Popular Books Research Articles

Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories

Whistleblowers have been instrumental in revealing the massive investments in state-sponsored and corporate digital surveillance and disinformation. Their personal accounts of what went on behind the scenes are usually presented in popular books marketed as offering insider stories. By interrogating the recapitulations of veteran data consultants, our article is interested in the way in which whistleblowers configure their role and place themselves in the context of their story in terms of agency and accountability. We examine and compare three recollections: Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record, Christopher Wylie’s Mindf*ck, and Brittany Kaiser’s Targeted. Our analysis shows how these high-profile memoirs offer a look that is both intimate and distant. They at once promise to get close to and even behind what has escaped public scrutiny and in return try to dissociate themselves from their former trade. Their position of privileged precarity, which results from the casualization of digital labor, allows these data consultants to quickly become insiders while staying uncomfortable with many of the taken-for-granted ideological convictions and organizational orders. Rationalizing their involvement as disoriented diligence affords the whistleblowers the capacity to craft a story of enchantment, delusion, and subsequent awakening. Both their experiences and their position enable these disenthralled renegades to style themselves as honest moral arbiters in service of the public interest and brokers of exclusive knowledge.

Writing the People's Science: One Hundred Thousand Whys and the Politics of Science Popularization in China, 1931–1975

Abstract: This article focuses on One Hundred Thousand Whys ( Shiwan ge weishenme ), modern China's single most popular book series for science dissemination. A translation of a 1929 work from the Soviet Union, it took on new life throughout China's eventful twentieth century. Challenging the prevalent understanding that antisuperstition was the most important goal of science dissemination in Mao-era China, I illustrate how science dissemination in the 1960s aimed to spark readers' interest in natural sciences and prepare them to contribute to national construction. I argue that, during the Cultural Revolution, when political propaganda was bluntly integrated into science dissemination materials, these materials remained consistent with previous editions and continued to serve as reliable references for readers seeking scientific knowledge.

조선·근대시기 연하장의 종류와 설날 인사 풍속연구

This paper studied the New Year's card(年賀狀, Yeonhajang), one of the representative customs of Lunar New Year. The New Year's card is a writing expression of New Year's blessings in accordance with a certain style, and it is a culture that contains the linguistic thinking of Koreans who consider the language itself to have divine power. The hajeon(賀箋) presented to the king from Jeongjo Harye(正朝賀禮) during the Joseon Dynasty can also be said to be a New Year's card of this era. First, how to write a hajeon is written in the order of (1)a story about nature and the season, (2)a content that praises the king, and (3)a concluding word that celebrates the new year. Documents posted by officials or low-ranking people to their superiors show a similar structure. In addition, sending a New Year's card appears to be a major annual event in the execution of public affairs. Next, the document life style and Lunar New Year holiday customs, which became common in the late Joseon Dynasty, were also dealt with lightly. In addition, the relatively common New Year's greeting customs, Seham(歲銜)and Munanbi (問安婢) were reviewed.
 The documents containing New Year's greetings in the next modern period focused on a collection of letters and practical book. In these popular books, it was confirmed that the pre-modern method continued to affect moderntimes. However, through the scope of sending and receiving letters, the expanded social network could be identified, and there were parts that could capture fragmentary but new changes in the times. The Lunar New Year custom that attracts attention in the modern period is the appearance of “Yeonhajang”. With the introduction of the postal system, the custom of sending greeting cards begins to revitalize. In addition, the New Year's greeting “謹賀新年(Happy New Year)” is also a new term that emerges in modern times. 謹賀新年 a short phrase used in Japanese 年賀狀, later flowed into Joseon and began to become popular as a phrase representing New Year's celebrations.

