International Society
for Presence Research

Month: September 2018

  • Call: DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference

    Published:

    CALL FOR PAPERS DiGRA 2019: Digital Games Research Association Conference ‘Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo Mix’ Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan August 6 – 10, 2019 http://www.digra2019.org/ Submission deadlines: Full Papers, Abstracts, Panels, and Doctoral Consortium: February 5, 2019 Workshops: April 8, 2019 Media mix (wasei-eigo, メディアミックス or ‘media mikkusu’) bears a particular meaning in Japanese popular culture originating from anime production and consumption in the 1960s. Similarly to cross-media, media convergence, and transmediality, it refers to ways of presenting, representing, and sharing content on different platforms and media allowing dynamic communication between them. Media mix is best seen as…

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  • Searing photos and the presence they evoked helped end child labor in America

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    [This story on Labor Day in the United States describes how the power of vivid early photographs of working children directly looking at the camera (and therefore the viewer) helped change public perceptions and end child labor in the U.S. As noted in the last paragraph, today other media including virtual reality (and the sense of presence it evokes) are also being used to show and combat social injustices. The interesting story is from The Washington Post, where the original includes eight more images (follow the link at the end for over five thousand more) as well as links to…

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