Chaos theory, informational needs, and natural disasters

This study applies chaos theory to a system-wide analysis of crisis communication in a natural disaster. Specifically, we analyze crisis communication during the 1997 Red River Valley flood in Minnesota and North Dakota. This flood, among the worst in modern American history, consumed entire metropolitan areas, displacing thousands of people. The conditions and decisions leading to the disaster, and the subsequent reactions are retraced. Communication related to river crest predictions (fractals), the shock at the magnitude of the crisis (cosmology episode), novel forms of reorganizing (self-organization), and agencies that aided in establishing a renewed order (strange attractors) are evaluated. Ultimately, we argue that preexisting sensemaking structures favoring rationalized, traditional views of a complex system led officials to make inappropriately unequivocal predictions and ultimately diminished the effectiveness of the region's crisis communication and planning.     

档案危机管理预警系统的构建

本文从建立完整的档案信息安全防范体系、提高档案工作人员的危机意识和档案部门对危机做出快速反应方面分析档案危机管理预警系统构建的意义,介绍了危机管理预警的信息收集、信息分析、预警决策和应急处置等几个子系统,提出了预警系统构建中要注意的几点务实性的建议.     

试论图书馆在危机信息传播中的作用

文章将从现实与理想的角度来谈图书馆在危机信息传播中的作用,从而认清差距,更好地发挥图书馆的信息传播职能。     

从危机管理过程谈图书馆形象塑造

从危机管理的危机形成阶段、危机爆发阶段、危机持续继续阶段等三个过程入手,论述现代图书馆在面临危机时如何塑造自身的良好形象,从而提高综合竞争力。     

基于竞争情报的企业危机管理

竞争情报所关注的是与企业竞争相关的各类信息。竞争情报工作应关注的问题有:预见和消化科学技术急速发展可能带来的后果;检查收益指标;针对可能发生的危机,制定竞争情报策略;商业环境监测;留意企业并购、投资、竞争领域选择等方面的决策,及时预测和发现可能对企业造成危机的相关环节,寻找合适的解决办法,最大限度减少企业危机。参考文献11。     

系统的公共危机种类分析

本文运用系统方法和比较方法,将分类的逻辑规则与公共危机管理的实际相结合,分别以引发公共危机的因素和公共危机爆发的范围为标准,以公共危机主管部门为第三维,构建了公共危机种类三维体系,为在法律法规、组织设计和工作流程方面采取相同或相似的危机管理措施,构建系统的公共危机管理机制提供依据。     

Redefinition,Differentiation, and the Farm Animal Welfare Debate

Animal welfare advocates have increased publics' scrutiny of the way animals are handled by everyone from pet owners to circuses to farmers. The case of farmer Gary Conklin illustrates a popular recent tactic of activists to secretly film working farms and then release videos that purport to show abuse. This essay uses the concepts of legitimacy and image restoration to examine how Conklin, with a small farming operation in Ohio, responded to allegations spread by social media. Two important principles emerged: first, an effective differentiation strategy for reducing offensiveness is “redefining the act,” a combination of image repair tactics where an undisputed fact is redefined and transformed with support from third-party affirmations. Second, even small organizations like this dairy cattle business face the same challenges and opportunities as larger organizational rhetors. The essay concludes with applications both for agriculture and for crisis communication scholars, asserting that agricultural enterprises will continue to face struggles over meaning that will require sophisticated methods of issue and crisis management.     

基层电大教师的专业身份危机

由于电大运作模式的弊端、教师管理的失范、实践理念的偏差和教师专业发展的滞后造成了基层电大教师身份的内部分化和外部泛化的＂身份危机＂。基层电大教师的教学工作和课程开发明显分离,网络教学新的特征和内涵进一步细化了电大教师的角色,教师岗位职能的细化使教师角色同一化,基层电大大量的管理工作进一步泛化了教师的角色,这些都不利于教师的专业发展。基层电大应通过纯化教师角色和控制教师工作量来提高外部认同度,通过建立教师专业发展标准和教学知识评价机制、重视教学理念的先进性、强调教学创新能力来提高内部认同度。     

危机传播中地方媒体的角色、功能与策略

地方媒体作为社会的"守望者"、"监督者"以及沟通政府与公众的重要桥梁,其对与公共利益紧密相关的重大决策信息传播的缺席常常是导致危机发生的重要原因之一。因此,从危机传播视角出发,负责任的地方媒体在危机传播中应以价值定位取代功能性定位,明确自身作为社会监测者的基本角色,履行好危机传播中揭示危机真相和进行公民教育的传播功能。在传媒所受体制性束缚一时难以改变的情况下,地方媒体危机传播功能的实现要靠"打时间差"、"边缘突破"、"协同作战"等策略性实践手段来实现。     

1968年朝鲜半岛危机与美国对韩国的政策

1968年1月朝鲜俘获了美国间谍船“普韦布洛号”。美国却接受了朝鲜的建议,同意通过双边秘密谈判解决“普韦布洛号危机”。韩国政府非常愤怒,威胁要单独进攻朝鲜并撤出驻越韩军。无奈之下,美国决策者决定加强韩军的反渗透能力、增加对韩军援、完善美韩安全协商机制。最终,约翰逊政府渐渐地改变了以往主要强调韩国政治民主、经济发展和社会稳定的政策,再次优先关注韩国防务。