This paper, which draws heavily on a chapter by the authors for the forthcoming Handbook of Media Management and Economics (Albarran, 2005), focuses on potential methodological challenges facing scholars interested in the economics of cultural industries and, especially, economics of media. Drawing on previous work by economic researchers, it examines what is unusual or special about economics ...

creating crisis and attempting to solve it is an important function of the mass media. this is carried out using a range of modern tools. media can influence socio-political and cultural events employing strategies and meta-strategies to form the public thinking in the direction they aim. the media emperors and the press trusts manage to form some kind of information monopoly through influencin...

In China, with increasing maturity of media and continuous emergence of new media, demand on media managers is urgent day by day. However, media management itself is a subject with combination of compound, pluralism, theory and practice. It is easy to train common journalists, but it is quite difficult to train media talents of high quality proficient in management. This article is going to mai...

This paper proposes a virtual memory management system suitable for interactive continuous media applications. Our virtual memory management system enables continuous media applications to reserve physical memory for allocating pages as soon as possible when the applications require the pages. The system implicitly and incrementally allocates and wires pages used for processing timing critical ...

abstract background: the children with middle ear effusion need repeated re-tympanostomies. adenoidectomy is an effective surgical intervention in the management of chronic otitis media with effusion in conjunction with in-sertion of tympanostomy tubes (tts). to find out whether tts in different positions decrease the rate of re-tympanostomies study was done. methods: the present study retrospe...

Social media have played integral roles in many crises around the world. Thailand faced severe floods between July 2011 and January 2012, when more than 13.6 million people were affected. This 7-month disaster provides a great opportunity to understand the use of social media for managing a crisis project before, during, and after its occurrence. However, current literature lacks a theoretical ...

The increasing number of media creation devices is adding to the organization and media management problem for personal media. Content describing metadata is seen as the most prominent answer to this problem. However, current metadata standards have shortcomings when it comes to the domain of personal media. This is because the standards are designed for public and professional uses of media an...

Multimedia database systems largely focus on the management of media of one particular type and suffer from inflexible architectures, which makes it difficult to adapt them to individual application needs. This paper gives an overview of METIS, a flexible multimedia database foundation for the unified management of media of arbitrary types, characterized by profound customizability. METIS can b...