Preparing Negotiations in Services: EC Audiovisuals in the Millenium Round. The World Services Congress on “Services: Generating Global Growth and Opportunity'.

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Preparing Negotiations in Services: EC Audiovisuals in the Doha Round.

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From the Arran to the internet : Sami storytelling in digital environments

This essay investigates the use of storytelling in the process of cultural and linguistic revitalization through specific contemporary examples drawn from the Internet. By examining instances of adaptation of Sami tales and legends to digital environments, I discuss new premises and challenges for the emergence of such narratives. In particular, within a contemporary context characterized by an increasing variety of media and channels, as well as by an improvement in minority politics, it is important to examine how expressive culture and traditional modes of expression are transposed and negotiated. The rich Sami storytelling tradition is a central form of cultural expression. Its role in the articulation of norms, values, and discourses within the community has been emphasized in previous research (Balto 1997; Cocq 2008; Fjellstrom 1986); it is a means for learning and communicating valuable knowledge--a shared understanding.Not

DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS AND NARRATIVE TRACEABILITY/NARRATIVE FOOTPRINTS AND DIGITAL TRACEABILITY

The stories we tell and are told, the images we see and share, the ways we communicate find new paths and come to expression in new forms of networks, other agoras (to borrow Foley's terminology) and at a faster pace. Nonetheless, we ought to examine what the novelty of contemporary storytelling consists in when it conquers digital forms and environments. Likewise, the digital brings us new tools and possibilities of access to data - but how much have our disciplines, methods, approaches and concepts actually transformed and changed? And how much have we assessed the capacity of adaptation of our disciplines for embracing the study of what takes place online and in relation to the digital? From this vantage point, this paper gives particular attention to the footprints and the traceability of our doings and our data in order to highlight the flows, continuity and ruptures of what we do and tell. Based on examples from a variety of contexts, I illustrate how our quest for renewal, novelty and innovation is strongly anchored in, subjected to and depends upon our habits, old-fashioned ways and ability to observe the world around us. Further, I argue that in research like in storytelling, the value of vintage equals the value of novelty and originality.Peer reviewe

Revisiting the digital humanities through the lens of Indigenous studies-or how to question the cultural blindness of our technologies and practices

This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical perspectives for a more sustainable DH. For this purpose, the article examines practices of data harvesting, categorizing, and sharing from the perspectives of groups in the margin, more specifically in relation to Sami research. Previous research has emphasized the role of cultural and social contexts in the design, use, and adaptation of technologies in general, and digital technologies in particular (Douglas, 1987. Inventing American broadcasting; Nissenbaum, 2001. Computer, 34, 118-120; Powell & Aitken, 2011. The American literature scholar in the digital age) and several scholars have argued for how the application of critical studies make a fruitful contribution to the DH (Liu, 2012. Debates in the digital humanities; McPherson, 2012. Debates in the digital humanities). This article suggests an approach that addresses a need to acknowledge the diversity of technoscientific traditions. The perspectives of Indigenous groups bring this matter to a head. In order to make the DH more sustainable and inclusive, the development of the DH should be driven by cultural studies to a greater extent than it has been so far. A sustainable DH also means a better rendering of the plurality of the cultural values, perspectives, and ethics that characterize our fieldwork and research subjects.Peer reviewe

Development of a Versatile, Stable Droplet‐reactor for High Temperature Nanocrystal Synthesis

Colloidal nanocrystals exhibit interesting and useful size-dependent nanoscale phenomena (e.g. tunable fluorescence in quantum dots and optical absorptions in gold and silver nanoparticles), large surface areas and can be used for a variety of high-tech applications. Care must be taken to produce nanocrystals with well defined size, shape and composition, however, as these parameters directly affect the properties of the colloidal ensemble. Microreactors offer superior control over reaction conditions relative to traditional bulk batch methods and as such offer an attractive route to nanoparticle production. Hence there have been over a hundred papers reporting microfluidic synthesis of nanocrystalline colloids since the first reports in 2002. The work described in this thesis focussed on extending and improving the microfluidic method. Continuous-flow reactors were used initially, however, deposition was found to be a pervading problem with its severity varying with the material being synthesised. To address this problem a new capillary-based droplet-flow reactor was developed in which droplets are generated by the direct injection of confluent reagent streams within a stream of immiscible carrier fluid and, subsequently, can be heated and optically characterised further downstream. The reactor produced stable, controllable droplet flow over a wide range of flow rates, with droplet volumes down to 30 nL, and proved to be highly effective: CdSe quantum dots were synthesised via a high-temperature pyrolytic synthesis with strong control over particle size and size distribution. Crucially, unlike previously reported high temperature droplet reactors, the reactor could be operated indefinitely, without any degradation of the device and minimal variation in the product seen during 24 hours continuous production. To emphasise the versatility and applicability of the droplet reactor, Ag, TiO2 and InP nanocrystals were synthesised (using both organic and aqueous syntheses) and an automatic optimisation routine to reduce size distribution was applied to CdSe quantum dot synthesis

Preparing Negotiations in Services: EC Audiovisuals in the Millenium Round

Under the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreement, only 19 WTO Members have made commitments in audiovisual services in their GATS schedule. As illustrated by Table 1, these commitments are generally of limited scope and magnitude [WTO, 1998]. Among the large audiovisual producers, only the United States have taken substantial commitments at the various stages of audiovisual production, distribution, and transmission.2/ Though much more limited, the commitments by Hong Kong, Japan and India (the world largest film producer) have shown the acceptance by large producers with very influential cultures to consider the issue of liberalization in audiovisual services with an open mind. The rest of the WTO members, insecure about the ability of their audiovisual industry to face competition and/or willing to minimize the exposure of their people to foreign influence, have severely limited access to their markets. This broad coalition was led by the EC, the only large audiovisual producer in this camp (...)