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• Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
  ...world by what Marc Auge calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent mann Non-places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity Verso, London & New York, 1995.
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• A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community
  == A SLICE OF LIFE IN MY VIRTUAL COMMUNITY == ....eff.org/Net_culture/Virtual_community/slice_of_life.article EFF.org Slice of Life]
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• Cyborg Swarms and Wearable Communities
  ''Researchers are exploring a new social realm that integrates instead of separates cyberspace and face-to-face space.'' It is possible today to equip your MP3 player with off the shelf wireless capabilities and to create ad-hoc WiFi or Bluetooth networks
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• Time and Space Compression
  ...gs, websites and the entirety of the Internet are the most recent examples of time and space compression. Time geography also maps this. ...still not real‐time. The traditional network is bounded by the confines of space, because text takes up space on paper, and e‐mail cannot be access
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• UX Glossary
  '''An ongoing effort to educate and flush out common ways of describing complex things, in order to better communicate these complexitie ...stance to and the size of the target. Fitts's law is used to model the act of pointing, either by physically touching an object with a hand or finger, or
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• Topics in Cyborg Anthropology
  [[All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity]] by Marshall Berman, 1982 [[Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity]] by [[Marc Augé]]
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• Space Travel
  ...n goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light?". ...being accessed only through terminals and browsers, the digital equivalent of space suits.
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• Godzilla and the Bullet Train: Technology and Culture in Modern Japan
  ...ld; specific examples to be discussed in class include, kamikaze aircraft, the Shinkansen high-speed bullet train, Godzilla, and anime. ...estern context. Students are also expected to gain basic factual knowledge of Japanese history, and be able to reach informed conclusions about factual i
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• Information Society
  ...e related to each other through information networks".<ref>Masuda, Yoneji. The Information Society is Post-Industrial Society. 1980. Pg. 161.</ref> ...ji. 1980. The Information Society and Post-Industrial Society. Washington: World Future Society. pp. vii–viii, 31–33.</ref>
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• Additional Books
  [[The Cyborg's Dilemma - Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments]] by Fran ...lections on the Apparition of Anthropology in Artificial Life]], a Science of Simulation by Gary Lee Downey
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• Flow, Interaction Design And Contemporary Boredom
  Boredom is a leading case of death in teenagers and senior citizens. It removes one from the pulse of life, of meaning, of action and a sense of purpose.
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