Existence of Facebook is based on software. For this reason it is commonly considered and treated as a virtual only space. But this well known phenomenon influences lives of many people and this impact on daily life cannot be overlooked. This thesis is about balancing on that fine line between real and virtual space and about questions that this brings. It gathers together different definitions of those terms and shows what most of Facebook functionality bring to this matter. Based on survey made for this thesis we can say the influence is really being underestimated even tough people that spend lot of their time on Facebook are more aware of its impact.

In diagramming the recent, global proliferation in quotidian cartographic technologies and practices, this thesis is concerned with the re-imagining of durable geographic motifs and refrains; those of maps and mappings. Conceptually, the thesis works to explore and interrogate the underplayed non-representational registers of cartography. Specifically, this entails unsettling the assumed ontological security of maps as representational artefacts, at the same time accentuating their affective and virtual vectors through an attentiveness to their spatial emergence and performance. In doing so, maps are rendered here not as mimetic, static grids of existence, but as intensive performances, productive of an unqualified geographic and political potential; that is to say, spaces of the virtual. Empirically, these conceptual concerns are worked through a series of fieldwork traces that animate and narrate a number of quite distinct yet resonant cartographic performances; namely geographic encounters with a counter-cartography group in North Carolina; a digital, open-source mapping organisation in both the UK and Peru and finally with two examples of an institutional cartography: Google and Ordnance Survey. Through these mappings, these fieldwork traces, what the thesis works towards is a micropolitical diagramming of contemporary cartographic practices, a diagramming that complicates deliberately the representational certitude of maps, but moreover, one that affirms the (im)material, anticipatory and minor geopolitics of mapping; a mapping of and for the everyday; a mapping of and for the vernacular.

This book is about two families in Seattle acting out their dysfunction through a virtual world created by the families’ wrongheaded patriarchs. It attempts to explore digital world-building in the 21st century as an indefatigable expression of our cultural and personal desire to possess and produce the other, or our inability to imagine anything truly new even as we are capable of creating new forms with which to imagine and manifest that which we imagine. Note: this is an early draft of the book.

A presente dissertação visa estabelecer que a Internet, enquanto técnica participa da constituição territorial, nesse sentido, colabora na regulação da vida humana. Busca-se, neste projeto, compreender as relações entre o desenvolvimento da Internet e seus impactos na organização e ordenação territorial. / This dissertation seeks to establish that the Internet, as a technique, takes part in the territorial constitution, in this sense, collaborating on the regulation of human life. This project will pursue the comprehension of the relationship between the development of the Internet and its impacts on the organization and arrangement of the territory.

<p>The physician -patient relationship is fundamental to medical and healthcare practice. It is value laden. The practice of medicine and healthcare in the traditional sense accentuates a fecund doctor-patient communication. This is considered a necessary step for a proper diagnosis towards an attendant fruitful prognosis. Such a practise eventuates in the recognition of core values within the ambience of a standard medical practise. The values in question refer to issues of commitment and trust, obligations to standard care giving and reception, confidentiality, autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence, justice as well as responsibility. However, the practise of medicine today is criss-crossed by an amazing cast of transformations with the advent of the internet in the medical arena. Medical encounters take place online between doctors and patients even in the absence of pre-existing medical relationships in the hospitals.</p><p>There is today treatments and medical care mediated by the internet, a case of diagnosis and prognosis across distance, and indeed super highway medicine. This instance of hospitals without consulting rooms is morally problematic.</p><p>By the characterization of physician-patient relationship ( especially in the absence of pre-existing relationship) on the internet as virtual, unique, new and problematic, this work assesses the risks associated with such encounters in the light of ethical principles and their implications for moral responsibility.</p>

