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This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of local game history.

Sociedades emergentes y vulnerabilidades contemporáneas reúne un conjunto plural de investigaciones y reflexiones sobre las diversas formas de vulnerabilidad en las sociedades cambiantes de comienzos del siglo XXI. Propone reflexionar sobre nuestras fr

L'aparició d'aquests dos volums, que es presenten com una unitat sota el títol d'Assaig, és una ocasió de festa grossa. Per primera vegada el més essencial de l'obra del gran escriptor de Sueca es presenta aplegat, i amb molts textos que son una autentica revelacio. El primer dels dos volums conte tots els llibres d'aquest genere que Fuster va publicar en vida: El descredit de la realitat, Les originalitats, Tres notes marginals, Diccionari per a ociosos, L'home, mesura de totes les coses, Examen de consciencia, Babels i Babilonies i Sagitari, mes dotze textos aplegats sota el titol L'assaig dispers. El segon volum compren tot l'assaig seriat, es a dir, aquells articles que Fuster va publicar en un gran nombre de diaris i revistes sota una mateixa rubrica de seccio: Restriccions mentals, Passar el dia, empenyer l'any, Noticies del sud, Notes d'un desficios, Entre l'espasa i la paret, Una dotzena justa i Digestions temporals. Son prop de mil pagines mai abans recollides en llibre, que ha calgut inventariar i transcriure, i que constitueixen una aportacio fonamental a la difusio de l'obra fusteriana. Tots dos volums es completen amb un apendix dels curadors, que donen claricies sobre les fonts dels textos i, quan es necessari, els anoten.

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, identifying underlying causes in globalisation, migration policies and gender inequality. It questions whether European responses-from policy makers or civil society are adequate to meet the challenge.

Esta nueva edición ha supuesto la actualización de cada uno de los capítulos de la obra, aunque respetando la sistemática de la anterior, que ha servido para la exposición de la misma materia. Las tablas de legislación y los textos legales que se insertan al final, pretenden ayudar al lector a la búsqueda de las disposiciones a aplicar.

Mark J.P. Wolfs study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worldswhich are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in natureare compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homers Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreations relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism, and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification.Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies, the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Minecraft, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity, summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds, the elusive nature of freedom and control, and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptivebut through design choices, players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference between moving through a game world, and being moved by it.This interdisciplinary and innovative study will interest students and scholars of digital media studies, game studies, tourism and technology, and the Digital Humanities.

La obra que tienes en tus manos proporciona un marco desde el que reflexionar y dialogar sobre los desafíos que se están planteando al Trabajo Social tanto en su vertiente formativa como profesional y politica. ¿Cual es la trabajadora o trabajador social que la sociedad actual necesita? ¿Como estamos respondiendo desde el Trabajo Social a las transformaciones socioeconomicas, tecnologicas y politicas a las que estamos asistiendo en el mundo actual?¿Como estamos afrontando los efectos que estan teniendo sobre las personas, familias y poblaciones con las que trabajamos dia a dia y que sufren los efectos de la discriminacion, la desigualdad, la opresion o la violacion de los derechos humanos? ¿Como contribuye el Trabajo Social a defender, en la practica, la libertad, la justicia social y la igualdad? Cabe esperar, por tanto, que esta obra, fruto del analisis de docentes, investigadores y profesionales de diferentes paises reunidos bajo el lema: El Trabajo Social en un mundo en transformacion, ¿distintas realidades o nuevos relatos para la intervencion?, se convierta en referencia obligada para estudiantes, profesorado y profesionales de la disciplina.