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Periphery and Small Ones Matter

Iwan J. Azis

Digital Economies at Global Margins

Mark Graham

E-Business: Higher Education and Intelligence Applications

Robert M.X. Wu, Marinela Mircea

The Nation Form in the Global Age

Irfan Ahmad, Jie Kang

Measuring the Business Value of Cloud Computing

Theo Lynn, John G. Mooney

Sustainability of Young Companies– Contemporary Trends and Challenges

Marek Jabłonski

Data Privacy and Trust in Cloud Computing

Theo Lynn, John G. Mooney

Filming Researching Annotating

Gunter Losel, Martin Zimper

Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR Conference 2022

Alex Halligey

Visualising Safety, an Exploration: Drawings, Pictures, Images, Videos and Movies

Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Teemu Reiman

SHAPES OF IMAGINATION

George Stiny

Design Ethnography Epistemology and Methodology

Francis Müller

Technology, Design and the Arts—Opportunities and Challenges

Rae Earnshaw, Susan Liggett

Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation 1960–1980

Kjetil Fallan

Design's for Children Apps

Miriam Morante Bonet

Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments

Michele Geronazzo

Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of Industrial Film

Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof

Art + DIY Electronics

Garnet Hertz

<p>My interest in do-it-yourself culture is influenced by my childhood on a farm in Clemenceau, Saskatchewan (figure 0.1). Rural technologies, often fixed or built out of necessity, sparked my love for innovations: fixing a throttle link-age with a coat hanger, building a go-kart out of a tricycle, and trying to weld together hybridized farm equipment to save time and make money. People have to “make do” in rural environments without professional help or equipment. As a result, the built objects are often quirky, kludged, and nonstandard. However, farms in Saskatchewan are far from utopian. Immigrants to Canada around the turn of the twentieth century were promised wide-open, bucolic farmland. Instead, they found a rugged environment with harsh winters, a fog of mosquitoes during the short summers, and great distances between settlements. Although vast, the territory was not empty. The settlers who came to claim the land often did so through brutal force at the expense of indigenous communities that had lived there for thousands of years. Amplified by the weather, natural terrain, and decades of systematic neglect, the infrastructural gaps in Saskatchewan are still considerable—especially in remote communities and among the First Nations. Surviving there requires resourceful and creative use of available materials, especially for those with less money and lower sociopolitical status. In other words, what we call “DIY” (do-it-yourself) is regularly a necessity to navigating and bridging gaps in infrastructure.</p>

Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence

Johannes Fehrle, Werner Schäfke-Zell

<p>The book series Transmedia: Participatory Culture and Media Convergence provides a platform for cutting-edge research in the field of media studies, with a strong focus on the impact of digitization, globalization, and fan culture. The series is dedicated to publishing the highest-quality monographs (and exceptional edited collections) on the developing social, cultural, and economic practices surrounding media convergence and audience participation. The term ‘media convergence’ relates to the complex ways in which the production, distribution, and consumption of contemporary media are affected by digitization, while ‘participatory culture’ refers to the changing relationship between media producers and their audiences.</p>

Virtual Heritage A Guide

Erik Malcolm Champion

<p>This diverse and fascinating collection of essays on virtual heritage takes the reader on a tour of some of the most pertinent issues and challenges currently facing the domain. There is a scholarly focus on the digital technologies deployed in a virtual heritage context, what these can achieve in terms of representation, and the relationship between precision, accuracy in representation, and the characterisation of authenticity. It is refreshing also to see consideration of less technical issues such as ethics and the related question of (digital) data preservation and long-term access. While these aspects of virtual heritage may be intimately related to various technical developments they also help to situate virtual heritage within the heritage domain more broadly by drawing out the similarities, and differences, between the ‘virtual’ and ‘non-virtual’ in how the issues should be addressed. The impact of our interactions with the communities we serve and our obligations to care for and curate the content we create on their behalf are too often afterthoughts in project design.</p>

Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning

Amanda Wasielewski

<p>Any machine learning project must start with a dataset. In the case of the research profiled in this book, that means collections of art images. How these collections are assembled is thus a core factor in what automated processes will tell us about the data. As the old adage among computer programmers goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.” More data is often equated with better (i.e., more accurate) results. For cultural data, however, this is not necessarily the case. There are pressing issues of bias to consider in the compilation of datasets, no matter how large they are. Construction of even the most inclusive art dataset still reflects the interests and perspective of specific cultural actors. It is important to consider who digitizes artworks and why certain artworks are chosen for digitization. For those artworks that are born digital, which works get collected or gain acceptance into the canon of high art?</p>

Brand Management

František Pollák, Peter Markovič

<p>In a market economy with a highly developed competitive environment, it is natural to maximize the utility of resources. Overconsumption, as the desired state of the economy of growth, puts enormous pressure on production and thus on securing sufficient resources of a diverse nature. Here, seemingly endless growth meets the limitations of the physical world. The application of the principles of sustainability is thus one of the basic determinants of the long-term survival of market economies or even entire ecosystems as we know them today.</p>

Brand-building: the creative city

Serena Vicari Haddock

<p>This book is the result of the work undertaken by the Cultural Cities group. In order to provide a general background to these essays we offer a brief presentation of the contents and results of the research conducted by the group.</p><p>Though attitudes to the city always seem to have been ambivalent –they have been viewed as centres of both civilisation and corruption – one side of this has emphasised their particular and active role in promotionof culture and creativity (e.g. P. Hall 2001). This idea is hardly limited to the observation that these activities have been disproportionately more important in large cities than in smaller settlements, or that the major developments of an era were concentrated in specific places rather than across all urban areas in a nation or continent. On the contrary, such creative developments have been stimulated, produced by and have matured in the circumstances of particular cities, both reflecting and shaping the distinct characters of these places – in economic, social, political and physical terms, as well as culturally.</p>

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES

Marzena Stor

<p>Human resource management (HRM) has a significant impact on companies’ performance, as evidenced by research conducted in multinational companies (MNCs) based in Central Europe. This book provides a unique perspective of activities conducted in the HRM field in local subsidiaries of such enterprises. It also presents results verifying many hypotheses for each of the six models for single HRM subfunctions and their four relationships with the results of company performance. Particular chapters are devoted to activities including staffing the organization, shaping employee work engagement and job satisfaction, conducting employee performance appraisal, employee development, managerial staff development, and employer branding. The author used the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling to verify the research hypotheses.</p>