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Astrid Vicas's current area of interests involves examining the impact of technology on our conceptions of agency and narrative.
(See my biography page for more information).
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| Randomization, Conditioning, and Advertising | |||
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Randomized advertising is presented as jointly supporting commercial competition, free expression, and free choice as well as individual consumer freedom and integrity. |
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| Liberal-Democratic Quasi-Orality in an Online Community | |||
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This proposal examines a hybrid form of literacy, which combines voting with features of primary oral communication, that has arisen in some online communities. |
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| Prospects for Independent Humanistic Expression on the Web | |||
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This paper examines factors relevant to undertanding the prospects of humanistic expression on the Web and its features. |
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| Shang Oracle Bone Agency: Its Contemporary Philosophical Significance | |||
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This presentation suggests that a conception of action extracted from Shang oracle bone inscriptions may give rise to conceptualizing a distinctive form of agency. |
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| Games at the Crossroads of Art and Technology: Pervasive Games as Laboratories for Understanding the Possible Impact of Pervasive Technologies on Agency and Narrative | |||
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This paper is about furthering our understanding of the medium of pervasive gaming by drawing on the insights of some twentieth-century artists and psychologists on the phenomenon of divided attention. |
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| Narrative as Accretive Co-construction | |||
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This presentation provides a sketch of narrative in terms of negotiating focus of attention and comment, and situates its implications with respect to other conceptions of narrative. |
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| Repetition in Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions as Narrative | |||
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The purpose of this presentation is to introduce a transactional or use-based account of narrative for a non-genetic, symmetrical, and “driverless” conception of agency. |
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