Smoke it again, Sam

Generating Media Stories – Play it again, Sam

New types of knowledge spaces, such as the web, allow for yet unexplored forms of knowledge exploration and social relationships. Such an interactive, open and multimodal system sustains the activation of articulation expressions that form the basis of adaptive discourses. In this paper we look at the problem of how stories in such environments can be established. We are in particular intereste...

Play it again, Sam--depression is recurring.

Play it again, Sam: brain correlates of emotional music recognition

BACKGROUND Music can elicit strong emotions and can be remembered in connection with these emotions even decades later. Yet, the brain correlates of episodic memory for highly emotional music compared with less emotional music have not been examined. We therefore used fMRI to investigate brain structures activated by emotional processing of short excerpts of film music successfully retrieved fr...

Tap it again, Sam: Harmonizing Personal Environments towards Lifelong Learning

The increasing number of mobile vendors releasing NFC-enabled devices to the market and their prominent adoption has moved this technology from a niche product to a product with a large market-share. NFC facilitates natural interactions between digital world and physical learning environments. The scaffolding of learning ecologies is a key aspect for lifelong learners in their challenge to inte...

Don’t Play it Again Sam: Radio Play, Record Sales, and Property Rights

This paper undertakes an econometric investigation of the impact of radio play on sales of sound recordings using a sample of American cities. The results indicate that radio play does not have the positive impact on record sales normally attributed to it and instead appears to have an economically important negative impact, implying that overall radio listening is more of a substitute for the ...