Advocating Online Censorship

Using Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework, the development of the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 is presented. Introduced to control the flow of online content (especially pornography) into and within Australia, this policy area incorporates a mix of high technology, morality and commercial interests. Analysis of the development of the Act is presented over five periods that show: the activation and formation of competing coalitions; acquisition of information and arguments about what form (if any) government regulation should take; and the relative importance of the issue. Analysis shows a number of relatively stable advocacy coalitions formed rapidly in response to government moves for regulation. The stability of these coalitions was significantly influenced by shor -term changes in regulatory technology and the nature of the political discourse used by the government which raised or lowered the 'temperature' of subsystem conflict. The article makes a number of methodological comments about the application of multivariate clustering to subsystem analysis.     

Greek Political Marketing Online

Abstract

The new communication system of interconnected computer networks is altering the nature of political communication in many innovative and significant ways. In Greece, the development of the Internet as a mass communication medium has a history of no more than five years, and it is far from being a fully fledged medium of political communication. With the exception of relatively few cases, the use of the Internet has been shown to increase during the pre-election campaign periods. This paper presents the results of a research project, which explores the personal Web sites of the Greek parliamentarians in an off-campaign period. The research was conducted through the systematic observation, examination, and analysis of a sample of personal Web pages owned by cross-party elected members of the Greek Parliament.     

Sponsorship Effects in Online Surveys

Political Behavior - Many academic surveys administered online include a banner along the top of the survey displaying the name or logo of the researcher’s university. These banners may...     

Online Tallies and the Context of Politics: How Online Tallies Make Dominant Candidates Appear Competent in Contexts of Conflict

In this article, we extend the classical notion of online tallies to shed light on the psychology underlying the rapid emergence of dominant political leaders. Predicated on two population-based panel surveys with embedded experiments, we demonstrate that citizens (1) store extremely durable tallies of candidate personalities in their long-term memory and (2) retrieve different tallies depending on the context. In particular, we predict and demonstrate that when contexts become more conflict-ridden, candidate evaluations rapidly shift from being negatively to positively associated with online impressions of candidate dominance. Although the notion of online tallies was originally proposed as an explanation of why citizens are able to vote for candidates on the basis of policy agreement, we demonstrate how the existence of context-sensitive online tallies can favor dominant candidates, even if the candidate is otherwise unappealing or does not share policy views with citizens on key issues.     

网店风潮席卷大学之谜探析

近年来就业形势日益严峻,许多大学毕业生选择另谋出路,走上自主创业的道路。当今在校大学生更是抢夺先机,在校园内掀起一阵开网店的风潮。基于中国计量学院的问卷调查结果表明,应该要做好以下几个方面的准备工作:资金和团队;有好的卖品;具有进货技巧;搞好网店装修;做好客户服务。     

保护儿童网络隐私权的企业责任

儿童由于认知能力不足、好奇心强以及消费行为活跃等原因,成为网络环境下企业收集和处理个人信息的主要对象之一,这往往导致其隐私权等权利面临更为复杂的受侵害的风险。尽管在国际和国内层面的法律制度以及行业自律规则中都规定了企业尊重和保护儿童网络隐私权的人权责任,但是当前企业运营各环节的实践活动却缺乏符合儿童特殊需要的、覆盖所有儿童主体和整个信息生命周期的系统性规则,不仅忽视了儿童群体因年龄、性别等方面的能力差异造成的不平等保护,也忽略了监护权与儿童独立隐私权、保护与促进参与发展的平衡问题,这些都不利于儿童在网络环境下的成长和发展。因此,应促使企业在保护儿童的网络隐私权方面,针对他们特殊的心理和社会发展的需要,进一步完善针对儿童的隐私保障政策、细化监护人同意制度,充分开展儿童网络隐私权的影响评估,为儿童网络隐私权提供技术和网络素养的赋权,促进其更好地利用网络技术,全面实现发展目标。     

