The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1

The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1
Author: Pilar Pedraza
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781948405645

What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. The stories in this volume come from 19 countries on 5 continents and were originally written in 13 different languages. All 20 foreign language stories in this volume are appearing in English for the first time ever. The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world.

International Journal of Transmedia Literacy (IJTL) Vol 1, No 1 (2015)

International Journal of Transmedia Literacy (IJTL) Vol 1, No 1 (2015)
Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: LED Edizioni Universitarie
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-04-20T15:05:00+02:00
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8879167758

Forms of fiction and literature underwent a process of disembodiment and cross-fertilization during the revolution from the Gutenberg Galaxy (printed paper, mass distribution) to the McLuhan Galaxy (new media, hypertext, cooperative writing). The dimension of literacy has moved from a semioticallymeasured geometry to a dislocation and a deconstruction of contents and channels that give expression to new products. The impact of social media on narratology has redefined the meaning of readership and authorship. The author not only loses his/her traditional role, but becomes an icon of himself/herself, a collective-minded producer that is self-perceived through the extroflexed eye of the amniotic network in which he/she defines his/her narrative experience. Transmedia culture defines a new cross-networked and amniotic literacy, considering that we are not facing a simple adaptation of different narrative forms from one media to another: different media and languages participate and contribute to the construction of a transmedia environment. The first issue of the IJTL seeks to shed light on transmedia literacy according to the epistemological crisis of authorship and the new dimension of participation and relationship offered by both the Web and New Media. Moving from the state of the art, the aim is to investigate the interdisciplinary relations in the field of transmedia literacy, in order to favour a pattern recognition about theories, technologies, and social dimensions of the phenomena to offer a critical toolkit to understand and map out the emerging knowledge and practices created by this new field.

Phenomenal Stories, Vol. 1, No. 1 • Special Collectors' Edition

Phenomenal Stories, Vol. 1, No. 1 • Special Collectors' Edition
Author: Shawn M. Tomlinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359103081

There's nothing like holding a pulp magazine; smelling that wonderful smell of the decaying acidic paper, seeing the garish brightly colored cover, looking for the names that became legends.Since 1978, I always wanted to create, edit, design and publish my own "pulp" speculative fiction -- science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird, cyberpunk, etc. -- magazine.I've tried many times. I know it's a ridiculous pursuit, especially since magazines themselves virtually are extinct as of 2018.Reading the non-fiction in the pulps is a glimpse into how scientists and writers thought the future would happen. The way the future was.This is an attempt to feel a little of that. It may or may not be a one-off, depending upon how many writers I can get to contribute.At least one issue, the one you hold in your hands, of Phenomenal Stories does exist, and that's one more pulp magazine than existed before.Perhaps one day, you can read this and think, hmm, that's the way the future was.

It Takes a Storyteller to Know a Storyteller

It Takes a Storyteller to Know a Storyteller
Author: Julia Nikiel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2023-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004533281

Exposing capital for the con artist and storyteller it is, the book shows how the post-millennial novels of William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, and Dave Eggers work to dismantle the fictions (or illusions) capitalist globalization spurs and continues to rely on.

Proceedings of the 4th Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2022 (BIS-HSS 2022)

Proceedings of the 4th Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Science 2022 (BIS-HSS 2022)
Author: Zulfikar Bagus Pambuko
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1655
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2384761188

This is an open access book.Related to the big theme of the SDGs reinforcement at our previous conference, we try to invite all academics and researchers around the world to participate in the 4th Borobudur International Symposium 2022 (4thBIS 2022). As we know, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on all the 17 SDGs have demonstrated how what began as a health catastrophe swiftly transformed into a human, socioeconomic and environmental crisis. The 4th BIS brought up “The Innovation Chain: A Contribution to Society and Industry” as the main theme to respond this condition. This conference is expected to support the UN Agenda. Additionally, this conference will also provide avenues for participants to exchange ideas and network with each other as well as domain experts from their fields. Overall, this event is aimed at professionals across all spheres of technology and engineering including the experienced, inexperienced, and students as well. The conference will be held virtually on Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning and Advanced Education (ICOLAE 2022)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning and Advanced Education (ICOLAE 2022)
Author: Mauly Halwat Hikmat
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 2656
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 2384760866

This is an open access book. The COVID-19 pandemic in the last two years has influenced how educational system works. Online learning became the primal policy taken by all institutions in the world to lower the risk of the virus spread. Despite the drawbacks of the online learning, teachers and students were accustomed with the distant learning through web meetings, Learning Management Systems (LMS) and other online learning platforms. In that time, topics under digital learning and education 5.0 were the main stakes in academic disseminations. This year some institutions start to conduct their teaching and learning process classically as before the pandemic, others are still continuing online and not few are in hybrid. This leaves a question: what learning reform should be made in post-pandemic era? This conference invites researchers, experts, teachers and students to discuss the coping solutions of the question. It is important for them to contribute to the understanding of re-imaging online education for better futures, innovative learning design, new skills for living and working in new times, global challenge of education, learning and teaching with blended learning, flipped learning, integrating life skills for students in the curriculum, developing educators for the future distance learning, humanities learning in the digital era, assessment and measurement in education, challenges and transformations in education, technology in teaching and learning, new learning and teaching models. Not limited to these, scholars may add another interesting topic related to learning reform in post-pandemic era to present.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science and Education (ICoeSSE 2023)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science and Education (ICoeSSE 2023)
Author: Jhoni Warmansyah
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2023-12-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 2384761420

This is an open access book.We would like to invite you to The 1st International Conference Social Science, and Education (ICoeSSE) 2023 will be conducted on September 6–7, 2023, at the Universitas Islam Negeri Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar, West Sumatera, Indonesia. The aim of the Conference is to bring together scholars, students, researcher and administrators from different countries, and to discuss theoretical and practical issues in the fields of Science and Technology. Your prospective, valuable contributions on this field will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee and the ones approved to be presented will also be published in the Proceedings and selected will be publish in Journal.

Social Work in a Glocalised World

Social Work in a Glocalised World
Author: Mona Livholts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317240960

This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. The volume brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa, the Philippines and Sweden. It proposes ‘glocalisation’ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions, methodologies and practices for social work in a world perspective. Part I of the volume, 'The Glocalisation of Social Issues', deals with major environmental, social and cultural issues – migration and human rights, environmental problems and gendered violence. Part II, 'Methodological Re-Shaping and Spatial Transgression in Glocalised Social Work', develops an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies inspired by art, creative writing and cultural geography, focusing on physical, material and emotional spatial dimensions of relevance to social work. Part III, 'Responses from Social Work as a Glocalised Profession', examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world.

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICoSaPS 2022)

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICoSaPS 2022)
Author: Leni Winarni
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2023-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2494069777

This is an open access book. This conference will discuss transformation issues in various fields along with the COVID-19 crisis in the world. During these two years of this pandemic, the world faced many significant changes. These changes have impacted various aspects of life, not only on a small scale in people’s everyday life, but also on a large scale that changes the social structure of society in the global world. The keywords in this transformation are adaptation, resilience, and innovation. Each party involved in the change is required to make adjustments so as not to be left behind. The important aspect is to what extent these parties come up with new findings to survive amid the pace of this rapid global transformation. By focusing on transformation issues, this conference will bring scholars, practicioners and policy makers from various disciplines to discuss changes in various fields of life during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the future. This conference is also expected to be a medium for disseminating research findings related to issues of change in various fields including but not limited to social, economic, cultural, educational, political and government, gender, environment, religion, communication, and international relations.