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Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture (Theories of Contempo) Paperback – May 1, 1998
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- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication dateMay 1, 1998
- Dimensions6.03 x 0.69 x 9.16 inches
- ISBN-100253211778
- ISBN-13978-0253211774
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- Publisher : Indiana University Press (May 1, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0253211778
- ISBN-13 : 978-0253211774
- Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.03 x 0.69 x 9.16 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,638,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,038 in Customs & Traditions Social Sciences
- #15,808 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences
- #18,174 in Communication & Media Studies
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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.
