As nations continue to open up to the global market and invite the commercialization and appropriation of native texts, a renegotiation process regarding the power dynamics of cultural influence for both native producers ...

Science fiction has presented us with a picture of robots that have the potential to mimic humans to the point of being indistinguishable from them. This paper is about some of the essential ways the two are different. The ...

How and why people use different media on the Internet has been a primary interest in computer mediated communication since the inception of the Internet. Now that more and more relationships are being initiated and ...

The trend toward robotics and automation are not only becoming ubiquitous across many sectors, but they are also advancing at more significant rates than ever before. With robots becoming more involved in the workplace and ...

In recent years, Chinese young people tend to use a popular Internet word diaosi to mock themselves as “underprivileged losers” who fail in their careers and romantic relationships. This paper tries to examine this ...

Today’s hegemonic combatants for power are nation states just as much as blue chip companies, religious leaders, Hollywood directors, and athletes, striving to execute control over their respectable loci of power and ...

Urban Agriculture is increasingly forwarded as a tool for social and ecological renewal in the post-industrial city. However, much of the enthusiasm (and increasingly, scholarly analysis) of this phenomenon focuses on its ...

Drawing on Judith Butler’s work in Precarious Life (2004) and Frames of War (2009), this paper discusses the way that contemporary American war films, such as Hurt Locker (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and American ...

This paper examines broadly the role of technology in the lives of refugees and its influence on the trajectory of forced displacement today, a topic that has been covered extensively by the media but has not been as ...

Presidential campaign logos are unique icons in our democratic society. Their saliency and how they are perceived by the general public is tantamount to the success of the campaigns themselves. Due to the rise of social ...