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: Marvin Simon Название: Smart Urbanism ISBN: 1138844233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138844230 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question.
This book explores this common conception of the problematic of smart urbanism and critically address what new capabilities are being created by whom and with what exclusions; how these are being developed - and contested; where is this happening both within and between cities; and, with what sorts of social and material consequences. The aim of the book is to identify and convene a currently fragmented and disconnected group of researchers, commentators, developers and users from both within and outside the mainstream SU discourse, including several of those that adopt a more critical perspective, to assess 'what' problems of the city smartness can address
The volume provides the first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the global north and south, critically evaluates whether current visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical promise for reshaping cities.
Автор: El Morr Christo Название: Novel Applications of Virtual Communities in Healthcare Settings ISBN: 1522529586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522529583 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 34234.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Virtual communities have gained popularity in many growing fields and have continued to expand into healthcare environments. Analyzing the impact these communities have can help provide more effective methods to support patients and community members. Novel Applications of Virtual Communities in Healthcare Settings is a crucial scholarly reference source that examines the challenges virtual communities can face, as well as the advantages they provide to members of healthcare organizations. Featuring pertinent topics that include evaluation frameworks, disaster management, knowledge translation, and user engagement, this book is ideal for medical practitioners, academicians, students, and healthcare researchers that are interested in taking part in the latest discussions of virtual communities within medical fields.
Автор: Cornelia Boldyreff; Kevin Crowston; Bj?rn Lundell; Название: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting ISBN: 3642020313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642020315 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18161.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2009, held in Skovde, Sweden, in June 2009. This book presents 28 revised full papers together with the abstracts of two keynote speeches, 6 workshop introductions, 5 posters and 2 panels that were reviewed from 59 submissions.
Автор: Peter Kropf; Gilbert Babin; John Plaice; Herwig Un Название: Distributed Communities on the Web ISBN: 3540676473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540676478 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: To support communities on a wide scale will require developments at all levels of computing, from low-level communication protocols supporting transparent - cess to mobile objects, through to distributed operating systems, through to high-level programming models allowing complex interaction between objects.
Автор: A. Ant Ozok; Panayiotis Zaphiris Название: Online Communities and Social Computing ISBN: 3642027733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642027734 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Third International Conference OCSC 2009 Held as Part of HCI International 2009 San Diego CA USA Ju. .
Автор: Milan Stefania Название: Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change ISBN: 1137558156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137558152 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In doing so, Stefania Milan illustrates how contemporary social movements organize in order to create autonomous alternatives to communication systems and networks, and how they contribute to change the way people communicate in daily life, as well as try to change communication policy from the grassroots.
Автор: Kitchin Rob Название: Code and the City ISBN: 1138922110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138922112 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8726.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities.
Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between software and contemporary urbanism.
This book will be of interest to those researching or studying smart cities and urban infrastructure.
Автор: Marvin Simon Название: Smart Urbanism ISBN: 1138844225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138844223 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question.
This book explores this common conception of the problematic of smart urbanism and critically address what new capabilities are being created by whom and with what exclusions; how these are being developed - and contested; where is this happening both within and between cities; and, with what sorts of social and material consequences. The aim of the book is to identify and convene a currently fragmented and disconnected group of researchers, commentators, developers and users from both within and outside the mainstream SU discourse, including several of those that adopt a more critical perspective, to assess 'what' problems of the city smartness can address
The volume provides the first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the global north and south, critically evaluates whether current visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical promise for reshaping cities.
Автор: Charles Steinfield; Brian T. Pentland; Mark Ackerm Название: Communities and Technologies 2007 ISBN: 1846289041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846289040 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 33401.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book covers the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and communities -- both physical and virtual. Community technology applications are studied in many contexts. The book demonstrates the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of evolving communities and technologies scholarship.
Автор: Barbara Russo; Ernesto Damiani; Scott Hissam; Bj?r Название: Open Source Development, Communities and Quality ISBN: 0387096833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387096834 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 17889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software held at the 20th World Computer Congress in Milan, Italy on September 7-10, 2008. This book features proceedings and post-proceedings of refereed international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields.
Автор: Noriko Hara Название: Communities of Practice ISBN: 3540854231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540854234 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers themes about Communities of Practice (CoPs) and learning as well as about social informatics approaches. Drawing on theories from situated cognition and social informatics, this book investigates what constitutes a community of practice and how members of the community create a shared meaning in workplaces with and without IT.
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