The physician -patient relationship is fundamental to medical and healthcare practice. It is value laden. The practice of medicine and healthcare in the traditional sense accentuates a fecund doctor-patient communication. This is considered a necessary step for a proper diagnosis towards an attendant fruitful prognosis. Such a practise eventuates in the recognition of core values within the ambience of a standard medical practise. The values in question refer to issues of commitment and trust, obligations to standard care giving and reception, confidentiality, autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence, justice as well as responsibility. However, the practise of medicine today is criss-crossed by an amazing cast of transformations with the advent of the internet in the medical arena. Medical encounters take place online between doctors and patients even in the absence of pre-existing medical relationships in the hospitals. There is today treatments and medical care mediated by the internet, a case of diagnosis and prognosis across distance, and indeed super highway medicine. This instance of hospitals without consulting rooms is morally problematic. By the characterization of physician-patient relationship ( especially in the absence of pre-existing relationship) on the internet as virtual, unique, new and problematic, this work assesses the risks associated with such encounters in the light of ethical principles and their implications for moral responsibility.

Arthroscopic knee surgery can be challenging because there is no intuitive relationship between the arthroscopic image, shown on a screen above the patient, and the camera in the surgeon's hand. As a result, arthroscopic surgeons require extensive training and experience. This thesis describes a computer system to help improve target acquisition in arthroscopy by visualizing the location and alignment of an arthroscope using augmented virtuality. A 3D computer model of the patient's joint (from CT) is shown, along with a model of the tracked arthroscopic probe and the projection of the camera image onto the virtual joint. We performed a user study to determine the effectiveness of this navigated display; the study showed that for novice residents, the navigated display improved target acquisition. However, residents with at least two years of experience performed worse. For surgeons, no effect on performance was found. / Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2010-11-25 23:29:46.526

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-03-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mascarenhas_alc_me_mar.pdf: 1205386 bytes, checksum: a0ef6e2ce260e1fad5d8fd79a069ff9f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O tema principal desse trabalho é a apresentação da crítica dispensada por Gilles Deleuze às filosofias do sujeito. Este é um assunto recorrente em seus textos, embora apareça disperso principalmente no que diz respeito à figura do cogito como começo em filosofia e a sua inserção no quadro do que ele irá chamar de postulados da imagem dogmática do pensamento. Fugindo dessa imagem para devolver à imanência seus direitos, o autor irá propor um campo transcendental, e a partir daí, um plano de imanência pré-subjetivo e pré-objetivo como condição para se pensar uma subjetividade. Ver-se-á como Deleuze encontra no pensamento de Bergson rica fonte para afirmar a realidade virtual desse plano e do tempo que lhe é próprio; imaginado por esse autor como uma pura multiplicidade virtual que se atualiza em estados de coisa ou estados vividos. Afirmada a realidade desse plano, pode-se, a partir de então, voltar a pensar sujeito e objeto fora do “abrigo” da tradição. A crítica deleuziana mostra, ainda, que Descartes tivera papel fundamental como criador de uma vertente da imagem do pensamento levada a cabo como abrigo pelas filosofias da reflexão. Tal imagem se constitui a partir de uma subsunção da imanência ao interior de uma consciência pura, de um sujeito pensante. Será mostrado como a partir de Descartes, e com Kant e Husserl como aqueles que permaneceram presos à imagem dogmática, o plano de imanência é tratado como um campo da consciência. Estabelecida a crítica, será evidenciada a necessidade última do pensamento deleuziano de reafirmar esse plano após destituir a posição de fundamento assumida pela consciência. Apartado de qualquer forma de consciência o campo transcendental se mostra, então, como uma vida de pura imanência; e as terminologias subjetivas dão lugar às novas terminologias deleuzianas.

