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Immersive learning research
Editorial. Material for the special issue "Immersive Learning Research" of the Journal of Universal Computer Science.Welcome to the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) special issue organized by the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) following the 2017 iLRN conference. This issue includes eight papers on the focused topic "Immersive Learning Research", including extended versions of papers presented at iLRN 2017 and articles from the public call for papers.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Editorial: Positive Technology: Designing E-experiences for Positive Change
While there is little doubt that our lives are becoming increasingly digital, whether this change
is for the better or for the worse is far from being settled. Rather, over the past years concerns
about the personal and social impacts of technologies have been growing, fueled by dystopian
Orwellian scenarios that almost on daily basis are generously dispensed by major Western media
outlets. According to a recent poll involving some 1,150 experts, 47% of respondents predict that
individuals’ well-being will bemore helped than harmed by digital life in the next decade, while 32%
say people’s well-being will bemore harmed than helped. Only 21% of those surveyed indicated that
the impact of technologies on people well-being will be negligible compared to now (Pew Research
Center, 2018)
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Is the World After All Just a Dream?
DocPerform is a multi and interdisciplinary research project based at City, University of London. Led by members of the Department of Library & Information Science, it comprises scholars and practitioners from the fields of performing arts and library & information science. The project concerns conceptual, methodological and technological innovations in the documentation of performance, and the extent to which performance may itself be considered to be a document. The collection of papers in this special issue of Proceedings from the Document Academy are selected from the second DocPerform Symposium, held at City, University of London, 6–7 November 2017. This editorial introduces those papers and provides disciplinary and historical context for DocPerform
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