A5106623554- Digital Games and Media
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Cambodian History and Society
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Media Studies and Communication
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Lung Cancer Research Studies
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Brain Metastases and Treatment
- Research in Social Sciences
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Global Health Workforce Issues
City of Hope
2024-2025
Beckman Research Institute
2024-2025
University of Southern California
2013-2024
Southern California University for Professional Studies
2013-2021
Annenberg Foundation
2021
Grady Memorial Hospital
2018
University of Georgia
2018
University of Montana
2015
University of Auckland
2002-2012
Rocky Mountain Research (United States)
2012
This article develops an analytical framework to understand the modes of address native-to-online content types (gameplay, do-it-yourself (DIY) beauty, personality vlogging). These differ sharply from established screen entertainment and are constituted intrinsically interactive audience-centricity appeal authenticity community in a commercialising space which we call ‘social media entertainment’. The offers revisionist analysis shaping disciplining brand culture through twinned discourses...
Abstract In the wake of frank neo-liberalism, and in context rising security fears, ways are being found to provide market liberalism with a more inclusive face. The Poverty Reduction Strategies currently prominent international development, Thirdway OECD 'Social Inclusion' policy frames claim common purpose promote 'opportunity, empowerment security' for people places on peripheries global economies societies. They share commitments economic integration openness, led growth, 'good' 'joined...
In Aotearoa New Zealand, as elsewhere, partnership programmes overtly targeted to the strengthening of local communities are developing in a range institutional sites. This development, it is claimed by some, moves social governance well beyond narrow, market-oriented, contractualism earlier forms neoliberalism, and into new era joined up, inclusive governance. Here we highlight emergent role "strategic brokers" who do grounded joining up this partnering ethos. Drawing on findings large...
In attempting to break with a ‘fall from grace’ narrative that may structure analysis of the rapid professionalization and monetization previously amateur online video content on main global platform, YouTube, this article outlines histories key institutions in new screen ecology as outcomes increased interpenetration very different, often clashing industry cultures. Google/YouTube, Apple’s iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, Yahoo! Facebook (‘NoCal’) are largely Internet ‘pure-play’ companies, whilst...
This article examines conditions placing China’s livestreamers as central focal points in the increasing tensions between cultural politics and economic ambitions of digital China. Framed by concerns around ‘platformization’, this research uses a creator-centric critical media industries studies perspective. Chinese enjoy greater degree opportunity than their Western counterparts, including competing gameplay platforms that vie for premier gameplayers who can dictate own terms. Decades-old...
As the COVID-19 crisis spreads around globe, rhetoric about pandemic evoked by journalists and politicians harks back to that of prior diseases epidemics. This short article updates framework AIDS metaphors developed critical theorist Susan Sontag era. Alongside damage wrought virus itself, these discourses can inflict greater, even lethal damage, while thrusting into relief ongoing concerns socio-cultural power, injustice, inequality.
This article addresses the platformization of cultural production by offering a creator-centric account industrial and governance issues in social media entertainment (SME). SME is our term for emerging industry native online producers together with platforms, intermediaries, fan communities operating interdependently, disruptively, alongside legacy industries across global cultures. The central concern that these creators are not recognized as stakeholders current debates both academic...
The social dimensions of river restoration are not well understood especially in the context large‐scale projects embedded a complex social‐ecological system. This study used in‐depth interviews with diverse stakeholders to examine perceptions success on Clark Fork River Superfund project Western Montana. Trust emerged as critical and was influenced by public engagement, spatial temporal scale. At this large scale, multiple relationships between agencies, NGOs , businesses, landowners, other...
The phenomenon of toy unboxing describes rapidly scaling and commercialising videos featuring the opening, assembling demonstration children’s toys, often by children, across social media platforms. This has fostered concerns parents advocates around access to participation in media. article provides a brief history this phenomenon, noting very limited scholarship on issue while engaging with new regulatory questions it provokes. We describe how these represent forms creator labour operate...
ABSTRACT Colorectal cancer contributes to cancer-related deaths and health disparities in the Hispanic Latino community. To probe both biological genetic bases of disparities, we characterized features colorectal terms somatic alterations similarity. Specifically, conducted a comprehensive genome-scale analysis 67 samples. We performed DNA exome sequencing for mutations, copy number alterations, also RNA differential gene expression, cellular pathways, fusions. analyzed all samples 22...
Major efforts have been made bydevelopment organisations tomake their systems ofproject and programme management more participatory, in order to be accountable local participants (or beneficiaries), while also creating opportunities for them shape own processes. These measures may look but effect become new (and often costly) forms of control, which do not result great benefits project participants. The authors argue that the dominance three components- projects, professionals,...
223 Background: CRC is the third leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide with age and diet among strongest risk factors. Emerging evidence suggests gut microbiome plays important role in highly impacted by exposome primarily food intake. Since an diversity, present study aimed to investigate alterations young versus old mice harboring allografts fed different diets. Methods: Two cohorts C57BL/6 including (n = 9, 6 weeks) 20-24 months) were implanted 1x10 MSI (microsatellite...
Abstract On the basis of our broad strategy, we have formulated following policy response to poverty: promoting opportunities, creating security, strengthening capabilities and generating empowerment. … Faster growth will require policies that encourage macroeconomic stability, shift resources more productive sectors, integrate with global economy. Attention is also needed social structures institutions, which affect development, called capital. (Cambodia's interim Poverty Reduction Strategy...