subject, the ‘i’ who experiences and interacts with the world, constructs fantasies for him(her)self in order to show his(her) imaginary position in social structure. these fantasies have been reproduced in movies narration. furthermore, cinema apparatus sutures audience by ideology within a movie narration. this article attempts to interprete fantasy and ideology in the narration of aghaye- ha...

We report results of an experiment on prices and demand in a fantasy-based virtual world. A virtual world is a persistent, synthetic, online environment that can be accessed by many users at the same time. Because most virtual worlds are built around a fantasy theme, complete with magic, monsters, and treasure, there is considerable skepticism that human behavior in such environments is in any ...

INTRODUCTION Traditionally, sexual desire is understood to occur spontaneously, but more recent models propose that desire responds to sexual stimuli. AIMS To experimentally assess whether sexual stimuli increased sexual desire; to compare how sexual arousal and desire responded to three modalities of sexual stimuli: erotic story, unstructured fantasy, and the Imagined Social Situation Exerci...

With an exploding global market and the recent introduction of online cash prize tournaments, fantasy sports contests are quickly becoming a central part of the social gaming and sports industries. For sports fans and online media companies, fantasy sports contests are an opportunity for large financial gains. However, they present a host of technical challenges that arise from the complexities...

Most existing research on virtual reality concerns issues close to the interface, primarily how to present an underlying simulated world in a convincing fashion. However, for virtual reality to achieve its promise as a rich and popular artistic form, as have the novel, cinema, and television, we believe it will be necessary to explore well beyond the interface, to those issues of content and st...