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Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, Volume 1

Author : Kohei Arai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031474546
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, Volume 1 written by Kohei Arai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of thoroughly well-researched studies presented at the Eighth Future Technologies Conference. This annual conference aims to seek submissions from the wide arena of studies like Computing, Communication, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence, Security, and e-Learning. With an impressive 490 paper submissions, FTC emerged as a hybrid event of unparalleled success, where visionary minds explored groundbreaking solutions to the most pressing challenges across diverse fields. These groundbreaking findings open a window for vital conversation on information technologies in our community especially to foster future collaboration with one another. We hope that the readers find this book interesting and inspiring and render their enthusiastic support toward it.

Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design

Author : Kelly L. Anderson
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648895379
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design written by Kelly L. Anderson and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design' is premised on a belief in the importance of participatory practices in finding creative solutions to the plethora of problems we face today. It argues that engaging professions with the public in mutual exploration, analysis, and creative thinking is essential. It not only ensures better quality products, places, services, and a greater sense of civic agency but also facilitates fuller access to them and the life opportunities they can unleash. This book offers a uniquely varied perspective of the myriad ways in which participatory practices operate across disciplines and how they impact the worlds and communities we create and inhabit. This book suggests that participatory practices are multi-disciplinary and relevant in fields as diverse as design, architecture, education, health care, sustainability, and community activism, to name a few of those discussed here. How do designed objects and environments affect wellness, creativity, learning, and a sense of belonging? How do products and services affect everyday experience and attitudes towards issues such as sustainability? How does giving people a creative voice in their own education, services, and built environments open up their potential and strengthen identity and civic agency? Addressing these questions requires a rethinking of relations between people, objects, and environments; it demands attention to space, place, and services.

Childhoods & Leisure

Author : Utsa Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031337891
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Childhoods & Leisure written by Utsa Mukherjee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children’s everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children’s agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies. Leisure theory has historically been adult-centric and based in the global north, and consequently, children’s lived experiences of leisure have remained marginal to theory-building exercises within leisure studies since its inception. As the call for decolonizing leisure studies grows, this book champions a cross-cultural and social justice agenda that does not privilege global north childhoods but acknowledges the multiplicity of lived childhoods across the globe and their inter-connections. By drawing attention to children’s leisure – across multiple genres such as organized leisure, sports, play, and digital leisure among others, this edited volume drives a new wave of research that speaks simultaneously to leisure studies and childhood studies and thereby advances the intellectual remit of global leisure studies.

Multimodality Studies in International Contexts

Author : Liliana Vásquez Rocca
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100382532X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Multimodality Studies in International Contexts written by Liliana Vásquez Rocca and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change. The volume highlights the need to expand on the established approaches--Social Semiotics, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis--by complementing them with other analytical frameworks to better understand the impact of unprecedented global challenges, such as Covid-19, on the way humans communicate and make use of meaning-making resources. Bringing together established and emergent scholars from a variety of geographical, cultural, and linguistic contexts, the collection presents studies from both the Global North and Global South, including South Africa, Latin America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, to showcase new perspectives in multimodality research. This innovative book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, social semiotics, and discourse analysis.

Principles of Adult Play(fulness) in Contemporary Toy Cultures

Author : Katriina Heljakka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789526051437
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Adult Play(fulness) in Contemporary Toy Cultures written by Katriina Heljakka and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toys and Sustainability

Author : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981169673X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Toys and Sustainability written by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents five interesting chapters dealing with the sustainability of toys. The concept of sustainability has reached all industrial sectors these days and being practiced in almost all the sectors. One of the main sectors where sustainability has to be embedded to the core is the toy sector. Needless to enumerate the importance of sustainability in this sector especially when it comes to usage of chemicals and so on. There are various elements associated with the sustainability of toys and there is a dearth of published literature on this subject.

