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Magical Reality of The Fantasy World

open access: yes, 2023
The article highlights a specific type of artistic virtual reality - fantasy reality. Fantasy worlds are analyzed in the context of the development of fantastic reality.
Nargiza Burieva
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(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virtual religion, the fantastic, and electronic ontology

open access: yes, 2015
: Western modes of thinking are usually associated with logic, reason, rationality and the positivist scientific paradigm. This is juxtaposed against "spiritual" ways of perceiving the world and different world views as associated with non-Western ...
Tomaselli, Keyan G.
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Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real and imaginary places of (be)longing in the work of Vlada Urošević

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Philology, 2018
Choosing childhood, city and dream as a threefold Ariadne’s thread uncoiling through the paths of the labyrinth of his work, Urošević chronotopically hybridizes, through a harmonious combination, the real and the imaginary, a dream and reality, the near ...
Lidija Kapuševska-Drakulevska
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Towards a cartography of the fantastic places

open access: yes, 2007
Fantastic literature has been a reflection object from diverse perspectives. Someone has been in its narrative, myths, processes, intertextuality and a series of conceptualizaciones and interpretations, from the russian formalism to the deconstructivism.

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An Outline of a Theory of Play

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

Russian fantastic in change : from Russian romanticism to modernism

open access: yes, 2014
Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der russischen Phantastik. Auf den ersten Seiten der Arbeit werden die unterschiedlichen Genres, die Ähnlichkeiten mit der Phantastik haben, und die Phantastik selbst beschrieben und der Versuch ...
Krenn, Rebecca
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Nanomaterials‐Decorated Biomass‐Derived Carbon for Overall Water Splitting: Interfacial Engineering, Mechanistic Insights, and Device Translation

open access: yesThe Chemical Record, EarlyView.
Biomass‐derived carbon provides a sustainable, porous, and conductive scaffold that stabilizes nanomaterials for bifunctional hydrogen evolution reaction/oxygen evolution reaction catalysis. This review summarizes design strategies (defects, heteroatom doping, heterostructures, single atoms), mechanistic/density functional theory insights, degradation ...
Paricha Jebin   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The fantastic as a narrative strategy in four contemporary novels

open access: yes, 2004
The present dissertation investigates the use of the fantastic and its functions in contemporary prose, the initial hypothesis being that the fantastic is not historically exhausted, but continues to be productive.
Schnaas, Ulrike
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