AR을 활용한 어린이 그림책 디자인 특성에 관한 연구 - 최근 5년간 출간된 인기 도서를 중심으로 -

AR을 활용한 어린이 그림책 디자인 특성에 관한 연구 - 최근 5년간 출간된 인기 도서를 중심으로 -

VALIDITAS DAN KEPRAKTISAN BUKU ILMIAH POPULER LIMBAH AIR KELAPA TUA SEBAGAI ZPT ALAMI PERTUMBUHAN SAWI (Brassica juncea L.)

Popular scientific books are included in the learning resources. Popular scientific books are types of knowledge books whose discussion is based on research results. This book has a simple, short, and clear language arrangement to make it easier for all people to understand. This study aims to describe the validity and practicality of popular scientific books of old coconut water waste as a natural growth regulator for mustard green (Brassica juncea L.) growth. This research uses the type of EDR (Educational Design Research) research with Tessmer's formative evaluation design which is limited in several stages, namely self-evaluation, expert review, and one-to-one evaluation. This study used validity and practicality instruments. The results showed that the validity of popular scientific books was declared very valid with a value of 85.80%. Meanwhile, for the practicality of popular scientific books, it obtained a score of 88.33% with an excellent category.

A homiletika oktatás kezdetei a pesti teológián, Székács József kéziratainak tükrében

The Beginning of Homiletics Education at the Theology in Pest, in the Light of the Manuscripts of József Székács. The Faculty of Theology in Pest opened its doors in 1855. The institution cooperated with the Lutheran Church in the first ten years. During this time, future Lutheran Bishop József Székács led the studies of homiletics. This data can be found in the Ráday Archives with the list of professors and popular study books they used. We also discovered the fact from the timetables that Székács taught homiletics practice to four different grades at the same time, usually at his parish. We can find Székács’s heritage in the National Lutheran Archives, such as his letters, notes, sermons, and so on. I carried out research on his homiletics manuscripts, from which I would like to highlight his memo titled A gyakorlati homiletika alapja 1858/9 [The Journal of Practical Homiletics 1858/9]. The memo includes recommendations for his students about preaching preparations for Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter. Székács’s work is particularly pragmatic, and therefore it successfully guides the pastor students through the steps of preparing a good sermon. Keywords: József Székács, Pál Török, Reformed homiletics, history of preaching, teaching of homiletics

Геннадій Сележинський — колектор, таксидерміст і популяризатор природничих знань

An essay about one of the most prominent taxidermists of the Kyiv zoological world of the second half of the twentieth century and a highly productive collector of mammals. The researcher worked in the zoological museums of the Academy of Sciences and Kyiv University. In 1960–1970, he collected almost 300 specimens of 36 mammal species from different regions of Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Far East, including materials from the Carpathians, Lankaran, Kopetdag, Issyk-Kul, Kugytang, and the Kuril Islands. The scientist paid considerable attention to science popularisation and published four popular science books, two of which had two editions in different languages, and their total circulation was 213 thousand copies.

В.А. ОБРУЧЕВ – ЖИЗНЬ, ПОСВЯЩЕННАЯ НАУКЕ

The article is dedicated to the outstanding scientist, one of the founders of modern geology Vladimir Obruchev. A detailed biography of the scientist is accompanied by a list of the main directions of his activity, including the new scientific directions created by him. The great importance of Obruchev’s popular science books and his science fiction novels was especially noted. The article uses materials from the Obruchev family archive and various publications.

Deprojectification of agile: The new orthodoxy of long-term product teams

Abstract Agile management thinking has influenced organisations in several ways, but the focus of this paper is on the deprojectification of agile software development. The new agile orthodoxy has been promoted by popular books, in blogs and by Spotify and other firms: agile teams should be aligned to products or domains (not projects); cover development, maintenance and operations (to reduce handover problems); and have a long-term character (to build trust, identity and domain knowledge). We first describe and contextualise the new agile orthodoxy and then, based on an empirical study of two different “agile cases,” we describe and analyse how employees and middle managers perceived the rationale behind the change to long-term teams, how they understood teams as the basic unit of the structure, their perceptions of the resource and disciplinary dimensions of the organisation and the decline of projects and project managers.

