In recent years, the convergence of neural network architectures and semantic communication has led to innovative strides in representation learning. This paper explores the application of autoencoders, a subset of ne...
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In recent years, the convergence of neural network architectures and semantic communication has led to innovative strides in representation learning. This paper explores the application of autoencoders, a subset of neural networks designed for unsupervised learning, in encoding and decoding data to capture semantic nuances. Additionally, we discuss future research directions, proposing a semantic communication model learned from time series data and presenting experimental results. Our experiments involve encoding and decoding time series data using autoencoders, evaluating the feasibility of integrating autoencoder technology into semantic communication. Following the experiment, our proposed model exhibited a loss rate of approximately 0.15-0.2% for the time series data. This outcome represents a notable result, especially when compared to the compression rate of transmission data. It hints at the potential for a future autoencoder-based semantic communication model.
This article examines how qualitative approaches to human-centered inquiry benefit public diplomacy (PD) scholarship. It argues that rigorous qualitative methods improve the frameworks guiding PD research. Tendencies ...
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This article examines how qualitative approaches to human-centered inquiry benefit public diplomacy (PD) scholarship. It argues that rigorous qualitative methods improve the frameworks guiding PD research. Tendencies for miscommunication permeate the encoding and decoding communication processes in international/intercultural contexts, with PD often transcending cultural boundaries and national borders. This article cautions against assuming conceptual, measurement, and semiotic equivalence of constructs and variables, based on influences from culture and language. Furthermore, the article advocates mixed methods, explicating how rigorous qualitative methods can better contextualize the statistics of quantitative methods, leading to more comprehensive understandings of PD.
Conspiracy theories were once perceived as delusions of individuals on the fringes of society, but have become commonplace in mainstream culture. Today, they are produced, consumed, and circulated on various online me...
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Conspiracy theories were once perceived as delusions of individuals on the fringes of society, but have become commonplace in mainstream culture. Today, they are produced, consumed, and circulated on various online media environments. From memes on 4chan, QAnon influencers on Instagram, to flat earth or antivaxx videos on YouTube, modern-day conspiracy culture embodies compelling mediated images and narratives that are composed of various audiovisual materials. Building on Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model, and Henry Jenkins' notion of "participatory culture," we analyze these audiovisual conspiracy theories as "oppositional readings" of hegemonic truths. More concretely, we analyze how conspiracy theorists reconstruct various audiovisual (mass-media) materials into streamlined narratives on YouTube videos to picture opaque power. Based on an in-depth qualitative analysis of 24 conspiracy theory videos, strategically selected from a larger sample of 200, we present three major categories of audiovisual narrative construction in conspiracy videos on YouTube: (1) Simulating: using fiction, religious and cultural images and narratives to render images of events otherwise invisible;(2) Deciphering: decoding hidden messages by "closely reading" images and looking for hidden symbolism;(3) Exhibiting: exposing information, research, and images that are "hidden in plain sight" but point to conspiracy. This article contributes to the growing body of literature on conspiracy theories by showing how they are not just texts, but should better be seen as media practices involving the recontextualizing of (mass)media material into new audiovisual conspiracy theory narratives. This shapes not just their content and form, but also their place in public discourse.
Mukbang, in which people broadcast themselves eating large quantities, started to enter the Chinese market around 2014 and gradually became popular. In this thesis, by analyzing the encodings of mukbang videos on Kuai...
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Mukbang, in which people broadcast themselves eating large quantities, started to enter the Chinese market around 2014 and gradually became popular. In this thesis, by analyzing the encodings of mukbang videos on Kuaishou, the shared themes across videos were discovered. Also, the decodings of mukbang videos by viewers were examined so as to figure out their different attitudes and emotions toward mukbang videos and mukbangers. Findings suggested that mukbang videos and its viewers have built up a complex relationship. Pursuing the thrill of hunger, vicarious eating, emotional establishment, and relieving anorexia were found as main reasons the viewers choose to watch mukbang videos. However, some viewers also expressed their shock, even disbelief on unusual food intake. Others expressed their desires on owning a slim figure that never becoming overweight even overeating. This thesis also argued that mukbang has indeed caused a certain harmful impact on the perception of eating norms and eating behaviors of some viewers.
In the context of the rekindled debate on participatory research, Freire's concept of "thematic inquiry" and its dialectically iterative principle of coding/decoding is recalled, which is related to Lefe...
