Essays about: "hyperreality"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the word hyperreality.

  1. 11. Identity, hyperreality and Science fiction : Matrix and Neuromancer

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

    Author : Imran Riaz Chohan; [2012]
    Keywords : Identity; Reality; Hyperreality; Simulation; Simulacra.;

    Abstract : My Bachelor’s thesis is a comparative analysis between humans and machines in a science fiction novel (Neuromancer) and a movie (Matrix). I explored in these works how the machines used technologies to influence on the humans. READ MORE

  3. 12. Collaborative Virtual Environments : Identity Construction in Online Environments with a Focus on Facebook

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

    Author : Funke Jaiyeola nee Ogungbemi; [2011]
    Keywords : Identity; Medium Media; Nomenclature; Hyperreality; Representation; Culture and Performance. ;

    Abstract : Abstract My essay focuses on the construction of identity in virtual spaces but with an emphasis on Facebook. The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the construction of identities online and the characteristics attributable to online identities. READ MORE

  4. 13. Unreal Realms : Coney Island and Immersion as a Lost Sense of the Real

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Anna Grankvist; [2010]
    Keywords : Embodiment; Visual Culture; Coney Island; Immersion; Space; Haptic; Hyperreality; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the concept of immersion concerning a physical space rather than a cinematic or virtual reality. The term has, within contemporary research of visual culture, often been ascribed to computer-generated realities in which the spectator is absorbed within a hermetically closed-off image space of illusion. READ MORE

  5. 14. Tibetan, but not from Tibet A Minor Field Study on Tibetan Diasporic Identity in India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Georgia Sandberg Moustogianni; [2007]
    Keywords : Tibetan youth; diaspora; hyperreality; postcolonialism; hybridity; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper is the result of a minor field study (MFS) on Tibetan youth in India. The main research question is: How does the second generation of Tibetans in India express their identity, and what implications does this have on their belonging to a diasporic group? The aim of this paper is to present discourses within the Tibetan diaspora and how the second generation relates to these as well as creates its own. READ MORE