Friedrich Schleiermachers Monologen und der Athenaeums-Kreis Wirkungsabsicht und Wirkungswandel einer frühromantischen Schrift

Abstract Schleiermacher’s anonymous Soliloquies of 1800 were written as a Supplement to his likewise anonymous book On Religion, Speeches to its Cultured Despisers of 1799. They are addressed to the circle of intellectuals around the early Romantic periodical Athenaeum, to the „Holy family“ (Friedrich Schlegel), and moreover to the despisers of Transcendental philosophy whose state of discussion is reflected. Thus they belong to the history of modern individual thought. The form of the book follows the contemporary imitation of classical poetic form (Hölderlin) which was prevalent among the Athenaeum Circle as well. Schleiermacher discusses the separation of philosophy and life (Fichte), the forming one’s self and the forming of artistic works (Goethe), i. e. the dichotomy of individuality and artistry. He confesses himself not to be an artist. Schleiermacher’s intention in Soliloquies was to give philosophical idealism a personal depth beyond intellectual speculation. Looking back in 1803 he realizes, in the draft of a poem, that he had idealized his empirical self in his literary self. Except for a few remarks by Schlegel, who at first did not umask the author‘s anonymity, there was no reaction whatever from the Athenaeum Circle. Soliloquies later became a popular Protestant book for spiritual edification.

Are popular books about diet and health written based on scientific evidence? A comparison of citations between the USA and Japan.

To describe and compare the references cited in popular books about diet and health between the USA and Japan. Books were selected based on their best-seller rankings in the diet and health category of online bookstores. We identified references throughout all pages of the books and examined the number of references, reference format (identifiable or not) and presence of specific types of references, such as systematic reviews of human research. We compared the characteristics of references between the two countries and examined related factors to citation. Cross-sectional study. Books (n 100 in each country). Among 100 books from each country, sixty-five US and sixty-six Japanese books had references. Forty-five US books cited more than 100 references, against only five Japanese books. The number of books that cited systematic reviews of human research differed between the USA (n 49) and Japan (n 9). Additionally, the number of books that provided identifiable information for all references was significantly higher in the USA (n 63) than in Japan (n 42). Books whose first authors have licences of medical doctors were more likely to cite references than those without in both countries. Two-thirds of books about diet and health cited references in both the USA and Japan, but Japanese books cited fewer references and were less likely to cite systematic reviews and provide identifiable references than US books. Further research into the scientific reliability of information in books about diet and health is warranted.

On the reliability of historic books as sources of reference samples of early synthetic dyes – The case of “The Coal Tar Colours of the Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius & Brüning, Höchst on the Main, Germany – A General Part” (1896)

The swatches present in the popular book “The Coal Tar Colours of the Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, Höchst on the Main, Germany – A General Part”, published in 1896, were analysed by high performance liquid chromatography coupled to diode array detector and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-DAD-MS/MS) with the aim to identify the synthetic dyes and reveal the correspondences and discrepancies between the information reported in the labels and the actual chemical composition of the samples.The research resulted in guidelines to be followed to connect commercial dye names with Colour Index (C.I.) constitution numbers and produced a molecular database of more than 250 molecules, whose high-resolution mass spectrometric details are reported here for the first time in some cases. Out of 120 samples analysed, ca. 40% did not exactly correspond to the expected dye(s) according to the labels, thus raising awareness of the challenges related to the reliability of historic sources of reference materials and the need to study the composition of these historic samples before using them for chemical research purposes. Furthermore, molecular databases of synthetic dyes are fundamental for the correct identification of these materials in historic textiles, objects and works of art. Thus, the results of this research are extremely useful to all researchers studying dyed objects produced from the second half of the 19th century onwards.

Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948

This article examines nuclear imaginaries in the Arabic-speaking Middle East. It situates people from the Arab world into nuclear thought, looking at how the atomic age rapidly became part of everyday lives. Embracing the idea that reality and fiction are not only deeply intertwined but also co-constitutive, it analyses everyday engagements with the nuclear condition in the aftermath of the bombing of Japan, across a wide range of sources. The article argues that these semi-fictional historical sources—memoirs, pseudo-scientific predictions, speculative reports published in newspapers, popular science books and even rumours—capture an affective moment at the beginning of the atomic age, which was marked by hysteria, widespread speculation and exaggeration. Discussions on nuclear weapons, precisely because the extent of their destruction seems unimaginable, blur the boundaries between ‘real’ and ‘fictional’, offering a unique opportunity to reflect on stories of world politics and on the tensions within historical International Relations.

THE USE OF GOOGLE TRENDS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

Using authentic materials, such as books, videos, news, and podcasts has received increasing attention in English classes in the last two decades. Among others, Google Trends serves as a platform to choose authentic materials based on their popularity on a global scale. It has been displaying huge data about the most popular news, people, events, books, movies, and songs since 2004. To this aim, 40 Foundation English students who studied at a private university in Erbil, Iraq, were chosen through a simple random sampling method for the 2022-2023 Academic Year. Control group students kept their education according to the principles of the pre-defined curriculum, while experimental group students made a presentation about a trending topic on Google, prepared a listening quiz, and ran a speaking session. The data, collected by exams and surveys, were analyzed by SPSS 26 and NVivo application, revealing that Google Trends enriched teaching mode, increased students' listening scores and enhanced speaking performance significantly in the experimental group, whereas no noticeable progress was observed in the control group. Likewise, students’ motivation towards learning English increased significantly in the experimental group, while it was less than noticeable in the control group. The findings of this study can have some implications for educators who consider integrating Google Trends into the curriculum to present authentic materials. Keywords: authentic materials, Google Trends, listening scores, enhanced speaking performance

The effectiveness of developing popular scientific books on Anacardiaceae to improve students’ critical thinking skills

The development of innovative local potential-based teaching materials in the Ethnobotany course of the Anacardiaceae family, which has not been fully implemented, causes student boredom while studying. It is necessary to develop popular scientific books (PSB) to help students understand learning material and significantly improve students' critical thinking skills. This development research aims to describe the expected and actual effectiveness of PSBs developed to enhance students' critical thinking skills. The research method used Tessmer's formative evaluation design. Research results on the effectiveness of expectations get an average value of 72.7%, and actual effectiveness is 77.35%. The average value of N-gain is 0.5, which is included in the medium criteria. The conclusion from the research results shows that the PSB on Ethnobotany of the Anacardiaceae family that was developed is effective in improving students' critical thinking skills so that students in Ethnobotany courses can use it. In general, the benefit of the results of this research is that development products based on local potential can be developed according to the needs of teaching materials and by the principles of critical thinking skills for students.Abstrak Pengembangan bahan ajar berbasis potensi lokal yang inovatif pada mata kuliah Etnobotani famili Anacardiaceae yang belum sepenuhnya dilakukan menyebabkan kejenuhan mahasiswa saat belajar. Perlu dikembangkan buku ilmiah populer (BIP) untuk membantu mahasiswa memahami materi pembelajaran sekaligus salah satu upaya dalam meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Penelitian pengembangan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan keefektifan harapan dan aktual dari pengembangan BIP untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Metode penelitian menggunakan desain evaluasi formatif Tessmer. Hasil penelitian pada keefektifan harapan memperoleh nilai rata-rata 72,7% dan keefektifan aktual memperoleh nilai rata-rata 77,35%%. Nilai rata-rata N-gain sebesar 0,5 yang termasuk ke dalam kriteria sedang. Kesimpulan dari hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa BIP Etnobotani famili Anacardiaceae yang dikembangkan efektif untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa sehingga dapat digunakan mahasiswa pada matakuliah Etnobotani. Secara umum, manfaat dari hasil penelitian ini adalah produk pengembangan berbasis potensi lokal dapat dikembangkan sesuai dengan kebutuhan bahan ajar dan sesuai dengan kaidah keterampilan berpikir kritis untuk mahasiswa.

