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This book coins the term "Networked Public" to describe the active social actors in new media ecology. The author argues that, in today's network society, Networked Public Communication is different than, yet has similarities with, mass communication and interpersonal communication. As such it is the emergent paradigm for research. The book reviews the historical, technological and social context for the rising of Networked Public, analyzes its constituents and characteristics, and discusses the categories and features of social media in China. By analyzing abundant cases from recent years, the book provides answers to the key questions at micro, meso and macro-levels, including how information flows under regulation in the process of Networked Public Communication; what its features and models are; what collective action strategies and"resistance culture"have been developed as a result of Internet regulate; the nature of power games among Networked Public, mass media, political forces and capital, and the links with the development of Chinese civil society.

"This volume engages with posthumanist and transhumanist approaches to present an original exploration of the question of how humankind will fare in the face of artificial intelligence. With emerging technologies now widely assumed to be calling into question assumptions about human beings and their place within the world, and computational innovations of machine learning leading some to claim we are coming ever closer to the long-sought artificial general intelligence, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities. Against the challenge presented by the possibility that advanced artificial intelligence will be fully capable of original thinking, creative self-development and moral judgement, and therefore have claims to legal rights, the authors advance a form of 'essentialism' that justifies providing a 'decent minimum life' for all persons. As such, while the future of the human is in question, the authors show how dispensing with either the category itself or the underlying reality, is a less plausible solution than is often assumed"--

The capacity of human rights law & debate to facilitate social transformation around HIV/AIDS is assessed. With the AIDS outbreak in the early 1980s, rights to privacy & confidentiality were stressed in order to prevent undue discrimination against gay men. In the US & international arena, unfairly discriminatory laws to combat the epidemic receded in the 1990s, as the linkage between HIV prevention & human rights was established. However, when the focus of the AIDS epidemic shifted from the West to the developing world, where HIV infection is associated with poverty & inequality, discourse on human rights, laws on rights, & the enforcement of laws (as conceived of in the West) ran into trouble. Social & economic rights arguments should have taken priority over privacy & confidentiality rights (ie, civil & political rights). In combating AIDS, governments & nongovernmental organizations need to emphasize improvements in social & economic conditions, as well as civil & political rights. This may involve major structural changes. M. Pflum

The purpose of the research is to find new ways and methods to substantiate ethic and moral standards as the basis of civil interference into the life of the state. The role and place of the state in social, political and spiritual transformations are not always considered due to the crisis of certain social theories and models of state development. Methodology of the research is based on comparative, historical and logical methods. The applied investigation methods enable to reveal and analyze specific models related to anthropological aspect in social relations used in definite types of state formations in order to find that dynamic outlook on future and personal fulfilment of a human.The scientific novelty is in concept to broaden the representation of freedom evolution of a human in different historic types of states. Comparative analysis of state development and the place of human freedom in them helps firstly, conceive anthropological determinant, the one that gradually places under control state institutions which are necessary for humanization of external conditions of human beings and secondly, find out possible directions of state development and freedom for human activity. Conclusions. Understanding and reasoning of paradigm systems development based on moral constituent of the state is an anchoring point for the reforming state towards human values. The state developing on moral human principles gravitates towards its self-destruction.

Given the increased social and environmental problems in China, this book looks into the social and environmental (environmental) disclosure practices of socially responsible Chinese listed firms by constructing a stakeholder-driven, three-dimensional, disclosure index. The book contains a three-part study: the first part explores the current status of social and environment disclosure practices. The second part empirically examines the relationship between corporate social and environmental disclosure and various influencing factors (i.e. stakeholders' power and corporate characteristics). Th

During the past 20 years, survey methodology has undergone a paradigm shift. The old paradigm was based on a statistical model that focused on the effects of survey errors on the estimates derived from survey data. The new paradigm is based on a social scientific model that focuses on the causes of survey errors. Several developments have helped bring about this shift -- the application of methods & concepts from cognitive psychology to the reduction of survey measurement error, the development of new computerized methods of data collection, & the increase in concern about measurement & nonresponse as sources of error in survey estimates. The new paradigm has little to say about the topics, such as sampling error, that were central to the old one; similarly, the old paradigm had little to say about how to reduce or prevent errors, a major concern for the new one. Thus, the two paradigms do not clash so much as complement each other. 17 References. Adapted from the source document.

State administration office as state agency has broad authority in executing government affairs. This widespread authority tending to be misused so could cause loss and injustice on the part of society, therefore there must be other institutions that control it. Based on some political theory, executive as state agency are politically controlled by legislative and are juridical controlled by a judiciary, so state administrative officials carry out executive functions so juridical control judiciary are state administrative courts. In addition, public service is the social rights of society (social rights). Social rights are the rights to receive and the rights to receive from the government, therefore the government organizer is obliged to provide the best service to the community. However, the implementation of public services has not been well received by the community. Governance And Decentralization Survey (GDS) 2012 found three important issues that occurred in the field of public service delivery, first, the magnitude of service discrimination, Second, there was no certainty of cost and time of service, third, low level of public satisfaction with public service. From this situation opens the opportunity for government organizers to perform maladministration actions in public service. The number of maladministration actions in public service can be evidenced by the data reported by the Ombudsman, every year its charts always rise. Due to the construction of legal accountability for maladministration actions undertaken by government organizers in public service must be immediately re-established. Keywords: Legal Aspect, Public Service, Maladministration