A framework for the multimodal analysis of online news galleries: What makes a “good” picture gallery?

The development of digital technology in recent years has led to a revolution in news production and dissemination. In terms of production, we have witnessed a fundamental shift towards visual story-telling. Images dominate the verbal story space and have the potential to become the story themselves. Beyond this, they are also creating unique spaces for themselves (e.g. the online news gallery), with new multimodal genres posing challenges for practitioners and analysts alike. The potential effects of such fundamental shifts on the professional news story-telling practices of the legacy news media provide a rich research opportunity for understanding both how and whether news organisations fulfil their mandate of making sense of the plethora of information that is now available. In this paper, we concern ourselves with one particular innovation in visual news reporting – the online news gallery, or picture gallery in journalism terms. We report on a qualitative analysis of 35 galleries from 12 English-language newspapers with online presence from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, and interrogate the choices made by institutions in composing this particular type of multimodal “text”, as it is situated in a professional, news story-telling context. In doing so, we explore how a systemic-functional semiotic approach to multimodal news discourse may help us to access the meaning potential of this emerging genre as a vehicle for multimodal digital news reporting, present a framework for the multimodal analysis of online news galleries and consider its implications for the education of media practitioners.     

服务型执政党基层执政功能拓展分析

服务型执政党基层执政要拓展经济功能、政治功能、文化功能、社会功能和生态功能。经济功能要向服务全面深化改革、城乡一体化发展和市场经济结构性战略性调整的方向拓展;政治功能要向服务健全基层民主制度化、规范化、程序化,扩大基层社会公民有序政治参与和推进法治中国建设的方向拓展;文化功能要向提升执政党主导性政治文化的认同度和构建现代公共文化服务体系的方向拓展;社会功能要向服务推进社会事业改革创新和创新社会治理体系的方向拓展;生态功能要向服务全社会树立生态文明理念,加快生态文明制度建设的方向拓展。     

Local Government Reforms in (Seven) European Countries: Between Convergent and Divergent,Conflicting and Complementary Developments

In selecting the United Kingdom/England, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain and Hungary as comparative cases, and in focusing on three institutional tracks (local leadership, internal administration and external operation), this article first discusses, on the one hand, whether local government has been institutionally strengthened, and on the other, whether governance-type actor networks have expanded in the countries under consideration and whether, across-countries, this developments has shown convergence or divergence. Secondly, it addresses the question of whether the two currents (strengthening of traditional local government and expansion of local governance networks) are conflicting or complementary.     

Review of “Youth Peacebuilding: Music,Gender, and Change,” by Lesley J. Pruitt

Ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region joined the European Union in 2004. Two more new members from southeast Europe (Bulgaria and Romania) joined in January 2007. Given the diverse range of political, economic, social, and cultural contexts of these nations, EU enlargement and integration processes have entered a new phase of complexity. In this article, I analyze the cultural policy developments in eight of the new EU member states (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia), examine in detail state and nonstate cultural funding patterns, and assess the influence of EU policy—especially with regard to the Culture Program, Structural Funds, and European cultural cooperation initiatives—for its impact on cultural policy development in the new member states. Next, I discuss the new forms of pan-European cultural cooperation, focusing on the development of networks, foundation initiatives, and observatories. Finally, I explore issues in development of cultural policy in the new member states and conclude with recommendations for the future of the enlarged EU.     

Evaluation of the assessment and treatment of a child sex offender: A case study

Abstract

There is indisputable necessity for engaging child sex offenders in effective therapy to reduce recidivist rates. However, it is becoming increasingly recognised that, to do this, more contemporary psychological methods of treatment are being utilised instead of, or as well as, imprisonment.

To establish what constitutes effective therapy requires the constant search for new and successful treatments. To achieve this, it is advantageous to follow preexisting successful methods of treatment but to acknowledge that therapy must be adapted according to an individual's unique presenting difficulties and therapeutic needs.

This paper details assessment techniques, evaluation of psychological dysfunctions, the therapy plan and treatment outcome of a convicted child sex offender. Specifically, Mr X's background history, psychological dysfunctions and progress, using a functional analysis approach, are examined in detail with critical review of the therapeutic intervention.     

刑法中的“食品”概念辨析

我国食品安全法中的食品定义尚不完善。刑法中的"食品"概念亦应当按照食品安全法的规定进行理解,并根据立法目的对其进行扩大解释。因此,食用农产品、食品添加剂、保健食品都属于刑事法律中的食品范围,但保健食品并不等于"既是食品又是药品的物品"。关于"毒胶囊"引发的刑法定性问题则应当依照具体情况区别对待。     

Organizing for Resistance: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence

How does the way in which a group organizes change the lethality of the group's attacks? In this article, we argue that groups organized vertically as hierarchies are likely to conduct more lethal attacks. We build our argument around three advantages inherent to centralized structures: functional differentiation, clear command and control structures, and accountability. We argue that each of these characteristics positively impacts an organization's ability to deliver an effective lethal blow. To test our argument, we use a mixed method approach, drawing on empirical evidence and support from a time-series case study. Our large-N analysis examines the trends in more than 19,000 attacks. In this test we develop a novel proxy measure for hierarchy based on a group's bases of operation and non-violent activities. To complement the empirical work, we examine the history of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), the Basque separatist group. Over several decades of violent operations, this group's structure has changed dramatically. We analyze how these shifts impacted ETA's ability to maximize the effectiveness and damage of their attacks. In both the case study and large-N analysis, the more hierarchically organized the group, the more easily the group can orchestrate lethal attacks.     

新民事诉讼法中检察机关抗诉权的扩张——兼论检察机关在民事诉讼中的定位

新民事诉讼法扩大了检察机关的民事抗诉权,提升了检察机关在民事诉讼中的地位.但检察机关在我国民事诉讼中的作用仍旧比较模糊,缺乏清晰的目标引导.为解决此问题,应当避免检察机关在民事诉讼中抗诉权的盲目扩张,必须细化其权力行使的方式,引导其进行角色的转换,吸纳其作为诉讼主体参与到特定诉讼中,使检察机关真正融入到民事诉讼中.     

信贷扩张与资产价格泡沫：案例、机制与启示

回顾分析1929年大崩溃、1980年代末日本的资产价格泡沫以及2008年美国次贷危机,发现每次资产价格泡沫的过度膨胀都伴随着大规模的信贷扩张;而信贷急速扩张的背后,则是长期繁荣所形成的大众乐观以至疯狂情绪.这意味着,应该从更长远的政策视野推进宏观金融调控体系改革,构建金融和实体经济双稳定框架,以降低实体经济、信贷扩张与资产价格波动的同周期性所引发的泡沫风险.     

论我国现行法学教育与就业

我国法学教育的发展,是各法学教育机构迅速膨胀,法学专业的各层次毕业生也迅速增加,毕业生就业成为社会问题。除了其他社会原因之外,法学教育的以及与就业模式的衔接不匹配也是其中的一个重要原因。为此我们必须改革我国现有法学教育机构重塑相应教学目标,建立新的法学就业模式,使法学教育就业模式相衔接,从而实现法学教育的良性循环。