Examining the effects of news coverage linking undocumented immigrants with criminality: Policy and punitive implications

Although research suggests that there is no meaningful real-world connection between crime rates and undocumented immigrants, media coverage of this group almost exclusively portrays them as criminals. The present two-study investigation experimentally tests the effects of exposure to crime news depicting undocumented immigrant suspects on White viewers’ social judgments. To this end, assumptions from social identity theory were applied to research and theorizing on mediated intergroup threat and compound penalties for immigrant criminality. Results from Study 1 and Study 2 indicate that when White viewers are exposed to threatening crime news featuring undocumented immigrants, out-group bias emerges in the form of harsher sentencing. In Study 1, when exposed to highly threatening coverage, attitudes toward immigration and in-group identification partially mediated and moderated this relationship, respectively.     

Reinforcing attitudes in a gatewatching news era: Individual-level antecedents to sharing fact-checks on social media

Despite the prevalence of fact-checking, little is known about who posts fact-checks online. Based upon a content analysis of Facebook and Twitter digital trace data and a linked online survey (N?=?783), this study reveals that sharing fact-checks in political conversations on social media is linked to age, ideology, and political behaviors. Moreover, an individual’s need for orientation (NFO) is an even stronger predictor of sharing a fact-check than ideological intensity or relevance, alone, and also influences the type of fact-check format (with or without a rating scale) that is shared. Finally, participants generally shared fact-checks to reinforce their existing attitudes. Consequently, concerns over the effects of fact-checking should move beyond a limited-effects approach (e.g., changing attitudes) to also include reinforcing accurate beliefs.     

Personal ties,group ties and latent ties: connecting network size to diversity and trust in the mobile social network WeChat

This study examines whether and how network size is associated with diversity and trust in the mobile SNS context. Online survey data (N?=?327) on Chinese WeChat users reveal that both personal network size and extended network size are positively related to the diversity of people’s social networks. We believe the explanation for these findings may be that the affordances of WeChat provide users opportunities to accumulate a wide spectrum of relations ranging from strong ties, weak ties to latent ties and thus a larger network can enable them to access to more diverse resources. We also find that extended network size is negatively related to people’s trust in their WeChat contacts. We argue that the increasing size of the extended network may reduce familiarity, certainty and accountability that assumed to be prerequisites of trust.     

News audience fragmentation in the Japanese Twittersphere

ABSTRACT

Although computational approaches to ideology-based audience fragmentation are promising, they are not without limitations. First, most existing studies have focused on the US, and the cross-national validity of their results has rarely been tested. Second, previous studies that rely solely on behavioral data from social media tend to make strong analytical assumptions such as that Twitter users prefer to follow media and politicians whose ideological positions are similar to their own, and that the ideologies of political elites can be extrapolated to infer the ideologies of ordinary users. We aim to address these limitations. First, we focus on Japan to test the generalizability of US findings in an Asian context. Second, we do not rely solely on behavioral measurement but combine survey and social media data to infer the ideologies of Twitter users. Results indicate that our classifier built based on these self-reported ideologies produces more valid estimates than naïve extrapolation from views of the elites. Based on these improved estimates of Twitter users’ ideologies, we demonstrate that the ideological distributions of those who follow major Japanese media accounts on Twitter largely overlap, suggesting an absence of ideology-based audience fragmentation.     

简述曹魏迁都许昌的原因及对许昌的治理

通过黄巾起义发家的曹操,在不断地战争中有了统一天下的愿望。由于曹操的谋略、品行和军事才能,在其周围聚集了一批文臣武将,在他们的协助下,曹操的队伍不断地发展壮大,形成了独立的政权。建安元年,曹操建都许昌,以许昌为基点展开了统一天下的一系列军事征伐。曹魏政权对许昌也进行了一定的开发,一方面促进了许昌经济的发展,另一方面也为曹魏统一北方奠定了基础。     

论人的本质对技术社会效应的决定性

人的本质是和合炼世,它既体现了人与自然的关系,又体现了人与人的关系即人类社会关系;它既是实践的源泉和动力,也是人类社会生产关系的基础和实质,并且是人的创造能力的来源。技术是生产力,也是实践活动展开的基础,处于主体与客体世界的中介地位,它支撑着实践目的的有效实现,但是,技术在人类目的性活动过程中所发挥的作用是由人的本质决定的。     

中国现代浪漫主义文学中的理想情愫

中国现代文学的发展过程中,理想是一个不可缺少的动因,而在浪漫主义文学中表现得尤为突出,它促进了浪漫主义文学的发展,但也制约了它的进一步提高。本文选取鲁迅、郭沫若、郁达夫、蒋光慈、废名和沈从文六人的作品进行考察,事实表明作家的个人理想和社会理想总是处于矛盾的对立统一中,在对立统一中演绎了现代浪漫主义文学的诸种可能。     

托马斯·哈代：一位悲戚而刚毅的诗人——哈代诗歌的生态批评解读

托马斯·哈代是英国文坛最伟大的小说家之一。细读哈代的诗歌,不难发现其大量诗作中表达出超前、深刻的自然意识和生态思想：人与自然合二为一;对自然生态的忧虑和对人类摧残自然的谴责;对社会生态的忧患与对人类社会异化的叹息。生态批评理论为研究哈代诗歌提供了新的视角。     

完善新型农村社会养老保险的思考

我国的新型农村养老保险是在老农保遇到瓶颈时开始实施的,因此新型农村养老保险的试点是我国农村养老保险发展的一个里程碑,具有十分重要的意义。我国新型农村社会养老保险自试点以来已经取得一些成果,但在试点中也发现了一些问题,通过借鉴波兰、日本、德国在农村社会养老保险方面的经验,提出了完善我国新型农村社会养老保险体系的构想。     

基础教育应注重学生社会感的发展

社会感是指社会性的积极情感,它包括爱、同情、关心、尊重他人的情感,对他人的责任感,与他人的友谊感和亲和感。优胜感是指人们在面对他人、与他人比较时产生的优越感、自豪感、荣誉感。当下,整个基础教育倾向于培养优胜者,造就了众多的优胜感极度发展的人。为使学生人格健全发展,教育应更加注重学生社会感的发展;为此,教育者对学生的期待应从优胜期待为主导转向人格健全期待为主导,教育评价应从重相对评价转向重绝对评价,师生关系应从主客关系模式转向主主关系模式,教育者对学生的爱应从＂父爱＂转向成熟的爱。