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"This book explores from an aesthetic perspective how mobile phone technology, including mobile phone cameras, are used, and the impact this has on individual creativity and innovation, and on culture, sociality and aesthetics. Based on extensive original research including an ethnographic investigation of how specific images were created and distributed, it argues not that a new form of individual creativity is occurring, rather that a more distributed form of creativity now exists"--

Mass Communication and Media play an integral part in modern societies. This publication reflects on fundamental theoretical works and recent key texts from different backgrounds such as political analysis, feminism, media studies or Cultural Theory. It is designed as a workbook in European-Chinese intercultural studies. Therefore thorough descriptions of the texts in Chinese language are backed up by additional information and questions to ponder to deepen the understanding. This book is part of the series "interKULTUR European-Chinese intercultural Studies" which consists of teaching material for intercultural studies in higher education and research results of such studies.

Introduction -- Discourse and media -- Methodology -- Frequency analysis of lexis in the PTC and STC -- Concordance analysis on words directly referencing terrorism in the PTC and the STC -- Contrasting the social contexts of China and the UK -- Conclusions

This invaluable dictionary is the result of collaborative efforts across the globe. Over forty scholars from the United States, mainland China and Taiwan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Norway, Israel and Malaysia contributed. They cover the full spectrum of Chinese industries from banking, finance and investment, real estate, transportation and infrastructure, to manufacturing, telecommunications, media, agriculture, automobile, pharmaceutical, food, trade, service and retail industries

Bilingual dossier of the Executive and Legislative Councillors in 1992. Besides the usual information one picks up on their individual profiles which often appear in the printed media, the contact telephone numbers, office and residential addresses are provided. The most interesting feature is perhaps the leading politicians' positions on important public issues in the past decade. In view of the rapid shifts and turns of the politician's stands on public policies in recent years, the publication offers a useful index with dates. (DÜI-Alb)