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significant so-cial event, what is a good choice of exter-nal corpus to identify evolution of discus-sion topics around the event’s context? In this work, we compare the effectiveness of contemporary blog posts, online news me-dia and forum discussions in creating ad-hoc external corpus. Using social propen

Apocalyptic global urbanization is old news. For generations statistically supported oracles have warned against the rising tide of rapid urban growth, one must only casually search the keywords "urban slum " on google to witness the physical manifestation of these abstract predictions

creation and YouTube use. Analyzing vlogs Videos are complicated texts requiring careful analysis conducted via various methods. Even though visual analysis is complex and the results usually subjective, videos need to be examined because they are becoming increasingly important in contemporary culture

Most contemporary implementations of the Berkeley Fast File System optimize file system throughput by allocating logically sequential data to physically contiguous disk blocks. This clustering is effective when there are many contiguous free blocks on the file system. But the repeated creation

Edwin Thanhouser was ahead of his time in his understanding of the necessity of a detailed film script, and he may have differed from his contemporaries in his belief that a good, wholesome, logical story was the most important qualification of a good film. “[Films] must appeal to the best

Michel Butor, a contemporary writer of the French New Novel, now the New New Novel, makes extensive use of naming, repetition of epithet-like phrases, distortions of q notations, sight-sound similarities of words and phrases, to create stories within stories and from other stories, and to evoke

The announcement of "Artificial Life" by the Craig Venter group, and the media stir that arose from the news, provoked thoughts about the current technologies in contemporary science and the cultural tension of such projections on the media. The increasingly blurred boundaries between

;is nurtured in families, educational institutions, work places, the media, government policies, civil societies and the overall art and intellectual environment of the whole community" (Lim 2003, p. 54). It is characterised by "adaptive reuse" and created by deploying a contemporary vernacular

close enough approximation, the timing parameters of a contemporary TV chat show are probably representative of our species since very near the advent of language. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/08/63/index.html http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/08/66/ index