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From Urban Space to Cyberspace: A Research on Spatial Writing and Human-Android Relations in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick takes the highly computerized but ruined Los Angeles of the United States after the post-apocalyptic war as the background and brings the cyberspace struggle between androids and humans as the novel's theme, sketching a cyberpunk society in which humans and androids fight against each other. The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? invites people to think about cyberspace and human-androids subjectivity. Inspired by Slavoj Zizek's critical theory of cyberspace, this paper uses this science-fiction force as a text to explore how contemporary American science fiction reconstructs a revolutionary human-androids subject in cyberspace, challenging human subjectivity in the urban space. Faced with human-android coexistence, Dick affirms the coexistence of multiple subjects using equal dialogue, fully exploits the advantages of androids and humans, and constructs the subject with human-androids. Through an in-depth study of androids, this paper concludes that in a human-androids coexistence space, humans and androids should not be in a master-slave relationship; instead, they are each other's constitutive Other. Humans should try to break the boundary between self and others to accept a pluralistic and open subject.
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Tinfoil crowns
Seventeen-year-old Fit, a rising Internet star, must cope with her mother's release from prison for nearly killing her and her brother, as well as possible backlash from her fans.
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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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All our tomorrows
Janet, Anna, and Gemma lead separate lives, each ground down by the weight of the world they were born into, lost against the dazzling pixelated backdrop of the city. Too young to remember life before the iPhone 4, they think the real world was destroyed long before they were born. Janet is an underpaid gig therapist who spends her time as a mental health matchmaker, responding to grievance letters from faceless online avatars. Anna is a model-turned-sugar-baby who dissociates during dates with her aging daddy, hoping to save enough not for a Birkin bag, but for the water wars of the near future. And Gemma is a freshman at NYU who aspires to become an influencer, but is so haunted by a recent loss that she can't even film one video.
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ANALYZING THE DIVERSITY OF A HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY COLLECTION
Recognizing diversity is important not only in American society but also in school libraries. Schools are culturally diverse places that have students and staff who represent varieties of race, culture, ability, sexual preference or identity, religion, gender, and class. School librarians serve all these individuals. The National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries discusses the need for a school library collection to reflect the school's community. Furthermore, the American Library Association's \"Diversity in Collection Development\" interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights states that library collections must represent the diversity of people within the society or community the library serves. If the current collection of young adult fiction portrays only the typical white, heterosexual main character, then the collection does not allow for understanding and learning of other races, cultures, and abilities, nor does it allow for students of minority groups to see themselves represented in books. The modern school library must strive to continually add diverse titles to its collection so that all students feel represented and can find and read books.
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Motivating Tweens to Read: Insights from Author Tom Angleberger
In this interview, Tom Angleberger discusses his thoughts about tween readers, his insights into their reading lives, and what makes his books appealing to them.
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Everyone's a Superhero: A Cultural Theory of \Mary Sue\ Fan Fiction as Fair Use
Lieutenant Mary Sue took the helm of the Starship Enterprise, saving the ship while parrying Kirk's advances. At least she did so in the unofficial short story by Trekkie Paula Smith. \"Mary Sue\" has since come to stand for the insertion of an idealized authorial representative in a popular work. Derided as an exercise in narcissism, Mary Sue is in fact a figure of subaltern critique, challenging the stereotypes of the original. The stereotypes of popular culture insinuate themselves deeply into our lives, coloring our views on occupations and roles. From Hermione Granger-led stories, to Harry Potter in Kolkata, to Star Trek same-sex romances, Mary Sues re-imagine our cultural landscape, granting agency to those denied it in the popular mythology. Lacking the global distribution channels of traditional media, Mary Sue authors now find an alternative in the World Wide Web, which brings their work to the world. Despite copyright law's grant of rights in derivative works to the original's owners, we argue that Mary Sues that challenge the orthodoxy of the original likely constitute fair use. The Mary Sue serves as a metonym for all derivative uses that challenge the hegemony of the original. Scholars raise three principal critiques to such fair use: (1) why not write your own story rather than borrowing another's? (2) even if you must borrow, why not license it? and (3 won't \"recoding\" popular icons dstabilize culture? Relying on a cultural theory that prizes voice, not just exit, as a response to hegemony, we reply to these objections here. \"Gee, golly, gosh gloriosky,\" thought Mary Sue as she stepped on the bridge of the Enterprise. \"Here I am, the youngest Lieutenant in the fleet-only fifteen and half years old.\" Captain Kirk came up to her. \"Oh, Lieutenant, I love you madly. Will you come to bed with me?\" \"Captain! I am not that kind of girl!\" \"You're right, and I respect you for it. Here, take over the ship for a minute while I go for some coffee for us.\" Mr. Spock came onto the bridge. \"What are you doing in the command seat, Lieutenant?\" \"The Captain told me to.\" \"Flawlessly logical. I admire your mind.\"
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Anything can happen in the Zone: Library and Departmental Change Driven by Migration to a Cloud-based Library Management System
Butler University Libraries had already made progressive changes in public services areas, but Technical Services remained unchanged and bound to legacy practices from decades past. For us, the best catalyst for change was a system migration to a cloud-based type of management system. This system migration was tied to organizational restructuring and a new strategic plan, each of which intertwined with the details of the migration project and was underpinned by thoughtful analysis of how to help employees through change. Details of the migration are discussed in relation to how they inspired departmental and organizational change through updated technology.
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Finding a Place: Mainland Chinese Fiction in the 2000s
The political, economic and social changes experienced by China over the past decade have been mirrored by transformations in the literary realm. Writers, editors, critics and readers have contended with the acceleration of commercialisation, the rise of the Internet, and the Communist Party's subtly changing attitude to creative freedom. This essay examines the creative responses of three critically acclaimed generations of novelists – born between the 1950s and 1980s – to this new climate. It considers the way in which writers have become entrepreneurs, managing their own personality cults over the Internet and through media spin. It discusses widespread corruption in literary reviewing; the weaknesses in editorial standards that affect the work of even the most mature voices writing today; and the fluid way in which novelists often abandon fiction for other professions or expressive forms, such as film. Finally, it considers the limits of literary freedom in China's one-party cultural system.
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