. These challenges were evident in three incidents from 2016: the allegation that Facebook privileged progressive-leaning news on its trending feature; Facebook’s removal of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm Girl” photo from the pages of prominent users; and the proliferation of “fake news” during the US presidential election. Using theoretical concepts from the field of boundary work, this paper examines how The Guardian, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter editorialized Facebook’s role in these three incidents to discursively construct the boundary between the value of professional journalism to democracy and Facebook’s ascendant role in facilitating essential democratic functions. Findings reveal that these publications attempted to define Facebook as a news organization (i.e., include it within the boundaries of journalism) so that they could then criticize the company for not following duties traditionally incumbent upon news organizations (i.e., place it outside the boundaries of journalism). This paper advances scholarship that focuses on both inward and outward conceptions of boundary work, further explores the complex challenge of defining who a journalist is in the face of rapidly changing technological norms, and advances scholarship in the field of media ethics that positions ethical analysis at the institutional level.     

科技期刊保密工作中存在的问题及其对策

针对科技期刊泄密事件有发生的现状，提出了加强保密工作的建议和措施。     

企业财务报告分析体系的探讨

企业的财务报告是综合反映企业一定时期财务状况、经营成果和现金流量的报告文件,对现有财务报告分析中存在的一些问题展开了讨论,并提出了应加强财务报告法规,从财务报表附注、现金流量等方面来完善我国的财务报告分析体系。     

我国期刊网页渴望个性与互动

对中国期刊网、万方数字化期刊为各入编期刊提供的网页的应用情况进行了调查,同时在新浪等门户网站上用"学报"等关键词进行检索,并点击检索结果,以了解我国期刊网页的现状.指出我国期刊网页存在缺乏个性、与作者和读者互动不够2大问题,认为编辑对期刊品牌效应认识不够是产生上述问题的主要原因.通过对几个成功网站的分析,认为合作办网,逐步建成专业期刊和行业信息互相依托、大学学报与大学科研信息互相依托的综合网站是建设特色期刊网站的发展趋势.     

美国高等院校认证后的院校整改工作及启示

本文介绍了美国院校认证之后如何对院校进行相应的整改工作以保证院校的不断改进与提高,同时对中国高等院校里所进行的本科教学工作水平评估中院校有关整改工作进行一些思考。     

液货船综合安全评估专家系统模型

针对当前石油公司在液货船安全检查和准入审查中存在的非定量、非智能评估问题,引入人工智能技术构建液货船综合安全评估(formal safety assessment, FSA)专家系统模型。该模型将FSA方法与专家系统进行组合,前者通过风险识别、风险衡准和风险量化,解决报告的非定量评估和审查的主观性问题;后者引入K最近邻算法、加权赋值算法等解决审查评估的非智能化和效率低的问题。选取官方案例进行模型检验,其结果表明提出的模型能有效地帮助石油公司实现船舶准入审查的定量化、智能化,并能显著提高审查效率,降低人工评估的主观性影响。     

体育新闻报道畸变现象及产生原因的社会学透析

采用文献资料法、逻辑分析法对体育报道的畸变现象进行了论述:暴力化、色情化、失实报道屡见不鲜、恶炒新闻层出不穷、锦标主义、以成败论英雄的陋习常见、地方沙文主义色彩日益严重等等。并对这些现象产生的原因进行了透析,认为产生这些现象的原因有:媒体从业人员素质的匮乏、市场竞争的日趋激烈、大众文化娱乐性的推波助澜、体育报道远离政治规范孕育畸变土壤等。     

企业反竞争情报的控制分析

本文从反竞争情报的概念出发,简要介绍了合作竞争环境下反竞争情报的特点以及企业开展反竞争情报的必要性,并从控制论的角度对企业反竞争情报进行了简要的分析,希望对企业的反竞争情报工作有所借鉴。