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ENTERTAINMENT VALUES: HOW DO WE ASSESS ENTERTAINMENT AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Book chapter, Anderson & Burt (2017) “Screaming On A Ride To Nowhere: What Rollercoasters Teach Us About Being Human”
Society has never been more thoroughly manufactured toward driving endless consumption. This fact is perhaps nowhere more visible than in its manufacture of both the need for excitement and an abundance of forms for filling that need. We are groaning under the weight of endless media-hyped thrills, promises of rip-roaring sensations, and fears. Think of the last movie trailer that didn’t promise an explosive and shocking narrative, the most recent ‘television event’ that didn’t threaten to rock one’s lounge chair, the news broadcast that didn’t foreshadow an environmental apocalypse or some similarly dire outcome. In such an environment one would rightly expect people to abandon their remote controls and newspapers in favour of a soothing cup of tea, yet...more
INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Book Chapter, Klopper, C & Burt M. (2017) "Virtual Reality in the classroom and the mandate to bring edutainment to adult learners"...more