„Złotodajna” makulatura. Na marginesie badań nad polskimi wydaniami modlitewnika Hortulus animae

“Golden” Wastepaper. On the Margins of Research on Polish Editions of the Hortulus animae Prayer Book Research on binding wastepaper has a long tradition in Poland, dating back to the 1820s, and the result is the discovery of fragments of many valuable manuscripts and prints. This article is devoted to the discoveries made, among others, by Władysław Nehring, Kazimierz Piekarski and Anna Lewicka-Kamińska, the fruit of which were previously unknown editions of the popular prayer book Hortulus animae, found and preserved only in the fragments they discovered. The most groundbreaking was Nehring’s find, thanks to which eight pages of the first Polish edition of Hortulus were published, but the importance of the remaining ones cannot be overestimated. It is noteworthy that out of eleven (certain and highly probable) editions, dating back to the first half of the 16th c., as many as six are known only thanks to single sheets extracted from their bindings.

Effectiveness of popular scientific books on Fabaceae plant in KHDTK ULM to improve critical thinking skill

Local potential can be used as a learning resource to preserve community knowledge in using specific plants and instil a sense of love in students for the potential in their area. Learning resources like Popular Scientific Books (PSB) based on local potential can train students' critical thinking skills. The research aims to describe the effectiveness of the PSB Fabaceae ethnobotany in Forest Areas with Special Purposes (KHDTK) ULM training students' critical thinking skills. The research method uses the Educational Design Research (EDR) model through Tessmer's formative evaluation. The development stages include a small group of 5 students and a field test of 20 Biology Education undergraduate students who have passed the Ethnobotany course one year. Students' critical thinking skills are improved through working on practicum guides and evaluation questions, which contain aspects of critical thinking skills. The research results of students' critical thinking skills are in the medium category, with an average N-Gain of 0.5. Based on these results, it can be concluded that BIP effectively improves students' critical thinking skills. Students who have critical thinking skills are expected to be able to improve the quality of human resources, especially in the field of education.Abstrak Potensi lokal dapat dijadikan sumber belajar untuk melestarikan pengetahuan masyarakat dalam pemanfaatan tumbuhan tertentu dan menanamkan rasa cinta mahasiswa terhadap potensi di daerahnya sendiri. Sumber belajar berupa Buku Ilmiah Populer (BIP) berbasis potensi lokal dapat melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Tujuan penelitian untuk mendeskripsikan keefektifan BIP etnobotani Fabaceae di Kawasan Hutan dengan Tujuan Khusus (KHDTK) ULM dalam melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Metode penelitian menggunakan model Educational Desain Research (EDR) melalui evaluasi formatif Tessmer. Tahapan pengembangan meliputi kelompok kecil 5 mahasiswa dan uji lapangan 20 mahasiswa S1 Pendidikan Biologi yang telah lulus mata kuliah Etnobotani. Keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa ditingkatkan melalui pengerjaan penuntun praktikum dan soal evaluasi yang memuat aspek keterampilan berpikir kritis. Hasil penelitian keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa berkategori sedang dengan rata-rata N-Gain 0,5. Berdasarkan hasil tersebut dapat disimpulkan BIP efektif dalam meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Mahasiswa yang memiliki keterampilan berpikir kritis diharapkan mampu untuk meningkatkan kualitas sumber daya manusia khususnya di bidang pendidikan.

