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A list of publications received for the May 1, 2013 issue of "Contemporary Sociology" is presented, including "Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age," by C. W. Anderson, "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life," by Adam Phillips and "Becoming Intimately Mobile," by Paul Bialski.

There is a growing acknowledgment by segments of the global population that it is becoming extremely difficult to ignore the negative production externalities of industrial processes. In this regard, the related concept of "sustainability" has been gaining traction, with use of the word rising considerably since the 1990s. The term itself has been defined in many different ways, however, the core components are becoming common knowledge: economic, environmental, and social--informally referred to as profits, planet, and people. As Borden has aptly noted: "Sustainability ideas are growing and maturing at many levels worldwide". One way that people come to know about sustainable development and its importance is through media coverage of the movement via various projects and initiatives that have been proposed on a theoretical or conceptual basis, as well as those models which have already been concretely realized. One such project established in 2015 is Dubai's "Sustainable City', the emirate's first net-zero energy working model, which received attention in the world press. This paper investigates and compares the coverage that the Sustainable City has received in the global and local media by utilizing a content analysis methodology guided by framing theory. The research joins the discussion on issues regarding how the media discuss aspects of "sustainability" and how it takes hold within a society, whether it be by grassroots or government policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the period June 1955 to May 1956, 779 pages of editorial matter were published. Of this total 460 pages were of articles, 207 pages were book reviews and book notes, 61 pages were official reports and news, and the remainder 51 pages were miscellaneous. In the indicated period 288 papers were received and 72 published. As was the case for the two years preceding, about one article was published for every four received. The average time between the receipt of an article and final action upon it was approximately seven weeks. Once again the constructively critical work led to the successful revision of a number of papers that might otherwise have proved unavailable for publication. The average interval between the acceptance of a paper and its publication was approximately five months, with a range of three to nine months. As mentioned above, official reports and news used 61 pages, or 8 per cent of the total editorial matter. The Editor renews his recommendation to the Society that these functions be discharged by the establishing of a new journal devoted to items of professional in distinction to scientific importance.

The article presents a call for paper on the special issue of "Production and Operations Management" on marketing and operations management. The special issue seeks to publish a set of research papers that examines the coordination between demand planning and supply planning when firms operate under new and innovative marketing mechanism. Topics should include supply chain management under new innovative market mechanism, new and innovative pricing mechanisms enabled by Internet, and impact of personalized marketing mixed variables on operations planning.

Social media posts made by ordinary people are in most cases only viewed by a small number of friends and contacts. But some posts get thousands of likes, comments, and shares, a phenomenon often dubbed as going viral. This paper provides a content analysis of viral Facebook posts published by common people in Norway, and of the news coverage they received. The social media posts that go viral in Norway deal with a variety of topics, like health care, elderly care, bullying, traffic safety, unemployment, animal welfare, school, and education. Some of the viral posts were open job applications, and some were creative expressions. Many of the posts address political issues, and becomes part of the public debate. The posts are personal in their mode of address, often with an emotional appeal for civic engagement. They resemble the letters to the editor, though they bypass the editor and go directly to online self-publication, and in this way, moving parts of the public debate from the newspapers to social media. Most of the viral posts got news coverage, which in most cases focused more on the popularity cues and the virality of the post, and less on the topic the post addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investor Relations (IR) has gained prominence globally and is now considered to be a major contributor to corporate value. For companies to thrive in the global environment, they need to build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with their primary stakeholder, the stockholder. Consequently, scholars have argued that for IR to maximize its benefit to companies, the profession needs to shift from one-way asymmetrical communication to two-way symmetrical communication with stockholders. Although scholars have recommended this shift, there is a paucity of studies that have explored whether two-way symmetrical communication has been embraced in IR practice. Using the two-way symmetrical model of communication as its framework, and a qualitative methodology consisting of in depth interviews, documents analysis, and qualitative content analysis, this paper assessed how Investor Relations professionals in South Africa use communication to maintain relationships with stockholders. The findings of the study show that most IR professionals in South Africa are using what we term a bridged approach, consisting of one-way and two-way symmetrical communication, to maintain relationships with stockholders. Evidence gleaned from the study further indicates that the nature of communication between IR practitioners and stockholders has broadened beyond financial issues to include engagement on non-financial issues. These findings do not only show the existence of a paradigm shift in IR practice in South Africa, they also suggest the need by IR as a field to maintain constant dialogue with Public Relations theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author offers suggestions for writers to improve their write ups and improve chances of getting published in the periodical. Topics include subject matter of the manuscript which should explore the influence of business on society, maintaining quality standards, and to develop the subject matter of the manuscripts well as as to avoid rejection.

