Virtual Ascendance
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Virtual Ascendance
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Author : Devin C. Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013-09-19
Virtual Ascendance written by Devin C. Griffiths and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Games & Activities categories.
Video gaming is wildly popular and getting even more so as interfaces and devices improve. This popular account of the rise of gaming offers insight into its popularity and place in our culture as well as the impact it has on our daily lives – from the doctor’s office to the family room sofa.
Virtual Ascendance
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Author : Ezra E. Manes
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-05
Virtual Ascendance written by Ezra E. Manes and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-05 with categories.
Joqi Sepeda and Dawn, a self-aware AI entity, have launched on a priority mission to locate exoplanets suitable for human colonization. Leaving family was heartbreaking, but made necessary by radical, freakish changes to Joqi's physiology that occurred on his previous mission; changes that greatly enhanced his mental capabilities. Joqi's mental prowess quickly draws the attention of vastly superior beings that have a secret, dangerous mission of their own-and they need his help. But first they must force Joqi to hone his mental skills by enduring several life-threatening challenges, which have at stake the fate of other sentient species. As Joqi's mental capabilities increase, he suspects and then questions the superior beings' objectives. A universal plan is revealed that is eons old-and mindboggling. Joqi wonders how he can survive the incredible endgame, which involves augmented reality on a cosmic scale...
The Entrepreneur S Guide To Second Life
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Author : Daniel Terdiman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2007-10-29
The Entrepreneur S Guide To Second Life written by Daniel Terdiman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-29 with Business & Economics categories.
"You'll discover the unique challenges and opportunities of running an in-world business. You'll delve into the most popular Second Life business and get practical pointers from some of the metaverse's best-known entrepreneurs. And you'll get the nuts-and-bolts expertise you need to succeed, from developing a unique product or service to mounting an effective marketing campaign."--Jacket.
Videogames And Education
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Author : Harry J. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Videogames And Education written by Harry J. Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for specific ways to interpret video games in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. The author shows how video games have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. He discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding video games, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and video games cultural phenomenon.
Is Oedipus Online
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Author : Jerry Aline Flieger
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005-05-06
Is Oedipus Online written by Jerry Aline Flieger and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-06 with Psychology categories.
Psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the twenty-first century. "Can Freud be 'updated' in the twenty-first century, or is he a venerated but outmoded genius?" asks Jerry Aline Flieger. In Is Oedipus Online? Flieger stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and the new century, testing the viability of Freud's theories in light of the emergent realities of our time. Responding to prominent critics of psychoanalysis and approaching our current preoccupations from a Freudian angle, she presents a reading of Freudian theory that coincides with and even clarifies new concepts in science and culture. Fractals, emergence, topological modeling, and other nonlinearities, for example, can be understood in light of both Freud's idea of the symptom as a nodal point and Lacan's concept of networks (rather than sequential cause and effect) that link psychic realities. At the same time, Flieger suggests how emerging paradigms in science and culture may elucidate Freud's cultural theory. Like Slavoj Zizek, editor of the Short Circuits series, Flieger shifts effortlessly from field to field, discussing psychoanalysis, millennial culture, nonlinear science, and the landscape of cyberspace. In the first half of the book, "Re-siting Oedipus," she draws on the work of Lyotard, Zizek, Deleuze, Virilio, Baudrillard, Haraway and others, to refute the assumption of Freud's outdatedness in the new century. Then, in "Freud Sitings in Millennial Theory," she recasts oedipal theory, siting/sighting/citing Freud in a twenty-first-century context. Thinking of Oedipus—decipherer of enigmas, wanderer—as a navigator or search engine allows us to see psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the "bimillennial" era, and Oedipus himself as a circuit of intersubjective processes by which we become human. For humanity—still needed in the "posthuman" century—is at the core of Freud's theory: "Reading Freud today," Flieger writes, "reminds us of the complications of the Sphinx's riddle, the enigma that Oedipus only thought he solved: the question of what it is to be human. Psychoanalysis continues to pose that question at the crossroads between instincts and their vicissitudes."
Virtual Menageries
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Author : Jody Berland
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Virtual Menageries written by Jody Berland and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Social Science categories.
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated study links the contemporary proliferation of animals on social media to the collection of exotic animals in the formative years of transcontinental exploration and expansion. By tracing previously unseen parallels across the history of exotic and digital menageries, Berland shows how and why animals came to bridge peoples, territories, and technologies in the expansion of colonial and capitalist cultures. Berland's genealogy of the virtual menagerie begins in 1414 when a ruler in Bengal sent a Kenyan giraffe to join a Chinese emperor's menagerie. It maps the beaver's role in the colonial conquest of Canada and examines the appearances of animals in early moving pictures. The menagerie is reinvented for the digital age when image and sound designers use parts or images of animals to ensure the affective promise and commercial spread of an emergent digital infrastructure. These animal images are emissaries that enliven and domesticate the ever-expanding field of mediation. Virtual Menageries offers a unique account of animals and animal images as mediators that encourage complicated emotional, economic, and aesthetic investment in changing practices of connection.
Regulation Of Cryptocurrencies And Blockchain Technologies
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Author : Rosario Girasa
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-07
Regulation Of Cryptocurrencies And Blockchain Technologies written by Rosario Girasa and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-07 with Business & Economics categories.
This second edition further explores the regulatory landscape of cryptocurrency, highlighting the rise of Bitcoin, which is based on blockchain technology, and some of the many types of coins and tokens that emerged thereafter. Although Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made national and international news with their dramatic rise and decline in value, nevertheless the underlying technology is being adopted by both industry and governments, which have noted the benefits of speed, cost efficiency, and protection from hacking. Based on numerous downloaded articles, laws, cases, and other materials, the book discusses the digital transformation, the types of cryptocurrencies, key actors, and the benefits and risks. It also addresses legal issues of digital technology and the evolving U.S. federal regulation. The varying treatment by individual U.S. states is reviewed together with attempts by organizations to arrive at a uniform regulatory regime. Both civil and criminal prosecutions are highlighted with an examination of the major cases that have arisen. This second edition specifically explores the creation of stablecoins, governments issuance of their own versions of digital currencies, new regulations that have been enacted and promulgated, and a clearer examination of futuristic evolutions that potentially will have a major impact upon the current cited technologies.
Authentic Virtual World Education
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Author : Sue Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-23
Authentic Virtual World Education written by Sue Gregory and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-23 with Education categories.
The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education. It includes a unique variety of cross disciplinary approaches to research, teaching and learning in a virtual world, including analysis of data from the experiences of students in education, law, Chinese language, sustainability, computer architecture, business, health and the Arts. The book provides unique learning experiences that have celebrated the rich media of virtual world environments through the utilisation of affordances such as simulation, bots, synchronous interaction, machinima and games. The perspectives come from Australia and New Zealand higher education academics but transferable to any higher educational institution in the sector, worldwide, and is significant to various disciplines in the higher education field.
The Invisible Hand In Virtual Worlds
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Author : Matthew McCaffrey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-03
The Invisible Hand In Virtual Worlds written by Matthew McCaffrey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Studies the economic order that governs virtual worlds and ways individuals work together to govern social relations in the digital space.
Performing Science And The Virtual
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Author : Sue-Ellen Case
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-01-24
Performing Science And The Virtual written by Sue-Ellen Case and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-24 with Art categories.
From Faust and Edison, to John Cage and Lara Croft, this inspiring book reviews classical plays to contemporary issues and examines how science has been performed throughout history.