This article is a study of the critical potential and ethical implications of encounters between fictionalised characters and unsuspecting real people. Through the case studies of Borat, The Ambassador, and the Yes Men’s media hoaxes, I aim to show how the use of fictio...

In the light of recent trends toward introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), intelligent virtual assistants (VA) driven by Natural Language Processing (NLP) receives ample attention in the manufacturing domain. However, most VA...

Dette kapitel introducerer til forholdet mellem medier og historie med udgangspunkt i tv-serien 1864. Kapitlet fremhæver seks overordnede synsvinkler på medieret historie, som skal forstås som en række metaperspektiver på, hvordan medier bruger og behandler historie. Me...

In this paper, we describe an interactive implementation of a Virtual Reality prototype for creating rock art. The aim was to explore the possibilities of emerging technologies to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage of the San people in Namibia. The VR implementa...

<p>Are Catholics more inclined to violate social norms than Protestants? A tentative answer is yes due to this confession's attitude towards absolution of sins. Opportunities existed for Christians around Reformation times, for example as sales of indulgences. Catholics...

Abstract Since 2010, the conflict in Syria has made it almost impossible to conduct fieldwork in the country. The Palmyra Portrait Project at Aarhus University has since 2012 been compiling the now largest corpus of funerary portraits in the ancient world, outside of Ro...

<jats:p>The article analyzes the varied meanings historically associated with concepts of voluntarism in relation to social relief as they were articulated by changing moral elites in Denmark from the late nineteenth century until the present. Concepts of voluntarism ha...

Abstract Paleoproteomics and the study of ancient proteins has become an important consideration in bioarchaeological research as we seek to understand the relationship between the physical skeleton and its underlying biochemistry. Osteocalcin is an abundant, non-collag...

International audience; Five nearly identical fragments of specialized bone tools, interpreted as lissoirs (French for "smoothers"), have been found at two Middle Paleolithic sites in southwest France. The finds span three separate archaeological deposits, suggesting co...