Orientador: Maria José Rodrigues Faria Coracini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T23:46:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_TaisAparecida_M.pdf: 1129179 bytes, checksum: c8a4e73cfccece1f13a33e7852369f49 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O propósito deste estudo é investigar as criações identitárias na virtualidade e os modos de subjetivação que emergem neste contexto, mais especificamente, no/do jogo de simulação Second Life. Para tanto, foram selecionados textos de divulgação e dizeres de usuários do simulador, extraídos de revistas, jornais, sites de download de programas e blogs que abordam a apresentação, divulgação do programa e as identidades criadas no citado ambiente. A presente investigação partiu do pressuposto que o ambiente virtual transformou o mundo, tornando-o outro; idéia que compõe o imaginário acerca da virtualidade e é defendida por Lévy (1999, p.15 -75), que freqüentemente faz referência a um "novo universo" [supostamente] possibilitado pela virtualidade. Diante afirmações como esta, assumimos a hipótese de que se trata de um mundo "novo", mas que se surge no imbricamento do mesmo e do diferente. Para comprovar [ou não] a hipótese, perscrutamos como objetivos: a problematização da oposição realidade e virtualidade, a análise das representações de si e do outro no ciberespaço e a identificação de regimes de verdade, relações de poder-saber que atravessam o mundo chamado real e o virtual. A partir da análise dos excertos selecionados, a hipótese traçada foi confirmada, uma vez que as identidades criadas no simulador (re)produzem as possibilidades do mundo real e, ao serem enunciadas, tais criações funcionam no espaçamento, através de um movimento de junção e afastamento entre a realidade e a virtualidade. Além disso, nos dizeres analisados, além do sujeito do gozo, emergiu o sujeito do desejo, reforçando o caráter heterogêneo que constitui os subjetividade (pós-) moderna / Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the identity creations in virtuality and the modes of subjectivity which emerge on this context, specifically in/from the simulation game Second Life. For this, we selected publicizing texts and sayings by simulator users taken from magazines, newspapers, download websites and blogs that approach the presentation, the publicizing of the program and the identity creations in the referred environment. The present study assumed that the virtual environment has transformed the world, making it another one; idea which makes the imaginary in virtual reality and is defended by Lévy (1999, p.15 -75), who often refers to a "new universe" [supposedly] made possible by virtuality. Based on statements like this, we assume the hypothesis that it is a "new" world, but that appears in the overlapping of the same and the different. To prove [or not] the hypothesis, we explored the following objectives: the problematization of reality and virtuality, the analysis of representations of the self and the other in cyberspace and the identification of regimes of truth, power relations which crosses the world called real and virtual. Through the analysis of selected excerpts, the hypothesis was confirmed once the identities created in the simulator (re)produced the possibilities of the real world and, when enunciated, such creations work in the spacing, through a movement that joins and distances reality and virtuality. Moreover, in the analyzed speechs besides the subject of pleasure (jouissance), it emerged the subject of desire, reinforcing the heterogeneity that constitutes the (post-)modern subjectivity / Mestrado / Linguagem e Tecnologia / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

Orientador: Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Amorim / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T04:44:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Speglich_Erica_D.pdf: 3152438 bytes, checksum: 438474a8cc35a7808dc3e54b69d65f37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Componho este resumo com algumas das apostas da tese. Aposta no conceito de duração de Gilles Deleuze em suas leituras de Bergson e em como este conceito vai criando potências, sentidos e possibilidades para pensar entre imagens de divulgação científica de um programa de pesquisas em conservação da biodiversidade, Programa Biota/Fapesp. Aposta de deslocar do contexto e aproximar da duração para poder pensar entre imagens das ciências naturais, pensar com a idéia de que um cientista é também criador que tem inten(ç)(s)ão de criar. Inten-ção e Inten-são, ação e intensidade de criar. Aposta no entre como uma fonte imanente de movimento-duração, uma fonte de onde emergem potências criadoras, a potencialidade de pensamentos como movimentos associativos e estratigráficos e não estruturados pelo hábito; com percepções atentas do que irrompe e não percepções automatizadas. Apostas que me auxiliam a pensar em multiplicidade, em virtualidade e em afecção nos entre imagens criados para esta tese. / Abstract: This abstract is composed with some bets. Bet on the Gilles Deleuze concept of duration and on how this concept creates potentialities, senses and possibilities to think in-between scientific divulgation images of a biodiversity conservation research program, the Biota/Fapesp. Bet on the approximation to the duration to think in-between natural science images, to think with the idea that the scientist is also an creator that has inten(t)(s)ion of creation. Action and intensity of creation. Bet on the in-between as a source of movement-duration immanent, a source where creative potencies emerges, the potentiality of thoughts as associative and stratigraphic movements and not structured by the habit. Thoughts build with attentive perceptions of what blows up and not automatic perceptions. Bets that help me to think on multiciplity, virtuality and afection on the inbetween images created for this thesis. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação