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People are today located in media ecosystems in which a variety of ICT devices and platforms coexist and complement each other to fulfil users' heterogeneous requirements. These multi-media affordances promote a highly hyperlinked and nomadic habit of digital data management which blurs the long-standing boundaries between information storage, sharing and exchange. Specifically, during the pervasive sharing and browsing of fragmentary digital information (e.g. photos, videos, online diaries, news articles) across various platforms, life experiences and knowledge involved are meanwhile classified and stored for future retrieval and collective memory construction. For international migrants who straddle different geographical and cultural contexts, management of various digital materials is particularly complicated as they have to be familiar with and appropriately navigate technological infrastructures of both home and host countries. Drawing on ethnographic observations of 40 Chinese migrant mothers in Singapore, this article delves into their quotidian routines of acquiring, storing, sharing and exchanging digital information across a range of ICT devices and platforms, as well as cultural and emotional implications of these mediated behaviours for their everyday life experiences. A multi-layer and multi-sited repertoire of 'life archiving' was identified among these migrant mothers in which they leave footprints of everyday life through a tactical combination of interactive sharing, pervasive tagging and backup storage of diverse digital content.

As migrant students cope with relocation challenges, communication with left-behind family and friends can enhance their well-being, while interactions with co-national and local students can facilitate their acculturation to the host country. This article studies Indonesian and Vietnamese university students in Singapore to understand the role that technologically mediated communication plays in facilitating migrant students' adaptation and acculturation. Through a media deprivation exercise, it finds that communication with left-behind family and friends offers support but can monopolise the students' free time and impede their interaction with locals. Social media communication also exacerbates the development of cultural silos that comprise only co-nationals. On the positive side, migrant students used the online realm as an acculturative space to better understand the host country's attitudes towards foreigners, thereby better equipping them for interactions with locals. Migrant students must strike a balance between exploiting mediated communication links to their home identities and exploring host cultures.

In today's new media landscape, consuming media content is only part of the equation. Media consumers also enjoy various avenues by which they can produce and share media content. This combination of consuming and producing has been termed 'prosuming'. Rather than being the preserve of the intellectual elite, virtually any media consumer can be a media producer too given the relative affordability and accessibility of new ICT and media platforms. Media production is satisfying because it allows individuals to flex their creative energies and empowering because it enables people to make their views heard. Focusing on media literacy programmes targeted at developing country youth, this article analyses media literacy programmes that impart media production skills. Specifically, it looks at the Little Masters programme in China, the Cybermohalla programme in India, and the Young Journalists (YOJO) Group in Vietnam. The article finds that media literacy programmes that emphasise media production may have more significant long-term impacts as they vest young people with the abilities to voice their concerns and raise public awareness about youth-related issues. The media literacy skills imparted are, therefore, imbued with the potential for social activism and democratisation. The experiences of the Little Masters, Cybermohalla and YOJO programmes also suggest a few strategies for heightened success–sensitivity to the social and cultural contexts of the participants, building up a sufficiently wide base of community support, and leveraging media convergence to increase their impact.

Front Cover -- Urban Risk Management in China -- Urban Risk Management in China -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- ?Foreword -- ?Preface -- 1 - Prolegomenous foundation of urban risk management -- 1.1 Sociological basis of urban risk management -- 1.1.1 Concept of risk -- 1.1.2 Risk society theory -- 1.1.3 Responsibility dilemma of risk society -- 1.1.4 Key concepts in urban risk research -- 1.2 Basic urban risk management -- 1.2.1 Economics foundation -- 1.2.2 Theoretical foundation of systems science and decision analysis -- 1.2.3 Management science and engineering -- 1.3 Discipline of construction in urban risk management -- 1.3.1 Related disciplines of construction -- 1.3.1.1 Geography -- 1.3.1.2 Architecture -- 1.3.1.3 Civil engineering -- 1.3.1.4 Surveying and mapping -- 1.3.1.5 Transportation engineering -- 1.3.1.6 Safety science and engineering -- 1.3.1.7 Applied economics -- 1.3.1.8 Theoretical economics -- 1.3.2 Discipline orientation -- 1.3.2.1 Urban natural disaster management -- 1.3.2.2 Urban accident and disaster management -- 1.3.2.2.1 Talent cultivation -- 1.3.2.2.2 Specific research content -- 1.3.2.3 Urban social security management -- 1.4 Summary -- References -- 2 - The concept of urban risk -- 2.1 Urban risk-A continuous and unified conceptual system -- 2.1.1 Urban risk-An interdisciplinary perspective -- 2.1.1.1 Urban problems and diseases -- 2.1.1.2 Urban and public crises -- 2.1.1.2.1 Urban crisis -- 2.1.1.2.2 Urban public crisis -- 2.1.1.3 Risk cities and resilient cities -- 2.1.1.3.1 Risk cities -- 2.1.1.3.2 Resilient cities -- 2.1.2 Continuity and integrity of the urban risk concept -- 2.1.2.1 Risk, crisis, and disaster as intersecting concepts -- 2.1.2.2 Urban risk-A continuous and complex process -- 2.1.3 Urban risk-The unity of subjective and objective -- 2.2 Categories and characteristics of urban risk.

Systematization and Scientific Problems of Chinese Civil Law Legislation -- A Research Report on the Compilation System of China's Civil Code -- Suggestions on Adhering to the Principle of Combining Reality and Science and Actively Promoting the Compilation of the Civil Code -- On the Jurisdictional Compliance Relationship Between the General Provisions and the Subprovisions of the Civil Code -- China's "Civil Code" State Governance and Functional Thinking -- Instructions for the Preparation of the Scholar's Proposal in the "Legal Behavior" Chapter of the "Civil Code General Provisions -- Basic Rights and Basic Analysis Methods in Civil Law -- The Background and Significance of Adopting the Principle of Distinction in China's Civil Code -- How to Understand the "Civil Code·Property Rights -- The Succession of Chinese Civil Law to Pandekten Jurisprudence: Introduction, Decline and Revival -- The Civil Code (Draft) Deletes the "Disposal without Right" Clause in the Theoretical Basis of the Contract Law.

Introduction -- Challenges in Risk Assessment, Modeling, and Simulation of Cascading Failures -- Industrial Practices and Criteria Against Cascading Failures -- Modeling of Cascading Failures and Blackouts Using Outage Data -- Interaction Models for Analysis and Mitigation of Cascading Failures -- Probabilistic Analytics on Cascading Failures -- Modeling Cascading Failures in Power Systems: Quasi-Steady-State Models and Dynamic Models -- Multi-Timescale Modeling, Risk Assessment, and Mitigation of Cascading Failures -- Quasi-Steady-State Simulation of Cascading Failures Considering Frequency.

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