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Bastard Culture!
The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, this book steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation.
Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004, held in Whittleburg Hall, UK in October 2004. The 30 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies: mappings and translations; ontologies: problems and applications; ontologies: trust and e-learning; ontology maintenance; applications to medicine; portals; knowledge acquisition; Web services and problem solving; and searching, browsing, and knowledge acquisition.
Music Saved Them, They Say
Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa (DR Congo) explores the role music-making has played in community projects run for young people in the poverty-stricken and often violent surroundings of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The musicians described here – former gang members and so-called "witch children" living on the streets – believe music was vital in (re)constructing their lives. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of three-and-a-half years of research, the study synthesizes interviews, focus group sessions, and participant observation to contextualize this complicated cultural and social env...
From Animals to Animats 8
New research on the adaptive behavior of natural and synthetic agents.
Women and Science
From Maria Winkelman's discovery of the comet of 1702 to the Nobel Prize-winning work of twentieth-century scientist Barbara McClintock, women have played a central role in modern science. Their successes have not come easily, nor have they been consistently recognized. This book examines the challenges and barriers women scientists have faced and chronicles their achievements as they struggled to attain recognition for their work in the male-dominated world of modern science.
Through Bill's Glasses
Bill is writing a book. It's about his family, his tree house, and his ant collection. Join him and see the world through Bill's eyes!
Kunstprojekte Riem
Das Buch dokumentiert den Modellversuch, der die Entstehung der Messestadt Riem bei MA1/4nchen vier Jahre mit Kunst begleitete. Aoeber 20 Kunstprojekte international renommierter KA1/4nstler und KA1/4nstlerinnen fA1/4r das wachsende Gemeinwesen zwischen Baustelle und neuer Architektur werden in Text und Bild vorgestellt. Theoretische BeitrAge zur Konzeption und Realisation, UrbanitAt und Kunst in neuen Stadtgebieten und in der Demokratie liefern die Kulturreferentin Lydia Hartl, die verantwortliche Kuratorin Claudia BA1/4ttner, der Soziologie Hartmut HAuAermann, der Kritiker Heinz SchA1/4tz und die Publizistin Stella Rollig.
Brussels Biennial 1
Widely acknowledged as the international centre of the unified European Community, Brussels inaugurates its first contemporary art biennial in 2008. Characterized by its intuitive insight into the art scene of the highly urbanized region between the Netherlands, Belgium, France and parts of Germany, the biennial takes place from October 2008 through January 2009. With contributions from more than 40 international artists, the biennial incorporates exhibitions by experimental art institutions located in two deserted buildings along the North-South railway axis in Brussels. The first edition of the Brussels Biennial is the result of a collaboration that crosses traditional boundaries between b...
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE
sers: GADA, MOIS, WOSE, and INTEROP. We trust that their audiences will mutually productively and happily mingle with those of the main conferences. A special mention for 2004 is in order for the new Doctoral Symposium Workshop where three young post-doc researchers organized an original set-up and formula to bring PhD students together and allow them to submit their research proposals for selection. A limited number of the submissions and their approaches will be independently evaluated by a panel of senior experts at the conference, and presented by the students in front of a wider audience. These students also got free access to all other parts of the OTM program, and only paid a heavily ...
Olafur Eliasson
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