Text-image de-contextualization, which uses inconsistent image-text pairs, is an emerging form of misinformation and drawing increasing attention due to the great threat to information authenticity. With real content ...
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(纸本)9781665405409
Text-image de-contextualization, which uses inconsistent image-text pairs, is an emerging form of misinformation and drawing increasing attention due to the great threat to information authenticity. With real content but semantic mismatch in multiple modalities, the detection of de-contextualization is a challenging problem in media forensics. Inspired by the recent advances in vision-language models with powerful relationship learning between images and texts, we leverage the vision-language models to the media de-contextualizationdetection task. Two popular models, namely CLIP and VinVL, are evaluated and compared on several news and social media datasets to show their performance in detecting image-text inconsistency in de-contextualization. We also summarize interesting observations and shed lights to the use of vision-language models in de-contextualizationdetection.
In the quest for change, management at times introduces vague management concepts in organizations. The use of such a concept instigates translation journeys, which may end in affecting an organizations competitive ad...
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(纸本)9789897583827
In the quest for change, management at times introduces vague management concepts in organizations. The use of such a concept instigates translation journeys, which may end in affecting an organizations competitive advantage. While performance outcomes of change are pertinent, it is the journey towards change that is emphasized here based on translation theory. This study explores the intra-organizational journey of the vague concept "knowledge platform" within a business school. The empirical data originates from 102 written documents dating from 2009 to 2018 produced by faculty and departmental levels. The data coding reveals six distinct subseries which together depicts how the knowledge platform passes through phases of de-contextualization and contextualization as it travels iteratively between the source and recipient contexts.
In this article, the construction of political journalism is analysed from the perspective of microanalysis. Four published studies are reviewed, based on two specific journalistic contexts: broadcast political interv...
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In this article, the construction of political journalism is analysed from the perspective of microanalysis. Four published studies are reviewed, based on two specific journalistic contexts: broadcast political interviews (Bull, 2003;Bull and Elliott, 1998;Elliott and Bull, 1996), and news bulletins (Bull et al., 2014). In addition, a further illustrative example is presented, based on a previously unpublished analysis of a television interview with the current British Prime Minister (PM), Theresa May. In the study of the television news, editing techniques of de-contextualization and re-contextualization are identified and discussed in the context of interpretive journalism. All the analyses of interviews are focused specifically on how equivocal responses by politicians occur in response to interviewer questions, which create communicative conflicts through threats to face. From this perspective, equivocal and evasive discourse in political interviews needs to be understood in the broader context of questioning techniques as utilised by political journalists, not simply ascribed to the intrinsic slipperiness of individual politicians. Hence, these studies are of particular relevance to one of the main themes of this special issue, to "journalistic ways of contesting and reclaiming representations of facts". Crown Copyright (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of Zhuang shamanic narrative songs at three festivals to explore how and why a narrative song genre that originated with Zhuang shamans is separated from...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of Zhuang shamanic narrative songs at three festivals to explore how and why a narrative song genre that originated with Zhuang shamans is separated from shamanic ritual contexts and re-contextualized at festivals under the cultural policies instigated by the People's Republic of China in the post-socialist era. design/methodology/approach The research is based on a review of publications on Zhuang performance art and fieldwork data collected in southwestern Guangxi, China. Findings The de-construction of Zhuang shamanic narrative song melodies dates back to the late nineteenth century, when southwestern Guangxi literati used the melodies to compose popular songs. By the 1950s, the religious elements of these narrative songs had already been obfuscated, leading Chinese scholars to select them as representative of Zhuang performance arts. Since the enactment of China's Intangible Culture Heritage (ICH) Law in the early twenty-first century, local Zhuang elites have re-constructed and re-introduced shamanic elements to narrative songs as they are performed at festivals as a means to further highlight the ethnic characteristics of the Zhuang people. Originality/value The paper provides detailed documentation of three cases of the restoration of shamanic elements to narrative songs sung by the Zhuang people. However, the research is limited to one community, inviting comparison with other cases, both inside and outside China, of how ICH policies impact grass-roots cultural practices.
The centurial study in ancient Chinese literary theory has gained certain achievements, which is embodied in the reorganization of materials, the construction of subject, and the establishment of system. However, some...
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The centurial study in ancient Chinese literary theory has gained certain achievements, which is embodied in the reorganization of materials, the construction of subject, and the establishment of system. However, some problems, including literary aphasia, objectified objectivism and de-contextualization, have revealed during our rethinking of Westernization, scientism and systematism, showing that we have been trapped by Western-centralism, scientism and post-colonialism. Faced with the demand from modem knowledge pattern of de-sinicization, de-contextualization and de-subjectification, we propose reconstruction strategies of re-sinicization and re-pragmatism in order to provide theoretical conception of rebuilding modem system for ancient literary theory study.
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to reveal how the meanings of the current national curriculum reform in China changed in its transmission from the outside authoritative mandate to the local school practice thro...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to reveal how the meanings of the current national curriculum reform in China changed in its transmission from the outside authoritative mandate to the local school practice through a case study of a lesson study on a reform practice called the "thematic teaching" in the Chinese language course. design/methodology/approach - By a longitudinal study of the case for more than two months in a primary school in Beijing, China, the authors of this paper followed all the steps of the lesson study cycle conducted by all the Chinese language teachers in the school. Observations, interviews and document analysis were employed to capture the teachers' thoughts, actions and especially group interactions in trying to understand and implement this new reform practice. Findings - The study found that due to the marked differences between the professional reform discourse and the teachers' native discourse, the meanings of the reform tended to look alien to school teachers. In order to make meanings out of the reform, the teachers in this lesson study resorted to their own native discourse to understand the reform. Such strategies as "de-contextualization" and "re-contextualization" were found in the teachers' joint efforts to reconstruct and reenact the reform. Originality/value - This research points to the importance of school teachers' own belief system in teaching as revealed by their native discourse. Only by finding an adequate link between the outside reform discourse and the teachers' native discourse, can the national curriculum reform truly take hold in the school.
We classify survey scales or measures currently used in Chinese management research along two dimensions – the source of the scale and expectations about its cultural specificity. Based on these two dimensions, we di...
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