Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives and Digital Cultures, by Danielle Kirby

Privacy, Technology Law and Religions across Cultures

The freedom to receive and impart information, privacy and the freedom from discrimination on grounds of religious belief are universally recognised as fundamental human rights and, as such, also form part of the basic values of democratic societies. These rights have, in the main, only been adequately articulated and increasingly protected at the international level after the Second World War,...

Gendering Socialist Popular Cultures

Potterliteracy: Cross-media Narratives, Cultures and Grammars

There is something Janus-faced about the Harry Potter novels. As Nicholas Tucker observes (1999), they look backwards in time to their sources in folktale and children’s literature: to the orphan changeling stories of fairytale and of Frances Hodgson Burnett; to the magical characters and anthropomorphic animals of Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature, from The Princess and the Goblin ...

Islam and other Religions

Any student of comparative religion will notice - and seek to identify as well - the points of similarity and difference between various religions. One might even claim that the discipline of “influence studies” has its roots in these discussions of comparison and contrast. However, these discussions persistently fail to address the nuances of particular faiths. Here, I intend to shed some ligh...

Models for Digital Storytelling and Interactive Narratives

Digital storytelling represents a challenging way of creating a bridge between traditional oral storytelling and the form of communication adopted by modern media and information technology. In this paper I introduce a method for categorization of applications and outline a reference model in digital storytelling. The model will be useful for the analysis of existing, and the development of fut...