Imagined Community of Radio

The Imagined Community of East Asia

(Abstract: This paper argues that the proposed East Asian Community is an imagined community. To describe it this way is not to dismiss it as an illusion, or to deny its potential for transforming East Asia’s future, but to emphasize the bold aspirations that underlie the notion, aspirations which seek to transcend powerful physical, political and even cultural barriers confronting them. The im...

Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community

The notion of “community” has often been caught between concrete social relationships and imagined sets of people perceived to be similar. The rise of the Internet has refocused our attention on this ongoing tension. The Internet has enabled people who know each other to use social media, from e-mail to Facebook, to interact without meeting physically. Into this mix came Twitter, an asymmetric ...

News, Nationalism, and the Imagined Community

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Collaborative Radio Community

Recommender systems have been usually designed to support a single user in a one-to-one relation between a human and a service provider. This paper presents a collaborative radio community where the system delivers a personalization service on the fly, on the basis of the group recommending, promoting a shift from the one-to-one approach to a one-to-group scenario where the goal is assisting pe...

Smart Radio: Building Community-Based Internet Music Radio