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Institutional Predictors of the Adoption of Employee Social Media Policies 采用员工社交媒体政策的制度预测因素
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467615623885
Asma El Ouirdi, Mariam El Ouirdi, J. Segers, I. Pais
The importance of employee social media policies is recognized in today’s increasingly connected organizations. Yet these policies are adopted at varying rates in different sectors and geographical regions. In the present study, an institutional approach was employed to investigate the predictors of the adoption of employee social media policies by organizations. Six predictors were examined, namely, organizational size, industry, and the national culture dimensions of power distance, individualism, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance. Results of a logistic regression analysis of 558 online survey responses from human resource professionals worldwide showed that all six predictors were associated with the adoption of employee social media policies. These findings have implications for multinational companies, as well as for policy makers in the legal, human resources, information technologies, and public relations departments who are the primary parties involved in establishing employee social media policies. Study limitations are presented and future research avenues are suggested.
在当今联系日益紧密的组织中,员工社交媒体政策的重要性得到了认可。然而,这些政策在不同部门和地理区域的采用速度各不相同。在本研究中,采用制度方法来调查组织采用员工社交媒体政策的预测因素。研究了组织规模、行业和国家文化维度的权力距离、个人主义、男子气概和不确定性回避六个预测因素。对来自全球人力资源专业人士的558份在线调查反馈进行逻辑回归分析的结果表明,所有六个预测因素都与员工社交媒体政策的采用有关。这些发现对跨国公司以及法律、人力资源、信息技术和公共关系部门的政策制定者具有启示意义,这些部门是制定员工社交媒体政策的主要当事方。指出了研究的局限性,并提出了未来的研究方向。
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引用次数: 3
Social Informatics in Education 教育中的社会信息学
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467616644383
Leah Borovoi, I. Vlaev
This article lies at the crossroads of education, technology, and culture, examining the assumption that societal cultures can exert influence on educational technologies. It is informed by a hypothesis that educational technology is not merely a matter of education and technology alone but is also about the societal culture wherein that educational technology is implemented. The study explores those societally and culturally informed factors that promote the rejection of educational technologies. It answers the research question: To what extent do societal cultures challenge educational technologies? This question is addressed by carrying out a quantitative enquiry into Israel and Saudi Arabia. Having analyzed the collected data using an exploratory factor analysis, societally and culturally directed factors were revealed that flew in the face of educational technologies. The theoretical proposition that could be drawn from this is that educational technologies can be rejected not based on educational or technological interests alone but rather based on societally and culturally promoted anxieties. The recommendation for research policy is thus that, when researching an educational technology, there should be constant consideration of how societally and culturally compatible it is with the wider societal culture wherein it will be or already is situated.
本文位于教育、技术和文化的十字路口,研究社会文化可以对教育技术施加影响的假设。它的依据是一个假设,即教育技术不仅仅是教育和技术的问题,而且还与实施教育技术的社会文化有关。该研究探讨了那些促进拒绝教育技术的社会和文化因素。它回答了研究问题:社会文化在多大程度上挑战了教育技术?这个问题是通过对以色列和沙特阿拉伯进行数量调查来解决的。利用探索性因素分析分析了收集到的数据,揭示了社会和文化导向的因素,这些因素与教育技术背道而驰。由此可以得出的理论命题是,教育技术可以被拒绝,而不仅仅是基于教育或技术利益,而是基于社会和文化促进的焦虑。因此,对研究政策的建议是,在研究一种教育技术时,应该不断考虑它与更广泛的社会文化在社会和文化上的兼容性,它将或已经处于其中。
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引用次数: 2
Reframing Participation in Postsecondary STEM Education With a Representation Metric 用代表性指标重构STEM后教育的参与
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467616645222
C. K. Tokita, W. Doane, B. Zuckerman
Efforts aimed at broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) require a holistic presentation of the state of racial and gender participation. Statistics currently used to describe participation often include raw counts of degrees and the percentages of demographic groups receiving STEM degrees. While these data provide insights into demographic trends, they do not present the complete picture because these “traditional” statistics do not capture how well a field of study reflects—or is proportionally similar to—a larger body, such as the college population. If the goal of broadening participation in STEM education is to ensure that all racial and gender groups are proportionally represented, analysts require direct measures of representation. In this article, we present a novel metric that assesses the degree to which groups are overrepresented or underrepresented in a given field. This metric calculates field-specific representation by comparing the proportion of degrees awarded to members of a demographic group in a specific field of study with the proportion of all degrees awarded to that group. Using data from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education, we demonstrate the efficacy of this representation metric and show that it provides new insights into STEM participation levels for women and other groups considered to be underrepresented. While traditional measurements show the increasing number of degrees awarded to and the increasing share of underrepresented minority students in STEM, our metric revealed that underrepresented minorities remain underrepresented in STEM fields, especially in engineering and the natural sciences.
