This paper focuses on fiction electronic books and their usability. Two complementary studies were drawn together in order to investigate whether fiction e-books can successfully become part of people’s reading habits: the Visual Book project, which found that electronic texts which closely resemble their paper counterparts in terms of visual components such as size, quality and design were rec...

The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader. Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are emotionally transported into the story, they become more empathic. Two experiments showed that empathy was influenced over a period of one week for people who read a fictional story, but only when they were emotiona...

Crime is a popular genre of fiction, widely read but sometimes seen as 'throwaway'. Disregarding this type of fiction because it is seen as low quality does not take into account its value to readers. Reading has been established as a means of improving mental health and well-being-often known as bibliotherapy. This often focuses on fiction considered to have literary merit rather than genre fi...

BACKGROUND 14q32 rearrangement has been identified as a recurrent hotspot of translocations in multiple myeloma (MM). The Fluorescence Immunophenotyping and Interphase Cytogenetics as a tool for the Investigation of Neoplasms (known as FICTION technique) for evaluation of chromosomal changes in MM. The aim of this work is to detect 14q32 rearrangement, using FICTION technique, on archival bone ...

I introduce David Hume’s notion of “imaginative resistance” and offer a brief summary of currently available understandings and explanations of imaginative resistance. I examine these in order to determine how they distinguish, if they do, imagination resistance in fiction from imaginative resistance in games. I find imaginative resistance of the sort found in fiction is relatively rare in game...

Although past research has explored the association between media of many forms (e.g., TV, music, advertising) and sexual socialization, books are 1 form of media that has largely been ignored with respect to this topic. The current study examined the relationship between lifetime exposure to different genres of text and sexual attitudes, including gender role stereotyping and sexual conservati...

legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especially in formalist and inflexible legal systems is original subject of this article. in this article be analysed the nature and elements of legal fiction and its historical role in ancient roman law system and common law with comparative study in iran legal system. legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especi...

Since the beginning of humankind, storytelling enabled people to understand and shape their impressions reality. Depicted by Walter R. Fisher, narrative paradigm encounters ubiquitous computing dimension, as proposed Mark Weiser (Fisher 1984, 1991), that results in interdisciplinary field Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). Departing from first text-based experimentation late 1970s, IDN can be...

This paper questions the concept of possible heterotopia cinema by making a creative reading corpus contemporary experimental science-fiction films. We think in direct relation to utopia. If utopia can be linked form thought, then would realised or achievable Heterotopian action allow us experiment subversive, if not new social configurations, where utopian thought allows dream better (or at le...