| Description |
xvi, 246 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Key ideas |
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Key ideas.
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| Contents |
Introduction 1. The Return of the Virtual --- 2. The Virtual and the Real --- 3. Digital Virtualities --- 4. Virtual Africa --- 5. Joystick Generation --- 6. Work: Virtual working --- 7. Business Sense for a Virtual World --- 8. Risk, Trust and the Virtual --- 9. The future and the virtual |
| Summary |
Unravels the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual as a concept. Sheilds dissects the history of the virtual world and takes his analysis beyond the technologies themselves to show how the virtual has infiltrated our lives at every level |
| Analysis |
Computers and society Virtual reality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
2002027534 |
| ISBN |
0415281806 |
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0415281814 |
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