Press Credentials and Hybrid Boundary Zones: The Case of WorldNetDaily and the Standing Committee of Correspondents

ABSTRACT

Press credentialing practices are a vital, yet understudied site of scholarly research on journalistic norms and practices. Press credentialing not only structures internal professional hierarchies, but they also signify the boundaries of the journalistic field itself. This paper explores the legal and theoretical implications of press credentialing to cover the United States Congress, drawing on the concepts of boundary work and journalistic authority to demonstrate the material impact of the space between fields on professional legitimation in journalism. Using WorldNetDaily (WND) as a case study, I argue that the Standing Committee of Correspondents (SCC) occupies a hybrid boundary zone between the journalistic and political fields, generating a unique tension in First Amendment jurisprudence that places journalists in a paradoxical role as both the professional embodiments of free speech and its constitutional steward. The resulting jurisdictional conflict between the SCC and WND extends the relational model of journalistic authority by articulating how journalist-state relations can fundamentally augment the process of legitimation at its fuzzy boundaries. The relevance and implications for press credentialing practices in the digital age are discussed.     

Developing a Theoretical Framework for Response: Creative Writing as Response in the Year 6 Primary Classroom

Focusing on the creative writing of Year 6 boys as they make the transition to Year 7, this article establishes a theoretical model for creative writing as response. In line with Bakhtin's notion of utterances as ‘interpersonal’ (1986), the model demonstrates the complexity of creative writing – the text is influencing of and influenced by an author's participation in ‘figured worlds’ (Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner and Cain 1998), but also influencing of and influenced by future respondents. This article suggests that ‘weaker framing’ (Bernstein 2000) in creative writing pedagogy has the potential to alter boys' identities and refigure their worlds.     

Children's responses to the interactivity of storybook apps in family shared reading events involving the iPad

This paper reports on some data on the effects of screen‐based interactivity on children's engagement with storybook apps during family shared book reading that were gathered in a 2‐year, small‐scale ethnographic case study in Spain. Data analysis focuses on the complex interplay between the storybook app's interactive features and the children's responses to them. Our findings show that interactive elements increase the child's autonomy, as they tend to promote the importance of the reader, positioning him or her as a collaborator, storyteller, an author or an internal character in the fiction; something that can materialise in exciting narrative strategies that can trigger powerful responses to digital literary texts in emergent readers, including playing, creating new fictions or engaging emotionally with the story. Finally, we argue that the Reader Response models that have been used over recent decades to understand children's reading experiences with storybooks need to be revised to better understand their current experiences with interactive texts.     

论连结热力学过程两态的任意性

所谓连结两态热力学过程的任意性,指的是连系确定的始、终两态的可能热力学过程有无穷多,包括了各种可能的做功和吸热特性的过程,当然违反热力学第一定律的过程除外。因此,给定了始、终态后对连系它们的过程的做功和吸热的特性不可能作任何判断。     

"先富"带"共富"仍然是社会主义初级阶段的主导思想

近期部分收入差距拉大的问题引起人们的普遍重视，有的人甚至认为邓小平同志的“先富”带共富的思想过时了甚至失误了。笔者认为，邓的这一思想并没过时，仍然社会主义初级阶段的主导思想。目前的部分收入差距过大现象的产生有其客观现实的原因，与邓小平同志的“先富”带“共富”的思想并没有直接的因果关系。     

再论《吴医汇讲》为中国期刊的肇端

基于无限期出版的意图和具有定期或不定期连续出版的特征是期刊最根本的2个属性,提出了《吴医汇讲》第1卷单卷刊行传播和9册本、6册本、5册本、4册本分卷、分册刊行的文字证据和版本实物证据,彻底颠覆了认为其在”3个年份里2次刻成,故非连续出版物”的错误观点,再次巩固了其为中华第一刊的正确结论.     

略论图书馆工作中读者至上的服务理念

图书馆一切工作应围绕着读这一中心环节进行，确定读在图书馆工作中的主体地位，以最大限度方便读为出发点和归宿。这样，图书馆才能真正实现“读至上”的服务理念。     

《文馆词林》残篇二考

文章通过对《文馆词林》所存两篇残敕的文本进行分析,并将其与历史资料对照验证,得出此二敕的作者均为唐太宗,此二敕的写作时间分别为贞观二年(528)正月、三月。     

论编辑的职业道德

编辑在和作者与读者的交往中 ,根据自己扮演的各种角色 ,形成了编辑特有的行为规范。主要内容可概括为 :尊重作者的劳动 ,维护作者的权益 ;坚持质量标准 ,择优录用稿件 ;无私奉献 ,甘当无名英雄 ;多出精品 ,为读者服务。编辑的这些行为规范 ,是对各种职业道德共同要求的具体化