Digital Representations of Chinese Teahouse Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Corey Moore
Keyword(s):  
Prima Facie ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Passive Listening ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Static Images ◽  
Recorded Performances ◽  
Tea Ceremony

Platforms such as YouTube feature materials titled “Teahouse in Ancient China - Historical Ambience XXABSTRACT Music” or “Tea Ceremony Music”. Prima facie, these have parallels with the modern Western concept of the “coffee shop playlist”, which has become quite commonplace as a study or work aid. However, the passive listening habits associated with these kinds of playlists contrast with the varied entertainment culture experienced in the functioning teahouses of modern China, where performative aspects are the focus, for example. In this paper, I explore how Chinese teahouse music is presented on YouTube, drawing comparisons between playlists accompanied by static images and samples of recorded performances found on the platform. Finally, I discuss the potential problems arising from such representations of the Chinese teahouse.

Avatars for Clinical Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 313-341
Author(s):  
Stefano Triberti ◽  
Valeria Sebri ◽  
Lucrezia Savioni ◽  
Alessandra Gorini ◽  
Gabriella Pravettoni
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Static Images ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
The Given

Avatars are an important feature of digital environments. Existing both in social networks and webchats (usually as static images) and in single-player and online video games (as dynamic characters, often humanoid), avatars are meant to represent users' action and communication within digital environments. Research has shown that, when they are customized by users, avatars are not created “randomly,” rather they maintain some kind of relationship with users' actual self-representation and identity. However, more recent studies showed that users may have multiple digital representations: the same person could create multiple avatars depending on which facet of the self is primed by an experimental manipulation, or on which aims they have to pursue in the given virtual environments (e.g., to seduce, to play, to work). With this background, this contribution explores the possibility to use customized avatars within psychological assessment, as adjunctive assessment tools useful to get information on patients' self-representation(s) and communicative intentions.

scholarly journals HathiTrust as a Data Source for Researching Early Nineteenth-Century Library Collections

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Julia Bauder
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Google Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Library Collections

An intriguing new opportunity for research into the nineteenth-century history of print culture, libraries, and local communities is performing full-text analyses on the corpus of books held by a specific library or group of libraries. Creating corpora using books that are known to have been owned by a given library at a given point in time is potentially feasible because digitized records of the books in several hundred nineteenth-century library collections are available in the form of scanned book catalogs: a book or pamphlet listing all of the books available in a particular library. However, there are two potential problems with using those book catalogs to create corpora. First, it is not clear whether most or all of the books that were in these collections have been digitized. Second, the prospect of identifying the digital representations of the books listed in the catalogs is daunting, given the diversity of cataloging practices at the time. This article will report on progress towards developing an automated method to match entries in early nineteenth-century book catalogs with digitized versions of those books, and will also provide estimates of the fractions of the library holdings that have been digitized and made available in the Google Books/HathiTrust corpus.

scholarly journals Taxing Bitcoin Transactions Under Polish Tax Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patryk Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Judicial System ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Polish Law

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of digital currencies - digital representations of value which are transferred using IT technologies and used as a medium of exchange but are not recognised as official means of payment. Bitcoins are one of such currencies and their popularity in Europe and in Poland has been growing. Hence it is a good time to consider to what extent Polish law is prepared to face the phenomenon and what potential problems may arise from it for the judicial system. The main objective of the paper is to analyse Polish tax regulations in the context of bitcoin transactions, as broadly understood.

scholarly journals SOCIOCULTURAL TRADITION AND DIGITAL SOCIETY: TWO STRATEGIC LANDMARKS OF THE CHINESE FORESIGHT TECHNOLOGY

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
M. U. Zakharov
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Transition Stage ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
Scenario Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Methodological Principles

The article analyses the features of the formation and strategic guidelines of the Chinese foresight technology, its potential opportunities, the limits of its use in order to build the desired digital future and determine specific steps to achieve it effectively. To this end, the author considers the archetypal traces of the predictive activity of Ancient China, their interaction with modern predictive practice as an integral part of the design of the alleged digital image of the future. The paper determines theoretical and methodological foundations of modern Chinese foresight technology, initial basic methodological principles and technology of prospective step-by-step application of comprehensive foresight, including the method of scenario design. The article pays special attention to the understanding of modern China foresight projects, possibility of their implementation on the national basis and impact of foresight results on the Chinese model of development and change management at the transition stage to digital society. 

How the Concept of “Nature” Emerged and Evolved in Modern China

Cultura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Zhongjiang WANG
Keyword(s):  
Modern China ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Formal Process ◽  
Western Concept ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
History Of Modern China

Abstract The entrance of “nature” from English to Chinese and the transformation of the word ziran in Chinese had been intertwined together. In the formal process, “nature” was not translated as ziran at first while in the latter process, the western concept and Chinese ideas of nature combined together with multiple, comprehensive meanings in the history of modern China. This means the second process consists some major transformations of ziran as a key concept in modern China. Firstly, it has been a process of materialization for the traditional concept of ziran from ancient China. Secondly, traditional ideas of nature like tian, tianran, ziran, got revived during their association and collaborations with western understandings of nature as a concept of naturalist philosophy. Thirdly, it was also in this process where a humanistic and existential definition of ziran began to emerge, not only as a response to the materialized understanding of ziran, but also created the confrontation between a material occidental civilization and a spiritual oriental civilization. This dualist view not only ignored other thought like Romantism, Humanism and ideas which go against materialism or scientism, but also overlooked materialism and scientism itself in the history of Modern China.

Microbulldozing and Microchiseling

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
J.N. Ramsey ◽  
D.P. Cameron ◽  
F.W. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Material Handling ◽  
Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Foreign Matter ◽  
Specific Location ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Knoop Indenter ◽  
Scanning Electron ◽  
Microhardness Tester

As computer components become smaller the analytical methods used to examine them and the material handling techniques must become more sensitive, and more sophisticated. We have used microbulldozing and microchiseling in conjunction with scanning electron microscopy, replica electron microscopy, and microprobe analysis for studying actual and potential problems with developmental and pilot line devices. Foreign matter, corrosion, etc, in specific locations are mechanically loosened from their substrates and removed by “extraction replication,” and examined in the appropriate instrument. The mechanical loosening is done in a controlled manner by using a microhardness tester—we use the attachment designed for our Reichert metallograph. The working tool is a pyramid shaped diamond (a Knoop indenter) which can be pushed into the specimen with a controlled pressure and in a specific location.

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