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\"In this high interest novel for middle readers, boy-crazy Kiara convinces studious Jane to create a questionnaire to help find her soulmate.
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The impact of interpersonal alienation on excessive Internet fiction reading: Analysis of parasocial relationship as a mediator and relational-interdependent self-construal as a moderator
Internet fiction reading is a proliferating recreational activity in China, for its compelling narratives and immersive experience on portable mobile devices. Based on the uses and gratifications theory, the present study aimed to examine whether interpersonal alienation predicted excessive Internet fiction reading. Specifically, when people do not identify themselves in terms of their relationships with others (low in relational-interdependent self-construal, RISC), the tendency to develop imaginary relationships with media figures (parasocial relationship, PSR), was explored as a mediator between interpersonal alienation and excessive Internet fiction reading. A sample of 627 participants completed an online survey regarding interpersonal alienation, PSR, RISC, and excessive Internet fiction reading. Results showed that interpersonal alienation was positively associated with excessive Internet fiction reading, and PSR partially mediated this association. In addition, the mediating effect of PSR was moderated by RISC. Specifically, the mediating effect was stronger for people with low RISC than those with high RISC. It is among the first studies to identify the determinant of excessive Internet fiction reading from the interpersonal perspective and to provide evidence for the association between interpersonal alienation and excessive Internet fiction reading as well as the underlying mechanisms of such relationship. The current study also advances PSR research into the context of Internet fiction. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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Tea with Grandpa
No matter how far apart they are, a little girl and her grandfather share a cup of tea every day at half past three.
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The silicon jungle
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Young Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and shopping to e-mail and social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect the ever-growing number of people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it seems. Suspicious individuals--do-gooders, voyeurs, government agents, and radicals--surface, doing all they can to access the mass of desires and vulnerabilities gleaned from scouring Ubatoo's wealth of intimate information. Entry into Ubatoo's vaults of personal data need not require technical wizardry--simply knowing how to manipulate a well-intentioned intern may be enough.
Set in today's cutting-edge data mining industry,The Silicon Jungleis a cautionary tale of data mining's promise and peril, and how others can use our online activities for political and personal gain just as easily as for marketing and humanitarian purposes. A timely thriller,The Silicon Jungleraises serious ethical questions about today's technological innovations and how our most confidential activities and minute details can be routinely pieced together into rich profiles that reveal our habits, goals, and secret desires--all ready to be exploited in ways beyond our wildest imaginations.
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Overlord
\"The once popular game Yggdrasil was supposed to shut down that day. Everyone was supposed to be logged out automatically. But the players who stayed online past the moment the servers went quiet found themselves transported to a game world made real. Leading them is Momonga--a man whose love of games in the real world brought him only loneliness, now a skeletal sorcerer. The legends of Momonga and his guild begin here!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Breck and the Online Troll
Breck and the Online Troll is designed for special needs and lower age students to introduce basic online and grooming safety to children. This book has been created for SEN Teachers to use with children with the cognitive age of 8+.
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The revealers
Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School.
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Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB)
Irwin reviews Al von Ruff's the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, an online database with an extensive and freely available bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and related genres.
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Mogworld
\"This humorous parody of the fantasy genre and the world of MMORPG comes a story about the death and resurrection of a minor video game character by Zero Punctuation writer Yahtzee Croshaw (Will Save the Galaxy for Food, Jam) In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about sixty years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, bizarrely wrong, all Jim wants is to find a way to die properly, once and for all. On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish. But he's up against tough odds: angry mobs of adventurers, a body falling apart at the seams--and a team of programmers racing a deadline to hammer out the last few bugs in their AI. For lovers of bizarre horror, absurdist British humor, and unforgettable characters, only some of them human! \"The first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory.\"-Boing Boing \"WithMogworld,Croshaw has shown his razor sharp humor can stay intact for 400 pages and, more importantly, he's proven he has the chops to tell an interesting, unique and utterly entertaining narrative that moves along at a quick clip and never loses its charm.\" -Joystick Division \"[Croshaw is] able to pull off slapstick comedy in print, and that's no easy feat.\" -Chris Sims,Comics Alliance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley
Although space colonization appears to belong to the world of science fiction, private corporations owned by Silicon Valley billionaires—and supported by the US state—have spent billions making it a reality. Analyses of space colonialism have sometimes viewed these projects as distinct from earthly histories of colonialism, instead locating them within traditions of libertarianism, neoliberalism, or techno-utopianism. By reconstructing technology elites’ political visions for celestial settlements within the literature on colonial-era corporations and property, this study argues that the idea of outer space as an empty frontier relies on the same logic of territorialization that was used to justify terrestrial colonialism and indigenous dispossession. It further traces how the idea of “engineering territory” has inspired wider Silicon Valley political exit projects such as cyberspace, seasteading, and network states, which, rather than creating spaces of anarchical freedom, are attempting to recreate the territorial state in new spaces.
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