Drone-topia as method

ABSTRACT

The figure of the civilian camera drone remains ambiguous and contested. Its promises and perils shape contemporary imaginaries of future mobilities and visualities. Donny the Drone by Mackenzie Sheppard is one example of a fictional short film that creatively engages with such ambivalent scenarios in the story about a sentient quadcopter. In this article, I explore this techno-futurist narrative in how it serves as a heuristic for a mobile utopia. Themes of mobility and aerial commons, visuality and cosmopolitanism, relationality and affective subjectivity, along with domination and political mobilization emerge from the utopian thought experiment about a camera drone becoming human. Ultimately, I show how the evolving figure of the civilian drone serves as an experimental platform and utopian method towards elevated visions for an imaginative reconstitution of society.     

Mobile phones in Africa: how much do we really know?

Mobile phones are a crucial mode of communication and welfare enhancement in poor countries, especially those lacking an infrastructure of fixed lines. In recent years much has been written about how mobile telephony in Africa is rapidly reducing the digital divide with developed countries. Yet, when one examines the evidence it is not at all clear what is really happening. In one country, Tanzania, for example, some observers point to the fact that 97% of the population lives under the mobile footprint, while others show that ownership is very limited. These extreme values prompted us to review the situation in Africa as a whole, in an effort to discover what is really going on.     

3G时代第五媒体发展现状及趋势

随着新技术的日新月异,手机不再仅仅是一种通讯工具,更是作为一种媒介引起人们越来越广泛的关注,成为继报纸、广播、电视、网络媒体之后的第五媒体.文章主要以作为第五媒体的手机为研究对象,重点探讨其在3G时代这一特殊背景下的发展现状与问题,并对其发展趋势进行了预测.     

重庆动漫产业发展报告

重庆是中国发展动漫产业最早的城市之一。随着这座老重工业城市的产业结构转型,重庆动漫产业集群效应初步形成。重庆及中国本土的动漫产业发展,应当注重在剧本创作和新媒体应用上寻求突破口,在坚持本土风格的同时,融入流行元素、传播普适价值,尤其在十二五规划的节点时期注重发掘手机新媒体的媒介特性,抓住其为动漫发展带来的机遇。     

手机媒体发布政府信息的权威性研究

手机媒体的出现与使用,使政府信息广泛传播,但由于国家及相关部门对手机媒体缺乏严格的监管,再加上手机媒体信息发布平台主体趋向于多元化发展,内容庞杂,较难对其进行监督,使政府在运用手机媒体发布信息的过程中,信息的权威性受到极大的影响。因此,运用案例对比分析的方法,从信息权威性的基本含义及手机媒体平台特征的角度出发,提出从信息源、信息接收过程到信息接收方的全面提升手机媒体发布政府信息的权威性的途径。     

我国手机回收逆向物流模式研究

我国废旧手机逐年增长,通过逆向物流管理可以回收资源,保护环境,净化手机流通渠道,提高顾客满意度。发达国家通过＂生产商延伸责任制＂使废旧手机通过生产商、生产商委托运营商回收方式或是第三方回收公司从消费者逆向返回生产商/供应商。通过借鉴国外成功的回收模式经验,建立我国手机联合回收模式,可充分发挥各主体的职责。     

A Taguchi-based Kansei engineering study of mobile phones at product design stage

This article is aimed at applying Taguchi method in Kansei engineering and explores a way to integrate it into an industrial product design stage. Emotional customer needs are derived using Kansei image word pairs. The Taguchi-based approach is validated by a case study with mobile phones. Experimental work in implementing the proposed approach was able to suggest design attributes of a mobile phone that are essential to be considered at the product design stage to satisfy the customers’ expectations and hence to increase the company's sales.     

基于移动agent的P2P网络搜索算法研究

高效搜索P2P网络上的资源是P2P网络实现最为关键的问题．通过引入移动agent,在混合式P2P网络模型基础上提出了一种基于区域划分的网络搜索模型,设计了基于移动agent的网络搜索算法,从而实现了P2P网络搜索的灵活性、全面性和有效性．     

无线通信网中的新型移动性模型

提出了无线蜂窝网中考虑突发事件影响的移动性模型,该模型包括了用户由于受到突发事件影响而改变其移动模式的情况。针对高、中、低三种截然不同的用户移动模式,根据理论分析提出了一种新型移动性模型,新模型能够较好地模拟现实生活里不同移动环境中人们的移动行为。研究了移动对与系统容量有关的各种系统性能参数的影响。该文的结论可用于在无线蜂窝网中充分利用用户的移动特性调整系统提供QoS保障所涉及的配置参数,并且动态地调整系统的切换呼叫请求的保留门限,以提高系统的性能、容量和无线资源的使用效率。     

浅谈手机媒体在政府信息发布中的作用

中国3G的发展使手机媒体逐渐成为人们日常沟通中不可或缺的工具;《政府信息公开条例》要求政府向公众公布必要的信息,以法律形式保障了公民的知情权。与传统媒体相比,手机媒体在信息的传播中具有无可比拟的优势,所以随着3G的大规模发展,手机媒体在政府信息发布中将扮演重要的角色。