This paper discusses an early stage project to develop a new, enhanced interface for Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Digital Collections website. We describe the current state of the portal and outline some of the unique issues observed when examining user engagement. A major factor in our development of enhanced search tools will be to leverage the entities present in the documents to establish m...

AIM OF THE STUDY This article presents an analysis of the economic, political and socio-cultural significance of khat in Somaliland, highlighting both its positive and negative effects. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirteen months of anthropological fieldwork in Somaliland, two months of anthropological fieldwork among Somalis in London, four months experience from the Somalia Joint Needs Assessment...

Inspired by the astonishing and unprecedented speed and scale of uptakes of the Apple iPhone, this study seeks to unravel the behavioural aspects surrounding young people’s adoption and consumption of the device. Because the iPhone is associated with specific social practices characteristic of a specific ‘way of life’ of a distinct set of people, it is considered here as a ‘cultural commodity’ ...

In this paper we review recent sociological research dealing with the consumption of culture produced in the fine and popular arts realms. We note that most of the initial theoretical developments in the sociological study of culture consumption were first developed to explain audience segmentation in the fine arts realm under what we refer as the “cultural capital” paradigm developed by Pierre...

In this article we use recent survey data to test three arguments on the relationship between social stratification and cultural consumption: i.e. what we label as the homology, individualization and omnivore–univore arguments. We note various conceptual and methodological problems in the ways these arguments have been advanced, and stress in particular the importance of maintaining the Weberia...

This paper proposes a novel approach to explore the relationship between cultural participation and subjective well-being. While most empirical research has considered such connection using leisure activities individually or in additive terms, drawing from sociological literature, we adopt consumption profiles emerging variety intensity of engagement different simultaneously. Using data 2012 It...

Social interactions and personal tastes shape our consumption behaviors of cultural products. In this study, we present a computational model of a cultural market and we aim to analyze the behavior of the consumer population as an emergent phenomena. Our results suggest that the final market shares of the cultural products dramatically depend on the consumer heterogeneity and social interaction...

1. Current Views of Global Carrying Capacity 2. The Global Social, Economic, and Cultural Situation 2.1. Economic Differences 2.2. Cultural Differences 2.3. A Comparison of Production and Consumption between Developed and Developing Countries 3. Carrying Capacity of Natural Resources 4. The Environment, Environmental Problems, and Environmental Protection 5. Population, Resources, and Environme...