Zhang Jing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-57). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.2-3 / Introduction / Studying the changing reform discourse in China's media reforms --- p.5-8 / Chapter 1 --- Paradigm Change in reform discourse --- p.9-16 / Chapter 1.1 --- Changing paradigm of media operation: A theoretical framework / Chapter 1.2 --- Methodology / Chapter 2 --- "One Decade, Two Paradigms" --- p.17-33 / Chapter 2.1 --- "One decade, Two paradigms" / Chapter 2.2 --- The historical context for the two paradigms in90s / Chapter 2.3 --- The formation of reform discourse / Chapter 3 --- The Contestations of the two paradigms --- p.34-47 / Chapter 3.1 --- The growth of the new paradigm / Chapter 3.2 --- The modification of the old paradigm / Chapter 3.3 --- The future of the paradigm change / Chapter 4 --- Conclusion and Discussion --- p.48-51 / Reference --- p.52-57

Den här studien fokuserar på myndigheters kommunikation till medborgarna i Sverige. Specifikt studeras informationsbroschyren Om krisen eller kriget kommer som myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB) har producerat på uppdrag från regeringen. Våren 2018 fick 4,8 miljoner hushåll i Sverige hem broschyren som en del av MSB:s arbete för krisförberedelse och höjd beredskap.   Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur texten har konstruerats i broschyren utifrån retoriken och vad texten kan ha för effekt på mottagaren och därigenom öka förståelsen och insynen för myndigheters externa kommunikation och den påverkan texter kan ha på oss medborgare.   För att komma åt dessa textkonstruktioner används en kvalitativ retorisk textanalys både som teori och metod. Studiens tillvägagångssätt grundar sig i analysbegrepp hämtade från retoriken som teori, vilket möjliggör en kvalitativ studie av broschyrens textkonstruktion. Detta genom att bryta ner texten med de retoriska begreppen ethos, logos, pathos, persuasio och doxa. Studien presenterar att MSB har en text som är konstruerad efter de retoriska begreppen och att dess effekt kan ge upphov till handling och en attitydförändring, beroende på mottagarens doxa, om dess syn på världens och hens värderingar.

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From jazz clubs to cheese plates, the term curation has become a signifier of the growing need to organise and prioritise the seemingly endless possibilities of the digital sphere. The issue addressed here is in the associated meanings of the word curation and what it means to be a curator by examining the experience of the curatorial within a discrete context: the Irish curatorial landscape. The word curation comes from the Latin curare, to care for, and has long been associated with the professional duties of those selected as custodians for objects and knowledge deemed to be important to communities, nations, countries or even the world. However, as objects move from being purely physical to the digital, and knowledge changes from being transmitted through similarly physical media to digital formats that can be set free on the Web, what it means to curate has also changed. Curators are no longer necessarily identified as employed within museums or galleries; the word is now also applied to those who engage with and aid in the management and presentation of digital assets online. Curators have emerged in the online space much like their forerunners, bloggers or citizen journalists. We are now seeing the rise of citizen curators on the Web, which has not created these individually motivated curators, but has made their curatorial activities visible. Citizen journalists no longer need to have a printing press or publishing house to communicate with their audience; similarly, citizen curators do not need a private cabinet of curiosities or a job in a museum to allow them to curate or exhibit to an audience. The aims of this research are threefold: to examine the current terminology related to curation by those who identify as curators or engage in curation in Ireland; to define what it means to be a curator or a citizen curator within the Irish context; and to investigate the changing nature of exhibition spaces contained in the Irish context in light of the Web and digital spaces. The study will take the form of an autoethnography, exploiting my unique position within the museum and open knowledge community in Ireland to examine current understandings of curation and the phenomenon of the citizen curator. The focus will be on my work within Wikimedia Community Ireland (WCI), a branch of the Wikimedia Foundation which promotes the use of Wikipedia in Ireland in education, culture, and open knowledge. As an autoethnographer, I can act as an intermediary, part way between those working in cultural organisations and the public involved in knowledge building projects. The study will look at how those engaged in curation articulate the work they do by means of interviews and participant observation. These sources will allow for the development of a spectrum of curatorial practice. The spectrum will arise from the participants’ (both citizen curators and those working in Irish cultural institutions) own understanding and definitions of curation and what it means to curate. In placing these definitions of curation within a spectrum that takes in broader understandings of curatorial practice, the newer forms of digital curation, and a picture of how the citizen curator relates to these methods, will emerge. The disruptive effect which the digital, and in particular the concept of the Long Tail, has brought to bear upon understanding of the assembling, storing, and using of collections will be examined. It will answer many of the issues surrounding the discipline-specific definitions of curation and the curator while informing their relationship with each other. By drawing out curation into a spectrum, what unfolds is the movement of curation from a traditional and closed system of learnt practices, to one which is formed around more open and accessible conventions of curation. In identifying the citizen curator, their role in the larger curatorial debate can be acknowledged and better incorporated into the multitude of online curated projects. This hinges on the emergence of the Do It With Others ethos which pervades both online and offline creative communities, and it redefines curation from a solitary practice, to one which is demarcated by its participatory nature.

