Chan, Melanie

Virtual reality : representations in contemporary media Melanie Chan - New York : Bloomsbury, 2014. - vi, 204 p. ; 24 cm.



Histories of virtual reality -- Virtually real and really virtual -- Technological intimacy and social estrangement in strange days -- Virtual identities and material bodies -- Virtual reality, transcendence and flights from embodiment in source code -- Technology, embodiment and being-in-the-world -- Virtuality and simulation in William Gibson's Zero history -- Conclusion.

9781501308642

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Virtual reality in mass media
Mass media and technology
Virtual reality--Social aspects

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