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This article presents an overview of the first AI-human collaborated album, Hello World, by SKYGGE, which utilizes Sony’s Flow Machines technologies. This case study is situated within a review of current and emerging uses of AI in popular music production, and connects those uses with myths and fears that have circulated in discourses concerning the use of AI in general, and how these fears connect to the idea of an audio uncanny valley. By proposing the concept of an audio uncanny valley in...

This thesis is a transdisciplinary inquiry into expressions of national identity present in photography generated in and of Wales. It operationalises applied methods informed by complexity theory to conceptualise ‘Welsh photography’ as a complex adaptive system and in doing so makes contributions to the sub-fields of applied complexity, photography, and Welsh national identity. Ontologically, both Welshness and photography exhibit characteristics that are indicative of complex systems. ...

Information poverty is widely recognised as having a negative impact upon peoples’ health and wellbeing, and socioeconomic prosperity; however, whilst an issue of significant societal concern evidenced across a wide variety of adult groups and socioeconomic contexts, no studies have been previously undertaken with children. This appears a significant oversight given that many children across the globe are considered multi-dimensionally poor. This study thus sought to explore the possibility...

ABSTRACT While there is a vast corpus of research on young adult’s use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and their involvement in democratic processes, little is known about this subject when it comes to the Ghanaian context. The participation of young adults in Ghana’s hybrid democracy (forged from liberal and deliberative values) has been dwindling after a surge in the 1950s. In contemporary times, events in the socio-cultural, political and the traditional news media environments that tak...