This book was assigned to me as part of my Advanced Social Psychology class in august. This is the third time that I tried to read Virtualities. I'm not even sure why I found this book difficult to grasp. I understand it briefly; Morse explains how cyberspace had been constructed from the television and how cyber culture takes place in it. The author also explains what the logo in the TV represents and how it brings the opportunity for immersion while watching TV. Cited from her book (p.33) the authors summarize her book in three parts:
Part 1: Virtualities as fictions of presence.
Chapter 1: is mostly defining the conceptual framework and theoretical tools of the book.
Chapter 2: takes a more historical approach to explore how power is inscribed in news discourse.
Part 2: Immersion in image Worlds: Virtuality and everyday life.
Chapter 3: Explores the immersion in image worlds.
Chapter 4: takes accounts image-surrounds that are analogs of television.
Chapter 5: Explains what cyborg eats and the post-culinary defense mechanism.
Part 3: Media Art and virtual environments.
Chapter 6: generic model and a meta psychology of an art form which composes electronic images within three-dimensional material space.
Chapter 7: discuss the construction of subjectivity in electronic culture and propose ways of thinking about reality status of the virtual.
As for a book about cyberculture wrote in 1998, the author explains it very well.
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