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Anglistik und Amerikanistik / English and American Studies
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Sections
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American Studies
Playing the Field
(yet still framed and mediated) environs like national parks and metropolitan green belts. Workers in postindustrial societies float daily through several interlinked mediated spaces, while the ideologies [...] actions become immediately meaningful. Compared to navigating the social world, being immersed in mediated environments—digital or otherwise—affords an intensified, optimal experience. Yet immersion also [...] connotes questions of liberation and justice. At the same time, immersion implies an awareness of mediation, a notion of the difference between reality and dreamworld, and an inkling of the constant crisscrossing …