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The four-day Comic Con Africa festival was billed as the ultimate pop culture and gaming experience where conventioneers can immerse themselves in the worlds of their superheroes and comic artists. Visitors participated in a variety of physical, augmented, and virtual interactive experiences. This essay relates the author's immersed experience of day four, when he was monitoring a particular stand in the context of the whole exhibition at the Rand Show Grounds, Johannesburg, South Africa. The research method was participant observation, involving brief informal discussions with some exhibitors and conducting an impressionistic tour of the whole exhibition area. A description of some of the exhibitor guidelines frames the author's observations of the conduct of conventioneers when examining one particular comic. Drawing on post-phenomenology, some thoughts are offered on how new media technologies shape browser behavior and media reception. The exhibitor's interactions with conventioneers visiting his particular booth reveals some pointers on delegate interactions with technologies of representation.

The Research Group of the “Internet Literature Development Report” (the Report), with members including experts and scholars from the Literary Study Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has looked into the development of Internet literature from an academic research perspective and kept ongoing attention on the topic. The Report seeks to highlight the national emphasis on making China a culturally strong nation, strengthen the national position of promoting mainstream cultures, broaden the international perspective of Internet literature as it develops, and enhance the world-oriented vision of Chinese Internet literature. Led by national policies, the Report focuses on the current development situation of the Internet literature industry, analyzes its development problems, and predicts industry development trends. The Report studies and evaluates the 2020 achievements in Internet literature in a factual and thorough manner. It aims to provide information for Internet literature creators, readers, operators, administrators, and overseas Internet literature stakeholders, so that they can draw inspiration for creation, reference, or better management.

This article intends to provide an outline of the diversity of philosophical perspecives pertaining to artificial subjectivity, with special regard to non-Western approaches and their potential to contribute to the discussion. The premise is that the popular-scientific as well as academic debate on artificial subjectivity is somewhat narrow, with a bias towards reductionist and functionalist approaches. This prevents the inclusion of the plethora of perspectives inherent in the Western philosophical tradition, while also blocking potentially fruitful input from non-Western traditions. The outsider role of the latter perspectives in relation to the narratives of modern technological society has the clear potential to supplant them where they become myopic, and this overview provides several examples of possibly fruitful contributions. Of particular importance is their evident sensitivity to the political and cultural implications of technology, as well as a set of unique methodologies and approaches suited to uncovering and addressing problems pertaining to the interactions between technology, individuals and society.

This essay briefly discusses the development of new media, starting with its origins in the ancient science of tracking by hunter-gatherers; then jumping forward to the electrical and electronic ages when new technologies were developed from computers that had the effect of immersing viewers within interactive mediated and electronically tracked environments. Amongst the early scholars briefly discussed are Arthur C Clarke, Marshall McLuhan, Gene Youngblood, and Teilhard de Chardin, some of whom drew philosophical inspiration from China. Our essay threads the conceptual trajectories enunciated by these visionaries through the analogue to the digital age. The often forgotten early history of the new media is briefly recovered in a period when new software and technologies are appearing by the hour. The metaphor that will be applied is the idea of ‘tracking-as-reading’, tracking-as-leaving footprints, and tracking-the-future.