Fake news and its repercussions are now a global concern, especially in the wake of the recent incidents that have shook the credibility of media, be it regional, national or global. Media is now a web of propagandas and there are more views then news. Three stories (Myanmar coup, Dimapur Lynching, and Grenfell Tower fire) were taken as case study to understand the morphology of fake news. These news stories have been representative of the news globally, nationally as well as regionally but nevertheless bearing a powerful impact in the news scenario. All the stories have one thing in common primarily designed to suit agenda setting and framing theory, to suit the agendas of political interest as well as cultivate ideas in the minds of the people. Deducing from the analysis, the paper suggests media filtering for restoring credibility, accountability and authenticity of journalism. The paper also framed onion layer trapping that could be a plausible source of fake news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on an increase in the inclusion of world news in college newspapers. The front page of the papers are loaded with news from across the globe leaving no space to include the news of college and campus affairs. According to Fred L. Kildow, director of the Associated Collegiate Press, and professor in the journalism department of the University of Minnesota, students are more concerned about the world outside than the issues on government, politics, war, and labor.

This paper develops a chronology of milestones in mass media ethics from inception to contemporary times, demonstrating that media ethics has been on the decline throughout mass media's history. As a response to the continual decline of ethics in the mass media, this paper proposes a model for restoring ethics to the mass media. The model has four corner stones: (i) journalism and mass communication curricular revision, (ii) student entry placement, (iii) revised training for future journalists, and (iv) journalistic de-collectivization, a term used by this author to describe the act of shielding a journalist from the impact of corporate culture in the newsroom. Essential theoretical frameworks guiding the model include Kohlberg's moral development theory and Patterson and Wilkins's ethical news values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on his struggles for writing a review of a textbook of pharmacology authored by a popular pharmacologist. He is saddened with the reality of many editors' works rejected due to a hint of controversy and are labeled as out of scope for their journal. He cites examples of many notable editors in the past who were fired for editorial independence and sacked for doing what they believed was true.

The article focuses on the important details on "Production And Operations Management" that was published in the November-December 2007 issue. It discusses the editorial mission which is to serve as a flagship research journal. It notes that the information for contributors that manuscript should be submitted electronically to the editor-in-chief in a pdf file. It reflects on the editorial policies which include managerial relevance, originality and substantial contribution, rigor, and readability. Furthermore, it focuses on the copyright and subscription services by the society.

The article offers information about the "Production and Operations Management" journal. Accordingly, the mission of the journal is to serve as the flagship research journal in operations management in manufacturing and services. It publishes scientific research into the problems, interests and concerns of industrial managers, and covers all topics related to production management. For those interested in submitting manuscripts, the management of the journal requires that they must not exceed 30 pages, including all references, tables, graphs and appendices, and 11-point font with 1-inch margins on all four sides. They will likewise be accepted basing on the criteria which include managerial relevance, originality, and substantial contribution, rigor, and readability.

The article reports on the proposal of Columbia University journalism professor Allen Sinclair Will to form an Alliance of American newspapers and schools of journalism through a national organization. Will pointed out the need of a closer contact between newspapers and schools of journalism and the cited the need of an organization that should serve in the journalistic field like the American Medical Association.

The author reflects on the work of American presses. According to the author, the well-disciplined reporters and correspondents seek diligently, and sometimes at great personal risk, to obtain the salient facts about what is going on in every corner of the earth. He emphasizes that they have the freedom of speech and are devoted to discovering and broadcasting the unvarnished facts.

This article reports that all the editions of "The New Brunswick Daily Home News" were designed and published by junior and senior students of the Rutgers University Department of Journalism. This was stated by head of the department, Kenneth E. Olson.

