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Reyes, María Cecilia, and Giuliana Dettori. "Developing a Media Hybridization based on Interactive Narrative and Cinematic Virtual Reality." Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media 22, no. 2 (2019): 131–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.22.8.

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Grmusa, Lovorka Gruic. "“Cinematic” Gravity’s Rainbow: Indiscernibility of the Actual and the Virtual." Open Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (2017): 257–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0023.

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Abstract Acknowledging that all media interpenetrate without any one being privileged as original, this paper focuses on the influence and omnipresence of screen technologies, cinematography in particular, asserting its capacities to act as a dominant technological and cultural force, which surveys and controls the economy, affects human consciousness, and implements its own ideologically tainted reality. More specifically, the analysis demonstrates the impact of cinematography within Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, emphasizing intermedial reflexivity from screen to paper, its unfolding an
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Adams, Don. "The Creativity that Drives the World." Process Studies 48, no. 2 (2019): 219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/process201948216.

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This essay contends that reality is a creative evolutionary process by which the virtual is transformed into the actual and argues that our critical conception of realism in literature needs to be altered to reflect this purposive and progressive living reality in contrast to the static and dead actuality assumed by the conventional notion of realism as mimesis. Realist fiction writers who are profound creators have strategically employed metaphysically dipolar and ethically earnest literary genres in tandem with mimetic realism, resulting in complexly interactive alternative and prophetic rea
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Adams, Don. "The Creativity that Drives the World: Prophetic Realism." Process Studies 48, no. 2 (2019): 219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/processstudies.48.2.0219.

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Abstract This essay contends that reality is a creative evolutionary process by which the virtual is transformed into the actual and argues that our critical conception of realism in literature needs to be altered to reflect this purposive and progressive living reality in contrast to the static and dead actuality assumed by the conventional notion of realism as mimesis. Realist fiction writers who are profound creators have strategically employed metaphysically dipolar and ethically earnest literary genres in tandem with mimetic realism, resulting in complexly interactive alternative and prop
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Corbella, Maurizio, and Anna Katharina Windisch. "Sound Synthesis, Representation and Narrative Cinema in the Transition to Sound (1926-1935)." Cinémas 24, no. 1 (2014): 59–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1023110ar.

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Since the beginnings of western media culture, sound synthesis has played a major role in articulating cultural notions of the fantastic and the uncanny. As a counterpart to sound reproduction, sound synthesis operated in the interstices of the original/copy correspondence and prefigured the construction of a virtual reality through the generation of novel sounds apparently lacking any equivalent with the acoustic world. Experiments on synthetic sound crucially intersected cinema’s transition to synchronous sound in the late 1920s, thus configuring a particularly fertile scenario for the redef
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Geslin, Erik, Olivier Olivier Bartheye, Colin Schmidt, et al. "Bernardo Autonomous Emotional Agents Increase Perception of VR Stimuli." Network and Communication Technologies 5, no. 1 (2020): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/nct.v5n1p11.

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Video games are high emotional vectors. They play with the emotions of players by eliciting and increasing them. The importance of the induction of basic emotions has been a long forestay and is favoured by video game publishers, as they are quite easily mobilized. Video game publishers look to produce more complex social emotions like empathy, and compassion. In games framework with narrative context, designers frequently use cinema movies methods, like cinematic non-interactive Cutscenes. These methods temporarily exclude the player from interactivity to leave his first viewpoint view and mo
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Dowling, David O. "Documentary games for social change: Recasting violence in the latest generation of i-docs." Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 12, no. 2 (2020): 287–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00033_1.

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The evolutionary trajectory of digital journalism has been fuelled by the convergence of visual storytelling unique to documentary filmmaking with the graphics and procedural rhetoric of digital games. The reciprocal influences between gaming and documentary forms coalesce in this new highly engaging interactive journalism. This research demonstrates how game mechanics, design and logics combine with cinematic storytelling conventions in documentary games published since 2014. As forms of civic engagement more intimate and immersive than traditional print and broadcast journalism, documentary
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Douglas, J. Yellowlees. "Where the Senses Become a Stage and Reading Is Direction: Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction." TDR (1988-) 37, no. 4 (1993): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1146290.

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Mosselaer, Nele Van de. "How Can We Be Moved to Shoot Zombies? A Paradox of Fictional Emotions and Actions in Interactive Fiction." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (2018): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0016.

