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AbstractA substantial amount of research has examined the collaborations within technology‐based industries, but how technological intensity relates to the evolution of interregional research collaboration is less well understood. This paper investigates the dynamic changes of spatial structure and determinants of intercity research collaborations in the sectoral innovation networks of high‐tech industries contrasting to low and medium technology (LMT) industries in the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD), China. Using the sectoral patent application data over the period 2008–2016, the social network analysis results confirm a higher level of triangles in the co‐invention network of high‐tech industries than within LMT industries. Moreover, the empirical results through Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM) show that, compared to LMT industries, collaboration in the co‐invention network of high‐tech industries is less sensitive to geographical and linguistic distance, while more subject to economic distance, regional educational level and government support with time. In addition, cognitive proximity and regional R&D intensity are both important prerequisite in the formation of these two collaborative networks.

This dissertation aims to increase the knowledge about how societal contexts shape the social construction of crises in Chinese social media. It consists of four articles to advance current crisis communication research theoretically and empirically. Drawing on the social constructionist approach, Article 1 proposes a theoretical framework for investigating how societal contexts are embedded in crisis construction in China. Following the proposed theoretical framework, Articles 2, 3, and 4 present empirical analyses of the political and technological contexts in China that impact the construction and negotiation of meaning among social actors on the Chinese microblogging service Weibo, which consequently shapes crisis construction. The crisis construction is further excavated into various forms, including the constructions of crisis attribution, authority, and organizational misconduct, which are examined in the Articles 2, 3 and 4, respectively. This dissertation employs multiple qualitative methods for text analysis to examine posts and comments on Weibo regarding two organizational crises (i.e., the McDonalds' crisis in 2014 and the United Airlines crisis in 2017). More specifically, the qualitative methods include framing analysis (Article 2), genre analysis (Article 3), and qualitative content analysis (Article 4).This dissertation offers a novel depiction of crisis communication in China, which accentuates the influences of political and technological contexts. The findings from the four articles justify and validate the complex and mutually constitutive relationship between politics and technology that underpin the construction of crises in the Chinese context. More specifically, the dissertation observes three ways of contextual influence on the construction of organizational crises: (1) the ascribing of crisis attribution through construction and negotiation of meaning; (2) the generation of authority through social actors' actions and interactions; and (3) the debating of organizational misconduct through public interpretation and discussion. Moreover, a synthesis of the findings from the three empirical articles reveals that the politics, or the political dimensions, of crisis have become deeply ingrained —even unavoidable—in the Chinese context and are relevant not only to crises that derive from various political factors, but also for those that originate without political implications. This dissertation suggests the term "politicizing crisis communication" to describe the process through which social actors ascribe political meaning to and/or interpret organizational crises from political viewpoints. Three elements, namely crisis attribution, crisis management, and crisis implication, are discussed to conceptualize the idea of "politicizing crisis communication."This dissertation fleshes out and deepens our understanding of the relevance of political and technological contexts in the shaping of organizational crises by social actors via social media in China. More importantly, by integrating the social constructionist approach, this dissertation advances the context-oriented tradition by scrutinizing the large-scale dynamics of societal contexts in crisis communication.

Social cost is a comparative new conception in economics though it has been undergone wide and thorough studies in social science area. Its related economic analysis is still at its sociological stage. The paper discusses its economic nature: both its social and capital property, evaluates therefore China's "paradox of social science", namely the coexistence of "sound" micro social and "weak" macro social capital at the meantime. It analyzes the advantage and function of government in the productive social capital. Key words: social capital; social property; capital property; micro social capital; macro social capital Résumé: Le coût social est une nouvelle conception comparative dans l'économie, même si elle a été l'objet d'études approfondies dans le domaine des sciences sociales. Ses analyses économiques reste encore à son stade sociologique. Le document traite de sa nature économique: non seulement sa propriété sociale mais aussi sa propriété de capitaux et évalue donc le "paradoxe de la science sociale" de la Chine, à savoir la coexistence d'un micro-capital social "favorable" et un macro-capital social "faible". Il analyse les avantages et les fonctions du gouvernement dans la production du capital social. Mots-clés: le capital social; la propriété sociale; propriété de capitaux; micro capital social; macro capital social 摘 要:社會資本概念在社會學領域已經進行了廣泛和深入的研究,但是在經濟學領域還是一個比較新的概念,當前, 對社會資本的經濟分析還停留在社會學研究的範圍之內。本文分析了社會資本的經濟性質:社會屬性和資本屬性,以這兩個經濟性質為起點從經濟學角度闡述了我國的"社會資本悖論"—"雄厚"的微觀社會資本和"薄弱"的宏觀社會資本同時存在,並論證了政府在生產社會資本中的優勢和作用。 關鍵詞:社會資本; 社會屬性; 資本屬性; 微觀社會資本; 宏觀社會資本

