Graphic novel is a composite narrative medium in which words and images work together to construct meaning. It has both visual literariness and visual artistry. Its core lies in generating reading experience different from pure text narrative through the interaction of "discourse" and "image". Based on this, this paper takesOf Mice and Men and Hereas research objects, and analyzes the formal organization and style presentation mechanisms of the two works in graphic narrative construction from two dimensions: narrative form and visual style. The study finds thatOf Mice and Menmainly takes character relationships and event progression as the main narrative line, and strengthens the emotional tension and atmosphere expression of literary narrative through scene scheduling, picture rhythm and visual style.Hereforms a narrative mode dominated by spatial structure and visual organization through time superposition, page segmentation and visual repetition in a fixed space. Thus, narrative form and visual style in graphic novels are not separate levels, but an expression system that works together around the core narrative concept of the work. They cooperate with each other to construct a graphic narrative mechanism centered on story experience and reading perception, and form their own unique aesthetic experience. The study on the relationship between narrative form and visual style of graphic novels helps to further understand the narrative strategies and visual expression logic of graphic novels.

How Social Media Reshapes Historical Knowledge: Changes in the Spread, Value and Public Debate of History Online. Based on previous studies in media memory, public history, algorithmic amplification, and online misinformation, this paper will present four qualitative case studies of recent online historical debates: the Blair-Brown relationship within New Labour, the use of the Iraq War as a reference point for discussions on American interventionism and Venezuela, debates over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in response to Donald Trump's criticisms of the alliance, and Holocaust denial on digital platforms. Not all social media use needs to be reflected in school activities. Its impact is relatively small; it is a personalisation of institutional history, a mobilisation of the past for political purposes, a method of correcting problems through historical knowledge, and it also shows the gap between what scholars believe and what the public believes. Therefore, this paper will not ask whether social media are good or bad sources for history. On the other hand, social media is also providing different circumstances for learning about history and assessing it. Source criticism, contextual comparison and evidentiary discipline need to be learned by young children to grasp history in the digital age.

This study interrogates how Chinese American women city supervisors discursively construct ethnic and gendered identities through their Facebook political communication. Drawing on a sociocultural linguistic approach to identity, the study conducts a discursive analysis of 370 posts published by two supervisors on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors between November 2024 and January 2026, aiming to elucidate the mechanisms through which discursive narratives fashion identity and what sociocultural factors make them possible. Two correlated political identities are coded: the context-sensitive ethnic navigator, who strategically shifts among Chinese-specific, pan-ethnic, and ethnically neutral registers depending on issue context, and the care-oriented female leader, who constructs governance legitimacy predominantly through covert care discourse, supplemented at particular symbolic moments by overt celebration of female role models. To account for the amalgamation of these two identities, this study proposes an overarching identity assemblage—the compassionate guardian—that transforms ethnic visibility work and gendered governance into a distinctive form of political authority, sustained through Facebook's media affordances. The findings illuminate how Chinese American women negotiate the intersecting constraints of racialized and gendered political expectations at the local level, advancing scholarship on minority women's political communication in municipal politics.

This essay critically compares articulation-based and perception-based approaches to sound change. Articulation-based accounts explain sound change primarily through production pressures such as coarticulation, reduction, assimilation, lenition, and gestural timing, offering strong explanations for gradual and phonetically natural changes. In contrast, perception-based accounts emphasise the role of listener interpretation, normalisation, cue weighting, and reanalysis, making them especially useful for explaining changes such as dissimilation and perceptual misattribution. This essay evaluates the strengths and limitations of both perspectives in terms of explanatory scope, evidence, directionality, actuation, and diffusion. It argues that neither approach alone can fully explain the emergence, selection, and stabilisation of sound change. While production pressures often provide the phonetic source and direction of many gradual changes, perception-based mechanisms are essential for understanding listener reanalysis and certain non-reductive developments. The essay, therefore, supports an interactionist position: sound change is best explained through a type- and stage-sensitive model that integrates articulation, perception, lexical diffusion, and wider social and systemic factors.

The rejuvenation of time-honored brands faces dual challenges of upholding tradition and pursuing innovation. Taking Beijing Daoxiangcun Zero Store as an example, this paper constructs an analytical framework covering four dimensions: brand cultural inheritance, brand fun richness, in-store service and creative activities, based on brand authenticity and customer experience management theories. Empirical tests are conducted using factor analysis and regression analysis with 314 questionnaire data samples. The results show that all four dimensions have a significantly positive impact on purchase intention. The study reveals the synergistic mechanism of original authenticity and constructed authenticity management for time-honored brands, as well as the practical path of customer experience management, providing theoretical support and practical reference for their digital transformation.

