In the last years, Serbia has witnessed coming into being of various media forms that all provide social, political and cultural criticism through acrid comedy, parody and satire. The paper centers on sarcasm as one of the key aggressive rhetorical devices used in the language of popular satirical portal Njuz.net, with an overview of the structural and functional characteristics of sarcasm in c...

This chapter presents an overview of machinima, an important socio-cultural movement that originated in the 1990s gameplay movement known as demoscene. The chapter presents a review of literature and key issues related to its evolution. Modes of its production (perfect capture, screen capture, asset compositing, bespoke machinimation) are described, along with the range of different genres that...

This paper examines punk subcultures as a response to “the condition of postmodernity,” defined here as a crisis of meaning caused by the commodification of everyday life. Punk musicians and subcultures have responded to this crisis in one of two ways. Like other forms of “plank parody” associated with postmodernism, the “culture of deconstruction” expresses nihilism, ironic cynicism, and the p...

Abstract Starting from the most varied interpretations to which Collodi’s masterpiece has been subjected, present study proposes a reading socio-political point of view that, compared with De Amicis’ Cuore , highlights opposite opinion two authors regarding possibility (and will) Italian people realize foundation nation following unification their country. At end study, working hypothesis is pr...

Jerry Fodor (1985) has joked that philosophers have always been prone to eccentric worries such as an anxiety about the existence of tables and chairs, but with the issue of mental representation they have found a problem that is real and crucial for progress in the cognitive sciences. However, given Fodor’s ‘methodological solipsism’ of computational symbols and their ‘formality condition’, Ja...

While online students may wish to see their teacher on video, there may be practical, pedagogical, affective or political reasons for hesitating. Drawing on my own experiences of online teaching both on a Masters programme and a MOOC (EDCMOOC), the paper raises questions about approaches to teaching, misrepresentation, surveillance and teacher agency. I conclude that though there are problems i...

time no longer exists as an objective physical reality. “When even the gravitational field—geometry i n c a r n a t e — becomes a noncommuting (and hence nonlinear) operator, how can the classical interpretation of Gμν as a geometric entity be sustained? Now not only the observer, but the very concept of geometry, becomes relational and contextual.” The article might have passed unnoticed in th...

This study describes and analyzes outgroup linguistic racism in parodies of Ebonics (`Mock Ebonics') that appeared on the Internet in the wake of the December 18, 1996 resolution of the Board of Education of the Oakland (California) Uni®ed School District on improving the English-language skills of African-American students. We examined 23 World Wide Web pages containing 270,188 words, from whi...

The meaning maintenance model asserts that following a meaning threat, people will affirm any meaning frameworks that are available. Three experiments tested (a) whether people affirm alternative meaning frameworks after reading absurdist literature, (b) what role expectations play in determining whether absurdities are threatening, and (c) whether people have a heightened need for meaning foll...