Grounded theory is a qualitative research method widely used in social sciences. Using content analysis and CiteSpace visualization software and taking journal articles of China National Knowledge Infrastructure database from 2004 to 2017 as the analysis objects, this paper comprehensively explores the studies using grounded theory in the field of journalism and communication in the Chinese mainland. It shows that the application of grounded theory in the field of journalism and communication had a relatively late start in the Chinese mainland. However, interdisciplinary research obviously prevailed. Researches using grounded theory are not widespread, while the theory has not been fully localized. Financial support from the government has been a great help to researchers, but the researchers outside the academic circles hardly get involved in academic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media codes of ethics comprise principles of ethics and good practice. Though media codes may vary from country to country, the global media and communication profession is guided by principles that share many common values for the simple reason that many social and individual values are universal. In the journalism profession, as an example, ethical practice would almost always revolve around universal values like accuracy, honesty, truth, objectivity and freedom. Though the Malaysian media adopt and practise many international principles, media practitioners have also to take cognizance of the socio-political sensitivities and sensibilities that shape and influence the workings and contents of the media. Qualitative interviews with media practitioners provide insights into how values and principles, both local and international, either go in tandem or clash and impact on media practices. This paper also studies the practicality and applicability of media codes in the face of rapidly-changing media values, contents and technology. The media occasionally violate ethical boundaries; however these are sometimes not perceived as digressions by media practitioners as media values and roles undergo a facelift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of the market has produced a differentiation inside the Chinese press between an ‘official’ press with traditional propaganda functions on behalf of the Communist Party and a ‘commercial’ press whose objective is to maximise revenue. Scholarly opinion has differed over whether marketization undermines Party control and whether new forms of journalism have arisen that lead to conflicts. These discussions have rested on little evidence as to the practises of Chinese journalism. This article presents empirical data on the extent of the differentiation, reporting on a content analysis of the national news in People’s Daily and Southern Metropolitan Daily. These titles are popularly believed to represent the polar opposites of official, orthodox journalism and commercial, liberal journalism. The evidence presented here demonstrates that while there are indeed significant differences in the journalism of the two titles, there remains a substantial overlap in their choice of subjects, their use of sources and the degree to which news is presented ‘objectively’. Southern Metropolitan Daily does display some ‘popular’ features and does contain more ‘watchdog’ journalism, but it shares with its official cousin an emphasis upon the party as the source for news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the introduction of the Internet, online news sites are encouraging ordinary people to discuss and address their issues. Employing critical discourse analysis approach, this paper analyses the discursive representation of news articles published on tsheringtobgay.com. A critical discourse analysis of articles published on the site reveals that Bhutanese news issues are discussed through two main discursive constructions: the discursive construction of Bhutanese culture and moral responsibility, and the discursive construction of national politics. Within these two constructions, five major techniques are identified by which news discourses are constructed. The analysis concludes that articles published on the sampled site describe the Bhutanese people as being responsible and generous and encourage readers to enhance their mutual understanding, promoting peaceful coexistence in society. However, the news articles are critical of politicians and sceptic about government plans and programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article compares Swedish social workers, teachers, and journalists' experiences of workplace violence. It addresses similarities and differences between the three professional groups in terms of who exposed them to workplace violence, what it was about, and what triggered it. The article is based on an online survey study, and the findings suggest that consumer-related violence from target groups was the most common among all three professional groups. Looking at worker-on-worker relationship violence, the teachers were the most exposed, followed by social workers and journalists, and such violence suggests bullying in the workplace. Most respondents stated that the hate, threats, and harassment were about their professional competence. While all of these professional groups have a position of power in society, they also perceive that it is often in the situations in which they exercise their power (e.g., making a decision for social workers and teachers or when journalists publish) that they become targets for workplace violence. Plain Language Summary: Powerful and vulnerable: Workplace violence against Swedish social workers, teachers, and journalists This article compares Swedish social workers, teachers, and journalists' experiences of workplace violence. It addresses similarities and differences between the three professional groups in terms of who exposed them to workplace violence, what it was about, and what triggered it. The article is based on an online survey study. It was most common with workplace violence from target groups such as clients for social workers, pupils for teachers and readers/viewers for journalists. Most respondents stated that the hate, threats, and harassment were about their professional competence. While all of these professional groups have a position of power in society, they also perceive that it is often in the situations in which they exercise their power (e.g., making a decision for social workers and teachers or when journalists publish) that they become targets for workplace violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The information-sharing practices within alternative health social media groups makes them important spaces for analyzing and understanding the factors shaping the online spread of alternative health and health science (mis)information. Through interviews and observation of participants in alternative health groups on both Facebook and Reddit, we explore how people use health science information from government, health, and news sources, alternative health information from social media groups, and their own personal experiences and concerns to define informational (dis)trustworthiness. We identify factors that lead participants to (dis)trust health science information and explore how members assess the (dis)trustworthiness of health science information using an alternative epistemology. This alternative epistemology, or "their science," demonstrates a trust in science unless or until it contradicts members' experiences, beliefs, contextual concerns, or their own "research" practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on his previous service as editor-in-chief to identify the challenges facing "Organization Studies" (OSS) in the future. He suggests that a distributed editorial structure requires a significant amount of coordination to work properly, claiming that he achieve it partly through issuing a guidelines and templates for editorial letters. He also aims to draw editors' attention to certain issues and leave them room to decide how they wanted to write their letters.