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In the context of the rekindled debate on participatory research, Freire's concept of "thematic inquiry" and its dialectically iterative principle of coding/decoding is recalled, which is related to Lefebvre's "strategic hypothesis" approach. Against this background, a concept of participatory social space research is outlined, which uses photographs from different perspectives of space segments and their use in a dynamic of Freire's dialogic principle of coding/decoding to reconstruct spatial interest orientations of users of arrangements of socio-pedagogical local actions.
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the use of representations and symbols of Canadian identity within the event coverage produced by the Ultimate Fighting Cham- pionship Corporation, in the context of its...
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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the use of representations and symbols of Canadian identity within the event coverage produced by the Ultimate Fighting Cham- pionship Corporation, in the context of its two key events, Ultimate Fighting Champion- ship, and Fight Night, produced in Canada. To establish the historical context in which the sport developed in Canada, a narrative historiography of the political and legal struggles that led to the legalization and increas- ing popularity of Mixed Martial Arts, and the UFCC's version of the sport, in particular. This first major part of the dissertation is contained in Study 1. The second major part of the dissertation consists of two interrelated studies (Studies 2 and 3), both focussing on narratives of Canadian identity produced by the UFCC in its main event and related coverage. Using Stuart Hall concept of encoding/decoding, Study 2 investigated the UFCC's broadcast and narrative production as the encoding stage of the communication process. Study 3, conversely, investigated the responses and comments produced by the UFC fan base, in response to the UFCC's coverage. Certain fan blogs and web sites were investigated as the expression of the fan base perspective. These responses were investigated as the decoding stage, in Hall's conceptualization of the communication process. The findings from studies 2 and 3 show that the strategic use of specific themes of Canadian identity invoked in the context of UFC event coverage, was to a large extent accepted positively by the segment of the fan base investigated here; however, opposi- tional or negotiated readings of the UFCC's coverage was significantly evident in the fan blog responses as well.
As an outstanding representative of British Cultural Studies, Stuart Hall has long been occupied as the leader of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in its theories, thoughts and factual wo...
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As an outstanding representative of British Cultural Studies, Stuart Hall has long been occupied as the leader of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in its theories, thoughts and factual work. He has been concentrated on the critical topics such as culture, ideology, and identity. In the field of mass communication, major contribution of Hall lies in his attempts to connect the ideological encoding of cultural formation to the decoding position of the audiences. His thought develops the critical theories of mass communication. Given the importance of Hall’s role in the contemporary cultural studies and his significant contribution to mass media research, it is worthwhile for us to probe deeper into his thought to explore valuable contents. In this essay, it mainly concerns Hall’s new model of encoding/decoding and the theory of the audience.
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Pett, EmmaSchool of Art
Media and American Studies University of East Anglia Norwich United Kingdom
Recent scholarship on the branding of contemporary cult Asian cinema for western audiences has frequently drawn on Said’s seminal treatise Orientalism as a means to critique sensationalist marketing materials. Whilst...
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Digital media have become an integral part of everyday life. Media-related research within European ethnology is characterized by the fact that it penetrates the interconnections of media and everyday life ethnographi...
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Digital media have become an integral part of everyday life. Media-related research within European ethnology is characterized by the fact that it penetrates the interconnections of media and everyday life ethnographically. In order to substantiate this competence, the article outlines a series of conceptual approaches that all help to better understand and ethnographically explore the everydayness of media. This includes an eye for media practices and the interwoven, incorporated knowledge;the analysis of the potentials and limitations of practice inscribed in media (affordances);access to media infrastructure processes;the interplay of encoding and decoding;and last but not least, the ethnographic understanding of sensory and emotional processes in relation to media. In summary, these concepts provide a discipline-specific perspective on "media of the everyday" that allows to emphasize and to make productive the specific contribution of European ethnology to the transdisciplinary field of media and digital anthropology.
Museums are sites of contested meaning that bring together artifacts of the other with the sense-making practices of patrons. The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Charlotte, North Carolina exemplifies a similar struggle as...
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Museums are sites of contested meaning that bring together artifacts of the other with the sense-making practices of patrons. The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Charlotte, North Carolina exemplifies a similar struggle as patrons negotiate between appeals to the authority of science and appeals to the authority of the Bible. Our analysis demonstrates that religion-rather than class struggle-permeates the encoding and decoding practices there. This struggle is exacerbated in part because of the religious nature of the artifacts on display;and also because when read as a text, the site's latent discourse reinforces the collective belief among many Evangelical Christians in the accuracy of the Bible. Furthermore, the exhibit's public relations campaign, its layout and design, and the predominantly Christian background of its guests coalesce to amplify a sense of the numinous.
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