The Voice, October 1995: Volume 41, Issue 1

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The Montclarion, March 13, 1997

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The Sixth Annual Workshop on Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 1992)

This document contains papers presented at the Space Operations, Applications, and Research Symposium (SOAR) hosted by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) on 4-6 Aug. 1992 and held at the JSC Gilruth Recreation Center. The symposium was cosponsored by the Air Force Material Command and by NASA/JSC. Key technical areas covered during the symposium were robotic and telepresence, automation and intelligent systems, human factors, life sciences, and space maintenance and servicing. The SOAR differed from most other conferences in that it was concerned with Government-sponsored research and development relevant to aerospace operations. The symposium's proceedings include papers covering various disciplines presented by experts from NASA, the USAF, universities, and industry

\u27Play the Book Again\u27: Towards a Systems Approach to Game Adaptation

Situated at the interstices of game studies, adaptation scholarship, and literary theory, this dissertation puts forth a theoretical framework for effectively analyzing literary game adaptations (that is, playable digital or analog systems that are based upon a work or works of literature) as expressive intertextual systems which facilitate aesthetic experiences. By integrating contemporary game studies with filmic adaptation studies and literary theory, I argue that game adaptations allow us to see how games, adaptations, and indeed all texts can be productively conceived of as Barthesian networks of meaning: collections of interacting formal, narrative, intertextual, and contextual elements from which a user\u27s experience arises. Doing so destabilizes the primacy of concepts that are so often used to justify hierarchical relationships between high art and popular culture, opening up new interpretations of texts which do not lend themselves to analysis via traditional literary or cinematic methodologies. Thinking of adaptations in terms of the systemized relationships between texts, intertexts, and the user rather than as merely derivative copies of a single original also redefines the classically hierarchical relationship between adaptations and their sources that has plagued adaptation studies discourse from its inception. Through my readings of a variety of digital and analog games based on William Shakespeare\u27s Hamlet (Ryan North\u27s gamebook To Be or Not to Be), J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s The Hobbit (Beam Software\u27s Hobbit text-adventure), Jane Austen\u27s Pride and Prejudice (Storybrewers\u27 tabletop roleplaying game Good Society), and Henry David Thoreau\u27s Walden (Tracy Fullerton\u27s contemplative digital walking simulator Walden, a game), I illustrate how thinking of texts as systems affords interpretatively productive play, encouraging users to reinterpret, revise, and remix culture to their own ends

Saving New Sounds

"Over seventy-five million Americans listen to podcasts every month, and the average weekly listener spends over six hours tuning into podcasts from the more than thirty million podcast episodes currently available. Yet despite the excitement over podcasting, the sounds of podcasting’s nascent history are vulnerable and they remain mystifyingly difficult to research and preserve. Podcast feeds end abruptly, cease to be maintained, or become housed in proprietary databases, which are difficult to search with any rigor. Podcasts might seem to be highly available everywhere, but it’s necessary to preserve and analyze these resources now, or scholars will find themselves writing, researching, and thinking about a past they can’t fully see or hear. This collection gathers the expertise of leading and emerging scholars in podcasting and digital audio in order to take stock of podcasting’s recent history and imagine future directions for the format. Essays trace some of the less amplified histories of the format and offer discussions of some of the hurdles podcasting faces nearly twenty years into its existence. Using their experiences building and using the PodcastRE database—one of the largest publicly accessible databases for searching and researching podcasts—the volume editors and contributors reflect on how they, as media historians and cultural researchers, can best preserve podcasting’s booming audio cultures and the countless voices and perspectives podcasting adds to our collective soundscape.

Skunk River Review Fall 1997, Vol 9

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Casco Bay Weekly : 13 August 1998

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The ministry of song : unmarried British women's hymn writing, 1760-1936

Because they were not obliged to take on the familial tasks which until recently have defined woman's role, unmarried British women of literary talent and Christian conviction have often seen themselves as being called to the vocation of hymn-writing. Through biographical study, historical contextualisation and close reading. this thesis examines hymns written by seven such writers, over the period 1760-1936. Chapter 1 examines how Anne Steele's hymns gained entry into print, and came to be circulated and popular. It also demonstrates how the image of Steele as a sickly spinster perpetuated by the Victorian hymnologists is too limited a picture of the writer. Chapter 2 considers two labouring-class hymn writers, Susanna Harrison and Eliza Westbury, and shows how they were heavily influenced by the images and stylistic features of the earlier male hymn writers from the Evangelical tradition. Chapter 3 looks at Charlotte Elliott's writings, which were mostly for invalids, and considers how nineteenth-century Evangelicals often envisaged invalidism as a time for refinement of faith and spiritual action, and the `cult of invalidism' is contextualised. Chapter 4 considers how the writings of Dora Greenwell championed the underprivileged, and envisaged the second coming of Christ as a time for the vanquishing of evil and injustice. Chapter 5 looks at the work of Frances Ridley Havergal, one of the most popular hymn writers of the Victorian era. It considers her Evangelical background, her interest in organisations which encouraged female fellowship and ministry (such as the YWCA, the Mildmay Deaconess Institution and the Zenana missionary organisations), and the transformation of her active faith into a more contemplative one after her experience of `Consecration'. Chapter 6 examines the work and life of the Anglo-Indian hymn writer Ellen Lakshmi Goreh, and considers in further detail the opportunities offered to British women by the call for Zenana missionaries. Chapter 7 looks at the life and writings of Amy Carmichael, founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, who spent most of her life working as a missionary in India. It shows how her hymns, which owe a debt to the Holiness Movement and its stress on the `rest of faith', and were mostly written for Indian children, are an early example of Indian inculturation