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Interactive Storytelling: 16th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2023, Kobe, Japan, November 11–15, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14384)
by Lissa Holloway-Attaway John T. MurrayThis two-volume set LNCS 14383 and LNCS 14384 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2023, held in Kobe, Japan, during November 11–15, 2023.The 30 full papers presented in this book together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. Additionally, the proceedings includes 22 Late Breaking Works.The papers focus on topics such as: theory, history and foundations; social and cultural contexts; tools and systems; interactive narrative design; virtual worlds, performance, games and play; applications and case studies; and late breaking works.
Interactive Storytelling: 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13138)
by Alex Mitchell Mirjam VosmeerThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in December 2021. The 18 full papers and 17 short papers, presented together with 17 posters and demos, were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Narrative Systems; Interactive Narrative Theory; Interactive Narrative Impact and Application; and the Interactive Narrative Research Discipline and Contemporary Practice.
Interactive Storytelling
by Frank Nack Andrew S. GordonThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in November 2016. The 26 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 9 posters, 4 workshop, and 3 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analyses and evaluation systems; brave new ideas; intelligent narrative technologies; theoretical foundations; and usage scenarios and applications.
Interactive Storytelling: 15th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2022, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, December 4–7, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13762)
by Mirjam Vosmeer Lissa Holloway-AttawayThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2022, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in December 2022.The 30 full papers and 10 short papers, presented together with 17 posters and demos, were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions.
Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation: 8th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2019, and 4th EAI International Conference, DLI 2019, Aalborg, Denmark, November 6–8, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #328)
by Anthony Brooks Eva Irene BrooksThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of two conferences: The 8th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2019), and the 4th EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation (DLI 2019). Both conferences were hosed in Aalborg, Denmark, and took place November 6-8, 2019. The 61 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 98 submissions. The papers represent a forum for the dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of arts, design and technology, including open related topics like interactivity and game creation.
Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation: 7th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2018, and 3rd EAI International Conference, DLI 2018, ICTCC 2018, Braga, Portugal, October 24–26, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #265)
by Anthony L. Brooks Eva Brooks Cristina SyllaThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of two conferences: The 7th EAI International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2018), and the 3rd EAI International Conference on Design, Learning, and Innovation (DLI 2018). Both conferences were hosed in Braga, Portugal, and took place October 24-26, 2018. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 106 submissions. ArtsIT , Interactivity and Game Creation is meant to be a place where people in arts, with a keen interest in modern IT technologies, meet with people in IT, having strong ties to art in their works. The event also reflects the advances seen in the open related topics Interactivity (Interaction Design, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Robotics) and Game Creation (Gamification, Leisure Gaming, GamePlay). ArtsIT has been successfully co-located with DLI as the design, learning and innovation frame the world of IT, opening doors into an increasingly playful worlds. So the DLI conference is driven by the belief that tools, techniques and environments can spark and nature a passion for learning, transformation domains such as education, rehabilitation/therapy, work places and cultural institutions.
Interaktion zwischen Spezies: Fremdheit und Nähe (Vital Turn: Leib, Körper, Emotionen)
by Anna K.E. SchneiderWie gestalten sich Mensch-Tier-Interaktionen? Anna Schneider nähert sich dieser Frage gestützt auf Theorien des Symbolischen Interaktionismus, der Philosophischen Anthropologie und Leibphänomenologie sowie verschiedenen Empathiekonzepten. Die Autorin erörtert hierfür ausführlich zwei Fallstudien zur Erkundung von Mensch-Tier-Interaktionen im privaten Umfeld (Mensch-Hund) und im institutionellen Rahmen einer Auffangstation (Mensch-Raubkatze). Sie stellt die speziesübergreifende Interaktion als dialektischen Prozess dar, welcher auf verschiedenen Ebenen vollzogen wird und entscheidend von den Faktoren der Annäherung und Abgrenzung zum Anderen geprägt ist. Die komplexe Methodik und hohe Interdisziplinarität der Arbeit verdeutlicht dabei den Bedarf an innovativen Forschungsmethoden für eine inklusive Mensch-Tier-Forschung und bietet einen theoretischen und methodischen Bezugsrahmen für zukünftige Forschung.
