The multiple crises of the Anthropocene include a crisis in storytelling. Amitav Ghosh, for example, has claimed that not only is literary fiction incapable representing climate change, it also complicit its concealment broader culture (2016). Ghosh suggests increasing entwining image and text brought about by Internet could lead to hybridity form will free readers from unhelpful logocentrism r...

This article examines the concept of virtual learning community as a hybrid learning place. It is argued that a hybrid place experience could provide a conceptual vantage point to better understand the origins of virtual learning communities in higher education context. With some empirical observations it is demonstrated what may constitute students’ experiences of hybridity during a web-based ...

This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in newly emergent material and digital configurations of game design. It extends recent work examining dimensions of hybridity in playful products by turning attention to interfaces, practices and spaces, rather than devices. We argue that the concept of hybrid play relies on predefining clear and distinct entities that then enter into hybrid situati...

The expansion of the US carceral state has been accompanied by the emergence of what we call the ‘shadow carceral state’. Operating beyond the confines of criminal law and justice institutions, the shadow carceral state expands penal power through institutional annexation and legal hybridity, including: (1) increased civil and administrative pathways to incarceration; (2) the creation of civil ...

This article by applying diaspora theories to Octavia Butler’s vampire novel Fledgling (2005), will engender a critical engagement with the issues of difference and hybridity. By examining oscillating relations between hybrid protagonist Shori, her human symbionts, diasporic community, this study reflects on complexity condition; especially, conflicting claims belonging where celebration hybrid...

Gamat is a genre of traditional Minangkabau music which constitutes hybridization Melayu, Indian, Minangkabau, and Portuguese musical elements. This developed in the towns Padang, Pariaman, Solok, Padang Panjang, Painan, other West Sumatra, Indonesia. Today, gamat still popular form entertainment Sumatra community. ensemble performs melancholic songs slow tempo also lively ( joget ) fast tempo,...

The statistical approach to MT started about twenty-five years ago and has now been widely accepted as an alternative to the classical approach with manually designed rules. Among the attractive properties of the statistical approach is its capability to learn the translation models automatically from a (sufficiently) large amount of sourcetarget sentence pairs. Thus the need for the manual des...