Dynamic Creations Research Articles

Tringapore – Singapore in geopolitical comics

Geopolitical imaginations are disseminated in a variety of media forms. Looking at everyday user-generated content, popular culture on the internet enables insightful encounters. This paper analyses a community on the social platform Reddit, where so-called Polandballs are shared. These satirical comics, where countries are portrayed as ball-shaped characters, coloured according to national flags, represent diverse geopolitical assemblages. The paper argues for utilising an assemblage approach to track the dynamic and interlinked content creations and discussions by members of the community. Contrary to the Western-centric orientation in the community, the representations of Singapore by Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans are analysed. This highlights narratives which are usually subdued in general geopolitical discourses, which concentrate on countries perceived as important on the world stage. The findings indicate that content creators discuss economic prosperity, international relations, and structural vulnerabilities from different angles. There are popular depictions, yet some offer alternative discourses. Further, audiences challenge perceptions through their active engagement in the assemblages and through including external discursive elements. Hence, the paper shows a suitable application of assemblage thinking when discussing everyday negotiations of geopolitical discourses in hitherto neglected social media spaces and emphasises the role of non-institutionalised geopolitical content creation.

Physician Perception and Patient Input Are Important Influences in the Treatment of Hypothyroidism

Physician Perception and Patient Input Are Important Influences in the Treatment of Hypothyroidism

AINULINDALË, THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND LOTRO: ABOUT TIME

According to Physics (HAWKING, 2017), time originated at the Big Bang. According to some religions, time originated at the moment God created the universe. Arda’s time originated with the music sung by the Ainur and the counting of the days begun with Anar. In the following, I would like to offer a series of thoughts on the phenomenon of time comparing The Lord of The Rings Online ( Lotro ) , released by Turbine Inc. and now maintained by Standing Stone Games, to Tolkien’s Arda. Also, I would like to introduce the idea that while time is originated both by the wonderful beings Ainur and Anar in the book, the player is the wonderful being that rules her/his own present time in Lotro . To do this, I proceed via a brief account of Stephen Hawking’s and game researchers’ considerations about time. I propose that even in their differences the dialogue established between the media (literature and video game) is successful. More specifically, I suggest that each medium has its particularities however from their dynamic dialogue fruitful intermediatic creations may emerge. According to Physics (HAWKING, 2017), time originated at the Big Bang. According to some religions, time originated at the moment God created the universe. Arda’s time originated with the music sung by the Ainur and the counting of the days begun with Anar. In the following, I would like to offer a series of thoughts on the phenomenon of time comparing The Lord of The Rings Online ( Lotro ) , released by Turbine Inc. and now maintained by Standing Stone Games, to Tolkien’s Arda. Also, I would like to introduce the idea that while time is originated both by the wonderful beings Ainur and Anar in the book, the player is the wonderful being that rules her/his own present time in Lotro . To do this, I proceed via a brief account of Stephen Hawking’s and game researchers’ considerations about time. I propose that even in their differences the dialogue established between the media (literature and video game) is successful. More specifically, I suggest that each medium has its particularities however from their dynamic dialogue fruitful intermediatic creations may emerge.

CHIP: Collaborative Host Identity Protocol with Efficient Key Establishment for Constrained Devices in Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next evolutionary paradigm of networking technologies that interconnects almost all the smart objects and intelligent sensors related to human activities, machineries, and environment. IoT technologies and Internet Protocol connectivity enable wide ranges of network devices to communicate irrespective of their resource capabilities and local networks. In order to provide seamless connectivity and interoperability, it is notable to maintain secure end-to-end (E2E) communication links in IoT. However, device constraints and the dynamic link creations make it challenging to use pre-shared keys for every secure E2E communication scenario in IoT. Variants of Host Identity Protocol (HIP) are adopted for constructing dynamic and secure E2E connections among the heterogeneous network devices with imbalanced resource profiles and less or no previous knowledge about each other. We propose a solution called collaborative HIP (CHIP) with an efficient key establishment component for the high resource-constrained devices in IoT. CHIP delegates the expensive cryptographic operations to the resource rich devices in the local networks. Finally, by providing quantitative performance evaluation and descriptive security analysis, we demonstrate the applicability of the key establishment in CHIP for the constrained IoT devices rather than the existing HIP variants.

Prospero’s Exile and the Tempest of the English Reformation

AbstractAs one of Shakespeare’s most compelling and dynamic creations, Prospero, the protagonist of The Tempest, has long been a source of scholarly interest. This essay attempts to situate the image of Prospero in the specific religious context of Shakespeare’s world. Prospero’s exile and his return can be understood more fully by looking at it through the lens of the English Reformation, in particular the situation in which Roman Catholics and their clergy found themselves under the reigns of Elizabeth and James. As with Prospero, a complex web of factors led to the persecution of the Roman Catholic Church in England; and, like Prospero, the clergy of that Church faced difficult questions about the relationship between supernatural and temporal power, questions that would ultimately decide their place in a new order.

Concealment, confession, and innovation in Kwaio women's taboos

The extensive anthropological literature concerning menstrual taboos has been dominated by symbolic and structural analyses. I t tells us little about how people actually engage such taboos in their daily lives or about how taboos change through time. I argue that a more historically conscious, practiceoriented approach is needed and employ the Kwaio case to demonstrate how such an approach can reveal taboos as emergent and dynamic creations that both shape and respond to social change. [taboo, menstruation, confession, gender relations, religious change, Melanesia