Pervasive worlds are computing environments where a virtual world converges with the physical world through context-aware technologies such as sensors. In pervasive worlds, technology is distributed among entities that may be distributed geographically. We explore the concept, possibilities, and challenges of distributed pervasive worlds in a case study—an exergame entitled Running Othello. Com...

Othello was written at a particular moment in history when the European construction of the ‘other’ was moving from a medieval to a modern paradigm. This involved a shift from religion to race and colour as the key signifiers of difference. In other words, Othello was written at a time when modern racial ideology and racial prejudice as we know them were coming into being but were not yet fully...

In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. Desmet and Williams, 2009), both of which base their analyses of the Shakespeare-Gothic intersection on the premise that...

Amy Bolis, University of Minnesota The Black Male Body: Intersections of Race and Masculinity in Othello: The Remix This paper will explore the complex relationship between race and masculinity in Othello: The Remix, a hip-hop version of Othello that premiered at the Globe to Globe Festival in 2012 as America’s contribution and has since toured internationally to such prominent locations as Edi...

William Shakespeare’s play Othello features the life of Othello, a black Moor, Muslim, who although is most trusted man King Venice, struggles to fit in with prominent White, Christian medieval framework Venice. He indirectly subscribes prevailing morality and thinks himself inferior rich, white European Christians. tries be like them, imbibing their values codes, but still his different color ...