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In the future of storytelling, why do we need words? Why do we need authors?

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Electronic fiction on the World Wide Web can allow the reader to reorder a story the way he or she likes. Hypertext links allow the reader to go to another part of the story with a click of a button. The implications on the paper book format are discussed.

Author: Weeks, Linton
Publisher: Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Publication Name: Knowledge Technology & Policy
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0897-1986
Year: 2000
Usage, Information management, Excerpt, Storytelling, Fiction, E-books, Hypertext

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Rawlsian harmonies: overlapping consensus symphony orchestra

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The cultural limitations of Rawl's overlapping consensus and the political project which undergrids the theory of justice are revealed. Rawl also lists the liberal democracy as a symphony orchestra with the use of musical metaphors.

Author: Love, Nancy S.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2003
Evaluation, Democratic socialism, Rawl, Lawrence G.

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Off the couch and onto the streets: toward an ethnographic psychoanalysis

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The article examines the benefits of incorporating ethnographic methods into the realm of psychoanalysis. Ethnographic psychoanalysis is a crucial tool to understand communities as well as to empower them.

Author: Cargill, Kima
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Publication Name: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
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Year: 2006
Psychoanalysis, Ethnology, Action research, Cultural anthropology

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