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Abstract How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina? By asking this question, Colin Radford introduced the paradox of fiction, or the problem that we are often emotionally moved by characters and events which we know don’t really exist (1975). A puzzling element of these emotions that always resurfaced within discussions on the paradox is the fact that, although these emotions feel real to the people who have them, their difference from ›real‹ emotions is that they cannot motivate us to perform any actions. The idea that actions towards fictional particulars are impossible still underlie
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Kalawsky, Roy, and Graeme Simpkin. "Automating the Display of Third Person/Stealth Views of Virtual Environments." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 15, no. 6 (2006): 717–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pres.15.6.717.

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In order to gain a greater insight into the relationships that exist between entities in three-dimensional (3D) datasets, the scientific, engineering, and arts communities are increasingly using interactive visualization and virtual reality (VR) techniques. They have realized that interactively visualizing 3D datasets from different viewpoints makes it possible to achieve a better understanding of the underlying dataset structure. Viewpoints can be either static or dynamic as in an interactive fly-through. However, unskilled users often select flight paths (or viewing situations) that cause na
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Kita, Barbara. "O kilku związkach Chrisa Markera z kulturą popularną." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 26 (September 17, 2021): 369–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.26.25.

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In the French avant-garde artist’s and new technology experimentalist’s rich output, one may find interesting references to popular culture, though the latter is not usually commensurate with niche, experimental works. Marker was not always an active author of such pop cultural experiences but even his famous photo-novel created in the 1960s — Jetty was adapted into a science-fiction film 12 Monkeys (1995) by Terry Gilliam. Moreover, Marker — an artist constantly searching for new forms of expression — was often inspired by technical novelties and new media were used in his works — evolving fr
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Novikov, Vasily N. "Aesthetics of Interactivity: Between Game and Film. To Watch or to Play?" Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 10, no. 1 (2018): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik10154-63.

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Abstract: According to recent research, video games are recognized as a new kind of art in the 21st century. Is it possible to distinguish the concepts of "entertainment" and "art" when dealing with this phenomenon? The purpose of this article is to analyze the significance of the game in contemporary society, to characterize the dominant features of "personal management" of a work of art, and to consider the influence of game aesthetics on the language of up-to-date cinema. The digital age, new technologies, computer modeling, and virtual aesthetics modernized the classical thesis of "life as
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Broderick, Mick, Stuart Marshall Bender, and Tony McHugh. "Virtual Trauma: Prospects for Automediality." M/C Journal 21, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1390.

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Unlike some current discourse on automediality, this essay eschews most of the analysis concerning the adoption or modification of avatars to deliberately enhance, extend or distort the self. Rather than the automedial enabling of alternative, virtual selves modified by playful, confronting or disarming avatars we concentrate instead on emerging efforts to present the self in hyper-realist, interactive modes. In doing so we ask, what is the relationship between traumatic forms of automediation and the affective impact on and response of the audience? We argue that, while on the one hand there
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Dodd, Adam. "The Fortean Continuity of eXistenZ within a Virtual Environment." M/C Journal 3, no. 5 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1871.

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So then: That all phenomena in our intermediate state, or quasi-state, represent this one attempt to organise, stabilise, harmonise, individualise -- or to positivise, or to become real: That only to have seeming is to express failure or intermediateness to final failure and final success; That every attempt -- that is observable -- is defeated by Continuity, or by outside forces -- or by the excluded that are continuous with the included: That our whole "existence" is an attempt by the relative to be absolute, or by the local to be the universal. -- Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned (1919)
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Zhang, Yu, and Ian Weber. "Adapting, modifying and applying cinematography and editing concepts and techniques to cinematic virtual reality film production." Media International Australia, August 2, 2021, 1329878X2110184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x211018476.

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Virtual reality (VR) filmmaking presents a unique cinematic experience requiring new and innovative ways to conceptualise and practice specific aspects of the production process. This article integrates a range of adapted and modified filmmaking thinking, approaches and components into the cinematic virtual reality (CVR) language and grammar in the two critical areas of cinematography and editing. This focus provides a range of possible strategies and tools for would-be VR film directors to engage more efficiently and effectively in VR film production. The article utilises an extended case stu
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Aytas, Murat, and Aytekin Can. "From real spaces to virtual spaces: The metaverse and decentralized cinema." Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, December 30, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47818/drarch.2022.v3si070.

