Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present, and possible future of affection play in games. The authors apply a combination of game analysis and design experience in affection play for both digital and analog games. The research and recommendations are intersectional in nature, considering how love and affection in games is a product of both player and designer age, race, class, gender, and more. The book combines game studies with game design to offer a foundation for incorporating affection into playable experiences. The text is organized into two sections. The first section covers the patterns and practice of love and affection in games, explaining the patterns and practice. The second section offers case studies from which designers can learn through example. Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer is a resource for exploring how digital relationships are offered and how to convey emotion and depth in a variety of virtual worlds. This book provides: • A catalog of existing digital and analog games for which love and affection are a primary or secondary focus. • A catalog of the uses of affection in games, to add depth and investment in both human-computer and player-to-player engagement. • Perspective on affection game analyses and design, using case studies that consider the relationship of culture and affection as portrayed in games from large scale studios to single author independent games. • Analysis and design recommendations for incorporating affection in games beyond romance, toward parental love, affection between friends, and other relationships. • Analysis of the moral and philosophical considerations for historical and planned development of love and affection in human–computer interaction. • An intersectionality informed set of scholarly perspectives from the Americas, Eurasia, and Oceania. Editor Bio: Lindsay D. Grace is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay is author of Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design and more than fifty peer-reviewed papers on games and related research. He has given talks at the Game Developers Conference, SXSW, Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and many other industry events. He was the founding director of the American University Game Lab and Studio and the designer-developer behind several award winning games, including two affection games. He served as Vice President and on the board of directors for the Global Game JamTM non-profit between 2014 and 2019. From 2009 to 2013 he was the Armstrong Professor at Miami University’s School of Art. Lindsay also served on the board for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) between 2013 and 2015.

Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date. In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping personal relationships today. From Facebook friends and therapy chatbots to dating apps and quantified sex lives, Elliott explores how machine intelligence is working within us, amplifying our desires and steering our personal preferences. He argues that intimate relationships today are threatened not by the digital revolution as such, but by the orientation of various life strategies unthinkingly aligned with automated machine intelligence. Our reliance on algorithmic recommendations, he suggests, reflects a growing emergency in personal agency and human bonds. We need alternatives, innovation and experimentation for the interpersonal, intimate effort of ongoing translation back and forth between the discourses of human and machine intelligence. Accessible and compelling, this book sheds fresh light on the impact of artificial intelligence on the most intimate aspects of our lives. It will appeal to students in the social sciences and humanities and to a wide range of general readers.

CONTENTS 1. Have You Kissed the Lord? (Song of Solomon 1:1-17) 2. Are You Among God’s Beloved? (Song of Solomon 2:1-7) 3. What Do the Believers in the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit Mean to God? (Song of Solomon 2:1-17) 4. Let Us Share Fellowship with the Lord in Our Lives (Song of Solomon 3:1-11) 5. We Are Loved by God (Song of Solomon 4:1-16) 6. We Must Believe That God Loves Us (Song of Solomon 4:1-16) 7. With Whom Does the Lord Work? (Song of Solomon 5:1-16) 8. In Whom Is God Interested in? (Song of Solomon 6:1-13) 9. God Loves Us as He Loved the Shulamite Woman (Song of Solomon 6:1-4) 10. We Are God’s Cherished and Honored People (Song of Solomon 6:1-13) 11. God’s Blessings Belong to Those Who Have United Themselves with God’s Heart (Song of Solomon 7:1-13) 12. Empty Your Heart Often If You Want to Receive the Lord’s Love (Song of Solomon 7:1-13) 13. What Do You Need to Live out Your Faith? (Song of Solomon 8:8-14) 14. How to Lead a Genuine Life of Faith (Song of Solomon 8:1-7) Those who have been saved from all their sins by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit must know that they can enjoy the Lord's special love in their lives by serving the Lord's work of salvation. As a believer in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, I can't help but confess that throughout all the years that I have served this gospel, the Lord's special love has always been with me in my ministry. So, I admonish all the others who believe in and preach the righteousness of the Lord to also enjoy His special love in their lives, just as I have. As you begin to read my sermons on the Song of Solomon in this book and ruminate on the Lord's Word, you will be able to feel His love even more. The New Life Mission https://www.bjnewlife.org

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Digital Subjects: Videogames, Technology and Identity -- 2 Datafied Subjects: Profiling and Personal Data -- 3 Private Subjects: Secrecy, Scandal and Surveillance -- 4 Beastly Subjects: Bodies and Interfaces -- 5 Synthetic Subjects: Horror and Artificial Intelligence -- 6 Mobile Subjects: Framing Selves and Spaces -- 7 Productive Subjects: Time, Value and Gendered Feelings -- Index

From the works of the famous, from treasured personal memorabilia, and from popular books of the period, Ross has selected this wonderful assortment of thoughts, advice, pleas, and paeans of praise for today's lovers and friends. 75 full-color illustrations.

Written by two bestselling computer book authors who are experts in computer training through visualization, this comprehensive tutorial utilizes two-color graphics to step the reader through the most popular features and functions of Microsoft Works for Windows 95. Readers will learn how to use the word processor, database, spreadsheet, and other features and functions.

This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are constructed across genres, mediums, and traditions. The essays in this volume present fresh perspectives for readers to conceptualize the myriad possibilities the term ‘Hero’ brings with itself. They examine the making and unmaking of the heroes across literary, visual and social cultures —in religious spaces and in classical texts; in folk tales and fairy tales; in literature, as seen in Heinrich Böll’s Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Thomas Brüssig’s Heroes like Us, and in movies, like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and in the short film like Dean Potter's When Dogs Fly. The volume also features nuanced takes on intersectional feminist representations in hero movies; masculinity in sports biopics; taking everyday heroes from the real to the reel, among others key themes. A stimulating work that explores the mechanisms that ‘manufacture’ heroes, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, film studies, media studies, literary and critical theory, arts and aesthetics, political sociology and political philosophy.

This extensive and versatile dictionary provides unrivalled coverage of New Zealand and International English than any other pocket dictionary. With over 60,000 headwords, it provides guidance on grammar, usage, syntax, punctuation, and style. Several hundred borrowings from te reo Maori are included.