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Category: DIGITAL & NEW MEDIA

The Rose-Colored World of Black Mirror’s “Nosedive”: Color and Gendered Expectations of Social Credit Systems

Author: Jolene Mendel American Public University Download PDF version The anthology television series Black Mirror (Netflix 2011–2023) has been praised for exploring ways that technology, left unregulated, can potentially affect our lives. While the series originated in the United Kingdom,...

SPECIAL ISSUE | ’I Feel Like I Became a Zombie’: COVID-19, Zombies and English Paratextual/Paramedia Responses to South Korean Music and Film (Part 2)

Author: Dr. Karin Beeler University of Northern British Columbia Download PDF version TRAIN TO BUSAN AND PENINSULA In addition to paratextual English comments that juxtapose the Korean zombie content with pandemic reality, there are also critical responses in English that...

SPECIAL ISSUE | ’I Feel Like I Became a Zombie’: COVID-19, Zombies and English Paratextual/Paramedia Responses to South Korean Music and Film (Part 1)

Author: Dr. Karin Beeler University of Northern British Columbia Download PDF version The South Korean rock band Day6 released their song and music video “Zombie” on May 11, 2020 (followed by an English-language version on May 21, 2020) just a...

SPECIAL ISSUE | The Marriage of Heaven and Silent Hill: Exploring the Occult Psychology of William Blake Within A Virtual Hell

Author: Eric Sofala-Jones Georgia College & State University Download PDF version “My birds are silent in my hills; flocks die beneath my branches; My tents are fallen; my trumpets and the sweet sounds of my harp Is silent on my...

SPECIAL ISSUE | Sublimating into the Virtual: Some Fictional Examples of Digital Transcendence

Author: Alejandro Rivero-Vadillo Universidad de Alcalá Download PDF version Is cyberspace the future of humanity? The acknowledgment of an era in which the print of human activity starts to affect the planet’s geological levels, the Anthropocene, is characterized by humanity’s...

SPECIAL ISSUE | Digital Role-Playing Games and Theatre: Retooling and Repurposing Entertainment, Art, Learning (Part 2)

Authors: Aikaterini Delikonstantinidou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Dimitra Nikolaidou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Download PDF version THEATRE AND/AS DIGITAL GAME As Lori M. Shyba has proposed, central among the benefits to be reaped by MMORPGs via the incorporation...