16 research outputs found
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021
This open access book is the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)âs 28th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER21@yourplace virtual conference January 19â22, 2021. This book advances the current knowledge base of information and communication technologies and tourism in the areas of social media and sharing economy, technology including AI-driven technologies, research related to destination management and innovations, COVID-19 repercussions, and others. Readers will find a wealth of state-of-the-art insights, ideas, and case studies on how information and communication technologies can be applied in travel and tourism as we encounter new opportunities and challenges in an unpredictable world
Linguistic and cultural oppositions in discourse about Thailand
The thesis investigates the rhetorical construction of textual oppositions in the representation of Thailand in a post-colonial context. It falls within the field of linguistic oppositions pioneered by Jeffries (2014) and Davies (2008, 2010 and 2013). It concurrently offers a means of examination of tourism-related promotional discourse related to Thailand as particularised in Lonelyplanet.com and Stickmanbangkok.com. The thesis also takes into consideration and examines critically, personal views on Thai-Western relationships submitted by contributors to the Readers' Submissions section in Stickmanbangkok.com.
At the micro-level, this study is a qualitative analysis of the linguistic oppositions. These linguistic oppositions are examined using lexical and syntactic triggers. These triggers detect both external and internal oppositions. The external oppositions are those that pertain to the Us/ Them relationship between Thailand and its Other, namely tourists from the West or other origins. The internal oppositions are related to differences among Thai communities. The textual oppositions are conceptualised and subsequently investigated by comparing them to macro-level oppositions identified to establish the extent to which the textual oppositions detected in this study conforms to the pre-existing cultural oppositions.
The significant findings show that, at the micro-level, the external oppositions could be conceptualised broadly into the domains of FAMILIARITY, DEVELOPMENT, and DEGENERACY. At the macro level, the finding reveals conformity of the textual oppositions to the six stereotypes of Orientalism (Said 2003, McLeod 2012): namely, the association of Thailand and Thai people with the concept of being UNDEVELOPED as opposed to the civilised Other. These categories are also applicable to the internal representation of classes within Thailand. For instance, the Isan people are represented as 'the Other within' due to their cultural disparities from the rest of the Thais. Nevertheless, to the Western writers, the people of Isan, as well as the prostitutes, appear to represent the authenticity of the country.
Ultimately, the investigation of linguistic oppositions shows that the writers in both websites write about Thailand in a way that conforms to the discourse of Orientalism (2003), namely in the recurring application of DEVELOPED/ UNDEVELOPED in the representation of space and relationships. However, permanent discourses are also challenged. For instance, when used in gradable forms in which the opposite pairs share some similarities, Thailand and its other are not entirely different after all. Therefore, to a certain degree, the writers both contribute to and challenge Said's Orientalist discourse (2003)
CURATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH LIBRARIES
Libraries, museums and archives hold valuable collections in a variety of media, presenting a vast
body of knowledge rooted in the history of human civilisation. These form the repository of the
wisdom of great works by thinkers of past and the present. The holdings of these institutions are
priceless heritage of the mankind as they preserve documents, ideas, and the oral and written
records. To value the cultural heritage and to care for it as a treasure bequeathed to us by our
ancestors is the major responsibility of libraries. The past records constitute a natural resource
and are indispensable to the present generation as well as to the generations to come. Libraries
preserve the documentary heritage resources for which they are primarily responsible. Any loss of
such materials is simply irreplaceable. Therefore, preserving this intellectual, cultural heritage
becomes not only the academic commitment but also the moral responsibility of the
librarians/information scientists, who are in charge of these repositories.
The high quality of the papers and the discussion represent the thinking and experience of experts
in their particular fields. The contributed papers also relate to the methodology used in libraries
in Asia to provide access to manuscripts and cultural heritage. The volume discusses best practices
in Knowledge preservation and how to collaborate and preserve the culture. The book also deals with
manuscript and archives issues in the digital era.
The approach of this book is concise, comprehensively, covering all major aspects of preservation
and conservation through libraries. The readership of the book is not just limited to library and
information science professionals, but also for those involved in conservation, preservation,
restoration or other related disciplines. The book will be useful for librarians, archivists and
conservators.
