"This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, including bodies, materials and digital artefacts. It focuses on how residues of death persist and circulate through different spaces, materials, data and mediated memories, refiguring how the disposal of the dead is understood, enacted and contested across the globe. The volume contains contributions by schol ..."
"Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific features as sensors and GPS. From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen examines how this increasingly open, collaborative ..."
Please God Send Me a Wreck Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community (When the Land Meets the Sea) by Brad Duncan, MartinGibbs Hardcover, 243 Pages, Published 2015 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-4939-2641-1, ISBN: 1-4939-2641-1
"This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral historie ..."
"Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The b ..."
"2006a. Domestication of Media and Technology. Maidenhead: Open University Press. Berker, Thomas, Maren Hartmann, Yves Punie, and Katie J. Ward. 2006b. Introduction. In Domestication of Media and Technology, edited by Thomas Berker, ..."
Ar’Zoth A Warlock’s Fate by MartinGibbs ISBN-13: 978-0-557-29857-0, ISBN: 0-557-29857-1
"Throughout the history of humankind, there have been tales of grand adventure.
Great warriors, mages, knights, and warlocks engaged in epic battle. ..."
"Religion, Facebook and existential media Timothy Hutchings Introduction We
stand alone in the middle of a long straight road, in the darkness. Gravestones
are scattered through the trees on either side. Small lights start to glimmer
through the ..."
"Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen. 'post-
need' technologies and services 3, 14, 99, 112, 114–121 pre-digital era: funeral
industry 25–26; gramophone 22–23; medicalisation of death 24–25; mediums
and spiritualism 19; obituaries 17–18; post-mortem photography 18–19; radio/
wireless 21–22; secularisation 26–27; spirit photography 16–17, 20, 21;
telegraph 13, 19–20, 22; telephone 20–21, 22; television ..."
Please God Send Me a Wreck(1st Edition) Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community (When the Land Meets the Sea) by Brad Duncan, MartinGibbs Paperback, 243 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-4939-6627-1, ISBN: 1-4939-6627-8
"This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral historie ..."
When the Land Meets the Sea Ser. Please God Send Me a Wreck : Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community by Brad Duncan, MartinGibbs 243 Pages, Published 2015 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-4939-2642-8, ISBN: 1-4939-2642-X
"I am very grateful to the following volunteers who helped out during
archaeological fieldwork: Aiden Ash, Bob Marmion, Brad Williams, Cassandra
Philippou, Chris Lewczack, Corioli Souter, Dianne Smitt, Don Love, Ed Slaughter,
Flinders University Field School Students, Geoff Henderon, James Parkinson,
Jim Anderson, John Howell, John Munro, John Patrick, John Riley, Lester Hunt,
Liam Duncan, Lyall Mills, Malcolm Venturoni, Matt Schlit ..."
"Some scholars and journalists have suggested that in Korean cities there is less
expectation of privacy, and consequently less value placed on containing the
spread of or limiting the interconnectivity and accessibility of personal information
(Kim 2004). Prominent Korean architect Minsuk Cho (2009) has noted that some
of his projects are influenced by the lack of privacy a typical Korean family
member is able to attain within the ..."
"A Rich Task at the end of each chapter gives students the opportunity to work beyond the Standard at Level 6 and is followed by a Chapter Review and accompanying questions."
"Story-telling vs story-making. There are lots of computer games on the market
that attempt to tell a story, and students are usually quite familiar with the various
mechanisms they use (cut scenes, briefings, dialog, etc). Usually these games
offer little ability for players to be involved in the creation of the story; it more or
less unfolds the same predetermined way every time. I use this game as an
example of the opposite end o ..."