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Developments in computer and communication technologies, which constitute the starting point of concepts such as decentralization, virtuality, simulation, augmented reality and metaverse, have also brought new forms of expression and designs in art to the agenda. In addition to the decentralized data architecture and metaverse areas that emerged in parallel with the development of network technologies, applications that increase the user's interaction and beleaguered experience such as virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality have increased their effectiveness in this field. The me
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Fisher, Joshua A. "Epistemic Rhetoric in Virtual Reality Interactive Factual Narratives." Frontiers in Virtual Reality 3 (May 17, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.845489.

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The turn to Interactive Digital Narratives to understand complexity offers a new model for creating, developing, and maintaining knowledge. At the same time, storytellers have turned their attention to Virtual Reality (VR). The confluence of these trends draws attention to how non-fiction practitioners can use the technical and aesthetic affordances of VR to create knowledge about complex subjects through the IDN form. This article explores the epistemic rhetorical nature of using narrative discourse in VR to create knowledge about a non-fiction subject. The IDN community has not addressed thi
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Leotta, Alfio. "Navigating Movie (M)apps: Film Locations, Tourism and Digital Mapping Tools." M/C Journal 19, no. 3 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1084.

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The digital revolution has been characterized by the overlapping of different media technologies and platforms which reshaped both traditional forms of audiovisual consumption and older conceptions of place and space. John Agnew claims that, traditionally, the notion of place has been associated with two different meanings: ‘the first is a geometric conception of place as a mere part of space and the second is a phenomenological understanding of a place as a distinctive coming together in space’ (317). Both of the dominant meanings have been challenged by the idea that the world itself is incr
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Tang, Ruohan, and Lai Wei. "Aural Authenticity of Virtual Reality Documentary Made in 3D Virtual Environment." Interactive Film & Media Journal 2, no. 2 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i2.1599.

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The concept of documentary is a 'notoriously slippery eel', or even the slipperiest one in the history of cinema (Kahana, 2016). Movies inside virtual reality are one of the promising talked-about areas in the VR industry. With the involvement of virtual reality in the production of documentaries, the dialectic between virtuality and authenticity makes this concept of documentary even more elusive, especially for VR documentaries made in 3D. In the viewing experience, the virtual environment is built upon computing 'true depth'. This virtual cinematic space is set up through the modelling in s
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"لواقعي (المرئي) والمتخيل وعلاقته بالرواية في فن السينما Visual vs Virtual Reality and their Relevance to Movie Making". Volume 15, Issue 3 15, № 3 (2022): 533–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.47016/15.3.1.

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الملخص حاولنا في هذا البحث الكشف عن مراحل نشوء السينما العربية، وعلاقة ذلك بالظروف المحلية والدولية، كما أشرنا إلى الأواصر الواصلة بين الكتابة الروائية وبين لغة الصورة، وأشرنا أيضا إلى الظواهر الفاصلة بينهما. وقد فرض السياق الإشارة إلى ضرورة الفن كما ارتأتها الفلسفة، ثم بينّا دور المخرج وطاقمه التقني والكاتب وخبراته في تخليق العمل السينمائي على الوجه الأكمل، كما أشرنا إلى جماعية الفن السينمائي وإلى فردية الإبداع الكتابي، على أن السينما فن مركب من الثقافة والصناعة، وبينا أن كلا منهما يساهم في تشكيل الرأي العام، ويمارس دورا إعلاميا. ثم درسنا نماذج من الأعمال السينمائية المبنية على الأعمال الروائ
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Dubois, Frédéric. "Interactivity as a key feature redefining documentary reality." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 21, no. 30 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2017.30.03.

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Finding a clear-cut boundary delimiting fiction from documentary has always been a controversial, daunting and unthankful undertaking. In the last decade, the blur between the two genres has been reinforced by the rapid advancement of web and AR/VR technologies. Interactive web-documentaries and virtual reality documentaries do not only promote new viewing habits – from swiping smartphone screens to scanning horizons with VR headsets, they shake up the very idea of what a documentary is. In this short scholarly essay, I argue that the feature of interactivity is the driving force redefining th
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Moura, Hudson. "Refugee Storytelling and Interactive Socio-Political Films." Interactive Film & Media Journal 2, no. 2 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i2.1636.

