this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

In this paper, we will discuss how a virtual platform can be used in order to explore communication forms for stakeholders in the planning process of public knowledge institutions. The paper presents the Virtual Culture House, an attempt to stimulate the communication among stakeholders and users of a future culture house. The project is cooperation between Chalmers University of Technology and...

Rapid development of e-government has exposed critical public information to the possibility of cybercrime. Information security has become a critical issue that needs to be adequately addressed in egovernment development. This paper develops an information security compliance model by drawing insights from organizational and institutional theory literature to examine how organizational securit...

The self is defined and judged differently by people from face and dignity cultures (in this case, Hong Kong and the United States, respectively). Across 3 experiments, people from a face culture absorbed the judgments of other people into their private self-definitions. Particularly important for people from a face culture are public representations--knowledge that is shared and known to be sh...

At many public places, at train stations, airports and highway interchanges we will find culture-stations. Short trailers about points of interest will be shown on video-screens. Dialogue-systems will find out about individual likes and dislikes. A personalized culture-ticket will be printed for a nominal fee. Public transportation and private vehicles will be equipped with a decoder, which is ...

since eighth century, much attention has been given by painters on khamseh works due its romantic and lyric stories. female is a heroine or she has a significant role in most of khamseh works, that show its contributions on nezamis works. unlike common negative view about women in society, nezami considered a high social level for them. in the different periods these stories, especially lily an...