Interaktionale Reflexion von professionellem Handeln in der Schulsozialarbeit
by Veronika KnocheDieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Schulsozialarbeiter*innen ihr professionelles Handeln im beruflichen Alltag reflektieren. Am Beispiel der bayerischen Jugendsozialarbeit an Schulen (JaS) wird in ethnografischer teilnehmender Beobachtung folgenden Forschungsfragen nachgegangen: Wie gestaltet sich das professionelle Handeln im ausgewählten Handlungsfeld der Jugendsozialarbeit an Schulen? Wie reflektieren Jugendsozialarbeiter*innen an Schulen ihr professionelles Handeln im beruflichen Alltag? Auf welche Veränderungs- und Entwicklungsbedarfe verweisen die Ergebnisse? Welche Rückschlüsse können daraus für die Voraussetzungen und Anforderungen für die JaS in Bayern gezogen werden, sowohl im Hinblick auf das Wissen, das Jugendsozialarbeiter*innen an Schulen für ihr professionelles Handeln benötigen, als auch im Hinblick auf Rahmenbedingungen und die Disziplinbildung? Die Ergebnisse bieten einen ersten Einblick in den bisher verborgen gebliebenen Reflexionsprozess von Schulsozialarbeiter*innen: Die hier entwickelte Grounded Theory der Interaktionalen Reflexion von professionellem Handeln in der Schulsozialarbeit zeigt Reflexionsthemen und -strategien von Schulsozialarbeiter*innen ebenso auf wie die Bedingungen, unter denen diese Reflexionsprozesse stattfinden und ihre Konsequenzen.
Interaktive Großgruppen: Change-Prozesse in Organisationen gestalten
by Carmen Windisch Volker List Karin Dittrich-Brauner Eberhard DittmannOrganisationen und ihre Mitarbeiter verändern sich fortlaufend und lernen dazu, um konkurrenzfähig zu bleiben. Zu diesem Zweck setzen Unternehmen immer häufiger Großgruppenverfahren ein, denn diese haben klassischen Workshopmethoden einiges voraus: Sie erzeugen Bewegung, initiieren Kontakte und Diskussionen, fördern die Identifikation und garantieren die Nachhaltigkeit von Veränderungen in Organisationen - kurz: sie binden auf aktive und effektive Weise viele Menschen in einen gemeinsamen Entwicklungsprozess ein. Die Arbeit mit großen Gruppen ist gleichzeitig zielführend und unterhaltsam. Alles drin: Zum einen "klassische Verfahren" wie Zukunftskonferenz, Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry, RTSC, World Café, sowie deren Entwicklung, Einsatzgebiete, Ablauf und Nutzen. Zum anderen Weiterentwicklungen und Trends, neue Anforderungen, integrative Ansätze, Einbindung neuer Technologien u.v.m., sowie Tipps zur Dramaturgie in Großgruppen. Direkt loslegen: Mit konkreten Tipps, Checklisten, Experteninterviews, Fallbeispielen und Erfahrungsberichten aus bekannten Unternehmen, Hinweisen zu speziellen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Großgruppenverfahren und, damit nichts schiefgeht, Vorbereitungs-Tipps zu Räumlichkeiten, Ton, Visualisierung, Dokumentation und Zeitplanung. Die zweite Auflage wurde aktualisiert und um aktuelle Themen (u.a. Social Media, Großgruppen in Veränderungsprojekten) ergänzt.
Intercollegiate athletics and the American university: a university president's perspective
by James J. DuderstadtAfter decades of domination on campus, college sports' supremacy has begun to weaken. "Enough, already!" detractors cry. College is about learning, not chasing a ball around to the whir of TV cameras. In Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University James Duderstadt agrees, taking the view that the increased commercialization of intercollegiate athletics endangers our universities and their primary goal, academics. Calling it a "corrosive example of entertainment culture" during an interview with ESPN's Bob Ley, Duderstadt suggested that college basketball, for example, "imposes on the university an alien set of values, a culture that really is not conducive to the educational mission of university. " Duderstadt is part of a growing controversy. Recently, as reported inThe New York Times, an alliance between university professors and college boards of trustees formed in reaction to the growth of college sports; it's the first organization with enough clout to challenge the culture of big-time university athletics. This book is certainly part of that challenge, and is sure to influence this debate today and in the years to come. James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan.
Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.: How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics
by James T. BennettIntercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education. Including historical and contemporary perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports from largely student-run activities supervised by faculty to the gargantuan, taxpayer-supported spectacles that now dominate many public universities. It investigates the regressive student fees that have helped subsidize big-time sports at public universities and prop up chronically unprofitable athletic departments, as well as the corrosive effects of athletics on the university’s academic enterprise. A review of the alleged salutary effects of massive sports programs, such as spurring alumni donations and student applications, reveals that such benefits are largely illusory, more myth than real. The book also pays special attention to the often prescient, if largely unsuccessful, opponents of these developments, and considers the alternatives to big-time athletics, from abolition to professionalization to club sports. Students, scholars, sports fans, and those interested in learning how big-time football and basketball have cast such an enormous—and often baleful—shadow upon American colleges and universities will profit from this provocative and engagingly written book.
Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking: The Dynamics of Urban Violence in Central Asia (McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance)
by Joldon KutmanalievWith increasing urban population density, conflicts in cities erupt more frequently and violently. Cities have become hotspots for armed combat, highlighting the urgency of understanding the impact of local communities and urban factors on the development of violent conflict. Joldon Kutmanaliev presents a novel approach to analyzing communal violence and armed conflicts in urban zones. Drawing from fieldwork in cities of southern Kyrgyzstan, he explains local-level variations in violence across neighbourhoods during the most intense and violent episode of urban communal violence in Central Asia – the clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in June 2010. Kutmanaliev explains why armed violence affects some urban neighbourhoods but not others, why local communities react differently to the same existential threat, how they deal with a deteriorating security environment and interethnic fears, and how different types of urban planning and urban landscapes influence the spread of violence. Importantly, the book identifies key factors that help local communities and their leaders to negotiate non-aggression pacts and control local constituencies, and therefore successfully prevent violence.Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking explains communal war and ethnic peacemaking on the level of neighbourhood communities – a perspective that is largely absent in previous studies.
Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy)
by Henry Wai-Chung YeungThe global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semiconductors to end products, complex transnational production and value-generating activities have integrated diverse macro-regions and national economies worldwide into the "interconnected worlds" of global electronics. This book argues that the current era of interconnected worlds started in the early 1990s when electronics production moved from systems dominated by lead firms in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan towards increasingly globalized and cross-macro-regional electronics manufacturing centered in East Asia. By the 2010s, this co-evolution of production network complexity transformed global electronics, through which lead firms from South Korea, Taiwan, and China integrated East Asia into the interconnected worlds of electronics production across the globe. Drawing on literature on the electronics industry, new empirical material comprising custom datasets, and extensive personal interviews, this book examines through a "network" approach the co-evolution of globalized electronics production centered in East Asia across different national economies and sub-national regions. With comprehensive analysis up to 2021, Yeung analyzes the geographical configurations ("where"), organizational strategies ("how"), and causal drivers ("why") of global production networks, setting a definitive benchmark into the dynamic transformations in global electronics and other globalized industries. The book will serve as a crucial resource for academic and policy research, offering a conceptual, empirically driven grounding in the theory of these networks that has become highly influential across the social sciences.
Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes (Contemporary Social Work Studies)
by Karen Smith RotabiIntercountry adoption represents a significant component of international migration; in recent years, up to 45,000 children have crossed borders annually as part of the intercountry adoption boom. Proponents have touted intercountry adoption as a natural intervention for promoting child welfare. However, in cases of fraud and economic incentives, intercountry adoption has been denounced as child trafficking. The debate on intercountry adoption has been framed in terms of three perspectives: proponents who advocate intercountry adoption, abolitionists who argue for its elimination, and pragmatists who look for ways to improve both the conditions in sending countries and the procedures for intercountry transfer of children. Social workers play critical roles in intercountry adoption; they are often involved in family support services or child relinquishment in sending countries, and in evaluating potential adoptive homes, processing applications, and providing support for adoptive families in receiving countries; social workers are involved as brokers and policy makers with regard to the processes, procedures, and regulations that govern intercountry adoption. Their voice is essential in shaping practical and ethical policies of the future. Containing 25 chapters covering the following five areas: policy and regulations; sending country perspectives; outcomes for intercountry adoptees; debate between a proponent and an abolitionist; and pragmatists' guides for improving intercountry adoption practices, this book will be essential reading for social work practitioners and academics involved with intercountry adoption.
