Auto-regulating New Media

Using Foucault's (1977, 1978) notion of panoptic method of governmentality and looking at the case of Singapore's Internet policy, this paper attempts to expand on the idea-and ideals-of 'auto-regulation'(Lee, 2000, pp. 4-5; Lee & Birch, 2000). Auto-regulation, as I shall posit in this paper, provides a way for regulatory enforcement and surveillance to become sufficiently transparent and 'normalised' so that 'the exercise of power may be supervised by society as a whole'(Foucault, 1977, pp.207-208) rather than by a select group of policy and law enforcement officers, or civil society /activist groups

Pion Production Model - Connection between Dynamics and Quark Models

We discuss the difficulties in testing the hadron models by using the N^* parameters extracted from the empirical amplitude analyses of the pi-N and gamma-N reaction data. As an alternative or perhaps a more advantageous approach, we present a Hamiltonian formulation that can relate the pion production dynamics and the constituent quark models of N^* structure. The application of the approach in investigating the Delta and N^*(S_{11}) excitations is reviewed. It is found that while the Delta excitation can be described satisfactory, the pi-N scattering in S_{11} channel can not be described by the constituent quark models based on either the one-gluon-exchange or one-meson-exchange mechanisms. A phenomenological quark-quark potential has been constructed to reproduce the S_{11} amplitude.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Proceedings of NSTAR2000 workshop held at Jefferson Laboratory, Feb., 200