Abstract: This study reviews how Thai and Chinese journalists talk about power and truth in relationship to their Fourth Estate role through examining twenty qualitative interviews. Adding to a previous study similarly looking at US and UK journalists it finds that, like their western counterparts, truth is heavily fetishized, being an ideal that journalists admittedly can never reach. However po...

Abstract: Flaws in the structure of a system are often not evident until there is a crisis. Emergencies, such as disasters or pandemics, lay bare the weaknesses of various structures that people rely on to live a normal life, be it the medical system, politics, or journalism.

This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. This book covers topics ranging from geopolitical relations to regional integration, public health governance and even the evolution of professional practices in the time of COVID-19. It constitutes a precious and timely interdisciplinary reference for anyone aspiring not only to grasp the origins and dynamics of the present challenge, but also to identify future opportunities for further growth and holistic progress for humanity.

Abstract: Hong Kong is ranked as the most expensive housing market in the world and there has been a great outward property investment from Hong Kong to the UK which recently extended Zero Stamp Duties for First time home buyer until June 2021 and Zhuhai which is a city of Great Bay Area which offers free time buyer purchase quota for Hong Kong resident.

Abstract: Hong Kong is the media center for international news organization. There are a high number of foreign news workers sent by the home parent company as the bureau chief of Hong Kong Unit office. Since most locally hired staff have little or no connection with real working culture of the parent company, the bureau chief therefore becomes the agent of parent company to form the psychological contract with local employee...

1. Observing transformation There is nothing unusual about shifting spheres. A shift denotes a variant of change – usually a constant, uninterrupted movement of a certain duration which amounts to a switch, and since everything changes and nothing does not – from rivers to bodies to societies – spheres are of course also affected, even if their determination is somewhat more difficult [1]. However, it can at least be said that a sphere is a space that can be distinguished from other spaces – just as well (or badly) as the state of the object affected by a shift can be distinguished from the state it was in before it shifted. For one thing should be clear: a shift can only be observed if it occurs on something – for example, on a sphere – that remains the same in all of its changes [2].

Prologue At the beginning of the 1970s, the German public was introduced to a debate over the correct contemporary theoretical understanding of society. The circumstances leading up to it make it seem almost entirely coincidental. When Luhmann gave a lecture on the sociology of love in Frankfurt, his apparent coldness with regard to the topic – his professional scientific attitude, in other words – was met with a similarly cold reception amongst the politically engaged students there, as a result of which they asked Habermas for a statement. Habermas, who was Adorno's assistant at the time, invited Luhmann to one of his own seminars, with their discussion eventually culminating in the book Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie (Theory of Society or Social Technology, Habermas and Luhmann, 1971).

Abstract: The current scholarly analysis of pop continues to operate within the framework of a power theory that ascribes the subject of investigation a political function. This text seeks an alternative explanation of the phenomenon by assigning pop its own (exclusive) social function. Pop is understood as a self-substitutive unit, which qualifies it for the status of a function system. The basic structures typical for systems can be demonstrated: function, medium, code, various programmes, the specific communicative operation as well as its reflexive function, and so forth. The present text examines four additional structural elements which Luhmann designates as characteristic of function systems—secondary code, side code, contingency formula and zero methodology—to further refine the concept. Findings: Pop has many features that are characteristic of function systems. It is anything but a sphere of disorder, but has a definite infrastructure.

This book investigates Design with NOR, the title of the yet unpublished 1961 typescript by Spencer Brown. The typescript formed through the author's experiences as technical engineer and developer of a new form of switching algebra for Mullard Equipment Ltd., a British manufacturer of electronic components, and is published here for the first time.

Abstract: This paper is to examine the news bureau chief role as the principal agency of organization to form psychological contract with local employee of Hong Kong-based foreign news bureau. The research fills the gap of current literature which focuses on Hong Kong local news’ company as the team manager does not necessarily become a party for the organization to form psychological contract with because staff can have day to day contact with the company. This research conducts 10 staff working for foreign news agency with less than 10 total employee and their line manager is the only agent contact with the parent company.