Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...

The paper provides an in depth examination of the narrative structure of Massively Multiplayer Online Computer Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). The analysis is focused on the narrative complexities created by the relationships between computer technology, the medieval fantasy that is central to the genre, and the emergent nature of the online player society. The paper is divided into four major se...

Scientific writing is a general label with a great deal of variation at any period. Empirical evidence of variation within genres of the early periods has been produced by studies of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, as they have shown that umbrella categories like ‘religious treatises’ or ‘scientific writing’ contain very heterogeneous texts (Meurman-Solin 1993, Taavitsainen 1993, 1994a). ...

A robust music genre classification framework is proposed that combines the rich, psycho-physiologically grounded properties of auditory cortical representations of music recordings and the power of sparse representation-based classifiers. A novel multilinear subspace analysis method that incorporates the underlying geometrical structure of the cortical representations space into non-negative t...

The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may be better viewed as instances of a participatory genre, rather than as community. A genre-oriented analysis is useful because it encourages a focus on the medium within which the discourse is embodied. As an example we analyze ...

With the advent of larger electronic music repositories, the automatic organization of music into different genre categories is receiving increased attention. The creation of such genre hierarchies, as well as ways for providing useful interfaces to these, poses an interesting challenge. With the SOM-enhanced JukeBox (SOMeJB) system we developed an approach for automatically organizing pieces o...

The contemporary videogame genre of the military shooter, exemplified by blockbuster franchises like Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, is often criticised for its romantic and jingoistic depictions of the modern, high-tech battlefield. This entanglement of military shooters and the rhetoric of technologically advanced warfare in a “militaryentertainment complex” is scrutinised by Yager’s Spec Op...

Music genre classification is one example of content-based analysis of music signals. Traditionally, human engineered features were used to automatize this task and 61% accuracy has been achieved in the 10-genre classification. However, it’s still below the 70% accuracy that humans could achieve in the same task. Here, we propose a new method that combines knowledge of human perception study in...