scholarly journals Reconstructing LOST: Connecting storyworld geography to narrative comprehension in online Wiki communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-262
Author(s):  
Laura Daniel Buchholz
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Narrative Comprehension ◽  
Television Show ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Revision History

AbstractThis paper examines how viewers of the ABC television show Lost collaboratively reconstructed the geography of the fictional island at the center of the show’s plot through an online encyclopedic wiki, Wikia’s Lostpedia. Examining participant activity on the wiki site over the course of the show’s six-year run reveals how narrative audiences initially processed information about the storyworld space as well as how those audiences revised their ideas and assumptions as the serialized story progressed. Here I use “The Island” page’s revision history to trace the means by which participants negotiated and organized the information concerning where the island was located in the “real world.” Secondly, I move to approaches used in locating and organizing landmarks. Finally, I address the ways in which participants synthesized this information into the creation of their own maps and the problems they encountered in doing so.

scholarly journals Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in "The X-Files"

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Regan Wills
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discussion Spaces

Fandoms can constitute discourse communities, where fans make claims about issues of real-world political importance, such as the relationship between gender, power, and autonomy, and where other fans engage with and evaluate those claims. In fan works and fan analyses of Dana Scully in the television show The X-Files, fans pose claims both in discussion spaces and in the creation of fan fiction, and these fannish evaluations and discussions of these fictions analyze those claims.

scholarly journals New Thermodynamics: Inelastic Collisions and Cosmology

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent W. Mayhew
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Real World ◽  
Inelastic Collisions ◽  
Elastic Collisions ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Creation

The sciences have evolved around elastic collisions although most collisions are inelastic. Elastic collisions allow for simpler mathematical modelling, that may not be particularly suitable for cosmology. Inelastic collisions create photons. This has led to consideration of an ensemble of inelastic collisions producing CMB. This will further lead to brief discussions concerning the nature of dark matter, and dark energy. This will then be followed by a simpler analogy concerning the creation of Hawking’s radiation. A consequence of collisions being inelastic is that as a mathematical contrivance, entropy may only be an approximation when applied to the real world. And this fits well with this author’s “New Thermodynamics”.

Functionalization and the Real Virtual

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Ulrich Gehmann ◽  
Martin Reiche
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Step Model ◽  
The Creation

In this article the authors are going to explore a tendency in virtual world design towards the creation of non-functionalized virtual worlds, i.e. worlds which only exist to exist without resembling any function in their design. They are going to show how this tendency is grounded in the ongoing process of formatization in the real world by introducing a 4-step model of de-functionalization and show which chances exist for these non-functional virtual worlds to affect the real world through the mental world conception of the user.

Imagining new materials: Design as puzzle-solving

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-209
Author(s):  
Viviana Lebedinsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Real World ◽  
Materials Design ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The Real ◽  
Nanoscience And Nanotechnology ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
Innovative Materials ◽  
The Creation

How important is the imagination in the design and creation of new and innovative materials, and how can it be developed through formative processes? What happens when the real world becomes distinct from our imagination of it and what are the implications of such a rupture? These questions are considered with reference to a case study in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, which is examined with a focus on social relations, and formative processes in particular, emphasizing how these relations contribute to the creation–design of new materials. The author also examines the notion of imagination, focusing on its importance in the design of nanomaterials, which she conceptualizes as analogous to puzzle-solving. Two further examples enable us to reflect on different approaches through which the imagination might be understood and how the above questions can contribute to a rethinking of the hylomorphic and textility of making models.

