{candan, jong.wook.kim huan.liu, reshma.suvarna} @asu.edu ABSTRACT Users now have access to unprecedented amounts of media data, but it is increasingly difficult to integrate relevant media from multiple and diverse sources. The functioning of a multimodal integration system requires metadata, such as ontologies, that describe media resources and media components. Such metadata are generally ap...

Over the last ten years, New Media has ascended to a prominent place in many fields that utilize communication technologies. At the same time, New Media education has evolved in such a way that students are often not prepared to understand the social context of New Media design and development. To produce New Media professionals who are adequately prepared to meet the needs of an online hyper-s...

In contemporary society media ubiquity and convergence have transformed the act of turning "off" from a routine unmarked moment into a conscious effort and a personal statement. Use and non-use of specific media are increasingly self-reflective and symbolically significant acts. In an ongoing research project we seek to gain insight into this cultural and technological moment by examining indiv...

Society is being reshaped through Social Media. The case of Social Media integration into the London 2012 Olympics mainstream media coverage is used to demonstrate this. Social Media has modified television viewing from a passive to an active activity. It has also allowed opinions to be shared more quickly and broadly. Analysis of practical examples through the theoretical lens of sociomaterial...

Social media applications are extending the information and communication technology landscape in the public sector and are used to increase government transparency, participation and collaboration in the U.S. federal government. The success, impact and performance of these new forms of bi directional and networked interactions can provide insights to understand compliance with the mandate of t...

Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) is about how users can access the same media resources with different terminal equipment and preferences. For this to be enabled the media resources have to be adaptable and flexible according to the users needs, and capabilities. To accomplish this a media delivery architecture has been developed taking advantage of some of the possibilities in the upcoming Mu...