旨在扩大科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域参与的努力需要对种族和性别参与的状况进行全面介绍。目前用于描述参与的统计数据通常包括学位的原始计数和获得STEM学位的人口群体的百分比。虽然这些数据提供了对人口趋势的见解,但它们并没有呈现出完整的图景,因为这些“传统”的统计数据并没有捕捉到一个研究领域如何很好地反映出一个更大的群体,比如大学人口。如果扩大STEM教育参与的目标是确保所有种族和性别群体的比例代表,分析师需要直接衡量代表性。在本文中,我们提出了一种新的度量标准,用于评估给定领域中群体被过度代表或代表性不足的程度。该指标通过比较某一特定研究领域中某一人口统计学群体成员获得的学位比例与该群体获得的所有学位比例来计算特定领域的代表性。使用来自美国国家科学基金会和教育部的数据,我们证明了这一代表性指标的有效性,并表明它为女性和其他被认为代表性不足的群体的STEM参与水平提供了新的见解。虽然传统的测量方法显示,在STEM领域,被授予学位的人数不断增加,少数族裔学生的比例也在增加,但我们的测量方法显示,在STEM领域,尤其是在工程和自然科学领域,少数族裔的代表性仍然不足。
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引用次数: 2
Digital Citizenship or Inequality? Linking Internet Use and Education to Electoral Engagement in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign 数字公民还是不平等?将互联网使用和教育与2008年美国总统竞选中的选举参与联系起来
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467615624756
Wayne Buente
This study examines the relationship among digital citizenship, digital inequality, education, and electoral engagement in the unprecedented 2008 U.S. presidential election. The 2008 presidential election was unique providing an African American candidate, a severe financial crisis, and an unusually unpopular sitting president. In this regard, the presidential election provides an unparalleled political moment to examine the impact of digital citizenship on electoral engagement. Digital citizenship represents the capacity to participate in society online through frequent Internet use leading to economic, civic, and political outcomes. Recent research on digital inequality questions the relationship between frequent Internet use and skill development. In addition, education is considered the “universal solvent” that makes citizens more active in political affairs. Accordingly, electoral engagement, which is strongly influenced by education, is the focal outcome for this study. Despite these concerns, digital citizenship is a significant predictor for electoral engagement in the 2008 election. However, a closer examination of digital citizens revealed that electoral engagement was differentiated by gender and education thus furthering digital inequality. Findings suggested that digital citizenship should be broadened to include a set of digital skills that are more likely to account for Internet activities that improve electoral engagement.
本研究考察了前所未有的2008年美国总统大选中数字公民、数字不平等、教育和选举参与之间的关系。2008年的总统选举是独一无二的,因为有一位非裔美国人候选人、严重的金融危机和一位不受欢迎的现任总统。在这方面,总统选举提供了一个无与伦比的政治时刻来研究数字公民对选举参与的影响。数字公民是指通过频繁使用互联网在网上参与社会活动,从而产生经济、公民和政治成果的能力。最近关于数字不平等的研究对频繁使用互联网与技能发展之间的关系提出了质疑。此外,教育被认为是使公民更积极参与政治事务的“普遍溶剂”。因此,受教育强烈影响的选举参与是本研究的重点结果。尽管存在这些担忧,数字公民身份仍是2008年选举中选民参与程度的重要预测指标。然而,对数字公民的仔细研究显示,选举参与因性别和教育程度而有所不同,从而进一步加剧了数字不平等。调查结果表明,数字公民应扩大范围,包括一套更有可能解释提高选举参与度的互联网活动的数字技能。
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引用次数: 8
Climate Scientists Virtually Unanimous: Anthropogenic Global Warming Is True 气候科学家几乎一致认为:人为全球变暖是真的
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467616634958
J. Powell
The extent of the consensus among scientists on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has the potential to influence public opinion and the attitude of political leaders and thus matters greatly to so...
