Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Regional Media Market, Linguistic Advantage and Beyond:
The TV Drama Co-Productions within the Greater China Media Market

Abstract
This paper is trying to examine the inner dynamics of the regional media market. Although language and cultural proximity have been seen as the most important
factors for the formation of a regional media market. However, through exploring
the emergence of TV drama co-production within the greater China media market,
the author argues that the formation of a regional media market is a product of historical contingency instead of a natural formation. In terms of the greater China media market,
the author points out that there are at least four factors contributing to the inner dynamics within this regional media market, and they are: 1. the geo-politics; 2. the cultural proximity and linguistic advantage; 3. technological inventions and 4. market force. The paper also contends that the centers and peripheries within a regional media market are fluid instead of fixed positions.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: An extensive body of knowledge has been built over the past two decades concerning locally-based food systems. Although such work highlights a wide array of structural constraints and opportunities, strategies for change and recommendations for policies and programs, there remain many important gaps in our understanding of these alternatives. This paper argues there has been a particular lack of attention to the development of alternative food systems in rural, low-income areas such as the Lower Mississippi Delta region of the southern United States. To address this gap, research-based insights and lessons learned are presented from community-based groups engaged in the development of farmers markets and participating in the Farmers Market Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program in the Mississippi Delta. After assessing their successes and challenges, practical recommendations are offered for future research, community development practices and policies.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The process of winning and retaining investors who establish businesses in a particular place is under-researched. The purpose of this study is to analyze the extent to which place marketers (seller) and potential investors interact in order to establish, develop and maintain a win- win exchange relationships. A cross-country study, with multiple case studies, was used as method. The result shows that the seller has been able to win and maintain clients. The seller-client exchange relationships have been influenced by interaction with third parties. The seller-client interactions have been going on before, during, and after clients’ location of operations.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Both social science and everyday observation suggest that immigrants and their ‘ethnic’ decedents are not randomly distributed across the labor market, rather they tend to congregate in particular industries and occupations. However, centrality of race and ethnicity as organizing principles of labor market trajectories, and the mechanisms that produce these concentrations of immigrants and their children -- are subjects of much debate in the literature. Using data from the "Second Generation in Metropolitan New York" project and the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, this study examines patterns of ethnic and racial concentration in the local labor market, and the factors that influence and shape them, among five second generation immigrant groups and three native born groups of 18-32 year old New Yorkers. By utilizing a direct measure of co-ethnicity in the workplace, and a measure of group’s ethnic concentration in the various industries, I develop a new typology of logics of labor market incorporation. Based on this typology I argue that: (a) there is no necessary congruence between ethnic concentration in an industry and co-ethnic work environments; (b) there is no clear distinction between second generation and native logics of labor market incorporation, or between ‘ethnic’ and ‘mainstream’ economies; and (c) that we have to consider factors at the individual, organizational, industry and sector level in order to better understand ethnic and racial labor market composition.