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The field of AI has been evolving in such a way that allows companies to not only improve their supply and customer demand, but also provide a shopping experience that goes beyond the mechanical “select and buy”: AI-driven touchpoints influence and enrich each stage of the decision-making process, whether more positively or negatively. Ultimately, this paper intends to provide the reader with a better knowledge of AI and fashion e-commerce joining applications, and to delineate their impact on the online customer journey. 

Citation:
Vitorino, Luísa, et al. ''An Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Components in E-Commerce Fashion Platforms.'' Information Systems and Technologies, edited by Alvaro Rocha, et al., Cham, Springer, 2022, pp. 276-285, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-04826-5.

Similar to standard episodic works (including live-action-drama series), its dialogue and monologue provide narrative information and forward the story; its music enhances a desired mood and emotion, and its sound effects establish a sense of reality for the narrative space through the foley sound effects (such as footsteps, props), and background ambience sounds (such as the bustling downtown or countryside). All these sounds play a crucial role in setting a rhythm, continuity and psychological cue for the audience to engage with the story. More prominently, anime series also rely on archetypes in anime voices and the cartooning of the sound effects accompanying the seemingly non-diegetic emanata (motion lines, sweat beats that emanate from a character) and imagery to deliver the anime experience. These acoustical norms and tendencies have been borrowed and in exchange with manga and other visual mediums over the years and function differently from the standard filmic auditory settings designed to immerse the viewers. Their usage often highlights the superficiality, pictogram play and momentarily part from the main narrative with a different tempo. This paper is part of a more extensive study interested in these aspects and uses Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime series (2019~) as a case study. This chapter looks explicitly at diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. It examines how their interchange can amplify the imagination and manipulate the viewers' emotions while systematically switching back and forth between immersive (into the narrative) and exaggeration (out of the narrative) to stimulate a unique anime experience with sound.

Citation:
Gan, Sheuo Hui. ''The Sound of Demon Slayer / Kimetsu no Yaiba.'' Global Anime Discourse: Body, Archive and Transnationalism, edited by Minori Ishida, and Joon Yang Kim, Tokyo, Sekyusha, 2022, ISBN / ISSN: 978-4787274519.

After nearly a year of research, including interviews with local neighbors, shopkeepers, and heritage experts, he photographed over 70 shops and the families that have run them for generations. The photographer often arrived unannounced, and used small street cameras with natural light in order to observe and document daily life. The result is a snapshot in time in the long and ever evolving history of one of the world’s fastest changing cities; a lasting tribute to the shops, the merchants and the artisans. This book contains 34 heritage shops, organized by geographic location, and spanning the many different trades that collectively contribute to the patchwork of Singapore’s cultural identify. The work also explores the themes of survival in the face of overwhelming and constant change, and why Singapore’s intangible cultural assets must be saved. This book has been designed to be portable for those who wish to explore the neighborhoods themselves and find the shops.

Citation:
Golden, Steve. Heritage Shops of Singapore. Singapore, Talisman, 2022, ISBN / ISSN: 978-981-18-5598-6.

The research employs policy/document analysis and semi-structured interviews with smart city government representatives and museum professionals to investigating both smart city policy frameworks as well as city museum's data-driven installations and activities in New York, London and Singapore. A comparative program analysis of the Singapore City Gallery, Museum of the City of New York and Museum of London identifies such sites of data practices as Data storytelling, interpretation and eco-curation. Discussing these sites as dedicated spaces of smart citizen engagement, the article reveals that city museums can either empower their visitors to consider their roles as active city co-makers or see them as passive recipients of the smart city transformations.

Citation:
Grincheva, Natalia. ''City Museums in the Age of Datafication: Could Museums be Meaningful Sites of Data Practice in Smart Cities?'' Museum Management and Curatorship, 2022, doi: 10.1080/09647775.2021.2023904.

On the one hand, it confirms previous findings that have documented the political power of data visualization specifically in the field of scorecard diplomacy. It critically discusses Portland Soft Power 30 Index that measures soft power of selected countries on the annual basis to reveal how the scorecard diplomacy works through the ranking dashboard. On the other hand, the article reflects on the experience of designing a geo-visualization system that, by contrast, intended to overcome shortcomings of data visualization’s politics to build a platform for an inductive academic research. It discusses a new deep mapping framework of soft power visualization that intended to address several critical problems of Portland’s measurements and shares research insights from the project “Deep Mapping: Creating a Dynamic Web Application Museum Soft Power Map.”

Citation:
Grincheva, Natalia. ''Beyond the Scorecard Diplomacy: “Beyond the From Soft Power Rankings to Deep Mapping Explorations.'' Convergence, 2022, doi: doi:10.1177/13548565221079158.

It explores and illustrates how new media technologies and data practices recalibrate the context in which cultural diplomacy operates by reshaping the medium of artistic communication, empowering new actors and equipping them with new tools to establish, deliver, maintain, and assess their global communication campaigns. The chapter identifies and describes three key aspects of cultural diplomacy transformations: virtualization, algorithmization, and datafication. Exploring the current cultural diplomacy activities reflected through institutional and government reports and press releases, the chapter offers a bird’s-eye view of global arts practices to critically reflect on the new dimension of cultural diplomacy.

Citation:
Grincheva, Natalia. ''The Future of Cultural Diplomacy: From Digital to Algorithmic.'' The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management, edited by Yuha Jung , et al., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197621615.013.11.

It identifies and examines three foundational levels of digital humanities research practices which include (1) Data Aggregation, (2) Data Visualization, and (3) Data Intelligence. Each of these levels forms a progression of the digital public humanities research from the mere capture of cultural data to its strategic employment for generating new insights to forecast development of a specific digital phenomenon, object, or process. Drawing on this framework, the chapter conceptualizes big data curation within digital humanities as an area of research and practice that entails a strong engagement with the wider public beyond academia.

Citation:
Grincheva, Natalia. ''Making Museum Global Impacts Visible: Advancing Digital Public Humanities from Data Aggregation to Data Intelligence.'' The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities, edited by Anne Schwan, and Tara Thomson, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, pp. 397-419, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11886-9_21.

Some of us may feel compelled to take an active response, such as volunteering on humanitarian efforts either in our home country or by traveling overseas as part of larger national or international organized efforts (Chilcote, 2007; Gelo & Gonzalez-Lugo, 2018; Hussain, 2010; Linton, 2017; Mohr, 2014; Potash et al., 2017). Ethics are involved, whether inherent or applied, or mandated through one's professional affiliation and the relevant credentialing authority (American Art Therapy Association, AATA, 2013; Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association, ANZACATA, 2020; Art Therapists' Association Singapore, ATAS, 2020; Art Therapy Credentials Board, ATCB, 2019).

Citation:
Lay, Ronald P.M.H. ''Humanity and Humility: Ethics, Pedagogy, and Art Therapy Contributions in the Response to Natural Disasters.'' Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disasters, Mass Violence, and Crises, edited by Joseph Scarce, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2022, pp. 50-65, ISBN / ISSN: 978-1-78775-406-5.