Attachment, deadness, desire, and addictive buzz traps

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-213
Author(s):  
Graham Music
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Dopaminergic System ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
New Challenges

In this article I describe those caught up in an increasingly common but worrying phenomenon, that of addictive states of mind, seen, for example, in obsessional use of video games or pornography. While the contemporary world has exacerbated the risks, addictive traits often originate in attempts to escape from an inner pain or deadness towards the false promise offered by the object of addiction. The article offers a different view of the dopaminergic system. It also looks at how the contemporary world is posing new challenges for people who have developed with such a propensity, and we will see how those prone to addictive states of mind struggle to bear certain emotional states, finding them overwhelming, and instead reach for a solution via their addiction.

Believable and Effective AI Agents in Virtual Worlds

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskander Umarov ◽  
Maxim Mozgovoy
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Human Likeness ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Creation

The rapid development of complex virtual worlds (most notably, in 3D computer and video games) introduces new challenges for the creation of virtual agents, controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Two important subproblems in this topic area which need to be addressed are (a) believability and (b) effectiveness of agents’ behavior, i.e., human-likeness of the characters and high ability to achieving their own goals. In this paper, the authors study current approaches to believability and effectiveness of AI behavior in virtual worlds. They examine the concepts of believability and effectiveness, and analyze several successful attempts to address these challenges.

The Role of Communication in Business Decision Making

2018 ◽  
pp. 164-186
Author(s):  
Lavinia Nădrag ◽  
Alina Galbeaza Buzarna-Tihenea
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges

The contemporary world bears the mark of a great development process that triggers new challenges and opportunities. In order to evolve, organizations and their members must constantly adapt to this ever-changing environment and, in this regard, communication and feedback play a major role. This chapter deals with the importance of communication, in general, and of internal communication and feedback, in particular, within organizations. The theoretical part of the chapter tackles several important issues related to communication and feedback, such as definitions, models and types of communication, the main barriers to effective communication, and feedback within organizations. The second part of the chapter is focused on a study analyzing the answers to a questionnaire administered to the employees of an insurance company, in order to assess its internal communication and to find correlations between the satisfaction degree resulted from the communication process and the way of viewing the organization's efficiency.

scholarly journals VIDEO GAMES LOCALISATION: POSING NEW CHALLENGES TO THE TRANSLATOR

Perspectives ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Mangiron Hevia
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
New Challenges

Mystical Theology in Contemporary Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Mystical Theology ◽  
Historical Moment

The chapter examines the presence and visibility of spiritual and mystical experience in the secularized and plural contemporary world. Our historical moment puts into question the socio-political and cultural context of contemporary mystical life and thought. This allows us to trace the contours of present-day mystical experience in the southern hemisphere, where the experience of the Spirit is intertwined in distinctive ways with issues such as secular politics or interreligious dialogue and with the emergence of intra-ecclesial spiritualism. In doing so, we elaborate the new challenges that the experience of and reflection upon mysticism poses for Christian theology and its discourse about humanity.

WEB MINING IN CLASSIFYING YOUTH EMOTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Zura Izlita Razak ◽  
Shuzlina Abdul rahman ◽  
Sofianita Mutalib ◽  
Nurzeatul Hamimah Abdul hamid
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Triggering Events ◽  
Mining Model

Social media sites are websites used as mediums to create and share various types of contents over the internet. These sites can also be accessed through applications on mobile gadgets. Different social media sites are available for free, and most teenagers or youths have at least one active account. They use social media sites to connect and share their online profiles, daily activities, stories, and emotions. Depending on their social settings, their activities may or may not be seen by others. One of the latest trends that is spreading over the social media is the Korean Pop entertainment or popularly known as KPop. Over the social media, youths share and express how they feel about their Korean celebrities, music, and drama. However, the issue of excessive sharing of emotion-sharing over social media may increase the risk of mental illness and affect their mental health. Their obsession to keep up-to-date with their idols might lead or cause adverse consequences on their emotional states of mind. Thus, the aim of this research is to study the changes of youths’ emotions in two different countries which are Malaysia and Korea that are related to the KPop trend. We extract texts from tweets from Twitter social media sites using the Twitter API as the basis of our study. Then, the keyword 'KPop' is used to filter the tweets. Web mining model classifies the 12,000 tweets into six emotion categories, which are joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise. The system then records the emotion changes and the triggering events respectively. 

The Importance of Business Communication in an Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-56
Author(s):  
Lavinia Nădrag ◽  
Alina Buzarna-Tihenea
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Great Development

The contemporary world bears the mark of a great development process that triggers new challenges and opportunities. In order to evolve, organizations and their members must constantly adapt to this ever-changing environment and, in this regard, communication and feedback play a major role. This article is focused on a study analyzing the answers to a questionnaire administered to the employees of an insurance company, in order to assess its internal communication and to find correlations between the satisfaction degrees resulted from the communication process and the way of viewing the organization's efficiency.

scholarly journals Stefano Francesco Musso, Challenges, competences, professions for the built heritage conservation in the contemporary world

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-16
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Built Heritage Conservation

Starting from two famous sentences about the relationships between ruins and history and about the meaning of tradition, the article deals with many facets that conservation has in the contemporary world. Through an initial provocative example of recent re-production of a monument, some of the new challenges in – and for – conservation emerge in relation with the consolidate goals of the discipline of restoration. New problems, issues and contradictions are now on the fore in cultural heritage safeguarding, management and enhancement, but also some new possibilities for education and professional activity characterize the field.

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