This book introduces a new concept of digital interactivity, through examining local digital culture; and video game culture is employed as a metaphor to interpret local digital culture. These new classes of digital interaction can be applied to real-world examples, such as digital interactive installation artworks and video games....

The recent growth in wireless communications presents a new challenge to multimedia communications. Due to limited bandwidth and broadcast nature of the wireless medium, it is necessary to compress and encrypt images before they are sent. Two major sources of energy consumption are energy used for computation and energy used for transmission....

\"For years, economists have been wrestling with the issues raised by the contrast between the transition path of China and those of Eastern Europe and the FSU....