Intercultural Approaches to Education: From Theory to Practice
by Abdeljalil Akkari Myriam RadhouaneThis open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presents theoretical and conceptual foundations for seriously considering cultural diversity. The book also compares intercultural approaches and debates generated in countries as diverse as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and France. For each national context, the book addresses both the historical roots of intercultural approaches and the concrete initiatives driven by educational policies for their implementation in schools and classrooms. Finally, the book presents discussions surrounding the treatment of linguistic or religious diversity in schools, the emergence of global citizenship education and the key role of teachers in intercultural approaches.This is an open access book.
Intercultural Communication and Ideology: SAGE Publications
by Adrian HollidayLooking at intercultural communication against the backdrop of an unequal global politics in which ideology plays a major role, Holliday (applied linguistics, Canterbury Christ Church U. ) considers how popular narratives of culture lead easily and sometimes innocently to reducing the foreign Other as culturally deficient. His treatment is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students of intercultural communications and cultural studies, and for globalized professionals training in intercultural communication. Among his topics are critical cultural awareness, the indelible politics of self and other, a grammar of cultures, and creative cultural engagement. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Intercultural Communication Education: Broken Realities and Rebellious Dreams (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Fred Dervin Andreas JacobssonThis book explores the notion of interculturality in education and supports scholars in their discovery of the notion. Continuing the author’s previous work, the book urges (communication) education researchers and educators to 'interculturalize' interculturality. This book corresponds to the authors’ endeavor to complexify the way interculturality is discussed, expressed, (co-)constructed and advocated in different parts of the world and in different languages. To interculturalize interculturality is to expand the way we deal with the notion as an object of scientific and educational discourse, noting the dominating voices and allowing for silenced voices that are rarely heard around interculturality to emerge. This book is based on broken realities and (the authors’) rebellious dreams. As two researchers and educators with a long experience examining discourses of interculturality, this book represents the authors’ program for the future of intercultural communication education. The book is divided into three 'tableaus' (living descriptions) depicting today’s 'broken' realities of interculturality and two 'rebellious' dreams of what it could be in research and education.
Intercultural Communication Education and Research: Reenvisioning Fundamental Notions (New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality)
by Hamza R'boul Fred DervinSeeking to uncover underlying epistemic invisibilities in generating intercultural communication education and research knowledge and to open up space for envisaging interculturality alternatively, this book reexamines and problematizes the assumptions and ontologies in the conceptual systems of interculturality. In enunciating and critiquing what has been largely endorsed, normalized and taken for granted, this volume brings to the fore different, changing and situated understandings of intercultural ontologies and epistemologies in terms of premises, workings and objectives, unveiling the entangled factors and contexts that have delimited and circumscribed the realm. The authors believe that the field would benefit from some cognitive and sensory dissonance while reengaging effectively with notions to move forward. In particular, they endeavour to de-monumentalize and disrupt the very conceptual tenets that may have rendered interculturality myopic, repetitive, monolithic and aseptic in expanding the epistemic concerns of the “intercultural”, especially in the English language. This book will be an essential read for scholars and students of the sociology of education, educational philosophy and intercultural education and also for all readers interested in the broad field of interculturality.
Intercultural Communication for Global Business: How Leaders Communicate for Success
by Elizabeth A. TulejaThis book brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication in a concise and practical manner, focusing on communication as the foundation for management and global leadership. Grounded in the Cultural Intelligence Model, this compact text examines the concepts associated with understanding culture and communication in the global business environment to help readers: • Understand intercultural communication processes. • Improve self-awareness and communication in intercultural settings. • Expand skills in identifying, analyzing, and solving intercultural communication challenges at work. • Evaluate whether one’s communication has been effective. Richly illustrated with examples, activities, real-world applications, and recent case studies that make the content come alive, Intercultural Communication for Global Business is an ideal companion for any business student or manager dedicated to communicating more effectively in a globalized society.
