An Investigation of Weak Ontology for New Media Studies

Hung, Edward Chor Kin

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Edward Chor Kin Hung¹⁵

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Recent studies reveal the importance of ontology in new media studies. However, there is not yet a commonly agreed new media ontology for media studies researchers and practitioners. Some scholars regard this insufficiency as the impracticality of localization in the existing ontologies concerning new media. We contend that a weak ontology that allows localization to happen should be carefully examined when developing a new media ontology. This paper is to disclose this potential of weak ontology to the new media community.

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Hung, E.C.K. (2018). An Investigation of Weak Ontology for New Media Studies. In: Ho, A. (eds) Advances in Communication of Design. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 609. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60477-0_14

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60477-0_14
Published: 10 June 2017
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