The article focuses on the autobiography of Gerald Shaw, a reporter, correspondent, a worker for foreign papers and a political columnist and associate editor. According to the author, Shaw's autobiography which is entitled "Believe in Miracles" offers a telling picture of the trials and distress of a liberal newspaperman. He stated that Shaw's political commentary could be laced with more bite and that he never goes out on a limb and carries strong opinions along the liberal consensus which is his weakness and strength. Moreover, he stated that the unassuming Gerald Shaw in the modest portrayal of his life tend to be a model on how journalists can inform and educate with exemplary professionalism and integrity.

This paper examines the divergence and impact of Chilean news media and their uses of Facebook as a tool to deliver news and information and engagement with their audience. It also looks at the emergenceof new digital media organizations during the last decade in Chile as a response to a concentrated duopoly market in the country. To do so, this paper considers notions of technological and cultural innovation in the newsroom and the concept of media convergence form a technological point of view to explain the current situation of media and journalists' habit us. Following Pavlik's idea that "journalism has always been shaped by technology" (2000, p. 229), this article discusses that both new and old media had been influenced by the current state of the technology, and today they have to standardize their practices in order to maintain a fluent communication between the audiences and the news industry. Therefore, this article supposes that the convergence of digital practicesdoes not only affect journalism as a profession, but also present a challenge to transform the way journalism is practice and the way news worker do their jobs. A case study of Chilean media organizations is used to illustrate the change in the relationship between news and their public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this digital age of online news, objective journalism is increasingly treated as unnecessary, if not obsolete. In the liberal West, news portals can offer different views to counter the political economic status quo proffered by traditional hyper-commercial corporate media. In more authoritarian Asian countries like Malaysia, "alternative" news portals are assumed to provide opposition political parties with favourable coverage to balance whatever bias the traditional, mainstream print and electronic media might have displayed towards the ruling political party. As a result, Malaysia's ruling political party, including many from the critical mass, has claimed that Malaysia's "mainstream" and "alternative" media, collectively, have attained the democratic principle of offering diverse, balanced and fair news coverage. This has strengthened the view that there is no need for objective journalism-as in providing fair and balanced news coverage. To what extent then are Malaysia's "mainstream" print media biased towards the ruling political party and to what extent Malaysia's "alternative" news portals biased towards the opposition party? Has the digital age finally rendered objective journalism obsolete, at least in Malaysia? These are key questions examined in a study that content analysed the coverage of Malaysia's general elections in 2013 performed by three "mainstream" newspapers and three "alternative" news portals based in Malaysia. The results show that even though partisan journalism continues to dominate, especially the "mainstream" newspapers, objective journalism is far from being abandoned. It is rendered unnecessary only by being politicized by the ruling political regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the challenges facing sustainable journalism practices in the post-truth era through interviews conducted with journalists in Northern Cyprus. Based on the perspectives of professionals in the field, the aim is to understand current issues related to the feasibility of ethical and sustainable journalism. The study indicates that challenges specific to the media field, compounded by the post-truth effect, relegate sustainable journalism practices to the sidelines. In this context, essential measures for the enduring success of media organizations include strategies like diversifying revenue sources, embracing digital subscription models, investigating alternative business models, enforcing transparent editorial policies, and actively involving readers. The study also reveals the effects of financial difficulties such as low salaries, limited budgets, and financial constraints on the professional practices of journalists through interviews. Furthermore, through interviews, it elucidates how technological changes, the rise of digital media, and the rapid dissemination of news affect journalists' information control processes and knowledge management strategies. Finally, while contributing to our understanding of how journalists in Northern