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Interactive films have contributed to the viewers/users’ increasing storytelling engagement with social issues and events. With the rise of interactivity and refugee films, previous forms and storytelling methods have been changed and reformed in hybridity and as emerging immersive technologies.
 While these technological developments increase the overall complexity of the storytelling’s interface, they forced many users to reexamine their understanding of what they see and experience in this mediated world. Users must have a foundational knowledge of media literacy to interact with its i
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Tong, Lingwei, Robert W. Lindeman, and Holger Regenbrecht. "Adaptive Playback Control: A Framework for Cinematic VR Creators to Embrace Viewer Interaction." Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2 (January 14, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2021.798306.

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Content creators have been trying to produce engaging and enjoyable Cinematic Virtual Reality (CVR) experiences using immersive media such as 360-degree videos. However, a complete and flexible framework, like the filmmaking grammar toolbox for film directors, is missing for creators working on CVR, especially those working on CVR storytelling with viewer interactions. Researchers and creators widely acknowledge that a viewer-centered story design and a viewer’s intention to interact are two intrinsic characteristics of CVR storytelling. In this paper, we stand on that common ground and propos
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May, Lawrence. "Confronting Ecological Monstrosity." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2827.

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Introduction Amidst ecological collapse and environmental catastrophe, humankind is surrounded by indications that our habitat is turning against us in monstrous ways. The very environments we live within now evoke existential terror, and this state of ecological monstrosity has permeated popular media, including video games. Such cultural manifestations of planetary catastrophe are particularly evident in video game monsters. These virtual figures continue monsters’ long-held role in reflecting the socio-cultural anxieties of their particular era. The horrific figures that monsters present pl
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Landay, Lori. "Digital Transformations." M/C Journal 4, no. 2 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1899.

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In the age of digital transformations of images, communications, and storytelling, Marshall McLuhan's insight that "the medium is the message" can be augmented with the corollary that the media is the mix. Digital forms of narrative are not only characterized by their mixed, hybrid forms and content, but their recombinations 1 draw the spectator into the mix in unforeseen ways. By mixing varying degrees of non-linearity and interactivity in what are ultimately animations, digital narratives create new kinds of digital spectatorship. The examples I'll explore here are three films, Conceiving Ad
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Pedersen, Isabel, and Kirsten Ellison. "Startling Starts: Smart Contact Lenses and Technogenesis." M/C Journal 18, no. 5 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1018.

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On 17 January 2013, Wired chose the smart contact lens as one of “7 Massive Ideas That Could Change the World” describing a Google-led research project. Wired explains that the inventor, Dr. Babak Parviz, wants to build a microsystem on a contact lens: “Using radios no wider than a few human hairs, he thinks these lenses can augment reality and incidentally eliminate the need for displays on phones, PCs, and widescreen TVs”. Explained further in other sources, the technology entails an antenna, circuits embedded into a contact lens, GPS, and an LED to project images on the eye, creating a virt
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Mayo, Sherry. "NXT Space for Visual Thinking." M/C Journal 1, no. 4 (1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1722.

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"Space, the limitless area in which all things exist and move." -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary(658) Can we determine our point in time and space at this moment of pre-millennium anticipation? The evolution of our visualisation of space as a culture is shifting and entering the critical consciousness of our global village. The infinite expansion of space's parameters, definitions and visualisation remains the next frontier -- not only for NASA, but for visual culture. Benjamin's vision of loss of the aura of originality through reproduction has come to pass, so has the concept of McLuhan's globa
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Kangas, Sonja. "From Haptic Interfaces to Man-Machine Symbiosis." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1787.

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Until the 1980s research into computer technology was developing outside of a context of media culture. Until the 1970s the computer was seen as a highly effective calculator and a tool for the use in government, military and economic life. Its popular image from the 1940s to 1950s was that of a calculator. At that time the computer was a large machine which only white lab-coated engineers could understand. The computer was studied as a technical instrument, not from the viewpoint of the user. The peculiar communication between the user -- engineers at this point -- and the machine was describ
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Foith, Michael. "Virtually Witness Augmentation Now: Video Games and the Future of Human Enhancement." M/C Journal 16, no. 6 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.729.

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Introduction Ever-enduring advancements in science and technology promise to offer solutions to problems or simply to make life a bit easier. However, not every advancement has only positive effects, but can also have undesired, negative ramifications. This article will take a closer look at Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DXHR), a dystopian video game which promises to put players in the position of deciding whether the science of human enhancement is a way to try to play God, or whether it enables us “to become the Gods we’ve always been striving to be” (Eidos Montreal, “Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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Caudwell, Catherine Barbara. "Cute and Monstrous Furbys in Online Fan Production." M/C Journal 17, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.787.

