From the perspectives of regulation and convergence, several debates on the industrial definition of smart TV service in Korean broadcasting and communications market have been in progress. The most heated controversy mainly depends on whether smart TV is controlled under the broadcasting regulations or under the communications regulations. This Korean specific problem is summarized in regulati...

The role of the Humanities, especially semiology, consists in the analysis and critique of human symbolic activities. Our project, ‘The Tree of Knowledge for TV Analysis (http://www.nulptyx.com/chienoki) at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies of the University of Tokyo, attempts to reorganize the knowledge accumulated in the Humanities by generalizing traditional semiology, focus...

A rich body of literature investigates the many ways in which nature is impacted upon and transformed by the “endless accumulation of capital.” Much less attention has been reserved for understanding how capitalist actors increasingly aim to profit from the non-extractive use of nature. While recognized as important, the theorization of conservation as a capitalist project has only just commenc...

The growth of electronic commerce is dependent upon the emergence of effective electronic payment systems. Whilst payments for large purchases can be made relatively easily using credit/debit cards, small-scale electronic commerce is constrained by the limited nature of existing e-cash (or ‘micropayments’) systems. This paper outlines the evolution of electronic payment systems, leading to an a...

This paper presents the ”Learning and Innovation Factory for Integrative Production Education“ as a case study for a modern didactic approach at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT). The developed teaching methodology is combining the advantages of an interdisciplinary, experiences-based and applied approach to knowledge transfer, aiming to enhance the key competences of future industrial ...

Introduction Although Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is rare, its rapid course, its infection control implications and the link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) make this disease relevant to all clinicians. The emergence of vCJD has prompted an explosion in the amount of research into the disorder, leading to new developments in both diagnos...

Virtual bodies, cyberbodies, cyborgs, avatars, hypertext bodies, and a host of other "incurably informed" corporealities continue to populate the ongoing discourses surrounding cyberculture and new media (which, as Friedrich Kittler reminds us, are not so new). 1 At the core of these and other formulations is a concern for the ways in which a medium associated with immateriality and disembodime...

W ith the rise of social media, information sharing has been democratized. As a result, users are given opportunities to exhibit different behaviors such as sharing, posting, liking, commenting, and befriending conveniently and on a daily basis. By analyzing behaviors observed on social media, we can categorize these behaviors into individual and collective behavior. Individual behavior is exhi...

Empirical analysis has been the foundation for a great deal of network research and has resulted in significant improvements to Internet systems, protocols and practices. Recent progress applying a constantly expanding set of increasingly more sophisticated statistical tools suggests the emergence of a new type of empirical network research that could benefit from a more principled approach for...

From the perspectives of regulation and convergence, several debates on the industrial definition of smart TV service in Korean broadcasting and communications market have been in progress. The most heated controversy mainly depends on whether smart TV is controlled under the broadcasting regulations or under the communications regulations. This Korean specific problem is summarized in regulati...