Convergence and the Internet have changed the way creative content is now watched, and forced the Television without Frontiers Directive 89/552/EC (the TWFD) to be reformed into the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2007/65/EC (AVMSD). Historically, the key regulatory broadcasting issue was ensuring the provision of stipulated content and implementing public policy. By contrast, telecommunic...

A new singleand multichannel audio recordings database (SMARD) is presented in this paper. The database contains recordings from a box-shaped listening room for various loudspeaker and array types. The recordings were made for 48 different configurations of three different loudspeakers and four different microphone arrays. In each configuration, 20 different audio segments were played and recor...

With the development of information society, audio steganalysis has attracted more attentions recently. Echo hiding method is one of the most challenging research fields. However, most of them can't solve the contradiction of capacity, robustness and imperceptibility, which restrict the development of the system seriously. Some of them have low capacity, and others have relatively high capacity...

Introduction There are many issues impacting the history of media collections in academic libraries. Facets of this history are intertwined with the profession of media librarianship and the fields adjacent to it such as instructional technology and audiovisual production. Additionally, popular culture and the demand from library users impact our collection development decisions. Topics such as...

The more that information and communication technologies become central to modern society, the more it is imperative to identify, and to manage the development of the skills and abilities required to use them. Within both academic and policy discourses, the concept of media literacy is being extended from its traditional focus on print and audiovisual media to encompass the internet and other n...