Intercultural Communication for Global Business: How Leaders Communicate for Success
by Elizabeth A. TulejaAs concise and practical as ever, this new edition brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication, focusing on communication as the foundation for management and global leadership. Grounded in the need for building awareness and knowledge, practicing mindfulness, and then working on skill development, this text examines the concepts associated with understanding culture and communication in the global business environment to help readers: understand intercultural communication processes; improve self-awareness and communication in intercultural settings; expand skills in identifying, analyzing, and solving intercultural communication challenges at work; and evaluate whether one’s communication has been effective. This fully updated new edition also includes completely updated case studies, with an increased emphasis on non-US perspectives, to show real-world applications across the globe. Richly illustrated with new examples and activities, this text is the ideal companion for any business student or manager dedicated to communicating more effectively in a globalized society.
Intercultural Communication for the Global Business Professional
by Mara K. Berkland Amy Grim BuxbaumThis text integrates business and communication concepts to immerse students in the global communication experiences of business professionals. The authors argue that the essentials of intercultural communication, such as nonverbal communication, conflict, meeting management, interviewing, and negotiations are most useful to burgeoning professionals when they are woven into discussions about economic systems, market forces, production processes, finance structures, and human resources priorities. Each chapter begins with an explanation of theories and key terms appropriate for introductory-level students in both business and communication, then supplements that discussion with examples that demonstrate the concepts at work. The cases chosen represent different market systems in both dominant and emerging economies, explaining the cultures of competitive markets with a global perspective rather than focusing on the United States. This book is ideal as a text for courses in international business or professional intercultural communication, or as a supplement for more general business and communication courses.
Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age (Routledge Research in Communication Studies)
by Margaret U. D’Silva Ahmet AtayThis book examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world. Contemporary cyber culture involves communication among people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Social media becomes a space for mediated cultural information transfer which can either facilitate a vibrant public sphere or create cultural and social cleavages. Contributors of the book come from diverse cultural backgrounds to provide a comprehensive analysis of how these social media exchanges allow members of traditionally oppressed groups find their voices, cultivate communities, and construct their cultural identities in multiple ways. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students working in the field of media and new media studies, intercultural communication, especially critical intercultural communication, and academics studying social identity and social movements.
Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age (Routledge Research in Communication Studies)
by Margaret U. D’Silva; Ahmet AtayThis book examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world. Contemporary cyber culture involves communication among people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Social media becomes a space for mediated cultural information transfer which can either facilitate a vibrant public sphere or create cultural and social cleavages. Contributors of the book come from diverse cultural backgrounds to provide a comprehensive analysis of how these social media exchanges allow members of traditionally oppressed groups find their voices, cultivate communities, and construct their cultural identities in multiple ways.This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students working in the field of media and new media studies, intercultural communication, especially critical intercultural communication, and academics studying social identity and social movements.
Intercultural Communication in Asia: Education, Language and Values (Multilingual Education #24)
by Andy Curtis Roland SussexThis volume presents in-depth studies on leading themes in education policy and intercultural communication in contemporary Asia, covering empirical as well as theoretical approaches, and offering both an in-depth investigation of their implications, and a synthesis of areas where these topics cohere and point to advances in description, analysis and theory, policy and applications. The studies address key questions that are essential to the future of education in an Asia where intercultural communication is ever more important with the rise of the ASEAN Economic Community and other international initiatives. These questions include the properties of the increasing globalisation of communication and how it plays out in Asia, especially but not exclusively with reference to English, and how we can place intercultural communication in this context, as well as studies that highlight intercultural communication and its underlying value systems and ideologies in Asia.
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
by Myron W. Lustig Jolene KoesterStriking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides readers with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multicultural environment. Blending both the practical and theoretical, the concrete and abstract, this book is both enjoyable to read and thoroughly researched. By clearly explaining different theories and the significance of cultural patterns and having readers practice what they learn via examples in the book, Intercultural Competence better prepares readers to interact in intercultural relationships. The book also provides a discussion of important ethical and social issues relating to intercultural communication. The authors cover U.S. cultures as well as global cultural issues.