Era Of Digital Convergence Research Articles

Factors Influencing Cyber Copyright Ethics Reception and Policy Alternatives in Digital Convergence Era

In this paper, the author focused on the establishment of structural equation model for cyber copyright ethics based upon literature reviews. And to draw a factors influencing cyber copyright ethics reception, author are applied a human-technology-contents-culture (HTCoC) perspectives. The basic idea is that copyright ethics is one of the most significant solutions to protect copyrighted materials. Among solutions like technology, institution and legal framework, ethics may be the most powerful alternatives to face with copyright infringement. Among variables, copyright culture is appeared that can mediate the other factors in cyberspace. Concluding remarks is that more sound and sustainable cyber copyright ethics is needed to cope with unexpected negative use of information technology in digital convergence era.

주거단지 배치계획을 위한 증강현실 기술의 활용방안에 관한 기초연구

Digital convergence era has been already started and is rapidly developed. Recently, convergency technology became an essential issue in all industries, and is expected to accelerate. This means that we can experience growth and change of architecture using new technology and approaching method. The AR (Augmented Reality) technology, among these convergence technology, is a kind of virtual reality technology that user can see a scene of real world which is overlapped by virtual world with additional information. It has been used in manufacturing and management in the whole industry fields including medical, mechanical, military field and so on because it can provide higher sense of reality. Thus, in this paper, we suggest the utilization of AR technology for organically connecting the roads, facilities, green area, landscape and others in the layout planning of housing complex. Users can see real world with virtual object by overlap computer graphic on the real world. This method provides users with various information about territoriality and openness. As the result of this study it is expected that this technology will help the layout planning of housing complex to become more reasonable in the aspect of design, time and cost.

HDTV 수신 모듈용 GUI 설계 및 구현

디지털 컨버전스 시대에 접어듬에 따라 디지털 텔레비전 수신 모듈의 폭발적인 수요에 맞추어 사용자의 편의성을 강조한 디지털 TV GUI가 중요해지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 HDTV MPEG 수신 모듈의 구동을 위한 메뉴 선택 방식의 GUI를 설계하고 구현했다. 이는 기존의 유저 인터페이스가 가지는 단점들을 극복하고, 사용자에게 보다 친숙하고 편리함을 제공할 수 있는 구조를 가지고 있다. 메인 메뉴를 구성하기 위한 윈도우를 생성하고 메뉴 항목들을 <TEX>$1{\times}3$</TEX> 구조로 화면의 상단에 배치하였다. 그리하여 메인메뉴와 서브메뉴 그리고 하위 메뉴를 한 개의 화면에 표시되도록 구성하였다. 그리고 새로 제작한GUI스타일과 아이콘을 적용함으로써 메뉴 선택 방식의 GUI를 완성하였다. By the advent of an era of digital convergence, the user-friendly DTV graphic user interface (GUI) techniques become very important because of the explosive consumption of DTV receiving modules. This paper describes the design and implementation of GUI of menu-driven type for the operation of HDTV MPEG module. The designed GUI is convenient and user-friendly. Main menu is created by forming a new window and is located on the top area of the window in the structure of 1 by 3 matrix. Thus main menu, sub-manu, and lower-level menu can be displayed on a screen. The menu-driven DTV GUI was acomplished by using new styles and icons.

컨버전스 트랜드에 근거한 모바일콘텐츠 분류체계

현재 모바일콘텐츠 분류체계는 분류원칙에 위배되는 구조적 문제와 컨버전스에 기인한 서비스의 다양화를 수용하는데 한계를 드러낸다. 본 연구는 이러한 한계점의 극복방안으로 알리스(Al Ries)의 이론을 발전시킨 대칭형과 비대칭형의 분류기준을 적용한 새로운 모바일콘텐츠 분류체계를 제시 한다. 여기서 대칭형은 융합 과정에서 변이(變異)되어 새로운 형태의 모바일 콘텐츠가 생성되는 것을 의미하는 반면, 비대칭형은 독립적인 속성들이 유지된 채 융합된 조합(組合)을 의미한다. 제시된 분류체계를 적용하여 현(現) 모바일 콘텐츠를 분석하면 모바일 콘텐츠 개발 및 서비스가 대칭형을 지향하고 있다는 사실과 기술의 발전과 함께 과거의 비대칭형 모바일 콘텐츠 역시 대칭형으로 재개발 되고 있다는 콘텐츠 산업의 경향이 도출된다. 현재 모바일 콘텐츠는 대칭적 성향과 비대칭적 성향이 공존한다는 측면에서 모바일콘텐츠 분류에 있어 대칭형과 비대칭형의 개념적 분류는 당분간 요구된다고 볼 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서 도출된 모바일 분류체계는 모바일콘텐츠 관련 연구자에게 컨버전스 경향은 물론 속성을 비교 분석할 수 있는 근거를 제공하는 동시에 모바일콘텐츠 관련 개발전략과 포지셔닝(Positioning) 전략을 세울 수 있는 일정정도 방향성 및 토대를 제시한다고 볼 수 있다. Current mobile content's classifications have two major problems. One violates a principle of classification and the other reveals limitations in dealing with various convergence services. This study proposes a new mobile content's classification system to resolve these problems by adapting Al Ries's principle of symmetric and asymmetric transition. Symmetric mobile contents take a form of mutation in convergence process; therefore, the contents would appear different from their originals whereas asymmetric type combines mobile contents in an autonomous way. This new system not only demonstrates a clearer classification but also implies the trend of mobile content development and services. The current suggests that symmetric type is preferable and symmetric type of mobile contents is re-developed to become a symmetric type as much as the technology can support. Nonetheless, it is found that asymmetric type would still be serviced to some extent. Thus, new mobile content's classification, proposed in this research, provides a more constructive understating of mobile content's directions in the era of digital convergence and a ground for comparative analysis of mobile content's development or positioning strategies.

