The Branding of Candidates and Parties: The U.S. News Media and the Legitimization of a New Political Term

Political marketing research indicates that brands and branding are a robust aspect of politics. However, little is known of the broader cultural appreciation of political branding. Through a content analysis of major U.S. newspapers over a 40-year period, we provide evidence that the U.S. news media is increasingly aware of political branding. Moreover, we present a typology of media treatment that indicates that the national media in the U.S. increasingly perceive brands and branding in the public sphere as an innate, multifaceted, and effective part of modern politics.     

浅谈如何做好新媒体时期的企业工会工作

新媒体的快速发展极大地改变了社会的信息交流模式,这对工会组织开展工作提出了新的挑战,也带来了新的机遇。需要通过新媒体,宣传工会的职能和作为,畅通职工诉求表达渠道,充分发挥新媒体在职工参与企业民主管理、保障职工合法权益、提高职工综合素质等方面的积极作用,推动工会工作不断创新发展。     

论新闻媒体侵害隐私权的法律救济方式

随着人们生活方式的多元化,隐私及隐私权成为人们关注的话题。然而,以新闻自由权利为依托的新闻媒体在社会生活中的作用及其带来的影响越来越大。新闻自由的重要价值在于维护公共利益,而隐私权则强调个体权利,因此在行使这两种权利的过程中必然产生矛盾和冲突。因此,如何在两者的博弈中找到良好的契合点,既能发挥新闻媒体在现今社会中的重要作用、又能保障个人的隐私权已成为立法和司法的当务之急。     

The tone of laughter and the strangely warm comedy of Hagimoto Kin'ichi

Featuring the comedian Hagimoto Kin'ichi as on-screen father, the hybrid drama-variety show Kinchan no doko made yaru no! (How far will Kinchan go! 1976–1986) won a loyal following of viewers and critics who praised the ‘warmth’ of its parodic television family, describing it as affectively more real and compelling than depictions of the family in traditional dramatic portrayals. Through close readings of scenes from the show and the critical discourse surrounding it, I consider how the show created a consensus that its laughter was tonally warm, and thus well fitted to the domestic space in which television would be viewed. Further, I argue that the show's producers created this impression by inserting the show and Hagimoto's public persona within contemporary discourses on laughter, domesticity, and normative femininity. In doing so, my analysis highlights the ascendant role commercial television played in shaping and harnessing these discourses, and re-assesses, through the lens of the affective experience of 1970s and ’80s media culture, the cultural shifts taking place in Japan during these decades.     

未成年人道德养成与媒体环境建设

媒体是构成社会德育环境至关重要的部分,担负着正确道德价值观导向的任务,对未成年人道德素质的养成起着重要的影响作用.现实生活中媒体环境存在的网络问题及"黄毒"泛滥、广告充斥不良信息、新闻传播媒体媚俗等问题,已对未成年人道德养成产生了严重消极影响.要营造优良媒体环境,促进未成年人良好道德素质养成,应该注意疏通主流媒体与未成年人的沟通渠道;加强文化市场监管,净化文化、媒体环境;加强对互联网上网服务营业场所的管理;着力办好广播影视节目;加大对不良媒体的法律监督和惩治力度;帮助未成年人提高鉴别、抵制不良媒体信息的能力.     

正当程序:实现公安执法与媒体监督互动的机制

新闻媒体监督与公安执法是两种不同性质的活动,有着各自的运行机制。而正因为两者之间的这种不协同性,必然导致媒体监督与公安执法过程的不同步性,甚至会造成媒体和民众在事实认定和结果判断上与公安机关的尖锐对立。事实证明,只要在公安机关和新闻媒体部门最基本的价值体系上保持一致、即有最基本的价值观或伦理的底线,在此基础上的价值多样性是有益于社会健康发展的。而能够达到这一价值目标的逻辑起点是充分地应用正当程序,为公安机关和新闻媒体提供一个共同认同的平台,从而更好地促进社会的和谐和公正。     

试论警察公共危机中的媒体应对

警察由于工作性质的特殊性，一直是媒体关注的焦点。处于公共危机事件中的警察。无疑对媒体更具刺激性和吸引力。因而，警察与媒体之间具有天然的互动关系。公共危机中，警察需要与媒体进行有效的应对，以更好维护、塑造并提升警察的形象，进而促进警察的持续改善。     

大众传媒与文学语言、形式的嬗变

大众传媒不仅具有信息传播的功能，还肩负着文化传承的使命，并且与文化其他方面联系异常密切。作为文化的一部分，文学与大众传媒有着良好的互动关系。大众传媒通过文学提升了自身的文化底蕴，得到了深刻的滋养；文学也借助大众传媒的风帆达于天下所能达之处，同时，大众传媒也推动了文学的语言和形式的嬗变。     

Framing Asylum Discourse in Luxembourg

This article examines media and political asylum discourse inLuxembourg between 1993 and 2000. A frame analysis of mediaand political asylum discourses and a headline analysis of newscoverage of the refugee and asylum question were implementedto that effect. The results show that media and political actorsin Luxembourg used four frames to refer to the refugee and asylumquestion: administrative, genuineness, human dignity, and returnhome. Overall, the framing of asylum discourse in Luxembourgwas shown to reflect a restrictive undercurrent—relatingto the prevention of the asylum systems of member states ofthe European Union—identified in European asylum discourse.The article concludes by noting that the framing of media andpolitical asylum discourse in Luxembourg was affected by national,international and supranational concerns relating to the regulationof asylum.     

From women for women: The role of social media in online nonprofit activities during Wuhan lockdown

The article examines the role of social media in mitigating information asymmetry and coordination problems during COVID-19 epidemic crisis. We use “Sisters-Fight-Epidemic” online volunteering project during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, as a case to demonstrate how social media plays a role as a mechanism in linking multiple stakeholders and shaping their actions during the epidemic response. We show that social media facilitates the self-organizing processes of volunteers and develops the emergency information networks, therefore enabling a relatively efficient relief responses to the needs of epidemic victims particularly female medical workers. This article also identifies spontaneous online volunteering project as a new form of nonprofit organization and as a new emergent response group that can leverage the strengths of social media in disaster responses to enable effective coordination, initiate advocacy, and improve transparency of relief efforts.