科学家对人为全球变暖(AGW)的共识程度有可能影响公众舆论和政治领导人的态度,因此对……
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引用次数: 29
The Soviet Nomad 苏联游牧民族
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467615624309
B. Pearson
The science fiction films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1973) and Stalker (1979), are complex responses to the repressive atmosphere of Brezhnev’s rule, after the 7-year delay in seeing Andrei Rublev (1971) released publicly. By using science fiction—a genre that Tarkovsky openly maligned—he was able to fly beneath the radar of State censorship, and develop a nuanced response to the application of Marxist theory of religion in the Soviet experience. Arguing in these films (and in others in his oeuvre) that humans still need the affective dimension of religion (though not the hierarchical, institutional elements of it that Marx had identified with sedation), Tarkovsky hid within his science fiction films a thoroughgoing critique of the Soviet application of Marx. This article uses the concept of “war machine” from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to analyze how Tarkovsky did this, and demonstrates that Tarkovsky’s engagement with Marx’s philosophy in these two films shares much in common with Deleuze and Guattari’s way of understanding human meaning making.
安德烈·塔可夫斯基的科幻电影《索拉里斯》(1973)和《潜行者》(1979)是对勃列日涅夫统治下的压抑气氛的复杂回应,因为《安德烈·鲁布列夫》(1971)的公映推迟了7年。通过使用科幻小说——一种被塔可夫斯基公开诋毁的类型——他得以在国家审查的雷达下飞行,并对马克思主义宗教理论在苏联经验中的应用做出了细致入微的回应。在这些电影(以及他作品中的其他电影)中,塔可夫斯基认为人类仍然需要宗教的情感维度(尽管不是马克思认为与镇静有关的等级制和制度因素),他在他的科幻电影中隐藏了对苏联应用马克思的彻底批评。本文从吉尔斯·德勒兹(Gilles Deleuze)和菲姆斯·瓜塔里(f lix Guattari)的哲学中借用“战争机器”的概念来分析塔可夫斯基是如何做到这一点的,并证明塔可夫斯基在这两部电影中对马克思哲学的参与与德勒兹和瓜塔里理解人类意义制造的方式有很多共同之处。
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引用次数: 0
New Media Audiences’ Perceptions of Male and Female Scientists in Two Sci-Fi Movies 两部科幻电影中新媒体观众对男女科学家的认知
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467616636195
Molly Simis, Sara K. Yeo, Kathleen M. Rose, D. Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael A. Xenos, Barbara Kline Pope
Portrayals of female scientists in science fiction tend to be rare and often distorted. Our research investigates the social media discourse related to public perceptions of the portrayals of scientists in science fiction. We explore the following questions: How does audience discourse about a female scientist protagonist in a science fiction film compare with that about a male scientist in a comparable movie? And, what fraction of discourse in each case is dedicated to (a) comments on physical appearance and (b) incredulity that the character is a scientist? Using automated nonparametric sentiment analysis software that employs an intelligent algorithm informed by human coding, we analyze Twitter discourse around the release of two summer 2011 science fiction blockbusters with scientists in lead roles: Thor and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Although scholars have pointed to sexualized portrayals of women scientists in popular media, we found relatively few mentions of the attractiveness of an admittedly attractive female scientist. Additionally, audience discourse was not centered on the implausibility of the female scientist. This is particularly meaningful when combined with previous research showing that strong women in lead roles do not decrease profitability of science fiction films.
