ICYMI: RT and Youth-Oriented International Broadcasting as (Geo)Political Culture Jamming

Global Youth Culture and Youth Identity

The globalisation of culture – the effect upon culture of the “increasing connection of the world and its people” – is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the changing nature of the relationship between the world’s youth and their sense of identity (Solomon & Scuderi 2002:13). It has become commonplace to think of the world’s youth as that part of the community who are most receptive, or, alte...

Deriving Architectural Prototypes for a Broadcasting System using UML-RT

The graphical description techniques provided by UML-RT are significant aids in modeling aspects of structure and behavior in software architectures for reactive and embedded real-time systems. Here, we sketch an extension of UMLRT’s reach from binary communication to broadcasting. To that end, we introduce sequence diagrams tailored for capturing broadcasting scenarios. Furthermore, we describ...

7 Youth Culture and Drugs

The adolescent was invented at the same time as the steam-engine. The principal architect of the latter was Watt in 1765, of the former Rousseau in 1762. Having invented the adolescent, society has been faced with two major problems: how and where to accommodate him in the social structure, and how to make his behaviour accord with the specifications. For two centuries English society has been ...

Culture and International Relations : The Culture of International Relations

Advanced Solutions for Quality-Oriented Multimedia Broadcasting

M ULTIMEDIA content is increasingly being delivered via different types of networks to viewers in a variety of locations and contexts using a variety of devices. The ubiquitous nature of multimedia services comes at a cost, however. The successful delivery of multimedia services will require overcoming numerous technological challenges many of which have a direct effect on the quality of the mu...