Best of both worlds or refusal to comply? The rich kids of Tehran on Instagram

ABSTRACT

This article offers a textual analysis and semiotic reading of the Rich Kids of Tehran's (RKOT’s) Instagram page. Contributing to scholarship on Iranian youth media practices, this article interrogates how the RKOT navigate urban and rural space to engage in everyday processes of resistance against global and local systemic oppression. Grounding their visual representations on Instagram in historical and cultural context, the author questions how and when quotidian actions are transformed into political transgressions when posted on social media. This article emphasizes the RKOT's agency in shaping their brand by analyzing representations of gender performance, intertextuality, and national identity on Instagram.     

The effect of number of siblings and birth order on educational attainment: Empirical Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey

Data from China demonstrate that the effect of the number of siblings on education is restricted by many factors, such as children’s gender, urban or rural household registration, whether there is only one child, the birth order of children within the family, and parents’ status. Chinese families have significant preferences for the eldest son and the youngest son. Moreover, research based on the natural experiment and instrumental variable approach suggests that market-oriented reform of education has increased the cost of family education expenditures since China’s reform and opening up, which further aggravates the negative impact on education of having many siblings in an urban setting.     

运动心理训练现状与发展动向分析

采用文献分析、调查研究等方法，通过对中外运动心理训练现状和发展动向的研究，为我国教练员和运动员提供了运动心理训练的有益信息。     

军事体育的历史演变及发展趋势——也论体育与军事

本文从军事体育发展的历史根源与军事体育的发展轨迹力求寻找军事体育的发展规律,为军事体育的普及与传播提供理论依据,让军事体育在体育的大家庭里发挥更大的作用,丰富群众体育与学校体育的内容。军事体育的社会化是1种历史的必然趋势,对学校体育乃至社会体育都有一定的促进作用。军事体育将有广阔的发展前景,军事体育与一般体育的融合将会为体育的发展注入新的活力。     

我国不同性别大学生的媒介体育信息需要研究

通过采用定量与定性相结合的研究方法,对不同性别大学生大众传媒体育信息的需要进行比较系统的调查分析,证实了我国不同性别大学生有多种媒介接触动机,并且对每种媒介的动机有所不同.并充分证实了大学生媒介接触是一种主动的选择,为体育教育工作者进行媒介教育和传播工作者工作和决策提供参考.     

透析奥林匹克文化的地缘传播

奥林匹克文化是跨民族、跨地区、跨制度的全球文化。从地缘的角度分析奥林匹克文化传播,提出“文化源———文化极———文化区”的传播模式,并从历届奥运会主办城市的地域分布特点来分析奥林匹克文化的地缘空间现象和传播动态,预测奥林匹克文化地缘传播趋势。     

江苏省群众体育未来发展趋势的调查研究

着眼于目前江苏省群众体育发展的现状,采用分层随机抽样的方法进行调查研究,立足于对回收问卷统计处理后的结果,借鉴已有的研究成果,从体育人口、运动项目、运动场所等方面对江苏省群众体育未来发展趋势作了具体分析,提出了对策,并对如何进一步发展江苏省群众体育运动提出了建议。     

A Study of the Decision-Making Behaviours of Turkish Adolescents

The research reported in this paper aimed to examine the relationships between decision-making behaviours, self-esteem, and the perceived problem-solving skills of adolescents and to investigate the contributions of self-esteem and perceived problem-solving skills in predicting decision-making behaviours (decision response styles, decisional self-esteem, and decisional stress). Another aim of the study was to investigate whether there is a difference in the decision-making behaviours of adolescents considering gender and school type. For this purpose, Decision Behaviour Questionnaire, Self-Esteem Inventory, and Problem-Solving Inventory were administered to 511 adolescents (276 females and 235 males) in Turkish high schools. The findings revealed that decisional behaviours were positively correlated with self-esteem and problem solving. At the same time, self-esteem (general, social, academic, and home/family) and problem-solving were significant predictors of decisional behaviours. There were significant differences in decisional behaviours according to gender and type of school.     

关于网络信息咨询的若干问题

从网络信息资源的特点入手，讨论了网络信息咨询用户，人才，政策法规及发展趋势等方面的问题。     

Public library trends

Public libraries tend to be taken for granted. They can be found in nearly every community and are used by a substantial proportion of the population, particularly the young and the old. Yet the public library service, as it is today, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Despite their origins in the mid-19th century, the widespread network of public libraries is largely the product of the post-war welfare state. The demand for the service grew rapidly during the war and in the immediate post-war period. Provision to meet the demand was constrained initially by the competing demands for reconstruction, but by 1960 the service was ready to expand. The growth was consolidated by the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act and was given further emphasis by the 1962 Bourdillon standards (Ministry of Education, 1962). The Act and the standards provided the impetus for what might be described as the golden age of public libraries. This brief period was brought to an abrupt end by the economic crises of the mid-1970s and the subsequent downward pressure on public expenditure. The service managed to hold its own during the late 1970s and early 1980s but since then it has been in decline, with the rate of decline accelerating during the 1990s as new requirements and increasing costs stretched diminishing resources even further, to the point where the overall level of provision now falls well short of the basic standards that were considered to be essential in the early 1960s.