Annie Gérin

Sheila Petty

Garry Sherbert

Annotation Examining culture as social identity, this collection explores issues such as gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism in four general areas: the media, individual and national identity, languages, and cultural dissent.

Essays on Canadian Culture

Canadian Cultural Poesis

Aijun An

Runhe Huang

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 2010 Inter- tionalConference onActiveMedia Technology(AMT2010),jointlyheldwiththe 2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010), at York Univ- sity, Toronto, Canada, during August 28-30, 2010. Organized by the Web Int- ligence Consortium (WIC) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE-CIS TF-BI), this conference was the sixth in the AMT series since its debut conference at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2001 (followed by AMT 2004 in Chongqing, China, AMT 2005 in Kagawa, Japan, AMT 2006 in Brisbane, Australia, AMT 2009 in Beijing, China). Active media technology (AMT) is a new area of research and development in intelligent information technology and computer science. It emphasizes the proactive, adaptive and seamless roles of interfaces and systems as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. Over the past few years, we have witnessed rapiddevelopmentsofAMT technologiesandapplicationsrangingfrombusiness and communication to entertainment and learning. Examples include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Moodle, Club Penguinand GoogleLatitude. Such - velopmentshavegreatlychangedourlivesbyenhancingthewaywecommunicate and do business.

6th International Conference, AMT 2010, Toronto, Canada, August 28-30, 2010, Proceedings

Active Media Technology

The Films of Ousmane Sembene

A Call to Action

Seven scholars explore Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene's notion of a new Africa by examining the central issues of change, cultural alienation, and economic dependence.

How do we make culture and how does culture make us? Canadian Cultural Poesis takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates in Canadian culture, Canadian Cultural Poesis will appeal not only to readers looking for an overview of Canadian culture but also to those interested in cultural studies and interdisciplinarity, as well as scholars in film, art, literature, sociology, communication, and womens studies. This book offers new insights into how we make and are made by Canadian culture, each essay contributing to this poetics, inventing new ways to welcome cultural differences of all kinds fo the Canadian cultural community.

Sheila Petty

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