This thesis focuses upon storytelling, examining processes of use and interaction as texts transform and migrate through medial boundaries. It aims to excavate new ways of considering the adapted text, and how theory may inform practice (and vice-versa) to produce an intermedial weave of both text and theoretical approach. The methodology is multidisciplinary, encompassing: adaptation studies, art, installation works, and convergent media, with analysis observing how these critical areas connect and intersect. The affordances each specific media provides is considered whilst also acknowledging that medial boundaries flex, being ‘indeterminate and flexible relative to surrounding environments’, or use.1 I examine points of connection between text, media and user, and ask ‘what that space, that necessary difference, enables’, in the manner of how we explore, view, and navigate ever-shifting adaptational frameworks.2 The text here is considered as being in motion, as it morphs into new forms and moves across textual borderlines. It is this aspect of cross-pollination, or textual blend occurring through media, that is the focus of the thesis.

Analysis of online social network traffic can identify a cascade as it flows through a community but, often, the reasons for its initiation are tacit. Commercial measures of online influence focus on the consequences of influence not the causes and have been criticized as lacking efficacy. This research uses social capital and personal influence theories to investigate the characteristics and behaviours that allow certain network nodes to be able to cascade ideas (or memes) through networks. The relationships between structural, relational and cognitive sources of social capital and two distinct dimensions of influence are investigated using: interviews with experts in the field, focus groups of social network users and 1,970 respondents from three large-scale online communities. Data has been analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and allows the researcher to develop robust conclusions on the antecedents to influence. These help to explain recent contradictory findings by different researchers in studies using Social Network Analysis (SNA). The dimensions of influence measured are: respondents’ intention to propagate the message and; the extent to which the message has affected their perception of the subject. The model of influence that leads to both dimensions is strikingly similar; presenting strong support for the notion that contagion-based cascades through networks are predictors of perception change. The paper proposes a bridge between the theories of social capital and personal influence and this is considered an original contribution to these well-established theories. Techniques are suggested which can help organisations to identify opinion-leaders and, if required, subvert or redirect the nature of their influence. Other applications are considered in the fields of: Innovation (identification of lead users); Virtual Organisations (engaging with informal leaders and influencers in networks); Cyber- Defence (identification and subversion of online radicalisation).