Chapter I: Videolised Society: Profound Insights into the Streaming Audio and Video Revolution -- Part I: Theoretical Explanation -- Chapter 2: Shaping Society—Videolised Society from a Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 3: Analysing Videolised Society from a Media-Centric Perspective—Everything Being a Medium -- Chapter 4: Motivating a Videolised Society—Technological Forces and their Implications -- Chapter 5: Creating a New "Blue Ocean" for the New Economy—Analysing Industrial Patterns in a Videolised Society -- Chapter 6: Creating a New Form of Social Discourse—Videolised Society from a Social Discourse Perspective -- Chapter 7: Videolised Society and New Cultural Ecology—A New Cultural Presence -- Chapter 8: Peering into Society and Life—Videolised Society and the Complex Viewing Psychology -- Chapter 9: No Distance Too Far—The Discourse Mechanism of China's Image Communication in a Videolised Society -- Chapter 10: Viewing Videolised Society from a New Perspective—an Interpretation from the Perspective of Social Criticism -- Part II: Videolised Society in Practice -- Chapter 11: Transforming the Role of Audiovisual Content Producers in a Videolised Society -- Chapter 12: Monetising Content and Building a Community in a Videolised Society - Research on Mainstream Short-form Video Platforms in China -- Chapter 13: Promoting Videos and the Economy—Business Models in a Videolised Society -- Chapter 14: Recording Life in a Videolised Society—Short-form Vlogs and News Videos -- Chapter 15: Entertainment and Art in a Videolised Society -- Chapter 16: Knowledge and Cognition in a Videolised Society -- Chapter 17: Status Quo and the Development of Short-Form, Medium-Form, and Long-Form Video Platforms -- Chapter 18: New Audiovisual Presentation of Mainstream Values—Media Convergence and Transformation Strategies of Mainstream Chinese Media -- Part III: Panoramic Focus -- Chapter 19: Research Overview of Videolised Society -- Chapter 20: Report on the Status Quo and Development of Short-form Video Research in China -- Chapter 21: Research on the Development of Audiovisual Content and Platforms in China's Short-form Video Industry.

This book traces the development of video (especially short video, duan shipin) in China over the past few years, exploring how these videos engaged with China's rapidly changing society, how they enriched existed theories of society, media and communication, and new theories to be extracted. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding the relationship between video, video theory, video industry and the State. This book sheds light on the overall description and explanation of the current socio-political, economic and cultural environment concerning the development of video (especially short video). It interprets the emergence of the "Social Videolization" through the subjects of media psychology, communication studies and cultural criticism, media industrial studies, sociology and anthropology

This book breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization through its focus on Asia and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism.

Dance as a part of human culture gives rise to different forms of dance theatre in the cultural contexts of different countries. And the development of ballet as a dance genre is also inextricably linked to the society, culture and aesthetics of Western countries. During this process, Western ballet has undergone three localizations in China.

Choosing an effective subsidy mode is crucial for promoting the healthy development of the biofuel ethanol industry. After considering the differences in the social welfare effects of different subsidy models, we construct a Stackelberg game model to examine the chain of the fuel ethanol industry consisting of a downstream channel intermediary as the leader and an upstream production enterprise as the follower. We then discuss how the R&D subsidy mode and production subsidy mode affect social welfare, and what kind of subsidy mode should be adopted under different conditions. The study found that different subsidy modes affect corporate profits and consumer surplus by affecting the price and demand of fuel ethanol, which in turn affect the level of social welfare. In addition, the study found that both R&D subsidy mode and production subsidy model are not always efficient. The optimal subsidy mode depends mainly on the R&D difficulty coefficient and the slope of the inverse demand function.