In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as social network sites (e.g. Facebook), search engines (e.g. Google), and smartphones (e.g. iPhone), are increasingly crucial because they function as major digital media intermediaries. Emerging companies in non-Western countries have created unique platforms, controlling their own national markets and competing with Western-based platform empires in the global markets. The reality though is that only a handful of Western countries, primarily the U.S., have dominated the global platform markets, resulting in capital accumulation in the hands of a few mega platform owners. This book contributes to the platform imperialism discourse by mapping out several core areas of platform imperialism, such as intellectual property, the global digital divide, and free labor, focusing on the role of the nation-state alongside transnational capital.

'Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of International Relations and East Asian Studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally'--

Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while convergence among communications companies has been the major trend in the neoliberal era, the splintering of companies, de-convergence, is now gaining momentum in the communications market.

As the first comprehensive attempt to analyze the wave of de-convergence of the global media system in the context of globalization, this book makes sense of those transitions by looking at global trends and how global media firms have changed and developed their business paradigm from convergence to de-convergence. Jin traces the complex relationship between media industries, culture, and globalization by exploring it in a transitional yet contextually grounded framework, employing a political economic analysis integrating empirical data analysis.

This statistics textbook is intended primarily for entry level graduate students in Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs, and also could be useful for undergraduate students. Authors Kim and Mallory (nursing, Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State U.) incorporate a number of features in each chapter, including chapter objectives, key terms, critical thinking questions, and self quizzes. Topics include statistical essentials, descriptive statistics, preparing for the analysis, modeling relationships, tests for comparing group means, and common statistical mistakes. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of three international workshops held in conjunction with the 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, in Shenyang, China, in April 2008 (see LNCS 4976).The 15 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers and 4 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Topics addressed by the workshops are business intelligence and data mining (BIDM 2008), health data management (IWHDM 2008), and data engineering and Web technology research (DeWeb 2008). The papers focus on issues such as Web searching, Web services, database, data mining, bioinformatics, and business intelligence.

Basing their work on the study of Chinese and English bilingual dictionaries, the authors (both of Guangdong U. of Business Studies, China) aim to establish a triangular communicative model of lexicography that regards the bilingual dictionary as a system of intercultural communication between compiler and user. After establishing their communicative theoretical framework, they comparatively study monolingual and bilingual dictionaries in regard to lexicographic choices, analyze the influence of modern linguistics upon the development of bilingual lexicography, and discuss its status quo and future development. Along the way they explore theoretical aspects such as the nature of the dictionary, the relation of linguistics to bilingual lexicography, typological classification, structural description, and principles governing intercultural lexicographic communication, together with practical issues regarding the actualization of bilingual dictionary making, revision, and supplementation. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

La storia si svolge nelle montagne innevate della Manciuria. Un mattino d'inverno, nei 1781, la Loggia dei Dragoni combatte contro la Compagnia dei Cavalli Saltanti per la conquista di uno scrigno segreto che dovrebbe contenere un prezioso pugnale, simbolo della Fratellanza marziale. Mentre i guerrieri sono impegnati in un duello senza esclusione di colpi, l'improvvisa comparsa sulla scena del Monaco determina un'inaspettata svolta nel corso degli eventi: è stato inviato dal Signore dei Rapaci a cercare aiuto per il duello Finale contro Volpe Volante. In attesa del grande scontro inizia la rievocazione di avventure, intrighi e lotte occorsi nel passato e che hanno come protagonista principale Volpe Volante, il valoroso guerriero che in ogni modo tenterà di mettere fine alla disputa vendicando così, una volta per tutte, la morte dei suoi genitori.