Evasive Targets: Deciphering Polysemy in Mediated Humor

While polysemy has been discussed in communication studies for decades, a fundamental question has evaded systematic analysis: Which textual features make mediated texts open to multiple interpretations? Focusing on humor, we addressed this question by using a somewhat unusual point of departure–a failed intercoder reliability test. We analyzed 130 humorous forwards, of which 55 elicited disagreement between coders regarding the target of mockery and 75 were uncontroversial. Our comparative analysis yielded six textual attributes that augment polysemy in mediated humor: narrative‐valence discrepancies, unstereotypical stereotyping, debatable personality traits, self‐deprecating humor, intertextuality, and centrifugal multimodality. We demonstrate the utility of the proposed typology by analyzing public controversies stirred by humorous communication, and discuss its applicability to the study of audiences and nonhumorous genres.     

Strategic self-presentation online: A cross-cultural study

Contemporary social networking sites (SNSs) make idealized self-presentation and image maintenance difficult because users’ audiences are becoming more diverse and individual users must negotiate often unanticipated other-provided information in the form of text posts and digital images on their profile pages. This cross-cultural study examines how audience-related variables affect a range of strategic self-presentation and image management behaviors online. Results from samples of Singaporean and American SNS users (N = 411) show that while Americans update their profiles with text-based wall posts more frequently, Singaporeans share significantly more photos. Audience diversity is positively associated with active management of other-provided information, and females share more photos and actively manage unwanted photo tagging. Cultural identity and the tendency to ‘friend’ unknown others interact on managing other-provided wall posts; individualistic cultural identity exhibited positive relationships with these reactions for those less likely to friend unknown others but negative ones for those more likely to friend unknown others. Implications for the theoretical understanding of and practical suggestions about self-presentation online are discussed.     

围绕《关于“多普勒效应”的笔记和现代主义的其它心境》一文的五点对话

文章详细记录了笔者与罗伯特·索莫和萨拉·怀汀 的一次讨论，主要围绕《关于“多普勒效应”的笔记和现代主义的其它心境》（以下简称《多普勒》）一文的5个相关方面问题：1）《多普勒》的学科性立场和操作纲领；2）“投射性”和“后批判性”的差异及另一种政治性实践；3） 另一种设计、标准和多普勒的发展；4） 多普勒的俄狄浦斯情结和父亲的问题；5） 生产力和中国语境。     

信息时代如何做好报纸编辑工作

在这个竞争日益激烈的信息时代,编辑不再是单纯的"文字工匠",他们的工作也不再是"等米下锅",他们要顺应时代的潮流和大众的需要,调动自身的思维智慧,通过调查研究获得客观信息,提出自己的真知灼见。如何才能做好编辑工作呢?这是每一个编辑都应该考虑的问题。我认为要做好以下几方面1、报纸的新闻策划。2、报纸的版面设计。3、报纸的标题制作。4、报纸的图片处理。5、报纸的文字校对。总之,做一个编辑不容易,做一个好编辑更不容易。不仅要熟练掌握以上各项技术,还要做到通晓历史和掌握现代化的技术工具,这样才能成为信息时代合格的报纸编辑。     

面向未来 2010上海世博会世博演艺中心设计

2010上海世博会世博演艺中心设计围绕主场馆演出空间设置相关的文化娱乐衍生功能,形成大型的、独特的文化娱乐聚集区。主场馆的规模可以调节,主观演区灵活多变的功能配置和完备的技术系统,确保了多功能、高规格的演出需求。配套的文化休闲娱乐空间,构成对演艺中心功能的补充,引导不同目标顾客群的附带消费,拓展了演艺中心的文化外延,演艺中心力求营造大众的、高雅的、时尚的文化氛围,激发整个园区的动感活力。     

How Do Global Audiences Take Shape? The Role of Institutions and Culture in Patterns of Web Use

This study investigates the role of both cultural and technological factors in determining audience formation on a global scale. It integrates theories of media choice with theories of global cultural consumption and tests them by analyzing shared audience traffic between the world's 1,000 most popular websites. We find that language and geographic similarities are more powerful predictors of audience overlap than hyperlinks and genre similarity, highlighting the role of cultural structures in shaping global media use.     

数字电视管理系统的研究与实现

提出了基于IPv6组播技术与G.1070算法的数字电视管理系统;通过捕捉并分析网络数据包,对ITU-T推荐的G.1070算法进行改进后,得出各收视终端的QoE量化指标;通过分析MLDv2协议的消息类型得出各收视终端的收视率。作为中间件,该系统可以无缝地嵌入到各厂商生产的网络收视终端。     

Strange Bedfellows: Human-Computer Interaction, Interface Design, and Composition Pedagogy

As digital interfaces increasingly mediate our access to information, the design of these interfaces becomes increasingly important. Designing digital interfaces requires writers to make rhetorical choices that are sometimes technical in nature and often correspond with principles taught in the computer science subfield of human-computer interaction. We propose that an HCI-informed writing pedagogy can complicate for both writing and computer science students the important role audience should play when designing traditional and digital interfaces. Although it is a subtle shift in many ways, this pedagogy seemed to complicate student understanding of the relationship between audience and the texts/interfaces they created: it was not just the “human” (beliefs, attitudes, values, demographics) or the “computer” (the software or hardware or other types of mediation) that mattered but rather the “interaction” between the two. First we explore some of the ways in which writing code and writing prose have merged and paved the way for an HCI-informed writing pedagogy. Next we examine some parallels between human-computer interaction principles and composition principles. Finally, we refer to assignments, student responses, and anecdotal evidence from our classes where an HCI-informed writing pedagogy drew—or could have drawn—student attention more acutely to various audience-related technical and rhetorical interface design choices.     

Attention to news and its dissemination on Twitter: A survey

In recent years, news media have been hugely disrupted by news promotion, commentary and sharing in online, social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit). This disruption has been the subject of a significant literature that has largely used AI techniques – machine learning, text analytics and network models – to both (i) understand the factors underlying audience attention and news dissemination on social media (e.g., effects of popularity, type of day) and (ii) provide new tools/guidelines for journalists to better disseminate their news via these social media. This paper provides an integrative review of the literature on the professional reporting of news on Twitter; focusing on how journalists and news outlets use Twitter as a platform to disseminate news, and on the factors that impact readers’ attention and engagement with that news on Twitter. Using the precise definition of a news-tweet (i.e., divided into user, content and context features), the survey structures the literature to reveal the main findings on features affecting audience attention to news and its dissemination on Twitter. From this analysis, it then considers the most effective guidelines for digital journalists to better disseminate news in the future.     

Twittering the Little India Riot: Audience responses,information behavior and the use of emotive cues

In crises and disasters, social media not only facilitates mobilization, sharing of critical information, but also enables people to watch and participate as the crisis unfolds. Participation is now much more open to those beyond the immediately affected: the victims, the rescue workers and other stakeholders. This paper reports on a study of tweets collected during and after a rare occurrence of a violent riot in Singapore, illustrating the evolution of crisis responses, emotive cues information seeking and sharing behavior on Twitter over the lifecycle of the riot. Evidence of orientation of responses from the self towards the community as the riot progresses was found, contributing to ongoing research on community building in crises. Emotive cues were most dominant in the first hour of the riot, with various responses fluctuating over the riot's lifecycle. Emotive cues predicted most responses except for tweets that were reasoning about the riot, and also had an effect on informational tweets. Retweets drove most activity, and users also shared information and formed communal dialogue within their own networks. Despite the dominance of negative emotive cues and responses to the crisis, positive tweets – those singing praises and thanking stakeholders – were more likely to be retweeted.