At present, the field of media studies is faced with rapidly changing norms and constant technological advancements. Corporations dominate Western society, as their messages bombard public and private life, making it easy to get lost amidst our obsession with brands and commodities. However, as we find ourselves struggling in an era where money is paramount and image is everything, the importan...

Recent work in Distributed Feature Composition architecture has shown that a modular, compositional architecture of feature logic can lead to successful management of feature interaction. It can also promote rapid deployment of new services and third party innovation in a communication network. ECLIPSE is an implementation of DFC that focuses on Voice over IP (VoIP) and multimedia over IP. In E...