Cyprus confront challenges in the post-truth era, this study presents the factors that may have a negative impact on sustainable journalism practices through an example and offers insights into common problems that may be encountered in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the factors influencing Vietnamese journalists' adoption of Artificial Intelligence in journalism. Drawing on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework, it hypothesizes that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, behavioral intention, trust, regulatory support, and technology affinity and incorporating additional trust, regulatory support, and technology affinity have significant impacts on journalists' adoption of technology. Questionnaires were administered to 238 journalists in the context of the Vietnamese press. The findings showed the significant impact of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, behavioral intention, trust, regulatory support, and technology affinity on journalists' adoption of AI in journalism. These results expand the UTAUT framework and offer a more comprehensive understanding of technology adoption in journalism. Practically, the study provides valuable insights for practitioners and policymakers in the journalism industry. Understanding the determinants of journalists' adoption can inform the development of targeted interventions, training programs, and regulatory frameworks to facilitate the integration of AI technologies into journalistic practices. However, the study has limitations, and future research should replicate the findings in diverse cultural and organizational contexts while considering additional moderating factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Journalism, the'first draft of history' (i.e. Barth, 1943, p. 667), often drafts a history of tragedy and violence - 'the oldest kinds of stories' (Coté & Simpson, 2000, p. 3). Through out history, war and story telling are intractably linked: 'Because of the far-reaching effects of war, we want to know as much about it as possible. For that ' we turn to media' (Copeland, 2005, p. xvii). However, because war'has no equivalent in a settled, civil society' (Walzer, 1977, p. 127), historians and journalists alike perennially struggle to find a framework suitable for investigating and reporting it. In much of the ongoing public discourse surrounding war - as well as its coverage 'arguments on both issues often resonate with the philosophy of utilitarianism. More than 150 years after its publication, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism continues to exert a perennial influence in philosophical musings on both war and journalism. Utilitarian arguments appear especially in discussions of just war theory (JWT), a consequentialist tradition that demands that wars must be justifiable in why they start, how they are fought, and how they end. Most recently, William H. Shaw (2011) synthesized disparate elements of debate into what he called a new utilitarian war principle (UWP) for considering recourse to war. Increasingly, war coverage focuses more on the experience of those fighting and less on why and how they fight. In 2004, The New York Times published an unprecedented apology for failing to do enough of the latter in its coverage leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq the previous year. Reviewing Mill's Utilitarianism, and building on recent Millian scholarship, this paper reacts to this confessed failure by proposing a more utilitarian model for how journalists might more comprehensively cover the wars we wage - especially when terror is a tactic, and the media itself risks complicity in amplifying the effect of the action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Public Relations Committee came into being in 1938 as a service agency of the organization American Sociological Society. It was organized to interpret to the press the articles read before the thirty-third annual convention. Thirty-nine articles were received in advance, carefully read and analyzed from a press viewpoint as well as from the standpoint of the society's public relations problems, and converted into a form that would be readily assimilable by the press. The committee's activities have also embraced widespread advance publicity for the convention, including notes in the local newspapers of participants in the convention telling of their role, and above all the making of special arrangements with science editors for newspapers and newsgathering agencies through correspondence and personal contacts. As a result of its efforts, the committee believes that useful strides have been made towards establishing the society's annual convention as a source for scientific news. The volume of editorials, feature stories, news articles, and radio comments a year ago and the interest exhibited this year by newspaper people suggests that constructive interpretation can be done through the press in this highly controversial professional field.

