Worldviews, Science And Us: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Worlds, Cultures And Society - Proceedings Of The Workshop On "Worlds, Cultures And Society ", Aerts Diederik Et Al
The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself.
In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds -- actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers. Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora -- a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers) immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as "refugees"; relocated in There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world. Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the properties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior. She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography. Pearce considers the "play turn" in culture and the advent of a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play can be a prelude to creativity.
Автор: Klein, Julie Thompson Название: Creating interdisciplinary campus cultures ISBN: 0470550899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470550892 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With the increased support from funding agencies and in literature, an interdisciplinary culture is of growing significance. Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures provides an introduction to interdisciplinary change through pragmatic strategies.
Автор: Clackson Название: Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds ISBN: 0521140668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521140669 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3802.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Translated examples from Greek, Latin and other languages give an accessible account for students and general readers of how language illuminates topics such as ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world. Questions addressed include the rise and fall of languages, obscenity, and what language Jesus spoke.
Описание: Represents the proceedings of the interdisciplinary stream of the international workshop (Part 1) Times of Entanglement, 21 - 22 September 2010 at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai, People`s Republic of China.
Описание: Brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium. This title includes discussions on a central topic in analytical metaphysics. It addresses the methodological question by examining what can be learned if we compare these discussions from a methodological perspective.
Автор: Nicole Note; R. Fornet-Betancourt; J. Estermann; D Название: Worldviews and Cultures ISBN: 9048171369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048171361 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Globalization brings people and cultures together but also produces exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. Taking these issues as its starting point, this book comprehensively reflects on them from a worldview perspective, as one of many approaches.
Описание: Presents an economist`s eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? This book asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, and whether `globalized` culture is dumbing down societies everywhere.
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