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Material Virtualities

Author : Jenny Sundén
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Virtualities written by Jenny Sundén and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sundén shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the «virtual» as itself embodied.

Material Virtualities

Author : Jenny Sundén
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789173733458
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Material Virtualities written by Jenny Sundén and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performing Interdisciplinarity

Author : Experience Bryon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317192249
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Performing Interdisciplinarity written by Experience Bryon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Interdisciplinarity proposes new ways of engaging with performance as it crosses, collides with, integrates and/or disturbs other disciplinary concerns. From Activism and Political Philosophy to Cognitive Science and Forensics, each chapter explores the relationships between performance and another discipline. Including cross-chapter discussions which address the intersections between fields, Performing Interdisciplinarity truly examines the making of meaning across disciplinary conventions. This is a volume for performance practitioners and scholars who are living, learning, writing, teaching, making and thinking at the edges of their specialisms.

Virtual Literacies

Author : Guy Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415899605
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Literacies written by Guy Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media accounts of digital culture are invariably predicated on a technologically determinist vision, on the one hand promoting a utopian view of the future while on the other fueling moral panic by emphasizing views of alienation and danger in life online. In this book, children, young people and those who work with them are revealed as active agents with possibilities to navigate new paths.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

Author : Tom Boellstorff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264856
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Ethnography and Virtual Worlds written by Tom Boellstorff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyond Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds, and focusing on the key method of participant observation, the book provides invaluable advice, tips, guidelines, and principles to aid researchers through every stage of a project, from choosing an online fieldsite to writing and publishing the results. Provides practical and detailed techniques for ethnographic research customized to reflect the specific issues of online virtual worlds, both game and nongame Draws on research in a range of virtual worlds, including Everquest, Second Life, There.com, and World of Warcraft Provides suggestions for dealing with institutional review boards, human subjects protocols, and ethical issues Guides the reader through the full trajectory of ethnographic research, from research design to data collection, data analysis, and writing up and publishing research results Addresses myths and misunderstandings about ethnographic research, and argues for the scientific value of ethnography

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality

Author : Sheila Whiteley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199321280
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality written by Sheila Whiteley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, edited by Sheila Whiteley and Shara Rambarran, brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars who address issues such as artistic agency, the relationship between reality and illusion or simulation, and the construction of musical personae, subjectivities, and identities in a virtual world.

The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality

Author : Mark Grimshaw
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199826161
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality written by Mark Grimshaw and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a compendium of thinking on virtuality and its relationship to reality from the perspective of a variety of philosophical and applied fields of study. Topics covered include presence, immersion, emotion, ethics, utopias and dystopias, image, sound, literature, AI, law, economics, medical and military applications, religion, and sex.

Virtual Nation

Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868405032
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Nation written by Gerard Goggin and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book on the Australian Internet, Virtual Nation offers a surprising, thought-provoking, and rigorous introduction to a technology that we now can't do without.

Renegades

Author : Trevor Boffone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197577709
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Renegades written by Trevor Boffone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture. This community finds its home on Dubsmash, a social media app that lets users record short dance challenge videos before cross-sharing them on different social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat. Author Trevor Boffone interrogates the roles that Dubsmash, social media, and hip hop music and dance play in youth identity formation in the United States. These so-called Dubsmashers privilege their cultural and individual identities through the use of performance strategies that reinforce notions of community and social media interconnectedness in the digital age. These young people create a sense of identity and community that informs and is informed by hip hop culture. As such, the book argues that Dubsmash serves as a fundamental space to fashion contemporary youth identity. To do this, the book re-appropriates the term "Renegade" to explain the nuanced ways that Dubsmashers take up visual and sonic space on social media apps to self-fashion identity, form supportive digital communities, and exert agency to take up space that is often denied to them in other facets of their lives.

Understanding New Media

Author : Kim H. Veltman
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381544
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Understanding New Media written by Kim H. Veltman and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the development currently underway in the technology of new media and looks further to examine the unforeseen effects of this phenomenon on our culture, our philosophies, and our spiritual outlook.