One of the common problems faced by modern states is how to effectively build a connection mechanism between the government and the people. As a practical model of "pairing governance" with distinctive Chinese characteristics, it is increasingly playing an important role in promoting rural revitalization and development. In the process of implementing pairing policies and completing pairing tasks, the "pairing governance" behaviors of village-resident cadres show a logical shift from departmental and territorial pairing at the normative level to personalized pairing at the practical level. The practical manifestations of this shift include localized social relations, daily life interactions, and family-like assistance actions. Its personalized operation is closely related to the choice of the strategic action mechanism of "bureaucracy as the foundation, emotion as the instrument".

The Interaction between human psychology and behavior has become increasingly complex in the digital age, with the development of technology as in digital platforms, social media and algorithmic systems. Individuals constantly interact with actions such as clicking, scrolling, and deeper more deeply into the media itself, posting and responding to notifications. These behaviors are not only simple physical responses, but are also influenced by psychological processing, including cognition, emotion, and deep, intense motivation. This essay speaks and focuses on the major relationship between the interaction of psychology and behavior. And through analysis of mechanism, cognitive processing and emotional influence, this paper tells how interaction between psychology and behavior is linked and bidirectional, Further on, discusses ethical concerns and algorithmic calculation, digital addiction and what the responsibility that the designers are supposed to have. Understanding the relationship between psychological processes and how the digital platform functions is necessary for creating and developing a healthier environment and more responsible design platform.

Sleep disorders have become a global health issue, and a large number of insomniacs try to use digital media for sensory compensation to help them sleep. However, there may be risks inherent in such behaviors and a contradiction between their actual effects and their intended purpose. This study focuses on the use of digital media to help insomniacs sleep and aims to explore the 'sensory compensation paradox', i.e., the use of digital media aimed at compensating for sensory disturbances and facilitating sleep, but instead leads to risky alienation. The study adopts a mixed research method. Data on media use and sleep status of the insomnia groups were collected through questionnaires. At the same time, text mining and sentiment analysis were conducted on the massive user comments of sleep-help videos on social media platforms to gain an in-depth understanding of users' behavioral patterns and subjective experiences. The study found a significant paradoxical effect: the more frequently insomniacs used and relied on digital media to help them sleep, the worse their sensory health and sleep problems became. There is an interaction between insomnia symptoms and media dependence, with those who experience both being more likely to suffer from the side effects of media-induced sleep. Research reveals the potential risks of digitally mediated sleep aids, warning of the need to rationalize their effects and seek healthier ways to improve sleep.

In recent years, despite the achievements made in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, there remains a certain gap in development among regions. Tongzhou District of Beijing and the Three Northern Counties of Langfang City are geographically adjacent, with the expectation and foundation for coordinated development. Taking the two places as a pilot demonstration area can accumulate experience for promoting Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development. Polycentric governance theory emphasizes cooperative governance by multiple subjects, attempts to break the traditional pattern of government power, and forms a governance network with multiple power centers. Based on this theory, this study analyzes the current mechanism obstacles, including strong administrative color in resource allocation, low participation of market subjects, absence of social organization intervention, and weak public participation awareness. It also proposes innovative paths under the guidance of polycentric governance theory: giving full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, avoiding homogeneous competition through overall regional functional positioning and staggered urban functional development, attaching importance to and leveraging the role of market and social forces, and ensuring the stability and continuity of policy implementation.

The Chinese subjective de-intensifying construction "méi nàme/zhème X" has spawned an intensifying construction "méi zhème/nàme X (fǎn)" in new media. Based on 210 online corpora, this paper examines the formation motivation, interpretation mechanism and communication constraints of this construction within the frameworks of Construction Grammar and Interactional Linguistics. The study finds that this construction achieves polarity reversal through irony rhetoric, and is endowed with pragmatic motivation for intensifying interpretation by superimposing the opinion identification mechanism of online communities. The interpretation of this construction first eliminates low-information ambiguity based on conversational implicature, then establishes scalar reference using metaphors/hyperboles in the antecedent, and finally realizes intensifying evaluation through polarity reversal and comparison. The spread of this construction faces three constraints: cognitive load, media dependence and community binding. The research shows that this construction embodies a typical path of new media linguistic innovation: starting from community pragmatic innovation, emerging through interaction, and forming a relatively stable construction function in communication.