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Image 1: Hasbro/Tiger Electronics 1998 Furby. (Photo credit: Author) Introduction Since the mid-1990s robotic and digital creatures designed to offer social interaction and companionship have been developed for commercial and research interests. Integral to encouraging positive experiences with these creatures has been the use of cute aesthetics that aim to endear companions to their human users. During this time there has also been a growth in online communities that engage in cultural production through fan fiction responses to existing cultural artefacts, including the widely recognised ele
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Rutherford, Leonie Margaret. "Re-imagining the Literary Brand." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1037.

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IntroductionThis paper argues that the industrial contexts of re-imagining, or transforming, literary icons deploy the promotional strategies that are associated with what are usually seen as lesser, or purely commercial, genres. Promotional paratexts (Genette Paratexts; Gray; Hills) reveal transformations of content that position audiences to receive them as creative innovations, superior in many senses to their literary precursors due to the distinctive expertise of creative professionals. This interpretation leverages Matt Hills’ argument that certain kinds of “quality” screened drama are d
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Laak, Marin, and Piret Viires. "Kirjandus ja digitaalne tehnoloogia / Literature and Digital Technology." Methis. Studia humaniora Estonica 18, no. 23 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/methis.v18i23.14803.

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Eesti kirjanduse ja digitehnoloogilise pöörde suhted ulatuvad juba enam kui kahekümne aasta tagusesse aega. Siinse artikliga antakse ülevaade, kuidas digitaalne tehnoloogia on mõjutanud Eestis kirjanduse, sh kirjandusajaloo üle mõtlemist ning nüüdisaegseid kirjanduslikke vorme. Tuuakse näiteid Eestis teostatud digihumanitaariaga seostatavatest projektidest ja digitaalse kirjanduse avaldumisvormidest. Samuti arutletakse artiklis digihumanitaaria mõiste üle ja selle üle, mida tähendab eesti kirjanduse uurimine digihumanitaaria kontekstis. Püstitatakse ka küsimus, kas digihumanitaaria muudab kirj
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Kaspi, Niva. "Bill Lawton by Any Other Name: Language Games and Terror in Falling Man." M/C Journal 15, no. 1 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.457.

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“Language is inseparable from the world that provokes it”-- Don DeLillo, “In the Ruins of the Future”The attacks of 9/11 generated a public discourse of suspicion, with Osama bin Laden occupying the role of the quintessential “most wanted” for nearly a decade, before being captured and killed in May 2011. In the novel, Falling Man (DeLillo), set shortly after the attacks of September 11, Justin, the protagonist’s son, and his friends, the two Siblings, spend much of their time at the window of the Siblings’ New York apartment, “searching the skies for Bill Lawton” (74). Mishearing bin Laden’s
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Goggin, Joyce. "Transmedia Storyworlds, Literary Theory, Games." M/C Journal 21, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1373.

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IntroductionThis essay will focus on some of the connections between digitally transmitted stories, games, narrative processes, and the discipline whose ostensible job is the study of storytelling, namely literature. My observations will be limited to the specific case of computer games, storytelling, and what is often unproblematically referred to as “literature,” in order to focus attention on historical and contemporary features of the development of the relationship between the two that remain largely unexamined. Therefore, one goal of this essay is to re-think this relationship from a fre
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Binns, Daniel. "No Free Tickets." M/C Journal 25, no. 2 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2882.

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Introduction 2021 was the year that NFTs got big—not just in value but also in terms of the cultural consciousness. When digital artist Beeple sold the portfolio of his 5,000 daily images at Christie’s for US$69 million, the art world was left intrigued, confused, and outraged in equal measure. Depending on who you asked, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) seemed to be either a quick cash-grab or the future of the art market (Bowden and Jones; Smee). Following the Beeple sale, articles started to appear indicating that the film industry was abuzz for NFTs. Independent filmmaker Kevin Smith was quick t
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Barnet, Belinda. "In the Garden of Forking Paths." M/C Journal 1, no. 5 (1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1727.

