Notes on recent dissertations

The growing popularity and use of news Web sites around the world provides new possibilities for studying the position of the United States in the world system charted by digital news items. In this article, we look at 35 popular news sites in 10 different languages over a 2-year period, in order to assess the position of the United States in world news as well as to identify possible explanations for it. Our findings show that the United States is by far the most prominent country in the news sites that we studied from around the world, except for the French and Arabic ones. The network structure of news links clearly exhibits its key position as the centerpiece of a global system. Economic factors better explain America's news prominence than political, social, and geographical factors. Yet, none of the many variables we examined could explain the large gap between the news prominence of the United States and that of the rest of the world. We discuss possible reasons for these findings and suggest directions for further studies in the field.

[Supplementary material is available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Political Communication for the following free supplemental resource: network data.]     

Hacia una ubicación conceptual de Internet como medio de comunicación

The academic field of communications continues to face several challenges related to its disciplinary development. From an epistemological perspective, the definition of its object of study presents a still unfinished conceptual elaboration which would have made possible a more solid reflection vis-á-vis the new technologies that enable communicative acts in the framework of the media. This article seeks to provide elements that may strengthen this category in view of the Internet as an innovation that offers unprecedented possibilities for interactive communication not only due to the space-time compression it entails, but also to the rhizome structures through which information flows. It argues that the Internet is a communications media with unknown possibilities for expression and dissemination, based mainly on the social uses of hypertextual foundation which facilitates the operation of one of the most frequently used communication environments: the World Wide Web.     

基于OAI-PMH的DSPACE元数据接口研究

在以汇文图书集成管理信息系统为代表的文献资源管理共享系统中贮藏着数以亿计的符合CNMARC标准的数据信息,但识别CNMARC格式需要特定系统的支持。为解决其数据信息的Web2.0应用问题,采用OAI-PMH协议提供的元数据挖掘和收割技术,对汇文系统的CNMARC数据和基于Dspace系统的学术典藏库的都柏林元数据格式的接口进行研究和分析,得出数据移植的具体实现方法。     

论国家政策、村规民约与法律秩序的冲突及融合--对天津基层法院100份宅基地纠纷判决书的法社会学分析

天津宅基地纠纷是在城镇化进程加快、土地制度变革的背景下涌现的，引发纠纷的既有政府权力主导城镇化建设的外部原因，也有制度建构过程中国家层面“大传统”与乡村社会“小传统”冲突的内在原因。基层法院在社会变迁和法律冲突的背景下扮演的不仅仅是规则的适用者，还是矛盾的化解者，分担着基层治理、乡村建设的职能。在审理宅基地案件时，基层法院除了适用法律规则，还应兼顾实质理性，重点考虑政策，并谋求国家法与村规民约的合作。     

BrowStEx: A tool to aggregate browser storage artifacts for forensic analysis

Web storage or browser storage, a new client-side data storage feature, was recommended as a part of the HTML5 specifications and now widely adopted by major web browser vendors. Web storage with native browser support has changed the paradigm of web application development unprecedentedly because persistent data storage with increased data size can be realized on the client. Web storage is poised to quickly become an area of particular interest for forensic investigators due to the potential to discover critical information from web browser artifacts at client side. However, the literature work on web browser forensics has traditionally focused on browsing history, browser cache, and cookie files (Oh et al., 2011). Therefore, we first discuss the prevalence of web storage implementation in widely used websites. Then, we compare and contrast the web storage technology currently implemented in the five major web browsers, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Apple's Safari. Moreover, in order to provide more insights into web storage and enable unified forensic analysis, a proof-of-concept tool, named as BrowStEx (Browser Storage Extractor), is described with implementation details. The commonalities, differences, and the proof-of-concept tool discussed in this paper can be useful in developing advanced forensic tools that can extract browser storage artifacts.     

网络主题探究教学模式的设计——以《英语测试》课程考试成绩分析为例

网络主题探究教学模式（WebQuest）即学生通过网络来寻求某个问题的解决方案。该设计把现代教育技术——网络教学资源融入传统的《英语测试》课程中,以＂考试成绩分析＂的主题为例,研究网络主题探究教学模式及设计方法,通过定性分析和定量分析相结合的方法,探讨网络主题探究教学模式对学生及其自主学习的影响。     

基于ASP技术企业电子商务网站的规划与设计

文中针对企业电子商务网站的建设和在电子商务网站上如何建立管理系统提出了个人的认识和见解。并提供了如何利用ASP技术访问W eb数据库的操作方法。     

综合性中文门户网站女性频道与青年女性发展——以新浪、搜狐、网易为例

综合性中文门户网站女性频道崇尚自由、情感、现代,表面上体现了对青年女性的关爱,实际上是打着妇女解放的旗号,对青年女性实行新一轮的压迫.商业动机和女性网络工作者的缺位是女性频道变相复制现实中男女不平等的深层次原因,女性频道只有树立起真正的社会责任感,让女性赢得话语权,才是有利于青年女性发展的出路.     

王了望诸疑考辩

本文围绕王了望仕宦生涯中的几处疑点进行了考证,在入狱、更名、获罪等方面提出了自己的独特看法。     

BiSAL – A bilingual sentiment analysis lexicon to analyze Dark Web forums for cyber security

In this paper, we present the development of a Bilingual Sentiment Analysis Lexicon (BiSAL) for cyber security domain, which consists of a Sentiment Lexicon for ENglish (SentiLEN) and a Sentiment Lexicon for ARabic (SentiLAR) that can be used to develop opinion mining and sentiment analysis systems for bilingual textual data from Dark Web forums. For SentiLEN, a list of 279 sentiment bearing English words related to cyber threats, radicalism, and conflicts are identified and a unifying process is devised to unify their sentiment scores obtained from four different sentiment data sets. Whereas, for SentiLAR, sentiment bearing Arabic words are identified from a collection of 2000 message posts from Alokab Web forum, which contains radical contents. The SentiLAR provides a list of 1019 sentiment bearing Arabic words related to cyber threats, radicalism, and conflicts along with their morphological variants and sentiment polarity. For polarity determination, a semi-automated analysis process by three Arabic language experts is performed and their ratings are aggregated using some aggregate functions. A Web interface is developed to access both the lexicons (SentiLEN and SentiLAR) of BiSAL data set online, and a beta version of the same is available at http://www.abulaish.com/bisal.