THE CURRENT NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS' EXECUTIVE IS DOMINATED BY THE LEFT ALLIANCE (A COALITION OF COMMUNIST, LABOUR AND LIBERAL PARTY AND UNALIGNED RADICALS), BUT THE STUDENT BODY AS A WHOLE APPEARS TO HAVE DRIFTED TO A MORE MODERATE POSITION ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. MILLENARISM IS OUT; PRAGMATISM IS ASCENDANT. THE AUTHORS TRACE THE TREND TOWARDS MODERATION AND INVESTIGATE EXPLANATIONS.
We investigated five different government organizations' uses of social media in two countries: South Korea and the United States. Two content analyses were conducted in two time periods: 2011 and 2014. We found that the majority of government organizations in both countries use social media within the public information model (for dissemination of information), followed by the two‐way asymmetrical model (for persuasion). As expected, the most prevalent public relations strategy is informative strategy, followed by persuasive strategy. The majority of government organizations use the information dissemination message strategy. Specific differences were found between 2011 and 2014 as well as between two countries.
Purpose: To test whether message framing (ie, gain vs. loss) and risk type (ie, health vs appearance risk) in skin cancer prevention messages interact with one's prior experience. Design: Two experiments with a 2 (message framing: gain vs loss) × 2 (risk type: health vs appearance risk) factorial design were conducted. Setting: The participants were given a URL to the experiment website via e-mail. On the first page of the website, the participants were told that they would be asked to evaluate a skin cancer print public service announcement (PSA): Online experiments. Participants: A total of 397 individuals participated (236 for experiment 1 and 161 for experiment 2). Apparatus: Four versions of the skin cancer print PSAs were developed. Four PSAs were identical except for the 2 manipulated components: message framing and risk type. Measures: Measures were adopted from Cho and Boster (message framing), Jones and Leary and Kiene et al. (risk type), De Vries, Mesters, van't Riet, Willems, and Reubsaet and Knight, Kirincich, Farmer, and Hood (prior experience), and Hammond, Fong, Zanna, Thrasher, and Borland and Hoffner and Ye (behavioral intent). Analysis: General linear models were used to test hypotheses. Results: Three-way interactions among message framing, risk type, and prior experience were found: When the intent of the message was to encourage sunscreen use, the effects of message framing and risk type were shown to be the exact opposite directions from when the intent was to discourage indoor/outdoor tanning. Conclusion: To discourage tanning among those with prior experience, messages emphasizing losses in terms of one's health will work better. For those with no prior experience, messages emphasizing potential appearance losses will work better for discouraging tanning while messages emphasizing gains like improving appearance will do a better job in encouraging sunscreen use.
THIS ARTICLE BEGINS BY PRESENTING THREE MODELS OF A DISCOURSE-BASED POLITICS. THE FIRST TWO MODELS PROPOSE CONSTRAINTS ON DISCOURSE, HOLDING THAT ONLY BY SUITABLY LIMITING THE SCOPE OF ARGUMENT IS IT POSSIBLE TO REACH AGREEMENT. IT CLOSES BY DEFENDING A MODIFIED VERSION OF A MODEL OF CONSTRAINED DISCOURSE ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT IS THE ONLY STRATEGY THAT OFFERS THE HOPE OF ACHEIVING UNCOERCED AGREEMENT.
Presents a model of UK local economic development characterised by a grassroots orientation and partnership between public and private actors--marriages a la mode. Offers research findings on emergence of LEIs. Factors in the structure of their respective political economics appear to have made for a speedier adoption in Western Australia than Tasmania of such alternative policy characteristics as a grassroots participatory approach to policy design and implementation. (Abstract amended)
This study examined effects of two different types of anti-tobacco advertisements (realistic fear ads vs. vulgar humor ads). Results indicate that rebellious participants who watched the realistic fear ads reported higher levels of interest than those who watched the vulgar humor ads. As expected, there was a strong negative correlation between participant rebelliousness and intention to quit smoking after watching realistic fear ads, a correlation not present among those who watched vulgar humor ads. Impulsive participants reported more interest in the realistic fear ads than in the vulgar humor ads, but their intentions to change smoking behavior were not affected by the different types of messages.
