‘La Escocesa’: A fabric of Images

The banning of the practice of graffiti in public space since the approval of the civic regulation in 2006 has restricted the production of graffiti artworks in Barcelona. It transformed and coerced the local graffiti and street art scene towards new f…

‘La Escocesa’: A fabric of Images

The banning of the practice of graffiti in public space since the approval of the civic regulation in 2006 has restricted the production of graffiti artworks in Barcelona. It transformed and coerced the local graffiti and street art scene towards new f…

IJAPS China Series | China Rising: Issues and Challenges for the Asia Pacific Realm

EAST ASIA THRUST 2016-2018 | IJAPS CHINA RISING SERIES (ICRS) The Phenomenon The People’s Republic of China (PRC), once referred as Red China and commonly regarded as a threat to both its immediate neighbours and to the Western world consequent of the Cold War scenario, has long shed such negativity since the last quarter of … Continue reading

The post IJAPS China Series | China Rising: Issues and Challenges for the Asia Pacific Realm appeared first on INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES.

Tracking Gendered Streams

One of the most prominent features of digital music services is the provision of personalized music recommendations that come about through the profiling of users and audiences. Based on a range of “bot experiments,” this article investigates if, and h…

More of the Same – On Spotify Radio

Spotify Radio allows users to find new music within Spotify’s vast back-catalogue, offering a potential infinite avenue of discovery. Nevertheless, the radio service has also been disliked and accused of playing the same artists over and over. We decid…

Scholarly Viewpoints

An interesting feature introduced by the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies since 2012 is Scholarly Viewpoints that showcase opinions, comments, ideas, and viewpoints of well renowned scholars on the Asia Pacific region pertaining to their respective academic discipline. This additional feature will further add value to the journal’s uniqueness as a scholarly journal. Interviews … Continue reading

The post Scholarly Viewpoints appeared first on INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES.

Copies, Concepts and Time

Copies are defined by their relation to an original. The understanding and evaluation of this relationship has been changing over time. A main argument of this article is that originals and copies are phenomena with no “natural” or essential meaning ou…