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"Interactivity implies two agencies in conversation, playfully and spontaneously developing a mutual discourse" -- Sandy Stone (11) I. On Interactivity The difference between interactivity as it is performed across the page and the screen, maintains Sandy Stone, is that virtual texts and virtual communities can embody a play ethic (14). Inserted like a mutation into the corporate genome, play ruptures the encyclopaedic desire to follow seamless links to a buried 'meaning' and draws us back to the surface, back into real-time conversation with the machine. Hypertext theorists see this as a tact
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Balanzategui, Jessica. "“You have a secret that you don't want to tell me”: The Child as Trauma in Spanish and American Horror Film." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.854.

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In the years surrounding the turn of the millennium, there emerged an assemblage of American and Spanish horror films fixated on uncanny child characters. Caught in the symbolic abyss between death and life, these figures are central to the films’ building of suspense and Gothic frisson—they are at once familiar and unfamiliar, vulnerable and threatening, innocent yet unnervingly inscrutable. Despite being conceived and produced in two very different cultural climates, these films construct the child as an embodiment of trauma in parallel ways. In turn, these Gothic children express the waveri
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Burrough, Xtine, and Sabrina Starnaman. "Epic Hand Washing." M/C Journal 24, no. 3 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2773.

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In March 2020, co-authors burrough and Starnaman with Technical Director Dale MacDonald had just finished collaborating on a work of computational art, A Kitchen of One’s Own, for The Photographers’ Gallery in London. In this essay we discuss the genealogy of our Zoom performance, Epic Handwashing for Synchronous Participation, which was an extension of two earlier projects—one that was derailed due to COVID-19, and the other that resulted from our pivot towards reflecting on the pandemic experience. Our performance was a response to, and offered a collaborative moment of reflection on, the un
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Flynn, Bernadette. "Towards an Aesthetics of Navigation." M/C Journal 3, no. 5 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1875.

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Introduction Explorations of the multimedia game format within cultural studies have been broadly approached from two perspectives: one -- the impact of technologies on user interaction particularly with regard to social implications, and the other -- human computer interactions within the framework of cybercultures. Another approach to understanding or speaking about games within cultural studies is to focus on the game experience as cultural practice -- as an activity or an event. In this article I wish to initiate an exploration of the aesthetics of player space as a distinctive element of
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Droumeva, Milena. "Curating Everyday Life: Approaches to Documenting Everyday Soundscapes." M/C Journal 18, no. 4 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1009.

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In the last decade, the cell phone’s transformation from a tool for mobile telephony into a multi-modal, computational “smart” media device has engendered a new kind of emplacement, and the ubiquity of technological mediation into the everyday settings of urban life. With it, a new kind of media literacy has become necessary for participation in the networked social publics (Ito; Jenkins et al.). Increasingly, the way we experience our physical environments, make sense of immediate events, and form impressions is through the lens of the camera and through the ear of the microphone, framed by t
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Pearce, Lynne. "Diaspora." M/C Journal 14, no. 2 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.373.

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For the past twenty years, academics and other social commentators have, by and large, shared the view that the phase of modernity through which we are currently passing is defined by two interrelated catalysts of change: the physical movement of people and the virtual movement of information around the globe. As we enter the second decade of the new millennium, it is certainly a timely moment to reflect upon the ways in which the prognoses of the scholars and scientists writing in the late twentieth century have come to pass, especially since—during the time this special issue has been in pre
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Kellner, Douglas. "Engaging Media Spectacle." M/C Journal 6, no. 3 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2202.

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In the contemporary era, media spectacle organizes and mobilizes economic life, political conflict, social interactions, culture, and everyday life. My recently published book Media Spectacle explores a profusion of developments in hi-tech culture, media-driven society, and spectacle politics. Spectacle culture involves everything from film and broadcasting to Internet cyberculture and encompasses phenomena ranging from elections to terrorism and to the media dramas of the moment. For ‘Logo’, I am accordingly sketching out briefly a terrain I probe in detail in the book from which these exampl
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Fuller, Glen. "The Getaway." M/C Journal 8, no. 6 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2454.

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 From an interview with “Mr A”, executive producer and co-creator of the Getaway in Stockholm (GiS) films:
 
 Mr A: Yeah, when I tell my girlfriend, ‘You should watch this, it’s good, it’s a classic, it’s an old movie’ and she thinks it’s, like, the worst. And when I actually look at it and it is the worst, it is just a car chase … [Laughs] But you have to look a lot harder, to how it is filmed, you have to learn … Because, you can’t watch car racing for instance, because they are lousy at filming; you get no sensation of speed. If you watch the World Rally Champi
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Karlin, Beth, and John Johnson. "Measuring Impact: The Importance of Evaluation for Documentary Film Campaigns." M/C Journal 14, no. 6 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.444.