In Malaysia, media bias has always been a hot debated issue. The ruling Barisan Nasional coalition often portrays itself as an advocate of press freedom while the masses often feel otherwise as media organisations are either directly or indirectly owned by component parties of the Barisan Nasional. Readers therefore commonly accuse these organisations of practising media control although the latter often maintains that they are free from external factors or from governmental control. Till date, researches about media biasness have only studied the effects of media biasness on corporate reputations but not about the factors associated to such biasness and are often done within Western contexts. This paper fills these gaps by examining the links between the personal interest of a journalist and their level of compliance with the National Union of Journalists’ Code of Conduct, audience pressure, political interests, and the biasness of business news reporting in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last leg of the Eelam war that ended in May 2009 and its aftermath were widely covered by the mainstream media across the globe. As ‘Eelam’ is an issue close to the heart of the Tamils, especially those in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the researchers ventured to perform a content analysis of editorials and columns published in the Tamil daily ‘Dinamani’ from January 2009 to January 2011 to find out whether the newspaper reflected Tamil sentiments. While investigating how Dinamani handled the end of the LTTE regime, the study revealed that the editorials and columns exposed violations of human rights by the Sri Lankan government and its armed forces. This study also found that the paper was highly critical of the role played by the Indian and Tamil Nadu governments during and after the war. In its opinion, the two governments were inefficient and unsatisfactory, with regard to dealing with the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Arab spring of 2011, the Indian Civil Society campaign for Lokpal 2012, and the ongoing campaign for capital punishment to the Delhi gang rape accused, are among a thousands of events, worldwide, which have demonstrated the power of new media in galvanising the masses for a cause. The advent of high speed communication channels like broadband, optical fiber, and Web 2.0 services coupled with the ubiquitous multitasking devices like smart phones and other handhelds available in multitudes of forms have tremendously increased the scale of messages output and sharing. The pull of modern technology, push of business, and most importantly the search for new ways to satisfy the self expression needs and ambitions of the new generation have made the domain of new media grow beyond expectation. The technology savvy new generations, have learnt to explore constantly expanding opportunities for communication and self expression presented by the Internet and the Web. The interactive nature of the new media technologies have significantly altered the dynamics of journalism in the cyber space to an extent of blurring the distinction between producers and consumers of messages and transformed them into pro-sumers. This paper analyses the impacts of new media technology on professional journalism and the responses of the old media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The increased presence of Chinese media in Africa has been a topic of much debate in recent years, and has given rise to a burgeoning research area. Seen as a platform upon which China can exert its ‘soft power’ in Africa as part of its outward-looking international relations policy, Chinese media has been considered instrumental in portraying a more positive picture of China among African audiences, partly in an attempt to support the expansion of Chinese economic activities on the continent. Critics have however questioned the influence that Chinese media practices may have on journalistic value systems and press freedom on the continent. These criticisms assume that Chinese media may have a big impact on African media, although the empirical basis for such claims have often been lacking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The account presented here is based on the fieldwork collected for a doctorate which comprised a case study of a journalism school for postagraduate journalism students. The research, on occupational socialisation, which was primarily carried out by participant observation took place over one academic year (1984/85) and followed a cohort of students through their training at the school. This paper Looks at the re-socialising function of the first term at journalism school, which because of the demands it makes upon the time and commitment of students is presented as a `Greedy Institution'. During their first term students are expected to discard their lay perspectives on journalism, and also the academic style which characterises their undergraduate education, in favour of the school's version of occupational practice. The paper also takes issue with the ways in which the researcher must fit in with the day-to-day requirements of practice demanded by the school and how, in many ways, her academic and research interests are incompatible with the task of re-socialisation which staff at the journalism school set out to achieve. The paper highlights how greedy institutions may have particular implications for the participant observer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces developments undertaken by the "Business & Society" journal which operates with multiple associate editors and expands editorial board from around the globe. The author expressses deep appreciation for the important work undertaken by the associate editors and the editorial board members. He mentions that the journal will publish interesting dissertation abtsracts on occasion and encourages doctoral students to contact the editor concerning suitability of a particular dissertation.

