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1. Connectivity, Attention and Risk -- 2. Time: The Measure of Connectivity -- 3. The Psychology of Connectivity: Follower Counts and Identity -- 4. The Economics of Connectivity: Communication Markets -- 5. Streaming Technology and the Entertainment Industry -- 6. Content Tsunami -- 7. Attention Deficit and Diminished Risk Taking -- 8. Restoring Boldness and Reducing Apathy -- 9. Conclusion: Dialogue, not Walls

"Acknowledgments" -- "Contents" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "Popular Music Culture and Digital Technology Overview" -- "Innovation and Technological Change" -- "Theoretical Underpinnings: Digital Technology, Culture, and Consumption" -- "Overview of the Chapters" -- "Rationale and Conclusion" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 2: Artist" -- "Kristin Hersh: Background and Strategy" -- "The CASH Music Philosophy" -- "Developing Artist Strategy" -- "Engaging the Active Listener" -- "Hersh´s Transparent Approach" -- "Humanizing the Artist" -- "Organic Community Building Through Interactivity" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 3: Audience" -- "The Logistics of Music Consumption: Who, What, When, Where, and How Do People Consume?" -- "Social and Personal Music Negotiation" -- "Meaning-Making Through Medium" -- "New Music Discovery" -- "Obtaining Music" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 4: Music Culture and Digital Technology" -- "Music Culture and Digital Technology: A Review of Primary Findings" -- "Reception and Negotiation: Audience Response" -- "Technology´s Role in the Artist-Audience Relationship" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 5: Artists and Accomplices" -- "Artists and Accomplices in Fair Trade Music Culture" -- "A Review of Primary Findings: Artist" -- "A Review of Primary Findings: Audience" -- "Opportunities and Challenges in Digitally Mediated Music Culture" -- "Experiencing Musical Lives Together: Conclusion" -- "Bibliography

Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has sought to understand how people's relationship with place is increasingly produced by their interactions with digital entertainment and communications media. This scholarship has pointed to the capacity of social media to foster new ways of experiencing locality, culture and belonging, including for mobile populations and transnational communities. In this article, we draw upon original qualitative research to explore how international students in Australian higher education from China and India use local and transnational media to experience, thus produce, Melbourne as a place. We show how for this generation of international students their senses of both home and Australia are fragmented, deterritorialized and syncretic, woven in and through each other, as the Australia that they inhabit is fundamentally conditioned by the fluctuating mediated co-presence of home, derived from the simultaneity offered by digital media. Such a proposal goes beyond arguments about media's role in the pluralization and hybridization of places, suggesting a more fundamental transformation in the very meaning of place itself as a result of the experiential ubiquity of transnational media connections.

This paper explores modules and articles on cooperation concerning the digital economy that are applicable for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries under certain circumstances. It investigates the progress of and obstacles to ASEAN's digital connectivity, as well as features of existing Digital Economic Agreements and digital economy related articles in other agreements. We propose the use of a differentiated strategy and steps to promote integration for ASEAN countries covered in this research.

This Special Collection "Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe" historicizes, contextualizes, empirically grounds, and conceptually reflects on the impact of digital technologies on forced migration. In this introductory essay, we elaborate digital migration as a developing field of research. Taking the exceptional attention for digital mediation within the recent so-called "European refugee crisis" as a starting point, we reflect on the main conceptual, methodological and ethical challenges for this emerging field and how it is taking shape through interdisciplinary dialogues and in interaction with policy and public debate. Our discussion is organized around five central questions: (1) Why Europe? (2) Where are the field and focus of digital migration studies? (3) Where is the human in digital migration? (4) Where is the political in digital migration? and (5) How can we de-center Europe in digital migration studies? Alongside establishing common ground between various communities of scholarship, we plea for non-digital-media-centric-ness and foreground a commitment toward social change, equity and social justice.

Intro -- The Metaverse and Smart Cities: Urban Environments in the Age of Digital Connectivity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the metaverse -- Introduction -- History of the metaverse -- On the perceived importance of the metaverse -- From the internet to the metaverse -- The metaverse and its foundational elements -- Use cases of the metaverse -- The metaverse economy -- Fears and critisms of the metaverse -- Challenges and imperatives -- How does the metaverse link to smart cities? -- References -- Chapter 2: The history and evolution of the metaverse -- Introduction -- The origins of the metaverse concept -- The first steps: Early virtual worlds and gaming environments -- The rise of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGS) -- The metaverse in science fiction and pop culture -- The emergence of virtual reality and augmented reality -- The metaverse in the 21st century -- References -- Chapter 3: The metaverse and smart cities -- Introduction -- Overview of smart cities -- Understanding the metaverse -- Intersecting the metaverse and smart cities -- Case studies and examples -- Ethical, legal, and social implications -- Future directions -- References -- Chapter 4: The metaverse and sustainable cities -- Introduction -- Sustainable cities: Challenges and opportunities -- Case studies of the metaverse in sustainable cities -- Copenhagen: Virtual collaboration for climate adaptation -- Singapore: Smart nation initiative and virtual Singapore -- Barcelona: Superblocks and the metaverse -- Amsterdam: Circular economy and the metaverse -- Lessons learned and implications for future applications -- Benefits and challenges of using the metaverse in sustainable cities -- As a tool for promoting sustainability -- Challenges and limitations of using the metaverse -- Potential risks and unintended consequences.

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In Pakistan, female entrepreneurs and earning women encounter considerable challenges when trying to enter male-dominated job markets. Many turn to women-only social media groups as a forum to discuss these obstacles and share strategies for overcoming them. Unlike conventional, more bureaucratic networking avenues such as chambers of commerce, these online platforms offer flexibility and continuous connectivity. This proves especially beneficial for women during significant life events like maternity or caregiving breaks. In Muslim-majority countries, these groups also serve as platforms for exchanging culturally and religiously relevant business practices, including discussions on halal investments and Sharia-compliant entrepreneurship. This study employs online ethnography and interviews with key stakeholders in some of Pakistan's most prominent women-focused online networking groups. While one might assume that the primary aim of such professional networks is to discuss business growth, cutting-edge research or technology, these groups actually thrive on a common language, shared challenges and shared values. The article begins by exploring the concept of professionalism and the role of community and networking in career advancement. It then delves into the specific challenges that make networking difficult for women in Pakistan but paradoxically act as a glue binding them together in these online spaces.