THE HUNGRY, CROWDED, COMPETITIVE WORLD: Albert O. Hirschman, Clifford Geertz, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso conversation. Archive

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The Real ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
The Creation

By the middle of the 1970s, Albert O. Hirschman’s bias for hopefulness was under siege. Gloom pervaded the social sciences. And the real world gave ample justification to those who preferred to analyze failure and futility. By then, Hirschman had left Harvard University and had joined Clifford Geertz in the creation of a School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, one which would resist the quantifying and formalizing turns in American social sciences. There, the pair would become a formidable intellectual team.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Andrew Stuckey
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Chinese Cinemas ◽  
Ways Of Being

The “Introduction” describes the theoretical and practical understanding of what metacinema is and does in the context of Chinese filmmaking. Metacinema is a kind of textual reflexivity that foregrounds the mechanisms involved in the creation or reception of a film. Consideration of metacinema reveals a discourse on film arising from the films themselves. A key, but often overlooked, metacinematic category is genre: collective semiotic codes adopted, adapted, updated, or subverted that allow another vantage on the ways films influence each other. In the context of Chinese cinemas, this discourse ricochets amongst and between the industries of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the PRC. Further, focus on film audiences within films allows us to theorize the personal and social effects film watching has on viewers. The films provide models for ways of being in the world that characters within the films, and by analogy audiences in the real world, adopt, update, and subvert in their own lives.

Magic As Art in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Augusta Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Material World ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Poetic Representation ◽  
Fairy Story

In The King of Elfland's Daughter, Lord Dunsany crafts a fairy-story in which magic serves as an allegory for art. Elfland is a place of art, its timeless beauty created and sustained through magic; and its influence extends to the real world in the form of artistic inspiration. Indeed, elfin magic functions as art does: it preserves the past, renews one's vision, and imbues the material world with meaning. Dunsany's portrayal of art as magic in the novel is a poetic representation of his understanding of art as discussed in his non-fiction works. The novel concludes with a moment that symbolizes the creation of art: Earthly fields enchanted by elfin magic represent the familiar beauties of nature ‘enchanted’ into flights of fancy by the poet's words.

scholarly journals Polska subkultura otaku wobec źródeł japońskich

2014 ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Rutkowska
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Creation

Japanese otaku is a geek or nerd, who is strongly dependent on the products of Japanese pop culture from the circle of anime and manga. Such a unit subjugates all other areas of life to this passion, which means that he or she is willing to sacrifice everything for cultivating the interest, which from an ordinary hobby turned into a way of life. Japanese otaku has their own world, a virtual one, which often causes problems with establishing contacts with the real world. Polish otaku however is only a fan, a person who has a unique hobby. Such a person does not sacrifice everything to their hobby and only treats it as something you can do in your free time. He or she is able to reconcile reality with fiction without sacrificing any of them. Such great differences between the two subcultures of otaku are due to different mentality of their members and various understanding of the term otaku. This causes different treatment of themselves and ways in which both subcultures otaku manifest themselves. Furthermore, the lack of awareness about Japanese otaku subculture in the minds of the representatives of Polish otaku subculture results in the creation of the group completely different from its original.

scholarly journals Listening for Context: Interpretation, abstraction and the real

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hill
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

This article seeks to explore the proposed notion of ‘context-based composition’ by examining the nature of ‘real-world’ context. It does this by studying the way in which listeners interpret sounds, working towards a deeper understanding of what it is that we mean by ‘real-world’ sound and context-based composition. These discussions are then utilised to explore the concept of what it means to compose context-based works and suggests that new potentials are opened up by a closer examination of the definition of context-based composition, one which liberates itself from a concern over an absolute physical nature of sounds and which embraces the use of both abstract and referential sounds. This journey highlights the importance of memory and experience within processes of interpretation and the creation of context-based compositions, and questions divisions between the virtual and the real.

Philosophizing the Real World of Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tasioulas
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Real World ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
The Real ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Practice ◽  
Orthodox Theory ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Guiding Principles

It is argued that Samuel Moyn’s critique of Tasioulas’s ‘Towards a Philosophy of Human Rights’ is undermined by an overly ambitious conception of the supposed goals of philosophical enquiry into human rights and by a serious misinterpretation of the nature of Tasioulas’s ‘orthodox’ theory of human rights as affirming that such rights apply timelessly. With these misconceptions set aside, it becomes clear that a philosophical theory of human rights, such as the orthodox account, can help us illuminate and evaluate the complex realities of contemporary human rights practice, such as the creation of a non-statist and non-legalist human rights framework through the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

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