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Ada Lace and the suspicious artist
Eight-year-old Ada and new friend Tycho help Nina by coding a website displaying her online portfolio, then work together again to document a case of fraud.
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The Influence of the Development of Transmedia Fiction on the Traditional Publishing Industry
One of the crucial reasons why transmedia fictions has become popular in China is that it has established a complete set of operation modes. In an era when new media technology has continuously developed, transmedia fictions actively seek integration with new media and contemporary trends. Chinese scholar Ding Baiquan (2006) confirmed this in the article “The Management of News Media under the Condition of the Market Economy,” where he observed that “it can be said that transmedia is a new media, and the integration of literature and new media indicates the arrival of a new media era.” The operation mode of transmedia fictions began to take shape in this social environment. This article takes Chinese transmedia fiction as an example and uses it to explain how the development of transmedia fiction has affected the traditional publishing industry, achieving this by engaging the operation model of transmedia fiction, the mode of remuneration for novel authors and copyright management. It also anticipates and reflects on future cooperation between this fiction and the industry.
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Mac Slater vs. the city
Mac and his reluctant friend Paul head from Australia to Manhattan to continue their work for the Coolhunter website, and once there they discover a group of young inventors whose work is meant to be kept top-secret.
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Multiple Influences of Intelligent Technology on Network Behavior of College Students in the Metaverse Age
The advent of the metaverse age has gradually transformed digital survival from a fantasy in science fiction to a reality. Especially in recent years, the college students, as the objects of ideological and political education in universities, have been deeply embedded in their learning, social interaction, entertainment, and consumption behaviors, presenting new characteristics of the times. From the aspects of the background of intelligent technology on College Students’ network behavior, the types of College Students’ network behavior, the multiple effects of intelligent technology, the nature of College Students’ network behavior, etc., provide some basis for ideological and political education.
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Scream Site
Future investigative reporter Sabrina, fourteen, researches a popular website where people post horror videos, hoping to prove they are not as real as they seem until her sister, a big fan of the site, disappears.
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The reading background of Goodreads book club members: a female fiction canon?
Purpose
Despite the social, educational and therapeutic benefits of book clubs, little is known about which books participants are likely to have read. In response, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the public bookshelves of those that have joined a group within the Goodreads social network site.
Design/methodology/approach
Books listed as read by members of 50 large English-language Goodreads groups – with a genre focus or other theme – were compiled by author and title.
Findings
Recent and youth-oriented fiction dominate the 50 books most read by book club members, whilst almost half are works of literature frequently taught at the secondary and postsecondary level (literary classics). Whilst J.K. Rowling is almost ubiquitous (at least 63 per cent as frequently listed as other authors in any group, including groups for other genres), most authors, including Shakespeare (15 per cent), Goulding (6 per cent) and Hemmingway (9 per cent), are little read by some groups. Nor are individual recent literary prize winners or works in languages other than English frequently read.
Research limitations/implications
Although these results are derived from a single popular website, knowing more about what book club members are likely to have read should help participants, organisers and moderators. For example, recent literary prize winners might be a good choice, given that few members may have read them.
Originality/value
This is the first large scale study of book group members’ reading patterns. Whilst typical reading is likely to vary by group theme and average age, there seems to be a mainly female canon of about 14 authors and 19 books that Goodreads book club members are likely to have read.
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Weaving Wikipedia’s Middle-earth Web
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth fantasy writing has become extremely popular, and has been extensively studied by scholars. Part of the demand for information on the subject is met by Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia with a large readership. I have extended its coverage of Middle-earth subjects to more than 200 Good Articles, divided roughly equally between in-universe subjects such as “Aragorn” and more scholarly subjects such as “Heroism in The Lord of the Rings”. Each article is required to stand alone as a notable topic in its own right, as demonstrated by its citations to reliable sources. Other sites like Tolkien Gateway offer rich detail on Middle-earth topics, but do not provide scholarly analysis or cite independent sources. I have supported the cited text with tables and diagrams to present the information visually to a general audience, and interconnected the articles into a single web with hypertext links. Millions of readers view Wikipedia’s Middle-earth material each month.
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Online Fan Practices and CALL
This article provides a narrative overview of research on online fan practices for language and literacy learning, use, and identity work. I begin with an introduction to online fan communities and common fan practices found in these online affinity spaces, the best known of which is fan fiction, fictional writing that reinterprets and remixes the events, characters, and settings found in popular media. I then look to other online fan practices that have been explored in language and literacy learning research such as fan-subbing and scanlation, amateur subtitling and translation of popular media carried out by individual or teams of fans. Finally, this article concludes by looking to research that has begun to explore the integration of fan practices found in the digital wilds into the language classroom as a way to illuminate how our growing understanding of online fan practices can motivate the design of computer-mediated tasks or the integration of social media into formal language teaching.
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