Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper reviews the development of the ASEAN Free Trade Area in the recent years. I?ll ask the question whether AFTA could be a building block or a blocking block to a global free and more multilateral trade regime.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Bringing tourism to a new level and many notches up from your typical museum audio-tour...Soundwalk is a cinematic experience, a way to explore and understand a new culture and others…Through the narrator’s voice, you enter his mind, you become him, and you discover his neighborhood enchanted by a flawless mix of fitting music, sound effects, interviews, and sound clips. (“About Us,” Soundwalk website )


This paper examines the “Chinatown” edition from the “Soundwalk” audio-tour series (cd or download-able audio walking tours of various neighborhoods in New York City as well as areas of Paris and Varanasi, India) to consider what it means to inhabit a culturally-situated body. What does it mean to “become” the Chinese American narrator Jami Gong (described in the promotional material as “A true insider [who] will bravely show you the ins and outs of this complex neighborhood”)? How do audio tours like this allow “outsider” listeners to explore the embodied experiences of (insider/”authentic”) narrators? Using Andrew Hewitt’s notion of social choreography and stumbling -- the means by which “proper” social choreography is made visible and/or regulated, I argue that the Chinatown Soundwalk tour represents a kind of momentary, touristic/recreational choreographic “stumbling” that contributes paradoxically to the estrangement of (Asian) Chinatown inhabitants as embodied social/political subjects.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: With a new generation of improved, broadcast-based mobile TV standards, the combination between mobile telephony and television promises to turn into a success story soon. In this situation, mobile carriers and audiovisual media are betting enormous investments on new technologies such as Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld (DVB-H), Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) and MediaFLO to override technical barriers which still seem to retard the evolution. The study presented contributes to a reflection on future uses of mobile TV by considering the appropriation of an existing service. Theoretically, it draws on a circular model of mobile phone appropriation integrating elements from different approaches in adoption and appropriation research. To observe the process of mobile TV appropriation in real time, groups of users were equipped with third generation mobile telephones over a three months period, and accompanied through guided interviews and WAP-based online questionnaires based on the experience sampling method.

Publication Type: Presentation
Abstract: Dialectical Behavior Therapy's central dialectic is accepting the client, and oneself, just as you are, in the context of learning to change. This paper will review the challenges, pitfalls and success encountered in establishing a DBT program that validates both patients and staff in a private psychiatric hospital's outpatient clinic.