Personal and Popular

Personal Privacy and Popular Ubiquitous Technology

In Britain today, ubiquitous technologies are becoming an increasing part of people's lives. Using well-known exemplars (the Oyster Card, London's Congestion Charging System and the Mobile Phone), this paper addresses the issue of privacy in relation to people's use of such technologies. Privacy recommendations are proposed for the use, exchange and control of personal information, with the aim...

Record and Hold: Popular Music between Personal and Collective Memory

Recorded music is vital to the construction of personal and collective cultural memory. My examination of the interrelation between personal and collective memories of popular music assumes both that human memory is simultaneously embodied, enabled, and embedded, and that (re)collective experiences are constructed through narratives. Analysis of an online set of narrative responses to a nationa...

Experiencing film: Subjective personal introspection and popular film consumption

Article history: First received on May 29, 2014 and was under review for 7 months Available online 28 September 2015 How and why audiences consume films is a much-researched yet inconclusive area of film marketing. Film is an experiential product and qualitative research methods are a suitable way of gaining insight into how people choose between different film offerings and how they assess the...

Popular and Clan-Popular b-Matchings

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties, and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of houses/agents (respectively) that can be matched to him/her/it. We want to find a matching M , called popular, for which there is no other matching M ′ such that more agents prefer M ′ to M than M to M ′, sub...

Christianity and Popular Culture