The document discusses MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) as potential utopian or dystopian spaces. It explores how concepts from novels like textuality, narrativity, dialogism, and realism can be applied to MMOGs. While MMOGs could create utopian social spaces, they may also devolve into dystopias if players' rights are not respected or the virtual world is not well-designed by administrators. MMOGs thus walk a line between upholding player agency and preventing corruption like cheating.
The stories are everywhere in the world. The characters are scattered all around us. We as narrators
need to pick up such stories and connect them to real life situations. Fiction can be a technique to place stories
in real contexts and derive meanings out of them. There are instances where the storytellers, the writers have
symbolized messages through a storyline that is genuine and realistic. Stories are ample, in profusion. They
have substance, carrying weight. Writers simply need the sincerity of purpose to get such narratives out in
public domain.
The stories are everywhere in the world. The characters are scattered all around us. We as narrators
need to pick up such stories and connect them to real life situations. Fiction can be a technique to place stories
in real contexts and derive meanings out of them. There are instances where the storytellers, the writers have
symbolized messages through a storyline that is genuine and realistic. Stories are ample, in profusion. They
have substance, carrying weight. Writers simply need the sincerity of purpose to get such narratives out in
public domain.
Archaeologies of the future: Mixed Reality storytelling inspired by European ...Martha Vassiliadi
I. How to tell the catastrophe
Pompeii : the paradox of a creative destruction (Bulwer, Gautier, Jenssen)
B. Virtual reality and romanticism : the literary challenge
II. How to tell the creation
Parthenon : the cult of representation
The placeless place : from myth to the self consciousness (V. Woolf, Sigmund Freud )
This slideshow has been fun for an American Lit class. I try very hard to keep the visuals interesting and to manage the words well. Let me know whether the layout works or not, and you can be honest.
PowerPoint prepared for a presentation at the “Sémiotiques et Rhétorique” workshop in Algeria in 2008, at which it was, in the end, unfortunately impossible to participate
Einführung transmedia storytelling ununi.tvDoro Martin
Einführung ins Thema Transmedia Storytelling für die ununi.tv Unkonferenz. Transmedia Storytelling als Kunstform und Marketingmöglichkeit. Stories über multiple Plattformen erzählen, Realität und Fiktion verschmelzen, digitale Charaktere erschaffen, Alternate Reality Games inszenieren. Ein Überblick und ein Einblick ins Transmedia Manifest, das im Rahmen der StoryDrive Konferenz von einem achtköpfigen Team entwickelt wurde.
Fragen gerne jederzeit an @doromartin oder an dm[@]das-wilde-dutzend[.]de. Video der Session: bit.ly/u4tX54
Archaeologies of the future: Mixed Reality storytelling inspired by European ...Martha Vassiliadi
I. How to tell the catastrophe
Pompeii : the paradox of a creative destruction (Bulwer, Gautier, Jenssen)
B. Virtual reality and romanticism : the literary challenge
II. How to tell the creation
Parthenon : the cult of representation
The placeless place : from myth to the self consciousness (V. Woolf, Sigmund Freud )
This slideshow has been fun for an American Lit class. I try very hard to keep the visuals interesting and to manage the words well. Let me know whether the layout works or not, and you can be honest.
PowerPoint prepared for a presentation at the “Sémiotiques et Rhétorique” workshop in Algeria in 2008, at which it was, in the end, unfortunately impossible to participate
Einführung transmedia storytelling ununi.tvDoro Martin
Einführung ins Thema Transmedia Storytelling für die ununi.tv Unkonferenz. Transmedia Storytelling als Kunstform und Marketingmöglichkeit. Stories über multiple Plattformen erzählen, Realität und Fiktion verschmelzen, digitale Charaktere erschaffen, Alternate Reality Games inszenieren. Ein Überblick und ein Einblick ins Transmedia Manifest, das im Rahmen der StoryDrive Konferenz von einem achtköpfigen Team entwickelt wurde.