Play in a Covid Frame

Author : Anna Beresin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800648944
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Play in a Covid Frame written by Anna Beresin and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed play within the limiting frame of Covid-19. Folklorists Anna Beresin and Julia Bishop adopt a multidisciplinary approach to this phenomenon, bringing together the insights of a geographically and demographically diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and community activists. The book begins with a focus on social and physical landscapes before moving onto more intimate portraits of play among the old and young, including coronavirus-themed games and novel toy inventions. Finally, the co-authors explore the creative shifts observed in frames of play, ranging from Zoom screens to street walls. This singular chronicle of coronavirus play will be of interest to researchers and students of developmental psychology, childhood studies, education, playwork, sociology, anthropology and folklore, as well as to toy, museum, and landscape designers. This book will also be of help to parents, professional organizations, educators, and urban planners, with a postscript of concrete suggestions advocating for the essential role of play in a post-pandemic world.

Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media

Author : Michael Fuchs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501330500
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media written by Michael Fuchs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television screens for various purposes, but, in our convergence culture, video games also play a vital role in allowing players to explore transmedia storyworlds. At the same time, video games are frequently thematized and remediated in film, television, and literature. Indeed, the central role video games assume in intermedial networks provides testament to their significance in the contemporary media environment. In this volume, an international group of contributors discuss not only intermedial phenomena in video games, but also the intermedial networks surrounding them. Intermedia Games-Games Inter Media will deepen readers' understanding of the convergence culture of the early twenty-first century and video games' role in it.

Fandom, Second Edition

Author : Jonathan Gray
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479812765
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Fandom, Second Edition written by Jonathan Gray and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: why still study fans? / Cornel Sandvoss, Jonathan Gray, and C. Lee Harrington -- Fan texts and objects -- The death of the reader? : literary theory and the study of texts in popular culture / Cornel Sandvoss -- Intimate intertextuality and performative fragments in media fanfiction / Kristina Busse -- Media academics as media audiences : aesthetic judgments in media and cultural studies / Matt Hills -- Copyright law, fan practices, and the rights of the author (2017) / Rebecca Tushnet -- Toy fandom, adulthood, and the ludic age : creative material culture as play / Katriina Heljakka -- Spaces of fandom -- Loving music : listeners, entertainments, and the origins of music fandom in nineteenth-century America / Daniel Cavicchi -- Resisting technology in music fandom : nostalgia, authenticity, and Kate Bush's "Before the dawn" / Lucy Bennett -- I scream therefore I fan? : music audiences and affective citizenship / Mark Duffett -- A sort of homecoming: fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage / Will Brooker -- Reimagining the imagined community : online media fandoms in the age of global convergence / Lori Hitchcock Morimoto and Bertha Chin -- Temporalities of fandom -- Do all "good things" come to an end? : revisiting Martha Stewart fans after imclone / Melissa A. Click -- The lives of fandoms / Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington -- "What are you collecting now?" seth, comics, and meaning management / Henry Jenkins -- Sex, utopia, and the queer temporalities of fannish love / Alexis Lothian -- The fan citizen: fan politics and activism -- The news : you gotta love it / Jonathan Gray -- Memory, archive, and history in political fan fiction / Abigail De Kosnik -- Between rowdies and rasikas : rethinking fan activity in Indian film culture / Aswin Punathambekar -- Black twitter and the politics of viewing scandal / Dayna Chatman -- Deploying oppositional fandoms : activists' use of sports fandom in the Redskins controversy / Lori Kido Lopez and Jason Kido Lopez -- Fan labor and fan-producer interactions -- Ethics of fansubbing in Anime's hybrid public culture / Mizuko Ito -- Live from hall H : fan/producer symbiosis at San Diego comic-con / Anne Gilbert -- Fantagonism: factions, institutions, and constitutive hegemonies of fandom -- Derek johnson -- The powers that squee : Orlando Jones and intersectional fan studies / Suzanne Scott -- Measuring fandom : social tv analytics and the integration of fandom into television audience measurement / Philip M. Napoli and Allie Kosterich -- About the contributors -- Index

Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society

Author : Mauro Pinho
Publisher : Seven Editora
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1915 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society written by Mauro Pinho and published by Seven Editora. This book was released on with total page 1915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temos o prazer de lançar o primeiro livro internacional do ano de 2022 voltado a área do desenvolvimento, que tem como título Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society, essa obra contém 152 artigos voltados a área multidisciplinar, sendo a mesma pela Seven Publicações Ltda. A Seven Editora, agradece e enaltasse os autores que fizeram parte desse livro. Desejamos uma boa leitura a todos

The Place of Play

Author : Maaike Lauwaert
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640800
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Place of Play written by Maaike Lauwaert and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, eclectic analysis of the changing geographies of play in contemporary society.

Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation

Author : Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015138
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation written by Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of playfulness in animal and human development, highlighting its links to creativity and, in turn, to innovation.

Powerplay

Author : Dan Fleming
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719047176
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Powerplay written by Dan Fleming and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly global media culture, toys are both consumer products and playthings, revealing a complex relationship between capitalism and child psychology. This book analyses the gendered and cultural meanings of toys.

Exploring Play for Early Childhood Studies

Author : Mandy Andrews
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 0857256874
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Play for Early Childhood Studies written by Mandy Andrews and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Nursery World Awards! This is a key text for all those studying for degrees and foundation degrees in early childhood, early years and related disciplines and for candidates on EYPS pathways. It takes the reader through a detailed exploration of the nature of play examining the features and the concepts of play. Guidance on the observation of children′s play is included and the text encourages students to appreciate the value of play in development and in socialisation. Children′s rights and the ownership of play are also covered. With interactive activities and case studies throughout, the text helps students to arrive at an understanding of their own practice in relation to play. About the Early Years series This series has been designed to support students of Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines in popular modules of their course. Each text takes a focused look at a specific topic and approaches it in an accessible and user-friendly way. Features have been developed to help readers engage with the text and understand the subject from a number of different viewpoints. Activities pose questions to prompt thought and discussion and ′Theory Focus′ boxes examine essential theory close-up for better understanding. This series is also applicable to EYPS candidates on all pathways. Other titles in the series are Early Childhood Studies, Childhood in Society for Early Childhood Studies and Child Observation for the Early Years.

Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789693748
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement written by Howard Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, stemming from the 2nd University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference 'Archaeo-Engage: Engaging Communities in Archaeology' (April 2017), provides original perspectives on public archaeology’s current practices and future potentials focusing on art/archaeological media, strategies and subjects.

Playful Visions

Author : Meredith A. Bak
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538717
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Playful Visions written by Meredith A. Bak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens. In the nineteenth century, the kaleidoscope, the thaumatrope, the zoetrope, the stereoscope, and other optical toys were standard accessories of a middle-class childhood, used both at home and at school. In Playful Visions, Meredith Bak argues that the optical toys of the nineteenth century were the “new media” of their era, teaching children to be discerning consumers of media—and also provoking anxieties similar to contemporary worries about children's screen time. Bak shows that optical toys—which produced visual effects ranging from a moving image to the illusion of depth—established and reinforced a new understanding of vision as an interpretive process. At the same time, the expansion of the middle class as well as education and labor reforms contributed to a new notion of childhood as a time of innocence and play. Modern media culture and the emergence of modern Western childhood are thus deeply interconnected. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bak discusses, among other things, the circulation of optical toys, and the wide visibility gained by their appearance as printed templates and textual descriptions in periodicals; expanding conceptions of literacy, which came to include visual acuity; and how optical play allowed children to exercise a sense of visual mastery. She examines optical toys alongside related visual technologies including chromolithography—which inspired both chromatic delight and chromophobia. Finally, considering the contemporary use of optical toys in advertising, education, and art, Bak analyzes the endurance of nineteenth-century visual paradigms.

Toys, Play, Culture and Society

Author : Jean-Pierre Rossie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toys, Play, Culture and Society written by Jean-Pierre Rossie and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "the 144 original color photos and other illustrations ... [and] the volumes of the collection Saharan and North African toy and play cultures : Children's dolls and doll play ; The animal world in play, games and toys ; [and] Commented bibliography on play, games and toys [and the same 3 titles in French]"--Page 4 of cover.