Accurate metaphor detection remains an open challenge. In this paper, we explore a new type of clue for disambiguating terms that may be used metaphorically or literally in an online medical support community. In particular, we investigate the influence of situational factors on propensity to employ the metaphorical sense of words when they can be used to illustrate the emotion behind the exper...

New media have been widely used by radical groups of both Left and Right to advance their political projects. The aim of this article to provide a theoretical framework, through developing the concepts of public sphere and counter-public sphere, which allows us to understand the growing importance of alternative media in society and to indicate how this framework might generate questions for

Ubiquitous learning (U-Learning) has an increasing trend as the coming forth of more new media and instructional ideas. U-Learning focuses on the combination of learning environment and substance space, emphasizing the learning can be happen as seeing, hearing, reading, or apperceiving whenever the learner wanted. Hybrid learning, sometimes called “blended learning”, emphasizes to maximize stud...

In this paper we are concerned with the implications of information and communications technologies (ICTs), and the so-called “new economy” with which they are associated, for regional development. As such, we are concerned particularly with examining the ways in which ICTs may “change the balance” between centralising and decentralising dynamics in the space-economy. A number of starkly differ...