Introduction: Special Issue, Digital Representations of Contemporary Shakespeare Performances

Attachment-related mental representations: introduction to the special issue.

Bowlby's concept of mental working models of self, attachment figures, and the social world has been theoretically generative as a bridge between early relational experience and the beliefs and expectations that color later relationships. Contemporary attachment researchers, following his example, are applying new knowledge of children's conceptual development to their study of attachment-relat...

Genres of Digital Documents: Introduction to the Special Issue

Purpose – To introduce the special issue on “Genres of digital documents.” While there are many definitions of genre, most include consideration of the intended communicative purpose, form and sometimes expected content of a document. Most also include the notion of social acceptance, that a document is of a particular genre to the extent that it is recognized as such within a given discourse c...

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

Special issue introduction.

Metadata for Digital Media: Introduction to the Special Issue

One of the key problems to be solved to share in formation is the development of metadata that is the data about data While the issue of metadata has re ceived a fair share of attention in conjunction with structured and text data most of the current prac tices in the context of digital media and multimedia data management are ad hoc Metadata assumes more importance when manag ing digital media...