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In this paper, I look at one of the most archetypal of children’s stories, that of Noah and the flood, to understand the classificatory schema it presents.

Drawing on an analysis of 47 children’s picture books based on the biblical story, including those held in the historical archive of the Cotsen Children’s Library at Princeton, I show that the single most consistent frame for the story is the trope of “two by two”, referencing both the animals and people in the story. The books in the sample, intended for children aged 4–10 years, were published between 1905 and 2006, and are between 14 and 60 pages long.

The repeated emphasis on mated pairs, one male and one female, serves to reproduce the twinned categories of gender and heterosexuality in an overtly “natural” fashion that ties the animal bodies to human social divisions. These constitutive categories of social division – gender and heterosexuality – then become central schemas for organizing people and experience. I draw on Martin (2000) arguing that children encounter picture books before they have had experience in actual social life. Therefore, the books help instill these primary categorization schemas in children, creating the social groupings and relations among them that order their worlds.

The argument makes a strongly causal role for culture and argues that the impact/importance of the content of children’s books may be subordinate to the role they play in helping establish classificatory schema that help construct children’s understandings of the social world.

This paper is designed to seek out the everyday narratives of copyright. To find these narratives, I analyze the comments section of websites where users can post their reactions to copyright-related stories. I argue that understanding how people who are not legal scholars frame the use of copyright as they discuss sharing, owning, and controlling the copy is a good place to begin to develop a sense for the everyday life of copyright law.

The body of scholarship on YouTube is an expanding area of scholarly inquiry. Existent research indicates that music videos are one of the most salient features of YouTube. Interactionist research about popular music has provided important insights through interviews with fans and audience members; however, this work has yet to examine audience engagement with music videos on YouTube. Using Qualitative Media Analysis, I illustrate how the researcher of popular music can work with user comments collected from YouTube. Thematic understandings largely consistent with nostalgia that emerged from an analysis of user-generated comments in response to selected music videos on YouTube are explored. I conclude by suggesting some directions for future research.

Modern fables do not begin ‘Once upon a time’. ‘Imagine in the future' is more appropriate. If you are familiar with Douglas Adams’ Hitch‐hiker's Guide to the Galaxy you may know this fable already. Imagine in the future a planet in another solar system. The planet is called Golgafrincham, although that hardly matters. The people of Golgafrincham are unhappy; something must be done. The rulers confer and produce a solution to their plight. Rumours are spread amongst the population that their planet is doomed—it is going to crash into the sun, it will be invaded by a swarm of giant piranha bees, it is going to be eaten by a mutant star goat! In order to save themselves, the whole population must be removed to another planet using giant space arks. Into the first ‘A’ ark will go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great artists—all the achievers. Into the third or ‘C’ ark will go all the people who do the necessary work and make things. And into the ‘B’ ark will go everyone else—the middlemen: hairdressers, TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, public relations executives, management consultants, telephone sanitizers and information intermediaries. The catch, as you will probably have guessed, is that the ‘B’ ark is despatched first, just to make sure that the ‘A’ and ‘C’ people, when they arrive in their new home, can be sure of a good haircut and clean telephones. Only they never do arrive. They never leave. But they have got rid of all their middlemen and happiness is restored.

This paper aims to compare internet measurement data obtained from Skitter, Ark and Dimes by analyzing the internet node degree distributions and correlations at IP node and router level. Further on, it is intended to analyze implications of the internet structure as attained in both its core and edge vicinities.

This comparative analysis was enabled by a data conversion and processing tool‐chain implemented as an extension to the BRITE topology generator which is also introduced.

The results show significant differences in higher nodal degrees. Correlation analysis indicates that DIMES scans discover internet links to a fairly uniform degree, while parts remain invisible within Skitter and Ark data. Mid‐range, oscillating spatial autocorrelations are discovered as a signature of memory effects in internet topology.

Mobile multicast routing performance is quantized by the number of states minimally required for servicing listener or sender mobility. Results show a surprisingly low mobility overhead compared with general multicast forwarding state management. As continuous mobility handovers necessarily occur between access routers located in geographic vicinity, the hypothesis is investigated that geographically adjacent edge networks attain a reduced network distances compared with arbitrary internet nodes. The evaluation of edge distance distributions in different regions for IP ranges, clustered according to their geographic location, reveals a stable correlation of geographic and network proximity at internet edges.

The internet topology has evolved over the past decades in an evolutionary process and continues to grow. Recently, it has attracted much attention from the networking and physics communities, as it forms a unique operational instance of a planetary‐scale network environment. Several measurement projects observing the internet have been undertaken over the past years, out of which Skitter, its successor Archipelago (Ark) and Dimes have been established as continuous recordings of the vivid process of network formation.

The paper deals with the transformation of local agrofood systems, in the context of the turn to “the economy of qualities” and the rural development paradigm. We will discuss a case study from Italy, specifically an agreement between Slow Food and Coop Italia concerning the Ark of Taste's Presidia, aiming at the protection of typical products and food traditions.

The agreement is analysed as a change of strategy, implying a transformation of the local agrofood system from “local production for local consumers” to “local production for distant consumers”. The change is substantial and implies a restructuring of the entire local food network.

Neither moral philosophy nor history provides a satisfactory explanation for Oskar Schindler’s extraordinary rescue of more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark does. Although Schindler’s Ark is technically a work of fiction, that generic label obscures its contribution as a fictionalised account of true events. By using a novelist’s tools to tell an historical story, Keneally allows us to make inferences as to the motives of his protagonist and thereby helps us to understand what propelled the moral behaviour of Oskar Schindler.

The following is an introductory profile of the fastest growing firms over the three-year period of the study listed by corporate reputation ranking order. The business activities in which the firms are engaged are outlined to provide background information for the reader.