浅论和谐新闻

本文提出和谐新闻概念,进行初步论述。和谐新闻是现阶段我国媒体所重视的新闻表现形式,具有鲜明的时代特征。和谐新闻是媒体体现社会责任感,增强良好传播效应,赢得主流受众的有效传播内容,对和谐福建建设具有积极意义。     

Managing Patient-centered Communication across the Type 2 Diabetes Illness Trajectory: A Grounded Practical Theory of Interactional Sensitivity

This article uses the theoretical and methodological framework of Grounded Practical Theory (GPT) to provide a lens for analyzing and interpreting discourse as a situated form of social action in routine Type 2 diabetes visits. Drawing on a total data-set of 400 audio-recorded routine visits, we randomly selected 55 visits for qualitative analysis. In this article, we use Conversation Analysis to document communication techniques, which we in turn use as evidence to ground our claims within the GPT framework. We use two single cases of interaction to analyze communication techniques physicians use when recommending a change from oral medication to insulin. We argue treatment intensification is a key moment in health communication to reflect about patient centeredness because physicians can find themselves in an interactional dilemma: while insulin may effectively help control unstable disease, an insulin recommendation may simultaneously counter patient values and treatment preferences. Our analysis suggests that physicians use what we call interactional sensitivity to balance medical need and patient preferences when making medical decisions by tailoring their communication according to the local situation and the patient's larger illness trajectory. We propose that interactional sensitivity is a type of communication work and a quality of patient-centered communication characterized by the theoretical relationship between tailoring communication to the contingencies of the local interaction and the global illness trajectory. Overall, this article contributes to health communication scholarship by proposing a normative model for reflecting on how physicians negotiate challenging interactions with patients during routine chronic illness visits.     

Measure Twice,Cut Once: The Temporality of Communication Design

The familiar folk saying, “Measure twice, cut once,” with origins in carpentry design certainly indicates that the issue of measurement is central to good design work. The equally important—if implicit—wisdom to which it points is that it takes more time, or a careful pace of action, to do so properly. To develop our central arguments about the temporality of communication design, we first describe how the consideration of varying time scales offers great utility in the communication design enterprise and elaborate on the designable features of temporality for human interaction. Next, we draw on Ballard's typology of work-based activity cycles to offer some temporally based design principles for the design of work. We then apply these insights to various work activities that unfold at various time scales and illustrate how concern with temporality (rather than only time) may lead to a redesign of communication. In the conclusion, we attend to an underlying issue implicated throughout the preceding discussion: the pace at which the designer proceeds.     

传播理论研究的创新之作——评郭庆光《传播学教程》

《传播学教程》是一本在传播理论研究上有所创新之作 ,它显示出理论著作独特的丰采和作者分析思辨的深厚功力。本书的逻辑框架结构 ,反映了作者试图使传播理论体系化的有益尝试。作者还在书中提供了许多传播理论研究的新视角。如深入剖析传播学基本概念 ,阐发因此而起的研究导向 ;如从宏观着眼 ,中观剖析 ,微观入手等。本文还就传播学宏观、中、微观理论研究提出了个人见解     

当代中学生人际交往的表现、特点以及归因分析

文章以调查问卷为基础,分析当代中学生人际交往的表现及其特点,并对之进行文化、心理及教育归因,为正确对待青少年的人际交往及其在学生成长过程中的影响提供了理论上的可能性和实践中的必要性。     

对武术国际传播概念的探讨及其理论分析

文章采用文献资料法、逻辑分析法,从传播学的角度,对武术国际传播的概念进行了分析和探讨,以期为研究武术国际传播有关问题做一理论铺垫。研究表明,武术国际传播是在一定社会环境下,武术传播者借助一定媒介向国外传递武术信息,以实现共享互动的目的。其概念中包含着传播要素,文章对这些要素进行了理论分析。     

Gender,culture, and geography: A comparison of seating arrangements in the United States and Taiwan

The present study describes and compares seating preferences among Taiwanese and American respondents. Using a questionnaire method, seating preferences were obtained for 75 male and 100 female college students from the United Slates, and for 29 male and 54 female teachers of English in Taiwan. Responses were obtained for all possible combinations of sex of interaction partner, location (task or social), and six interpersonal activities. Results were summarized in the form of proportions of respondents choosing each of four possible angles of interaction: corner, opposite, diagonal, and side seating. Comparisons were made using Chisquare tests for independence.In general, results showed that Taiwanese respondents, when compared to Americans, are more likely to prefer side seating and less likely to prefer corner seating. Culture, sex of respondents, and sex of interaction partner interact in influencing preferences. In the United States, seating preferences function to unite males with females and to separate same-sex partners, while the opposite is true in Taiwan. Results are interpreted in terms of implications for intercultural communication.     

Crisis communication in racial issues

On November 17, 1998, three individuals were detained by local police in Lubbock, Texas for attempting a pigeon drop scam in a Wal Mart parking lot. The three suspects were the head coach, an assistant coach, and the husband of the head coach from the visiting Hampton University women's basketball team. The three were eventually proven innocent and released, but not before a crisis involving racial overtones had been initiated. The case study explores the crisis management responses of Texas Tech University and Lubbock, Texas and the implications for the study of crises involving race.