科幻小说中对女科学家的描写往往很少,而且往往是扭曲的。我们的研究调查了与公众对科幻小说中科学家形象的看法相关的社交媒体话语。我们探讨了以下问题:观众对科幻电影中女科学家主角的话语与同类电影中男科学家主角的话语是如何比较的?而且,在每种情况下,有多少比例的话语是专门用于(a)对外表的评论和(b)对角色是科学家的怀疑?使用自动非参数情感分析软件,该软件采用由人类编码的智能算法,我们分析了2011年夏季两部由科学家主演的科幻大片《雷神托尔》和《猩球崛起》上映后的推特话语。尽管学者们指出了大众媒体对女科学家的性别化描绘,但我们发现相对较少提及一个公认有吸引力的女科学家的吸引力。此外,观众的话语并没有集中在女科学家的不可信上。之前的研究表明,强势女性担任主角不会降低科幻电影的盈利能力,这一点尤其有意义。
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引用次数: 6
Devices of Lie Detection as Diegetic Technologies in the “War on Terror” 作为“反恐战争”叙事技术的测谎装置
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467616634162
S. Egbert, Bettina Paul
Although lie detection procedures have been fundamentally criticized since their inception at the beginning of the 20th century, they are still in use around the world. In addition, they have created some remarkable appeal in the context of counterterrorism policies. Thereby, the links between science and fiction in this topic are quite tight and by no means arbitrary: In the progressive narrative of the lie detection devices, there is a promise of changing society for the better, which is entangled in a fictional narrative provided by many cinematic and literary examples. By drawing on the concept of “diegetic technologies” formulated by David Kirby, we want to highlight the role of science fictional narratives in the historical development and current application of lie detection procedures. We therefore aim to use this conceptual frame to analyze the role of prevention-oriented mind reading procedures, which are developed for or already used in the “war on terror” with reference to their fictional predecessors. One virulent factor has to be highlighted in this context: The fictional engagement with possible new lie detection practices is in itself creating a legitimating ground for future security technologies.
尽管自20世纪初问世以来,测谎程序一直受到根本性的批评,但它们仍在世界各地使用。此外,它们还在反恐政策的背景下产生了一些非凡的吸引力。因此,在这个话题上,科学与小说之间的联系是非常紧密的,绝不是武断的:在测谎设备的进步叙事中,有一个让社会变得更好的承诺,这与许多电影和文学例子提供的虚构叙事纠缠在一起。通过借鉴David Kirby提出的“叙事技术”的概念,我们想强调科幻叙事在测谎程序的历史发展和当前应用中的作用。因此,我们的目标是使用这个概念框架来分析以预防为导向的读心术程序的作用,这些程序是为“反恐战争”开发的,或者已经在“反恐战争”中使用了,参考了它们的虚构前辈。在这种情况下,必须强调一个有害的因素:虚构的与可能的新测谎实践的接触本身就为未来的安全技术创造了一个合法的基础。
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引用次数: 1
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Digital Ontotheology 人工智能与数字本体神学问题
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467616651192
J. Crombez, Harry F. Dahms
In utopian/science fiction literature, comprehensive knowledge is a familiar motif that also inspires recent policies to screen society through surveillance. In the late 20th century, a digital archive promised to facilitate quick access to abundant information and effective strategies to confront myriad challenges. Yet, today, the scale and scope of information accumulation in national and corporate repositories is reaching proportions whose intelligent processing excedes human capabilities, and triggering a shift in focus from dumb repository to artificial intelligence. Processing such accumulation of knowledge necessiates skills commonly attributed to divinity. Without a theory that recognizes this condition and informs the operations of artificial intelligence, the latter is likely to fail in human ways, e.g., by perceiving false patterns resulting from flawed theories assigning meaning to knowledge. For successful pattern recognition to occur, theories must rest on science fiction and a digital ontotheology of the machine as the form this archive assumes.
在乌托邦/科幻文学中,全面的知识是一个熟悉的主题,也激发了最近通过监视来筛选社会的政策。在20世纪后期,数字档案有望促进快速访问丰富的信息和有效的策略,以应对无数的挑战。然而,今天,国家和企业知识库中信息积累的规模和范围正在达到智能处理超出人类能力的程度,并引发了从哑库到人工智能的重点转移。处理这样的知识积累需要通常归因于神的技能。如果没有一个理论认识到这种情况,并告知人工智能的操作,后者很可能以人类的方式失败,例如,通过感知错误的模式,导致错误的理论赋予知识的意义。为了实现成功的模式识别,理论必须建立在科幻小说和机器的数字本体神学的基础上,就像本文所假设的那样。
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引用次数: 4
Book Review: Megalex: Complete story (Hardcover Comic) 书评:Megalex:完整故事(精装漫画)
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2015-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/0270467615597813
Constantinos Morfakis
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