Effectiveness of popular scientific books “Ethnopharmacology of the Balinese community in Barambai Kolam Kanan Village” to train students’ critical thinking skill

Students need to be trained in critical thinking by developing teaching materials based on local potential, one of which is popular scientific books (PSB) that support the application of knowledge and critical thinking skills in understanding the surrounding environment. This research aims to test the effectiveness of PSB based on local potential regarding the ethnopharmacology of the Balinese community in Barambai Kolam Kanan Village in training students' critical thinking skills. This study is research into the development of formative evaluation based on the Tessmer design which focuses on students' critical thinking skills using a rubric of five indicators including interpretation, assumptions, deduction, argument evaluation, and inference. The effectiveness test subjects involved 5 students (expected effectiveness) and 20 students (actual effectiveness). The research results are based on the hope effectiveness test (small group) of the developed PSB with an average value of 64.0. Meanwhile, the actual effectiveness test (field test) obtained an average score of 73.7, increasing to 89.1. So the average N-gain value is 0.6 which is in the medium category. This illustrates that BIP based on local potential has been effectively implemented in learning to improve critical thinking skills.AbstrakBerpikir kritis mahasiswa perlu dilatih dengan mengembangkan bahar ajar berbasis potensi lokal salah satunya buku ilmiah populer yang mendukung penerapan pengetahuan serta keterampilan berpikir kritis dalam pemahaman lingkungan sekitar. Penelitian ini bertujuan menguji keefektivan BIP berbasis potensi lokal tentang Etnofarmakologi masyarakat Bali di Desa Barambai Kolam Kanan dalam melatih keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Kajian ini adalah penelitian pengembangan evaluasi formatif berdasarkan desain Tessmer yang berfokus pada keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa dengan menggunakan rubrik lima indikator meliputi interpretasi, asumsi, deduksi, evaluasi argumen, dan inferensi. Subjek uji keefektivan melibatkan 5 orang mahasiswa (keefektivan harapan) dan 20 orang mahasiswa (keefektivan aktual). Hasil penelitian berdasarkan uji keefektivan harapan (small group) terhadap BIP yang dikembangkan dengan nilai rata-rata 64,0. Sedangkan uji keefektivan aktual (field test) mendapatkan nilai rata-rata 73,7 meningkat menjadi 89,1. Maka nila rata-rata N-gain sebesar 0,6 yang berada pada kategori sedang. Hal tersebut menggambarkan BIP berbasis potensi lokal telah efektif dilaksanakan dalam pembelajaran dalam meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis.

Constructing the Infant Body: The Intervention of the Educated, Male Physician in Eighteenth-Century Infant Diet

Drawing on medical advice literature, this paper examines the cultural history of the body in infancy in eighteenth-century England. This period saw the increasing professionalization of the medical field, particularly regarding children’s health, as an emerging profession of educated, male physicians sought to establish their exclusive authority on the medical market. As England’s medical market of the time was largely unregulated, these educated physicians competed with apothecaries, midwives, and female nurses for paying customers. Physicians argued that the disorderly, undisciplined nature of the infant body was incongruent with Enlightenment virtues, and therefore required a greater degree of medical management. Emerging out of this discourse were popular advice books which emphasized preventative measures in already-healthy infant patients. They were authored by a growing profession of educated, medical experts and were addressed to a lay audience of parents and child caretakers. This paper examines three immensely popular pamphlets authored by three physicians, Thomas Beddoes, George Armstrong, and William Cadogan. All three emphasized in their tracts the importance of maternal breastfeeding to the infant diet, citing Enlightenment ideals, humoral theory, and even the supernatural elements of breastmilk to support this claim. To bring the child body firmly under the control of the medical establishment, they argued that uneducated, lay practitioners, who were overwhelmingly female, received no formal education in the sciences and thus possessed little understanding of the nuances and complexities specific to the infant body. Parents were also incapable and deficient, at least to some degree, in the formal knowledge necessary to prevent illness in their infant children, and thus should rely on the physician’s expertise regarding the care of the infant body.

