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If I Ruled the World: Putting Hip Hop on the Atlas
âIf I Ruled the World: Putting Hip Hop on the Atlasâ contends for a third wave of Global Hip Hop Studies that builds on the work of the first two waves, identifies Hip Hop as an African diasporic phenomenon, and aligns with Hip Hop where there are no boundaries between Hip Hop inside and outside of the United States. Joanna Daguirane Da Sylva adds to the cipha with her examination of Didier Awadi. Da Sylva\u27s excellent work reveals the ways in which Hip Hoppa Didier Awadi elevates Pan-Africanism and uses Hip Hop as a tool to decolonize the minds of African peoples. The interview by Tasha Iglesias and myself of members of Generation Hip Hop and the Universal Hip Hop Museum provides a primary source and highlights two Hip Hop organizations with chapters around the world. Mich Yonah Nyawaloâs Negotiating French Muslim Identities through Hip Hop details Hip Hop artists MĂ©dine and Diamâs, who are both French and Muslim, and whose self-identification can be understood as political strategies in response to the French Republicâs marginalization of Muslims. In âConfigurations of Space and Identity in Hip Hop: Performing âGlobal Southâ,â Igor Johannsen adds to this special issue an examination of the spatiality of the Global South and how Hip Hoppas in the Global South oppose global hegemony. The final essay, ââI Got the Mics On, My People Speakâ: On the Rise of Aboriginal Australian Hip Hop,â by Benjamin Kelly and Rhyan Clapham, provides a thorough analysis of Aboriginal Hip Hop and situates it within postcolonialism. Overall, the collection of these essays points to the multiple identities, political economies, cultures, and scholarly fields and disciplines that Hip Hop interacts with around the world
Ubiquitous Computing
The aim of this book is to give a treatment of the actively developed domain of Ubiquitous computing. Originally proposed by Mark D. Weiser, the concept of Ubiquitous computing enables a real-time global sensing, context-aware informational retrieval, multi-modal interaction with the user and enhanced visualization capabilities. In effect, Ubiquitous computing environments give extremely new and futuristic abilities to look at and interact with our habitat at any time and from anywhere. In that domain, researchers are confronted with many foundational, technological and engineering issues which were not known before. Detailed cross-disciplinary coverage of these issues is really needed today for further progress and widening of application range. This book collects twelve original works of researchers from eleven countries, which are clustered into four sections: Foundations, Security and Privacy, Integration and Middleware, Practical Applications
Cross-Platform Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Interoperability - Proceedings of the LREC2016 conference
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Multimedia delivery in the future internet
The term âNetworked Mediaâ implies that all kinds of media including text, image, 3D graphics, audio
and video are produced, distributed, shared, managed and consumed on-line through various networks,
like the Internet, Fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, GPRS, 3G and so on, in a convergent manner [1]. This white
paper is the contribution of the Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster and aims to cover the Networked
challenges of the Networked Media in the transition to the Future of the Internet.
Internet has evolved and changed the way we work and live. End users of the Internet have been confronted
with a bewildering range of media, services and applications and of technological innovations concerning
media formats, wireless networks, terminal types and capabilities. And there is little evidence that the pace
of this innovation is slowing. Today, over one billion of users access the Internet on regular basis, more
than 100 million users have downloaded at least one (multi)media file and over 47 millions of them do so
regularly, searching in more than 160 Exabytes1 of content. In the near future these numbers are expected
to exponentially rise. It is expected that the Internet content will be increased by at least a factor of 6, rising
to more than 990 Exabytes before 2012, fuelled mainly by the users themselves. Moreover, it is envisaged
that in a near- to mid-term future, the Internet will provide the means to share and distribute (new)
multimedia content and services with superior quality and striking flexibility, in a trusted and personalized
way, improving citizensâ quality of life, working conditions, edutainment and safety.
In this evolving environment, new transport protocols, new multimedia encoding schemes, cross-layer inthe
network adaptation, machine-to-machine communication (including RFIDs), rich 3D content as well as
community networks and the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays are expected to generate new models of
interaction and cooperation, and be able to support enhanced perceived quality-of-experience (PQoE) and
innovative applications âon the moveâ, like virtual collaboration environments, personalised services/
media, virtual sport groups, on-line gaming, edutainment. In this context, the interaction with content
combined with interactive/multimedia search capabilities across distributed repositories, opportunistic P2P
networks and the dynamic adaptation to the characteristics of diverse mobile terminals are expected to
contribute towards such a vision.
Based on work that has taken place in a number of EC co-funded projects, in Framework Program 6 (FP6)
and Framework Program 7 (FP7), a group of experts and technology visionaries have voluntarily
contributed in this white paper aiming to describe the status, the state-of-the art, the challenges and the way
ahead in the area of Content Aware media delivery platforms
Intercultural discourse: a study of language and culture in Chinese-American narrative writing
This thesis examines the relationship between language and culture in
narrative writing by focusing on a specific group of texts: published narratives
written in English by Chinese American authors. These narratives tend to focus on
the minority experience and the use of English to depict the ethnic culture magnifies
the intricacies of cultural representation. The intimate relationship between language
and culture in these texts is underscored by the fact that language is repeatedly
singled out as a primary marker of cultural difference.The concept of intercultural communication provides a useful platform from
which to study the interconnections between language and culture in narrative
writing. Although the concept is mainly applied to spoken discourse, it highlights a
number of important aspects of the narratives in this study. Analysis of the texts
reveals that intercultural communication is not only a common feature in the
narrative worlds as characters from different cultural groups interact but that the
texts also become sites of intercultural discourse by foregrounding those
characteristics that make them culturally distinctive.The role of language in these texts is closely related to the way they
communicate as intercultural narratives. Thus, this research examines how language
is used to establish cultural identity and signify cultural difference. It also describes
the various ways in which language is stylistically exploited to express ethnicity. In
analyzing the relationship between language and culture in these narratives, an
approach combining the resources of both stylistics and sociolinguistics is adopted.
The cultural significance of discourse patterns and language representation in the
narratives can only be fully appreciated with the aid of sociolinguistic knowledge
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