No Avatars Allowed

No Avatars Allowed
Author: Joshua Wise
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1640651853

How can video games challenge us to think more deeply about our reality, faith, and community? Since the advent of video games in the 1960s, they have become the common experience of everyone from Gen-X to the Millennial and post-Millennial generations. While many of today’s clergy, parishioners, and theologians grew up gaming, the church’s stance regarding video games is one of, at best, bemusement. This book takes seriously the idea that video games can challenge us to think more deeply about our reality, divinity, faith, and each other. It draws readers into a small, but growing, conversation about models of incarnation and what it means to distinguish between the virtual and the real. This book will introduce readers to concepts and questions from the perspective of a Christian systematic theologian who has been playing games since he was four years old, and who has been writing, speaking, and podcasting about this topic since 2010. It is an invitation into a relatively new conversation about divinity, humanity, and technology.

Shakespeare Survey 74

Shakespeare Survey 74
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Shakespeare Survey
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1316517128

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 74 is 'Shakespeare and Education'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey.

Shakespeare Survey 74

Shakespeare Survey 74
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009041991

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 74 is 'Shakespeare and Education. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

Technology Platform Innovations and Forthcoming Trends in Ubiquitous Learning

Technology Platform Innovations and Forthcoming Trends in Ubiquitous Learning
Author: Neto, Francisco Milton Mendes
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466645431

It is hard to deny the ubiquity of web technologies used for educational tools; which have provided significant breakthroughs in learning environments. These innovations have contributed to the growing approach of computer-supported education. Technology Platform Innovations and Forthcoming Trends in Ubiquitous Learning overviews the opportunities provided by new technologies, applications, and research in the areas of ubiquitous learning and how those technologies can be successfully implemented. This publication is addressed to a wide audience of researchers, students, and educators interested in a better comprehension of learning process requirements that are mediate by an assorted set of technology innovations.

Human No More

Human No More
Author: Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-08-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 160732170X

Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography. They break definitions, blur distinctions, and force us to rethink the notion of the "subject." Human No More asks how digital cultures can be integrated and how the ethnography of both the "unhuman" and the "digital" could lead to possible reconfiguring the notion of the "human." This provocative and groundbreaking work challenges fundamental assumptions about the entire field of anthropology. Cross-disciplinary research from well-respected contributors makes this volume vital to the understanding of contemporary human interaction. It will be of interest not only to anthropologists but also to students and scholars of media, communication, popular culture, identity, and technology.

The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age

The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age
Author: Mara-Johanna Kölmel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2023-06-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 311077514X

Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however, continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are conceived and ‘materialized’ using digital technologies. How can we rethink the artistic medium in relation to our technological present and its historical precursors? A number of theoretical approaches discuss the implications of the so-called ‘Aesthetics of the Digital’, referring, above all, to screen-based phenomena. For the first time, this publication brings together international and trans-historical research perspectives to explore how digital technologies re-configure the understanding of sculpture and the sculptural leading into the (post-)digital age. Up-to-date research on digital technologies’ expansion of the concept of sculpture Linking historical sculptural debates with discourse on the new media and (post-)digital culture

Essentials of Sociology

Essentials of Sociology
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1544388039

Show students the relevance of sociology to their lives. Adapted from Ritzer’s Introduction to Sociology, this text provides students with a rock-solid foundation in a shorter and more streamlined format.

Beginning WordPress 3

Beginning WordPress 3
Author: Stephanie Leary
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2010-08-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430228962

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, Wordpress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easily—and better yet, it's free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins. Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You'll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.