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Multiplayer gaming and autism: Social communication through repetitive behaviours

open access: yesJournal of Research in Special Educational Needs, EarlyView.
Abstract The popularity of online multiplayer gaming among primary‐school students, including autistic students, has rapidly increased over the past decade. Social characteristics and interactions of autistic students have been a focus of research, but less attention has been given to the relationship between online multiplayer gaming and social ...
Bessie G. Stonea   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spinifex, fire, and fate

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Bushfires occur regularly in inland Australia because of the flammability of spinifex (Triodia species). Spinifex and fire are tied together by infertility: the plant is of limited palatability to consumers and accumulates into fuel. Spinifex regrows with cumulative rainfall, and fires recur every couple of decades.
Stephen Ross Morton
wiley   +1 more source

‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

‘I See Her Instrument Is Open’: (Dis)playing the Musical Body in the Work of Jane Austen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article contextualizes Jane Austen's depictions of musicians and instruments within contemporary philosophical perceptions of music as a means of ‘unvirtuous’ corporeal stimulation in order to examine Austen's attitude towards female sexuality.
Maggie Stanton
wiley   +1 more source

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