In the socio-technical society, the demands of the user create opportunities for new services based on mobile devices. Services such as Swish and Samsung Pay contribute to new ways for both individuals but also companies to carry out simple mobile-based payments. Through past studies in the field in focus, development of services for mobile payment services, and group and in-depth interviews a number of influencing factors on the design process have been noticed: factors such as the customer’s major impact on a design process and the importance of a functioning communication between designers and customers. Working agile facilitates this and at the same time enables the involvement of users in the design process. This work focus on norms and trends in the design process and the most important influencing factors in a design process based on reality. / I det sociotekniska samhället skapar kraven från användare möjligheter till nya tjänster med utgångspunkt i mobila enheter. Tjänster som Swish och Samsung Pay bidrar till nya sätt för både privatpersoner men också företag att utföra enkla mobilbaserade betalningar. Genom teoretisk bakgrund till området i fokus, utveckling av tjänster hos mobila betaltjänster, samt utförandet av djupgående intervjuer och gruppintervjuer har flera olika påverkande faktorer på designprocessen kunnat urskiljas: faktorer som kundens stora inverkan på en designprocess och vikten av en fungerande kommunikation mellan alla designers och kunden. Agilt arbete underlättar för detta och samtidigt möjliggör involvering av användare i designprocessen. Detta arbete fokuserar på normer och trender inom designprocessen och de viktigaste påverkande faktorerna i en designprocess utifrån från ett verklighetsbaserat fokus.

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This thesis adds conceptual and practical value to the field of public affairs (PA). It connects scholarship from the fields of competencies, careers and knowledge, with the theory and practice of PA. The review of literature clearly demonstrated that a gap existed. This then provided a basis for a mixed methods study that enabled the creation of a model of contemporary UK PA practice; a PA knowledge architecture that supports practice; a conceptual PA competency typology on which a competency framework can be built; and an illustrative PA competency framework that reflects a twenty-first century profession. The study was guided by a critical realist worldview that suggests reality is complex and to understand any phenomena a broad a set of research instruments is necessary. The study, therefore, integrated qualitative and quantitative techniques. The qualitative study consisted of 31 interviews with PA practitioners and those involved in policy making that allowed the gathering of rich data mirroring the complexity of work and policy construction. A survey of 50 practitioners also informed the study by helping to illuminate relationships and added greater depth. The research also integrated content analysis by reflecting on four competency frameworks against best practice scholarship to provide practical insights. Findings suggest an evolving field that combines both cohesion and diversity that can be integrated into an embryonic professional identity that reflects a broad set of agreed competencies and knowledge. This is shaped by postmodernist trends in identity and knowledge construction rather than that which mirrors the traditional concept of what defines a profession. Limitations relate to its scope: a UK focus. Further studies in different cultural and political settings need to be encouraged and perhaps longitudinal studies developed to look at the longer-term impact of whether a competency approach can lead to improved performance.

Syfte Studien syftar till att undersöka internkommunikationen inom ett socialt intranät. Internkommunikation är ett viktigt forskningsfält som utvecklats och studerats i över 100 år. Men som numera behöver studeras inom de sociala intranäten där internkommunikationen i allt högre grad sker. Design Forskningen om internkommunikation via sociala intranät är fragmenterad och i behov av fler teoribaserade studier. I den här studien används det närliggande forskningsfältet internkommunikation samt teorin “Three levels of ISM” för att utveckla teoretiseringen av forskningsfältet internkommunikation via sociala intranät. I studien undersöks kommunikationen inom ett socialt intranät i en svensk offentlig organisation genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys med hjälp av de fyra teorierna om internkommunikation och kommunikation via sociala intranät. Resultat Analysen visar på att kommunikationen är mycket begränsad samt att en stor mängd av kommunikationen inte ens berör organisationens angelägenheter utan snarare privata angelägenheter. Vidare innehåller kommunikationen deltagande, kunskapsdelande och meningsskapande kommunikation i mycket liten utsträckning. Detta visar på att organisationen inte utnyttjar det sociala intranätet i enlighet med samtida forskning om internkommunikation, utan istället positionerar sig närmare det klassiska perspektivet. Därtill visar resultatet problem med teorin ”Three levels of ISM” vilket leder till att teorin problematiseras.