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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...

PopMeC CFP | Popularizing STEM conference

Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture 15-19 November 2021 (mixed format conference)   In 1959, British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow delivered a lecture in which he highlighted the increasing intellectual separation between the humanities and...

US cinema in May 2021

This monthly column provides an overview of the film landscape for all things American at the movies, including US characters, stories, settings, directors, stars and so on… Here I round up the upcoming theatrical releases, the forthcoming streaming highlights and...

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...