Evaluation of the effect of internet-based dietary self-management on blood pressure in high-risk population of hypertension in Haikou City community

To explore the effect of Internet+diet self-management intervention technology on the blood pressure control of hypertension high-risk population through the intervention of hypertension high-risk population in Haikou City community, so as to provide scientific evidence for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The multi-stage cluster sampling method was used, and 295 hypertension high-risk participants were recruited from 15 communities in Haikou City from July to December 2021. The 15 communities were randomly divided into three groups: blank group, traditional group and Internet plus group by random number table method. The blank group referred to the group (99 participants) that did not take special intervention measures but the routine interventions in accordance with the "National Basic Public Health Service Standards (the Third Edition) Health Education Service Standards". On the basis of the blank group, the traditional group (95 participants) was intervened by giving additional traditional methods such as holding lectures and distributing popular science books. The Internet plus group (101 participants) was given additional Internet measures on the basis of the intervention of the traditional group. After 6 months, questionnaires, laboratory biochemical tests, and physical measurements were conducted. SPSS 25.0 software was applied for data analysis. Measurement data that followed normal distribution were statistically described by using mean±standard deviation, analysis of variance was used for inter group comparisons before intervention, analysis of covariance was used for inter group comparisons after intervention, and Bonferroni adjustment was used for pairwise comparisons between groups. Measurement data that did not follow the Normal distribution were represented by M (Q1, Q3). The rank sum test was used for inter group comparison. The k sample Kruskal Wallis single factor ANOVA was used to compare the distribution between different groups. Counting data were described by composition ratio or rate. Under the premise of balanced comparison between groups before intervention, Chi-squared test was used for inter group comparison after intervention, and Bonferroni adjustment method was used for pairwise comparison between groups. The results showed that a total of 295 participants were included, with males accounting for 35.6% (105) and females accounting for 64.4% (190). The age ranged from 55 to 74 years old, with an average age of (64.69±5.73) years. The number of married accounted for 95.6% (282 participants). There were no statistically significant differences in gender, age, family history, education level, occupation, marital status, drinking habits, regular exercise, dietary status, SBP (systolic blood pressure), DBP (diastolic blood pressure), pulse pressure difference, BMI (body mass index), folic acid, and 24-hour urine sodium among the three groups upon enrollment (P values>0.05). After the intervention, the drinking rate was as follows: Internet plus group (29, 28.7%)<traditional group (47, 49.5%)<blank group (66, 66.7%) (χ2=28.948, P<0.001); Regular exercise rate was higher in the Internet plus group (37, 36.6%) than in the traditional group (18, 18.9%) and the blank group (16, 16.2%) (χ2=13.476, P=0.001). After the intervention, compared with the participants in the blank group, the intake of energy, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, sodium and folic acid in the Internet plus group were significantly different (all P<0.05); Compared with the participants in the traditional group, the energy, carbohydrate and dietary fiber intake of the participants in the Internet plus group were significantly different (all P<0.05). After the intervention, the blood pressure levels in the Internet plus group [ SBP: (128.95±6.55) mmHg, DBP: (79.88±5.75) mmHg ] and the traditional group [ SBP: (129.63±8.41) mmHg, DBP: (79.77±7.73) mmHg ] were lower than those in the blank group [ SBP: (132.93±8.41) mmHg, DBP: (82.42±7.76) mmHg ] (SBP: F=9.417, P<0.001; DBP: F=6.967, P=0.001), the 24-hour urinary sodium level in the Internet plus group (143.63±38.58) mmol/24 h was lower than that in the traditional group (163.31±35.67) mmol/24 h and the blank group (154.14±35.52) mmol/24 h (F=11.509, P<0.001). In conclusion, compared with the traditional intervention mode, the "Internet plus diet self-management intervention" mode is more likely to promote the development of a healthy lifestyle for people at high risk of hypertension, effectively improve blood pressure and 24-hour urine sodium level, and facilitate CVD prevention.