Interactive Realism : The Poetics of Cyberspace.
Title:
Interactive Realism : The Poetics of Cyberspace.
Author:
Downes, Daniel.
ISBN:
9780773572607
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Inventio Fortunata -- 1 The Dual Specificity of Cyberspace -- 2 The Magic Mirror: Technology and the Transformative Turn -- 3 Media Ecology, the Prosthetic Other, and the Artifactual Self -- 4 Virtuality and the Bit Republic -- 5 The Iconic Landscapes of Cyberspace -- 6 From Public Image to Public Memory: Building Heterotopia -- Conclusion: The Fortunes of Invention -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
It is commonplace in our digitized world to think that technology is the primary agent of psychological and social change. In Interactive Realism Daniel Downes argues that it continues to be people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the tranformative turn in media studies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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