Like every other social practice, journalism cannot now fully be understood apart from globalization. As part of a larger platform of communication media, journalism contributes to this experience of the world-as-a-single-place and thus represents a key component in these social transformations, both as cause and outcome. These issues at the intersection of journalism and globalization define a...

A recent article by a regular commentator in Malaysia's Sun newspaper called for the resignation of a minister over a scandal involving government attempts to eradicate the pervasive problem of forged driving licenses.' True, the affair he referred to happened more than three years ago and the minister in question had since retired anyway, but the implications of his call and the general thrust...

JAESOO LEE, JONGHUN YOO YONGSEOK PARK AND SEONGSOO HONG 3 1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea {jslee, jhyoo, sshong}@redwood.snu.ac.kr 2 Digital Media & Communications R&D Center, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd [email protected] 3 Department of Intelligent Convergence Systems, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Tec...

1 Social Robotics Laboratory, Interactive Digital Media Institute, and NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119613 2 Robotics Institute, and School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National U...

The study of globalization in contemporary world is one of main concerns in cultural studies. This problem especially in relation with young people has more importance, therefore the study of globalization&#39s cultural effects among young generation, especially academic young as a problem is scientifically researchable. This study has been used theories of Ronald Robertson and Stuart Hall. Thi...

The 2014 Ebola crisis received unprecedented media attention in the United States, despite low risk of transmission. We examined theoretically derived correlates of psychological response to the crisis, including Ebola-related media exposure, prior mental health history, and stress response to a recent prior collective trauma (the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, BMB). A national probability sampl...

In line with global trends, media in Southern Africa in the past decade has been moving slowly towards mergers, partnerships and multi-platform publishing. Driven by politics and facilitated by technology, the process has had to confront the difficulty of establishing viable economic models, the lack of regional integration within Southern African countries, and what is sometimes a difficult po...

Using cross-national time-series data in sequences of Granger causality tests, this study analyzed the democratic effects of media technologies with a sample of 122 countries. This process revealed that communication technologies are vital, but not exclusive or universal prerequisites of democratic growth. As expected by media system dependency (MSD) theory, media diffusion was shown to have Gr...

Acute otitis media (AOM) and otitis media with effusion (OME) are common infections in children, and their diagnosis and treatment have significant impacts on the health of children and the costs of providing national medical care. In 2009, the Korean Otologic Society organized a committee composed of experts in the field of otolaryngology, pediatrics, and family medicine to develop Korean clin...