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The University of Vermont (UVM), [a] officially titled as University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. [6] Founded in 1791, the university is the oldest in Vermont and the fifth-oldest in New England , making it among the oldest in the United States.
An example of user-generated content, a personalised sign and objects in the virtual world of Second Life. User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), emerged from the rise of intelligent web services which allow everyday users to create content, such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, and software (e.g. video game mods) and interact with other ...
The University of Vermont Press (UVM Press) is a university press associated with the University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont. [1] An earlier iteration of the press had been a member of the University Press of New England publishing consortium; following the consortium's disbanding in 2018, University of Vermont Press was relaunched in 2023 as a separate publisher specializing in ...
Social media allows for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication, despite different ways of communicating in various cultures. [226] Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new forms of language. [227] Novel acronyms save time, as illustrated by "LOL", which is the ubiquitous shortcut for "laugh out loud".
Making connections to real-world people, places, or events that are not clearly established by the work. Editors can include material about historical events and figures when writing about historical fiction (e.g., how the fiction diverges from recorded history), but they should not assume connections for speculative fiction.
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. [1] Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. [2]
Of Worlds Beyond is a collection of essays about the techniques of writing science fiction, edited by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. It was first published in 1947 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,262 copies. It has been reprinted by Advent in 1964 and by Dobson in 1965.
Another example of a sub genre of the alternative timeline story is called a "do-over fiction", similar to "fix-it fiction" in which consequences of an event are undone, but in do-over fictions particularly the entire story is reset to the beginning, and the author creates an alternate timeline that diverges from the original canon of the work. [2]