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.     

美、俄、日、德主要报纸涉华报道分析

外国媒体的涉华报道 ,既折射出中国在国际舞台上的形象 ,又为中国政府的对外关系决策提供参照。鉴于此 ,本文作者跟踪分析了近期美、俄、日、德权威报纸的涉华报道。其共同点是 ,四国的涉华报道均从各自的国家利益出发来报道和评价中国及其与中国的关系 ;不同的是 ,各国报道又明显地带有各自的特点或倾向性———美国的冷战思维 ,日本的防范心理 ,俄罗斯民族骨子里的大国沙文主义的傲慢态度     

中国新闻媒体宣传报道冬奥会的常见问题及北京2022年冬奥会和冬残奥会宣传报道策略

运用文献研究法和案例分析法梳理和概括了中国新闻媒体在2010年温哥华冬奥会、2014年索契冬奥会、2018年平昌冬奥会宣传报道中的常见问题,并基于此提出北京2022年冬奥会和冬残奥会(以下简称"北京冬奥会")宣传报道策略:1)北京冬奥组委要统筹协调面向新闻媒体记者的服务工作;制定应对突发负面新闻舆情事件的宣传工作预案;讲好中国故事,展现大国形象。2)宣传报道北京冬奥会的记者要掌握一定的冰雪运动技能知识,扎实做好采访前的准备工作,灵活运用采访技巧,全面了解北京冬奥会设置的冰雪运动项目,采写的新闻作品要及时甚至即时发布;电视台记者在现场与新闻直播间连线对话时要增强镜头意识,要善于研究和改进摄录设备。3)北京冬奥会赛事解说员要全面而准确地掌握北京冬奥会赛事的相关信息;要对冬奥会项目比赛规则与裁判常用判罚术语的英文字母代码及其含义了如指掌;解说与评论宜客观与公正;不要使用带有攻击性的词汇和敏感性词汇。4)中国新闻媒体宣传报道北京冬奥会的内容中不宜对比赛结果作经验性判断,要传播人文关怀;中国新闻媒体既要平衡国内运动员和国外运动员的新闻报道量,又要平衡赛场内新闻和赛场外新闻的宣传报道量。     

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。     

Child maltreatment reporting in the general population: Examining the roles of community,collective efficacy,and adverse childhood experiences

According to bystander theory, factors such as the community environment, collective efficacy, and history of adverse childhood experiences could be related to likelihood of reporting or intervening against maltreatment. An online survey was conducted with 946 general population Californians obtained through mixed-mode random probability and quota-based recruitment methods. Using an experimental vignette design, participants were randomly assigned to two scenarios: a) potential child abuse occurring in their neighborhood; b) potential child abuse in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Weighted multivariate logistic regression models assessed relationships between the vignette condition, collective efficacy, appraisal of the behavior, and likelihood of reporting or intervening. The results suggested that perceiving the vignette as occurring in your own neighborhood was associated with lower odds of viewing the behavior as appropriate and considering it abusive. Higher collective efficacy scores were associated with lower odds of viewing the incident as inappropriate but higher odds of personally intervening. Adverse childhood experiences were positively related to reporting the incident to child protective services and intervening. Bystanders may be more likely to give parents in their own neighborhood "the benefit of the doubt" by viewing their abusive behaviors as less severe, potentially leading to underreporting. Neighborhood collective efficacy might increase willingness to personally intervene, but not contact systems such as child protective services or police, suggesting that enhanced trust in communities does not extend to these institutions. Our findings have implications for neighborhood and education interventions to enhance understanding of and willingness to intervene on behalf of children.     

The metamorphosis of medical discourse and embedded cultural rationality: a content analysis of health reporting for neurasthenia and depressive disorder in China

Neurasthenia (shenjing shuairuo) and depressive disorder are medical issues that have given rise to disputes in China for more than 20 years. Since the 1980s, the once ubiquitous diagnosis of neurasthenia in China was rapidly substituted by depressive disorder in the clinical context. Globally, the metamorphosis from neurasthenia to depressive disorder heralded the triumph of scientific rationality, which identifies neurasthenia as a categorical fallacy. In China, however, neurasthenia retained social and cultural significance; thus, it has become a contestable discourse in relation to depressive disorder. By examining the health reporting of both discourses over a decade, this study explicated how neurasthenia and depressive disorder were represented in a popular health newspaper in China. The content analysis showed that neurasthenia is a more culturally and everyday embedded discourse closely associated with Chinese medicine and laymen’s discourse, while depressive disorder is more associated with Western medicine and the professional discourse. The differentiation of two sets of medical discourse evinces that despite the ostensibly prevailing scientific rationality in media health reporting, cultural rationality is deeply embedded in communicating mental health issues with the lay public. It further suggests the significance of investigating the social and cultural expression of mental illnesses in China.     

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。