Fragen gerne jederzeit an @doromartin oder an dm[@]das-wilde-dutzend[.]de. Video der Session: bit.ly/u4tX54
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Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
10. Der Tod des Autors?
„For the traditional reader
electronic writing offers
little comfort; it will in
fact confirm much of what
the deconstructionists […]
have been saying about Jay D. Bolter
the instability of the text
and decreasing authority
of the author“
11. Der Roman als Modell
Narrativität
„Wir haben festge-
stellt, daß die
Tragödie die Nach-
ahmung einer in
sich geschlossenen
und ganzen Hand-
lung ist [...]. Ein
Ganzes ist, was Aristoteles
Anfang, Mitte und
Ende hat.“
12. Der Roman als Modell
Narrativität
„Wir haben festge-
stellt, daß die
Tragödie die Nach-
ahmung einer in
sich geschlossenen
und ganzen Hand-
lung ist [...]. Ein
Ganzes ist, was Aristoteles
Anfang, Mitte und
Ende hat.“
13. Der Roman als Modell
Narrativität
„Narrative has
something to do
with timebounded-
ness, and plot is
the internal logic of
the discourse of
mortality“
Peter Brooks
14. Der Roman als Modell
Narrativität
Dialogizität
„A cybertext is a
machine for the
production of a
variety of
expressions“
Espen Aarseth
Espen Aarseth
15. Der Roman als Modell
Dialogizität
Scutter, he
cried thickly
She has it, she got it,
Wherever she put it
The leg of the duck.
Vidi aquam egre-
dientem de templo a
latere dextro. Alleluia
16. Der Roman als Modell
Dialogizität
lol ME ME ME!
it saves
ur !@#
we lived to fight
another day!
17. Der Roman als Modell
„When heteroglossia enters the
novel it becomes subject to an
artistic reworking. The social and
historical voices populating
language, all its words and all its
forms, which provide language
with its particular concrete
conceptualizations, are organized
in the novel into a structured
stylistic system that expresses the M. Bachtin
differentiated socio-ideological
position of the author amid the
heteroglossia of his epoch.“
18. Der Roman als Modell
Dialogizität
Realismus
lol ME ME ME!
it saves
ur !@#
we lived to fight
another day!
19. Der Roman als Modell
Realismus
„Realistic-ness
and realism are
most certainly
not the same
thing“
A. Galloway
20. Der Roman als Modell
Realismus
„[The realist novel‘s]
greatness and practical
usefulness lay in its
unremitting work of
involving the reader
himself in the moral
life, inviting him to put
his own motives under
examination, suggest- Lionel Trilling
ing that reality is not as
his conventional edu-
cation has led him to
see it.“
21. Der Roman als Modell
Utopie?
Textualität
Narrativität
Dystopie?
Dialogizität
Realismus
22. Utopie oder Dystopie?
we lived to fight
another day!
lol ME ME ME! By pressing the
‚I accept‘ button,
you accept the
it saves terms and con-
ur !@# ditions below
Dialogizität
23. Utopie oder Dystopie?
„But one new and interesting thing
in this EULA [...] is the fact that
you will be giving up your rights of
ownership over anything that you
build and leave in the world.
Moreover if something goes wrong
with the world, or if the powers that
E. Castronova
be decide to change some part of
the code, and as a result you lose
something important to you, you
have no right to expect
compensation. [...]“
25. Utopie oder Dystopie?
„Player activity is productive in a number of
ways. The basic ergodic nature of the game
text requires player input in order to
advance the game. In emergent games like
EverQuest this can be a creative process
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which leads to unexpected or unpredictable
results [...]. Players are also a source of
feedback and suggestions; act as quasi
bug-testers; are active on game bulletin
boards. […] Finally there are the social and
community investment of players that build
important structural features such as the
social networks found in guilds, and the
long-term friendships and team-like
relationships that lead to player retention in
the game“ (Sal Humphries)
26. Utopie oder Dystopie?
„There‘s no way to measure the
reasonableness of virtual world
design decisions [...]. Artists do
what artists do.“
Richard Bartle
„The nature of virtual spaces is
such that there must [...] be a
higher power or administrator. [...]
By declaring that avatars have
rights, we‘re abrogating that
administrator‘s right to personal
Raph Koster
property.“
27. Utopie oder Dystopie?
I don‘t want to
surrender control. I
hate the notion of
rights for players.
28. Utopie oder Dystopie?
„Game fictions are all about testing of ‚hypotheses‘,
‚options‘, and ‚imaginative alternatives, all about offering
the ‚contents‘ and not the authored and fixed meaning of a
single imaginative possibility“ (Barry Atkins)
30. Utopie oder Dystopie?
“Then the cheaters came. As a
social construct, despite being
virtual, the online world of
Diablo was just as susceptible
to cheaters as the real world.
[…] New players had found
ways of illegitimately altering
their characters. Using a
technique called 'duping', they
could duplicate any item they
owned, or even fabricate them
out of thin air.” (Andy Kuo)