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1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 21
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Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 21.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Virtualities as Fictions of Presence. 1. Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework. 2. The News As Performance: The Image As Event -- pt. 2. Immersion in Image Worlds: Virtuality and Everyday Life. 3. Television Graphics and the Virtual Body: Words on the Move. 4. An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television. 5. What Do Cyborgs Eat? Oral Logic in an Information Society -- pt. 3. Media Art and Virtual Environments. 6. The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between: Video Installation Art. 7. Cyberscapes, Control, and Transcendence: The Aesthetics of the Virtual. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
In Virtualities, Margaret Morse focuses on the interactions that people have with machines and images. Morse contends that such interactions, far from being liberating, actually cloak an impoverished public sphere by idealising impersonal relations. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Virtual reality -- Social aspects.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects. |
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Communication -- Social aspects.
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Communication -- Social aspects. |
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
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Social interaction.
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Social interaction. |
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Computers and civilization.
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Computers and civilization. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morse, Margaret. Virtualities. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1998 0253333822 (DLC) 97040901 (OCoLC)37748535 |
| ISBN |
058502538X (electronic book) |
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9780585025384 (electronic book) |
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0253333822 |
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0253211778 |
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9780253333827 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253211774 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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