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Download or read book Living Virtually written by Don Heider and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual worlds are most often three dimensional locales, where people create virtual personae (called avatars) who come to play, socialize, and work. This edited collection of groundbreaking research on virtual worlds offers a wide-ranging look at the sociology, politics, and communication practices in virtual worlds from a group of scholars in the United States and abroad.
Book Synopsis Virtually Sacred by : Robert M. Geraci
Download or read book Virtually Sacred written by Robert M. Geraci and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of users have taken up residence in virtual worlds, and in those worlds they find opportunities to revisit and rewrite their religious lives. Robert M. Geraci argues that virtual worlds and video games have become a locus for the satisfaction of religious needs, providing many users with devoted communities, opportunities for ethical reflection, a meaningful experience of history and human activity, and a sense of transcendence. Using interviews, surveys, and his own first-hand experience within the virtual worlds, Geraci shows how World of Warcraft and Second Life provide participants with the opportunity to rethink what it means to be religious in the contemporary world. Not all participants use virtual worlds for religious purposes, but many online residents use them to rearrange or replace religious practice as designers and users collaborate in the production of a new spiritual marketplace. Using World of Warcraft and Second Life as case studies, this book shows that many residents now use virtual worlds to re-imagine their traditions and work to restore them to "authentic" sanctity, or else replace religious institutions with virtual communities that provide meaning and purpose to human life. For some online residents, virtual worlds are even keys to a post-human future where technology can help us transcend mortal life. Geraci argues that World of Warcraft and Second Life are "virtually sacred" because they do religious work. They often do such work without regard for-and frequently in conflict with-traditional religious institutions and practices; ultimately they participate in our sacred landscape as outsiders, competitors, and collaborators.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industry by : Kansas. Bureau of Labor and Industry
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industry written by Kansas. Bureau of Labor and Industry and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Kansas. Dept. of Labor and Industry
Download or read book Annual Report written by Kansas. Dept. of Labor and Industry and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Western Nebraska and Its People by : Grant Lee Shumway
Download or read book History of Western Nebraska and Its People written by Grant Lee Shumway and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by : Elias Aboujaoude
Download or read book Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality written by Elias Aboujaoude and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Instantly engaging and eminently accessible . . . . an enlightening and cautionary exploration of an increasingly intrusive aspect of modern society." —Booklist While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our “e-personality” and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we’re becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You draws from Aboujaoude’s personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world’s transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.
Book Synopsis Virtually Jewish by : Ruth Ellen Gruber
Download or read book Virtually Jewish written by Ruth Ellen Gruber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture (or what is perceived as Jewish culture) have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But how can there be a visible and growing Jewish presence in Europe, without the significant presence of Jews? Ruth Ellen Gruber explores this phenomenon, traveling through Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, and elsewhere to observe firsthand the many facets of a remarkable trend. Across the continent, Jewish festivals, performances, publications, and study programs abound. Jewish museums have opened by the dozen, and synagogues and Jewish quarters are being restored, often as tourist attractions. In Europe, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, klezmer music concerts, exhibitions, and cafes with Jewish themes are drawing enthusiastic--and often overwhelmingly non-Jewish--crowds. In what ways, Gruber asks, do non-Jews embrace and enact Jewish culture, and for what reasons? For some, the process is a way of filling in communist-era blanks. For others, it is a means of coming to terms with the Nazi legacy or a key to building (or rebuilding) a democratic and tolerant state. Clearly, the phenomenon has as many motivations as manifestations. Gruber investigates the issues surrounding this "virtual Jewish world" in three specific areas: the reclaiming of the built heritage, including synagogues, cemeteries, and former ghettos and Jewish quarters; the representation of Jewish culture through tourism and museums; and the role of klezmer and Yiddish music as typical "Jewish cultural products." Although she features the relationship of non-Jews to the Jewish phenomenon, Gruber also considers its effect on local Jews and Jewish communities and the revival of Jewish life in Europe. Her view of how the trend has developed and where it may be going is thoughtful, colorful, and very well informed.
Book Synopsis History of Miami County, Indiana by : Arthur Lawrence Bodurtha
Download or read book History of Miami County, Indiana written by Arthur Lawrence Bodurtha and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogy by : William James McKnight
Download or read book Genealogy written by William James McKnight and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Standard History of White County, Indiana by : W. H. Hamelle
Download or read book A Standard History of White County, Indiana written by W. H. Hamelle and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis History of Clayton County, Iowa by : Realto E. Price
Download or read book History of Clayton County, Iowa written by Realto E. Price and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Federation of British Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Account of Oakland County by : Lillian Drake Avery
Download or read book An Account of Oakland County written by Lillian Drake Avery and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People by : Alvah Littlefield Sawyer
Download or read book A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People written by Alvah Littlefield Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Steuben County, New York, and Its People by : Irvin W. Near
Download or read book A History of Steuben County, New York, and Its People written by Irvin W. Near and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Wyandotte County, Kansas by : Perl Wilbur Morgan
Download or read book History of Wyandotte County, Kansas written by Perl Wilbur Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
