The Crescent Student Newspaper, February 10, 2006

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Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination.

In her article “Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination” Beatrice Bittarello performs a reappraisal of the issue of Virtual Worlds using an interdisciplinary approach. She argues that Virtual Worlds existed before the introduction of the Internet. To back up her argument she outlines a history of literary and visual pre-Internet Virtual Worlds, all of which represent an alternative, mythical, and (often) religious space. She goes on to argue that finding a way of “reaching” Virtual Worlds is the key to the re-conception of (online) Virtual Worlds today. Many elements of literary Virtual Worlds can thus also be linked to contemporary examples of Virtual Worlds on the Internet. She stresses the importance of visual aspects, even though the imagination and the mythopoeic activity of the players play a key (and integral) role in Virtual Worlds on the Internet

Technik, Ökonomie und Ästhetik des digitalen Films : eine Bibliografie

Gliederung 1. Technischer Hintergrund der Digitalisierung 2. Ökonomischer Hintergrund der Digitalisierung 3. Ästhetischer Hintergrund der Digitalisierun

Spartan Daily, September 6, 2006

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Take Me To Another Strange World // Stupid Boring Internet

This research paper responds to the contemporary calls made by theorists Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan to interrogate media with art to act as a respite from the ego trance of what McLuhan called, Narcissus-narcosis. Baudrillard’s and McLuhan’s criticisms contextualise art as respite from media, whereby art can show the charm of a strange world to relieve the deceiving, deluding nature of media. Art can turn away from the content of media and interact with its structure and configuration instead, and by doing so it can immunise individuals and society. In both of my ongoing MFA projects, Romantic Grass of the Week and Wireless Psychics Experiments #1- 10, art is envisaged as an inoculation to save us from being totally absorbed in the virtual. This injection performs, plays with media structures, and translates them into different forms and artefacts. The work continues as our immunisation then becomes embodied in acts of divining

The BG News September 13, 1995

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Religion Beyond God

The ambition of the present paper is to theorise processes of re-enchantment in the modern western world by drawing on Max Weber’s and Emile Durkheim’s classical sociological insights on modernity, meaning and religion. Our aim in doing so is not only to demonstrate how much the latter have to offer to such an analysis, but especially to argue for the need of a rejuvenation of sociology of religion by shrugging off its traditional Christian bias and going beyond its narrow focus on secularisation and religious decline

A Narrative Inquiry of Protest Songs: Comparing the Anti-War Music of Vietnam and Iraq

This research examines the social role of protest music in wartime eras through lyrical content analysis. By analyzing songs across the Vietnam War era and the Iraq War era, the shifting role of protest music across generations reveals not only how this music influences and encourages different social aggregates, but also how it adapts to remain relevant in a continuously modernizing American society. This research thus serves to demonstrate the impact of narratives in social movements and the sway narratives have in shaping public perspectives through their encouragement of solidarity between diverse social groups. Methodology includes narrative analysis of two representative samples of protest music pertinent to each of the two war eras, and qualitative lyrical examination of these songs in comparison and contrast both within and across each era. This method of narrative analysis utilizes the structure of formula stories as a model for determining the effect of protest music through symbolic and emotion codes present in the lyrical melodramas, and how these melodramas depict the need for protest and anti-war sentiment by serving as passionate calls to action behind which audiences belonging to diverse social aggregates can rally in solidarity. Keywords: war, protest music, narrative analysis, melodramas, social movement

Spartan Daily, October 4, 2006

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