Hyper-media or media-hype?

Do the print media “ hype ” genetic research ?

Background: The public gets most of its information about genetic research from the media. It has been suggested that media representations may involve exaggeration, called “genohype.” To examine the accuracy and nature of media coverage of genetic research, we reviewed the reporting of single-gene discoveries and associated technologies in major daily newspapers in Canada, the United States, G...

Media Applications on Hyper-Threading Technology

This paper characterizes selected workloads of multimedia applications on current superscalar architectures, and then it characterizes the same workloads on Intel HyperThreading Technology. The workloads, including video encoding, decoding, and watermark detection, are optimized for the Intel Pentium 4 processor. One of the workloads is even commercially available and it performs best on the Pe...

Link Management Framework for Hyper-Media Documents

This paper presents a framework for link management within hyper-media documents. The framework includes: (1) an object-oriented document architecture with a consistent interface for different media types; (2) a transition model between multimedia objects founded on contentbased static links for atemporal media, and content/timebased dynamic links for temporal media; and (3) intrinsic support f...

XML , Hyper - media , and Fortran I / ODror

Popular Media , Biotechnology , and the “ Cycle of Hype ”

There is growing concern about the potential adverse social implications of stories in the popular press that inappropriately “hype” biotechnology.1 This concern is understandable. The media has emerged as an important, perhaps the most important, vehicle for communicating science issues to the general public. Moreover, the media can play a critical role in public debates about controversial te...