The Handbook of Internet Studies

Author : Mia Consalvo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144434238X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Internet Studies written by Mia Consalvo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Internet Studies HANDBOOKS IN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA “Highly recommended.” CHOICE “A state-of-the-art collection that represents and celebrates the diversity of theoretical and disciplinary approaches marking this brave new field. A new must-have reference book for Internet studies.” Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois “This indispensable volume reflects the complexity of Internet studies – indeed, the Internet itself – by bringing together a diverse set of voices, geographies, disciplines, and arguments. It is not only an important resource for practitioners, but will also spark the curiosity of those on the edges of the field, including humanists, social scientists, and engineers alike.” Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin “A comprehensive and useful volume that will appeal to students, teachers, and researchers. I highly recommend it to those who have been following the field since its emergence in the 1990s as well as to those new to the field.” Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago “This handbook is landmark, documenting that Internet studies have now come of age.” Niels Ole Finnemann, Aarhus University To fully understand the impact and significance of the Internet, it is essential to consider its historical, societal, and cultural contexts. This handbook presents a wide range of original essays by established scholars in the field of Internet studies exploring the role of the Internet in modern societies, and the continuing development of its academic study.

Creating Second Lives

Author : Astrid Ensslin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136809287
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Creating Second Lives written by Astrid Ensslin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’s philosophy is multi-disciplinary and its goal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, which manifests itself in ‘natural’ and built environments as well as the triad of space, place and landscape. The contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds include media, communication, cultural and literary studies, and they examine issues of reception and production, identity, community, gender, spatiality, natural and built environments using a plethora of methodological approaches ranging from theoretical and philosophical contemplation through social semiotics to corpus-based discourse analysis.

Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media

Author : Gregory Price Grieve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317950348
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media written by Gregory Price Grieve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly networked and digital era. Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the context of technologies such as virtual worlds, social media, and mobile devices, authors ask how the Internet affects identity, authority and community, and what effect this might have on the development, proliferation, and perception of Buddhism in an online environment. Together, these essays make the case that studying contemporary online Buddhist practice can provide valuable insights into the shifting role religion plays in our constantly changing, mediated, hurried, and uncertain culture.

Audience Research Methodologies

Author : Geoffroy Patriarche
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134064756
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Audience Research Methodologies written by Geoffroy Patriarche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations of people’s relations to media content, technologies and institutions raise new methodological challenges and opportunities for audience research. This edited volume aims at contributing to the development of the repertoire of methods and methodologies for audience research by reviewing and exemplifying approaches that have been stimulated by the changing conditions and practices of audiences. The contributions address a range of issues and approaches related to the diversification, integration and triangulation of methods for audience research, to the gap between the researched and the researchers, to the study of online social networks, and to the opportunities brought about by Web 2.0 technologies as research tools.

Coming of Age in Second Life

Author : Tom Boellstorff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400874106
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in Second Life written by Tom Boellstorff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. At the time of its initial publication in 2008, Coming of Age in Second Life was the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group. Coming of Age in Second Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself. Now with a new preface in which the author places his book in light of the most recent transformations in online culture, Coming of Age in Second Life remains the classic ethnography of virtual worlds.

New Media

Author : Martin Lister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134083823
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book New Media written by Martin Lister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies. The authors introduce a wide variety of topics including: how to define the characteristics of new media; social and political uses of new media and new communications; new media technologies, politics and globalization; everyday life and new media; theories of interactivity, simulation, the new media economy; cybernetics, cyberculture, the history of automata and artificial life. Substantially updated from the first edition to cover recent theoretical developments, approaches and significant technological developments, this is the best and by far the most comprehensive textbook available on this exciting and expanding subject. At www.newmediaintro.com you will find: additional international case studies with online references specially created You Tube videos on machines and digital photography a new ‘Virtual Camera’ case study, with links to short film examples useful links to related websites, resources and research sites further online reading links to specific arguments or discussion topics in the book links to key scholars in the field of new media.

Cross-Cultural Design. Cultural Differences in Everyday Life

Author : P.L.Patrick Rau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642391370
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Design. Cultural Differences in Everyday Life written by P.L.Patrick Rau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second part of the two-volume set (LNCS 8023-8024) that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. This two-volume set contains 113 papers. The papers in this volume focus on the following topics: cultural issues in business and industry; culture, health and quality of life; cross-cultural and intercultural collaboration; culture and the smart city; cultural differences on the Web.