A Dream Play

From Play-In Scenarios To Code: An Achievable Dream

I n a 1992 Computer article, 1 I tried to present an optimistic view of the future of development methods for complex systems. Research since then only supports this optimism, as I will attempt to show. This article presents a general, rather sweeping development scheme, combining ideas that have been known for a long time with more recent ones. The scheme makes it possible to go from a high-le...

The Language and Culture of a Dream: A Case Study

This study has analyzed the culture and language of the American Dream in Blue Surge. It shows the effects of the formula of success and the competition presented by this dream; and, how it produces neurotic individuals trying to cope with the competitive society by means of neurotic strategies. This study has used Karen Horney’s theories and strategies. Horney says neurosis is engende...

Dream as Symptom, Dream as Myth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Dream Narratives

Many of us have an image of a classic anthropological approach to dreams: in "traditional" cultures, dreams are used to predict the future; dreams are part of "folk healing;" dreams are a social phenomenon. As the anthropologist Ellen Basso has put it, folk dream theories tend to be "progressive" or forward-looking, in contrast to the "regressive" Western dream theory, which uses dreams as a wi...

Do avatars dream of electronic picket lines?: The blurring of work and play in virtual environments

Purpose Define and articulate the concept of digital protestainment. Address how technologies have enabled boundaries to become more permeable and in which this permeability leads to the engendering of new cultures. Design/methodology/approach Two case studies, within Second Life and EVE Online, are examined to see how digital protestainment, through the lens of cultural borderlands, creates a ...

To dream the maybe possible dream: a breast cancer vaccine.