Evangelizing the ‘Gallery of the Future’: a Critical Analysis of the Google Art Project Narrative and its Political, Cultural and Technological Stakes

This thesis explores the digitization initiative Google Art Project and the ways in which the Project negotiates its place between rapidly developing Web technologies and the often-contradictory fine art tradition. Through the Project’s marketing and website design, Google constructs a narrative that emphasizes the democratization of culture, universal accessibility and a new progressive future for the art world while obscuring more complex political, social and cultural questions. Bringing together scholarship from various disciplines including library studies, digital studies, art history, and cultural studies this thesis highlights how the Project might open up a space to talk about art publics and the desire for openness in the art institution while also recognizing how GAP remains firmly planted within that institutional structure

Risk Management in Environment, Production and Economy

The term "risk" is very often associated with negative meanings. However, in most cases, many opportunities can present themselves to deal with the events and to develop new solutions which can convert a possible danger to an unforeseen, positive event. This book is a structured collection of papers dealing with the subject and stressing the importance of a relevant issue such as risk management. The aim is to present the problem in various fields of application of risk management theories, highlighting the approaches which can be found in literature

Genre analysis of English article abstracts in Ecuadorian and North American journals: A contrastive study

In the era of online searches and digital libraries, the importance of research article abstracts (RAAs) is perhaps unquestionable. As a result, cross-linguistic research, particularly in the field of corpus linguistics has received considerable attention as it explores how scholars introduce their studies in a convergent genre, namely abstract. A significant body of research has addressed the variation of abstracts in terms of content and structure across languages and disciplines. The current dissertation compares abstracts published in North American and Ecuadorian journals (NA&EJ), considering humanities and sciences. The corpus analysis consisted of 240 abstracts written in English: 120 in North American and 120 in Ecuadorian journals. Sentences were the unit of analysis. The top-down and bottom-up approaches identified the rhetorical moves and drew the boundaries between them. The English corpora went through software-driven text analysis. The L2 syntactic complexity analyzer (L2SCA) gauges the syntactic complexity while the Lextutor vocab-profile measures the lexical richness of abstracts. It used the SPSS statistical tool to analyze the output of the linguistic analyzers. Results showed an emergent rhetorical organization of eight moves with four recurrent moves in abstracts of NA&EJ. There was significant variability in the overall sentence complexity, amount of subordination, and degree of phrasal sophistication between NA&EJ. Notwithstanding, though there was variability in the means of syntactic complexity in NA&EJ abstracts, no statistical differences were found between fields and between the four syntactic dimensions across disciplines at the level of significance (α = .05). There were differences between the lexical density and lexical sophistication, but not in the proportion of lexical diversity. This study has shown that although abstracts in NA&EJ followed a similar rhetorical structure, the frequency of the moves varies across disciplinary fields. Even though abstracts in NA&EJ used extensive vocabulary and diverse types of sentence structure, resemblant linguistic outcomes and cohesive means emerged regardless of their publishing context and disciplines. This study affords valuable insights to investigate the recurrent rhetoric, lexical and syntactic structure used in abstracts. Ideally, research outcomes will uncover the actual use of language to discuss linguistic implications and provide pedagogical applications for academic writing

Expressing product diversification - Categorizing and classifying variability in software product family engineering

In a software product family context, software architects design architectures that support product diversification in both space (multiple contexts) and time (changing contexts). Product diversification is based on the concept of variability: a single architecture and a set of components support a family of products. Software product families have to support increasing amounts of variability, thereby making variability engineering a primary concern in software product family development. The first part of this paper (1) suggests a two-dimensional, orthogonal categorization of variability realization techniques and classifies these variability categories into system maturity levels. The second part (2) discusses a case study of an industrial software product family of mobile communication infrastructure for professional markets such as the military. The study categorizes and classifies the variability in this product family according to criteria common to virtually all software development projects

Expressing Product Diversification - Categorizing and Classifying Variability in Software Product Family Engineering,

In a software product family context, software architects design architectures that support product diversification in both space (multiple contexts) and time (changing contexts). Product diversification is based on the concept of variability: a single architecture and a set of components support a family of products. Software product families have to support increasing amounts of variability, thereby making variability engineering a primary concern in software product family development. The first part of this paper (1) suggests a two-dimensional, orthogonal categorization of variability realization techniques and classifies these variability categories into system maturity levels. The second part (2) discusses a case study of an industrial software product family of mobile communication infrastructure for professional markets such as the military. The study categorizes and classifies the variability in this product family according to criteria common to virtually all software development projects

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