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Introduction Documentary film has grown significantly in the past decade, with high profile films such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Supersize Me, and An Inconvenient Truth garnering increased attention both at the box office and in the news media. In addition, the rising prominence of web-based media has provided new opportunities for documentary to create social impact. Films are now typically released with websites, Facebook pages, twitter feeds, and web videos to increase both reach and impact. This combination of technology and broader audience appeal has given rise to a current landscape in which
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Hunter, John C. "Organic Interfaces; or, How Human Beings Augment Their Digital Devices." M/C Journal 16, no. 6 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.743.

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In many ways, computers are becoming invisible and will continue to do so. When we reach into our pockets and pull out our cell phones to find a place to eat or message a friend on Facebook, we are no longer consciously aware that we are interacting with a user experience that has been consciously designed for our computer or device screen—but we are.— Andy Pratt and Jason Nunes, Interactive Design In theory, cell phones and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) are just a means for us to interact with people, businesses, and data sources. They have interfaces and, in a large
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Blakey, Heather. "Designing Player Intent through “Playful” Interaction." M/C Journal 24, no. 4 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2802.

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The contemporary video game market is as recognisable for its brands as it is for the characters that populate their game worlds, from franchise-leading characters like Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect original trilogy), Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda franchise) and Cortana (HALO franchise) to more recent game icons like Miles Morales (Marvel's Spiderman game franchise) and Judy Alvarez (Cyberpunk 2077). Interactions with these casts of characters enhance the richness of games and their playable worlds, giving a sense of weight and meaning to player actions, emphasising thematic interests, an
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Rossiter, Ned. "Creative Industries and the Limits of Critique from." M/C Journal 6, no. 3 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2208.

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‘Every space has become ad space’. Steve Hayden, Wired Magazine, May 2003. Marshall McLuhan’s (1964) dictum that media technologies constitute a sensory extension of the body shares a conceptual affinity with Ernst Jünger’s notion of ‘“organic construction” [which] indicates [a] synergy between man and machine’ and Walter Benjamin’s exploration of the mimetic correspondence between the organic and the inorganic, between human and non-human forms (Bolz, 2002: 19). The logo or brand is co-extensive with various media of communication – billboards, TV advertisements, fashion labels, book spines,
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Habel, Chad Sean. "Doom Guy Comes of Age: Mediating Masculinities in Power Fantasy Video Games." M/C Journal 21, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1383.

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Introduction: Game Culture and GenderAs texts with the potential to help mediate specific forms of identity, video games are rich and complex sites for analysis. A tendency, however, still exists in scholarship to treat video games as just another kind of text, and work that explores the expression of masculine identity persists in drawing from cinematic analysis without proper consideration of game design and how these games are played (Triana). For example, insights from studies into horror cinema may illuminate the relationship between players and game systems in survival horror video games
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Kennedy, Ümit, and Emma Maguire. "The Texts and Subjects of Automediality." M/C Journal 21, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1395.

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Being is an empty fiction. The “apparent” world is the only world: the “true world” is just a lie added on to it… —Nietzsche. Anna Poletti: I’m attracted to autobiography in a non-narrative context because I’m very interested in texts that people create that demonstrate their thinking or their fantasies or their processing, generally.Lauren Berlant: Right, in that sense it’s autobiography in your larger sense of what autobiography is: a record of […] processing. —Anna Poletti and Julie Rak with Lauren Berlant. The medium is the message. —Marshall McLuhanWelcome to the M/C Journal issue on auto
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Hutcheon, Linda. "In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production." M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2620.

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 Biology teaches us that organisms adapt—or don’t; sociology claims that people adapt—or don’t. We know that ideas can adapt; sometimes even institutions can adapt. Or not. Various papers in this issue attest in exciting ways to precisely such adaptations and maladaptations. (See, for example, the articles in this issue by Lelia Green, Leesa Bonniface, and Tami McMahon, by Lexey A. Bartlett, and by Debra Ferreday.) Adaptation is a part of nature and culture, but it’s the latter alone that interests me here. (However, see the article by Hutcheon and Bortolotti for a discussi
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