We thank the Sunan Kalijaga University, Special Libraries Association- Asian Chapter for their
trust and their constant support, all the contributors for their submissions, the members of the Local
and International Committee for their reviewing effort for making this publication possible
Transforming Culture in the Digital Age International Conference in Tartu 14-16 April 2010
A short history of cultural participation by Nico Carpentier
Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled People by Marcus Weisen
Understanding Visitorsâ Experiences with Multimedia Guides in Cultural Spaces by Kamal Othman, Helen Petrie & Christopher Power
Can you be friends with an art museum? Rethinking the art museum through Facebook by Lea Schick & Katrine DamkjĂŚr
On Scientific Mentality in Cultural Memory by Raffaele Mascella & Paolo Lattanzio
Paranoid, not an Android: Dystopic and Utopic Expressions in Playful Interaction with Technology and everyday surroundings by Maaike de Jong
Theorizing Web 2.0: including local to become universal by Selva Ersoz Karakulakoglu
How Web 3.0 combines User-Generated and Machine-Generated Content by Stijn Bannier & Chris Vleugels
Artificial Culture as a Metaphor and Tool by Kurmo Konsa
Playful Public Connectivity by Anne Kaun
Habermasian Online Debate of a Rational Critical Nature: Transforming
Political Culture. A case study of the âFor Honesty in Politics!â message group Latvia, 2007 by Ingus BÄrziĹĹĄ
Transformation of Cultural Preferences in Estonia by Maarja LĂľhmus & Anu Masso
Taste 2.0. Social Network Site as Cultural Practice by Antonio Di Stefano
Online Communication A New Battlefield for Forming Elite Culture in China by Nanyi Bi
Internet, blogs and Social Networks for Independent and Personal Learning of Information Theory and Other Subjects in Journalism, Advertising and Media by Graciela Padilla & Eva Aladro
The Artist and Digital Self-presentation: a Reshuffle of Authority? by Joke Beyl
Communicative Image Construction in Online Social Networks. New Identity Opportunities in the Digital Age by Bernadette Kneidinger
Digital Identity: The Private and Public Paradox by Stacey M. Koosel
Mystory in Myspace Rhetoric of Memory in New Median by Petra AczĂŠl
Life Publishing on the internet â a playful field of life-telling by Sari Ăstman
From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. Digital Textuality and the Change of Cultural Landscape by Raine Koskimaa
The âOpenâ Ideology of Digital Culture by Robert Wilkie
Digital Poetry and/in the Poetics of the Automatic by Juri Joensuu
Re: appearing and Disappearing Classics. Case Study on Poetics of Two Digital Rewritings by a Finnish Poet by Marko Niemi, Kristian Blomberg
Cybertextuality meets transtextuality by Markku Eskelinen
Metafictionality and deterritorilization of the literary in the hypertexts by Anna Wendorff
The Public Sphere of Poetry and the Art of Publishing by Risto Niemi-Pynttäri
Solitude in Cyberspace by Piret Viires & Virve Sarapik
Reprogramming Systems Aesthetics: A Strategic Historiography by Edward A. Shanken
Stepping towards the immaterial: Digital technology revolutionizing art by Christina Grammatikopoulou
Creativity in Surveillance Environment: Jill Magid and the Integrated Circuit by Amy Christmas
Audience Interaction in the Cinema: An Evolving Experience by Chris Hales
Delay and non-materiality in telecommunication art by Raivo Kelomees
Robot: Ritual Oracle and Fetish by Thomas Riccio
Digital art and childrenâs formal and informal practices: Exploring curiosities and challenging assumptions by Steven Naylor
Locative Media and Augmented Reality: Bridges and Borders between Real and Virtual Spaces by Marisa Luisa GĂłmez MartĂne
Tune your brown clustering, please
Brown clustering, an unsupervised hierarchical clustering technique based on ngram mutual information, has proven useful in many NLP applications. However, most uses of Brown clustering employ the same default configuration; the appropriateness of this configuration has gone predominantly unexplored. Accordingly, we present information for practitioners on the behaviour of Brown clustering in order to assist hyper-parametre tuning, in the form of a theoretical model of Brown clustering utility. This model is then evaluated empirically in two sequence labelling tasks over two text types. We explore the dynamic between the input corpus size, chosen number of classes, and quality of the resulting clusters, which has an impact for any approach using Brown clustering. In every scenario that we examine, our results reveal that the values most commonly used for the clustering are sub-optimal
Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow significantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacific have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe
Exploring Written Artefacts
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of âmanuscriptsâ to the larger perspective of âwritten artefactsâ
Exploring Written Artefacts
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of âmanuscriptsâ to the larger perspective of âwritten artefactsâ
THE ROLE OF JAVANESE CULTURE IN CHARACTER BUILDING AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Nowadays, character education becomes a major concern in Indonesia. Character development has been done
by various strategy, but the results is yet to be seen. Character development should beginin elementary school
in order that the children's charactercould formed early so that it could be developed until they are mature.
One of the efforts of character building is integrating the local wisdom in learning. One of them is the
Javanese culture. Javanese culture has a variety of rules called the "unggah-ungguh" that always give good
models to the public community, especially to the Javanese. Along with the times, the Javanese culture that
upholds ethics began to degraded and replaced by foreign cultures that came later. The parentsâ roles in
instilling the Javanese culture to their children also decreased gradually. This paper will examine the Javanese
cultureâs roles toward the character building in elementary schoolsâ students. Descriptive method supported by
a depth review of the literature and the previous studies is used in this paper as a method. Based on the results
of these reviews, we obtain some information about the types and mechanisms of Javanese culture in character
building of students, especially elementary school students
IKUWA6. Shared Heritage
Celebrating the theme âShared heritageâ, IKUWA6 (the 6th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology), was the first such major conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific region, and the first IKUWA meeting hosted outside Europe since the organisationâs inception in Germany in the 1990s. A primary objective of holding IKUWA6 in Australia was to give greater voice to practitioners and emerging researchers across the Asia and Pacific regions who are often not well represented in northern hemisphere scientific gatherings of this scale; and, to focus on the areas of overlap in our mutual heritage, techniques and technology. Drawing together peer-reviewed presentations by delegates from across the world who converged in Fremantle in 2016 to participate, this volume covers a stimulating diversity of themes and niche topics of value to maritime archaeology practitioners, researchers, students, historians and museum professionals across the world