Editorial. Comments on the efforts required to maintain the efficiency of operations and quality of articles of the "Journal of Health and Social Behavior" publication. Recognition of the contributions of the associate editors and the members of the Boyd Printing Company; Plan to continue the policy of viewing subject matters broadly; Aim to solicit papers dealing with social welfare and health; Focus on articles that emphasize matters on social policy; Acceptance of suggestions and criticisms from readers.

This article presents a notice to potential contributors of Industrial & Labor Relations Review. Members of the editorial board are concerned that many scholars believe the journal welcomes only papers on labor economics or collective bargaining and then only if they are laden with quantitative analysis. The editorial board would like to assure potential contributors that it welcomes papers from all the specialties in its field. They realize that some authors prefer to publish in the journals of their discipline, but the members of the editorial board believe that others are not submitting papers to the Review because they assume the Review is not interested in their subject.

Social media have become a very important news platform, both for the presentation and consumption of news by social media users. News is therefore eagerly shared by news media on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in the hope of reaching as many news consumers as possible. In this highly competitive media landscape, news media aim to attract consumer attention to these news stories by incorporating the social media logic into their reporting. In this study, we focus specifically on the conversion and accompanying adaptations of news originating from online news sites to the Facebook page of a news medium, with a focus on the (re)formulation of the headline that functions as an important element in both online news articles and Facebook posts. Based on computational analysis, we compare the headlines of news items on the news outlet's website to the headlines published on Facebook and link these with the user engagement metrics (N = 10,579). The findings revealed that the routine of rewriting or adapting headlines on Facebook in contemporary journalism is rather common and that this rewriting is done with an eye toward injecting elements that better align with the social media logic, consequently magnifying its impact on engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the author's expression of appreciation to the previous editor, Ross Stolzenberg, for all his efforts, especially for the final issue, the publication for which he presided over. Stolzenberg and managing editor, Ray Weathers, made the transition of the editorial office very smooth. The hectic first few months of the new editorship are also described and appreciation is extended to those who were patient with the inexperience of the new editorial staff. The author also extends an appreciation to individuals who did an outstanding job in helping to produce this issue of "Sociological Methodology."

The article presents the mission on the production of the journal. The author relates that the journal is to serve as the flagship research journal in operations management in manufacturing and services. The author added that the journal publishes scientific research into the problems, interests, and concerns of managers who manage product and process design, operations, and supply chains. Lastly, the author explains that it covers all topics in product and process design, operations, and supply chain management and welcomes papers using any research paradigm.

A paradox of contemporary sociology is that the discipline has largely abandoned the empirical study of journalistic organizations and news institutions at the moment when the media has gained visibility in political, economic, and cultural spheres; when other academic fields have embraced the study of media and society; and when leading sociological theorists have broken from the disciplinary cannon to argue that the media are key actors in modern life. This article examines the point of journalistic production in one major news organization and shows how reporters and editors manage constraints of time, space, and market pressure under regimes of convergence news making. It considers the implications of these conditions for the particular forms of intellectual and cultural labor that journalists produce, drawing connections between the political economy of the journalistic field, the organizational structure of multimedia firms, new communications technologies, and the qualities of content created by media workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a newsletter on International migration. The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) organized the 1984 joint sessions of workshops from April 13-18 and was hosted by the University of Salzburg, Australia. The Research Committee on Migration of the International Sociological Association will organize its next inter-congress meeting on "International Migration in the Contemporary Economic Crisis" in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June 1985. Professors, students, independent scholars, community professionals and others interested in Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino issues a!e invited to submit proposals to present papers or organize panels for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Illinois Conference of Latin Americanists (ICLAS) which will focus on migration to, from and within Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting will take place at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Thursday-Saturday, November 15-17, 1984. The results of the French enquiry on the regularization of illegals in France in 1981-1982 have been published in the "Bulletin Mansuel des Statistiques due Travail (special issue: Immigration clandestine)."