Public television policies in Europe: The cases of France and Greece

The aim of this article is to examine the way technological developments and the internationalisation of the television industry affects public television (PTV) broadcasters in Europe. The work focuses on the policies pursued by PTV broadcasters in selected European countries in response to the challenges that confront them in the era of digital convergence. The changes in the European television landscape force public channels to rethink their position towards new digital technologies, organisational structures and programming policy and scheduling. To illustrate the difficulties but also the opportunities that arise during this period of change, the article analyses specific activities and strategies undertaken by public channels in the main areas examined (reorganisation, programming and technology) in one large (France) and one small European country (Greece).

Introduction: The Future of Sound Studies

The idea for this special issue originated with our collaboration editing a collection on sound and cinema called Lowering the Boom: Critical Essays on Film Sound. Our introduction, 'The Future of Film Sound Studies', situates the book's more specific contribution to the history and theory of film sound studies alongside an emerging body of scholarly work over the past few years on 'sound culture studies'. The claims on 'the future' in Lowering the Boom's introduction offer something of a challenge to scholars of both film sound and sound studies writ large to imagine the potential for interdisciplinary work around the academic study of sound. What flowed from this book project was a workshop panel on 'The Future of Sound Studies' at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in 2007, which in turn evolved into this set of position papers for a special issue of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.The SCMS workshop aimed to take up the challenge of delineating such a future by not only pursuing the theory and history of sound as an object of study but also by articulating cross-disciplinary methodologies and analytical approaches. The workshop participants (many of whom contributed to this special issue) drew from a wide variety of academic traditions and specialisations to represent the diversity surrounding sound studies, with each scholar examining sound in relation to other media, as well as considering the inclusion of philosophical and pedagogical approaches. The subsequent call for this special issue followed suit, seeking to engage such questions as: scrutinising the relationship between film sound studies and sound studies in general; defining 'sound culture studies' and the shift to cultural contexts; considering medium-specificity and its relationship to disciplinary boundaries; exploring the formal and aesthetic dimensions of sound; theorising a history of listening and subjectivity; querying how social scientific studies of sound can inform and invigorate sound studies in the humanities; reassessing the role of sound in film theory; and advancing the relationship between film sound studies and music studies.What becomes apparent from the range of the submissions here is that the field of sound studies is very much in the process of formation - a work in progress subject to ongoing transformations as it coalesces into its own distinctive field. Yet what is consistent throughout these contributions is recognition of how the lines of auditory discourse traverse traditional fields of knowledge, areas of growing interest, and emergent sites of analysis while being simultaneously aided and hindered by the power relations subtending the academic ordering of knowledge. Like the conundrum faced by everyone who writes on sound-related issues, many of our contributors argue for sound studies to render legible these relationships across academic disciplines. What is distinctive about sound studies is not merely its focus on a notoriously elusive object of study but moreover the field's insistence on a dialectical method, one that circulates between the imperatives of medium specificity and the cultural ubiquity of sound practices. Such a methodology emphasises constructing new strategies for analysis, developing new shared vocabularies, and articulating a transmedial approach to studying sound.Specifically, the discipline of sound studies functions best when it is able to combine analytical tools. Several authors here point out the need for a discursive, transmedial method of analysis, where the pedagogic tools of one field of knowledge are whetted and sharpened by those of another. By combining, for example, film music studies with philosophy or film studies with opera studies, the authors propose new models for analysis, and in doing so construct productive relationships across disciplinary lines. Most importantly, in an era of digital convergence, where the textual distinctions between media forms are rapidly falling away, it becomes even more important to develop these new models. …

The Regulation of Audiovisual Content in the Era of Digital Convergence

El articulo explora tres cuestiones principales. En primer lugar, a que tipo de contenido hacen referencia los reguladores de contenido convencionales y como proponen regularlo al tratar de intervenir respecto al contenido que se divulga por Internet. En segundo lugar, cual fue la respuesta de Ofcom al Byron Review en relacion con la regulacion de contenido nocivo en Internet. Y, por ultimo, la naturaleza cambiante de la regulacion en el sector de las comunicaciones en general y, como consecuencia de ello, la necesidad de volver a repensar o volver a definir el papel de las autoridades reguladoras. Text complet (PDF | En espanyol) Monografic complet (PDF | En espanyol)

The Future of Mobile Business and Facilitating Methods in the Digital Convergence Era

The Future of Mobile Business and Facilitating Methods in the Digital Convergence Era

SoC R&amp;D Trend for Future Digital Life

This paper depicts the future R&D direction and the importance of SoC (System-on-Chip) based on a forecast of the Consumer Electronics trend in the Digital Convergence Era. Real-life examples of Samsung Electronics in order to solidify the competitiveness of its set products are presented.