Michael High

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Research on machine translation in language courses has proliferated over the last decade, yet few studies have considered use in English medium-instruction programs that aim to simultaneously develop student language ability and knowledge of content. This study therefore investigates student use and beliefs about machine translation at a transnati...

Machine translation has recently improved dramatically in accuracy, convenience, and accessibility, and while it has been widely adopted, it remains far from perfect. This chapter considers the perils and potential benefits of machine translation in English-medium of instruction transnational higher education. The perils of machine translation in t...

China has long placed film import quotas on foreign – namely Hollywood cinema. These quotas have been argued to protect China’s cultural values and its domestic film industry. In this chapter, we draw connections, however, between the uncanny overlaps in current Chinese import preferences for Hollywood franchise cinema, contemporary American geopol...

Over the last forty years, the increasing popularity of Japanese anime, manga, light novels, and other related transmedia texts has created a demand for the promotion, review, and criticism of such content among Anglophone, non-Japanese audiences. One of the most prominent communities meeting this demand is YouTube's AniTube community. With its roo...

This article analyzes how the groups of the Swedish Pirate movement (specifically the Piratbyran, The Pirate Bay, the Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet, and the Piratpartiet) use dialogical comedy to counter the rhetoric of the copyright lobby. By appropriating the discourse, slogans, and even names of pro-copyright groups, the Swedish groups positio...

Although deemed unviable after several commercial and critical failures in the 198os and 90s, with the wild success of The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise pirates have reemerged as important figures in the U.S. cultural imaginary. This article examines pirates as treated in historical and cinematic narratives, delineating the competing tropes us...

As one of the most startling and successful of Scorsese's films, Taxi Driver has garnered many critical interpretations. What has come to be known in academia as trauma theory is an amalgamation of different psychological and physiological observations and theorizations that attempt to understand and treat the effects of posttraumatic stress disord...