中文BBS论坛中涉日议题的网络民族主义呈现

互联网BBS论坛为民族主义问题的开放讨论提供了全新而自由的平台。基于特殊事件的民族主义分析框架,是否适用于网络常态舆论中与民族国家相关问题的探讨,是一个值得检验的命题。本研究发现,网络常态舆论中的涉日议题在不同论坛具有不同类型偏好;涉日议题并非均为负面话题,也不能普遍性地引发具有民族主义倾向的讨论;该类议题所触发语言暴力的程度低于其他常规性议题;不同论坛间用户在部分议题类别上呈现出较为明显的态度差异。     

Modelling Online Innovation Among IR and Politics Lecturers

This article discusses the use of collaborative online technology in the teaching of international relations and politics. Using a case study from Australia, it finds low levels of online innovation in these discipline areas that correlate with broader examinations of technology use in higher education teaching. Themes of time poverty, technical competence, and lack of career reward are frequently cited as barriers to trying new approaches. The data indicate that at present the most common outcome of any aspiration for IR/politics staff considering innovation is that the effort required to incorporate collaborative online learning is not repaid. These findings are meaningful, since the current lack of innovation and the perceptions of staff regarding support for such approaches are at odds with the marketplace pressures staff and their institutions are under. Based upon the data collected and the wider literature on technology adoption, this article proposes a “Technology-Assisted Teaching Adoption Model” (TATAM) that attempts to encapsulate the innovation judgements made by academic staff and the steadily diminishing incentives they feel towards changing their online teaching methods.     

论网络反腐信息传输渠道的构建

网络反腐信息传输渠道已经成为影响网络反腐效能有效发挥的重要因素之一。目前,我国网络反腐信息传输渠道仍存在传输渠道技术缺乏整合、民间网络反腐信息传输渠道有待规范、政府与民间两类网络反腐信息传输渠道互动性有待增强等问题。因此,要构建以网络反腐信息输入、处理、输出及反馈为主要环节,以反腐信息HBU系统为核心,兼具开放可循环特征的反腐信息传输渠道,采取信息分级、加强政府—民间网络反腐信息传输渠道的对接与信息反馈等具体措施,为进一步完善网络反腐渠道,提升网络反腐水平提供理论支持与实践参考。     

Social Influences on Online Political Information Search and Evaluation

Americans are turning to the Internet to learn about politics in greater and greater numbers. Under the current “Web 2.0” paradigm in which users are encouraged to interact with online content, voters encountering political information on the Internet are typically exposed to more than just the news; online information is often colored by the reactions of previous readers, whether in the form of displayed comments or in readily apparent tallies of the number of “likes” or “shares” a particular item has received. In this paper we consider the effect these social cues have on online political information search and evaluation. Using processing-tracing software to monitor the patterns of information search and evaluation among our subjects, we find that social cues can function as a heuristic, allowing voters to reach judgments similar to those of their more informed counterparts. However, we also find that negative cues can adversely influence candidate evaluation, making subjects less disposed to a candidate than they would be in the absence of such signals.     

风险感知对消费者网上购物行为的影响

消费者在网上购物过程中感知到各种风险,这些风险感知严重地影响了消费者的网上购物行为。主要从网络消费者的信息搜索行为、品牌选择行为和安全支付方式选择等方面研究风险感知对消费者网上购物行为的影响,从而提出降低消费者网上购物中风险感知的策略,进而帮助企业制定网上营销的策略,减少策略的盲目性和随意性,增强营销策略的针对性和有效性。     

从网络变量的角度谈网上信访的规制

中国网民数量的增加、网上信访系统和政府门户网站建设为网上信访的开展提供了条件。与传统信访途径相比,网上信访优劣势并存,网络因素的加入并未从根本上改变传统信访的定位不清、职能多元的窘境。在依法治国的大背景下,网上信访成为制度创新的思路应当是:恢复网上信访的信息传递功能,明确网上信访规则的透明体系,提高网上信访主体的网络技能等。     

基于GFS的数字资源在线服务与访问统计研究

数字资源的在线服务应具备资源丰富、高可靠性、高稳定性、响应时间短等特性,通过分析全局文件系统(GFS)的体系结构和特性,提出了构建一个基于GFS文件系统的数字资源在线服务与实时统计框架,可以满足数字资源大容量、高性能的存取要求.在提供高性能服务的同时,对用户的访问信息进行统计,用以指导数字图书馆的工作.