Morse, Margaret. <br/><br/>
Virtualities :  television, media art, and cyberculture / 
Margaret Morse. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  c1998. 
 - xii, 266 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Theories of contemporary culture ;  v. 21 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>pt. 1. Virtualities as Fictions of Presence. 1.  Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework. 2. The News As  Performance: The Image As Event -- pt. 2. Immersion in Image Worlds: Virtuality and Everyday  Life. 3. Television Graphics and the Virtual Body: Words  on the Move. 4. An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The  Freeway, the Mall, and Television. 5. What Do Cyborgs  Eat? Oral Logic in an Information Society -- pt. 3. Media Art and Virtual Environments. 6. The Body,  the Image, and the Space-in-Between: Video Installation  Art. 7. Cyberscapes, Control, and Transcendence: The  Aesthetics of the Virtual.       
<br/><br/> In Virtualities, Margaret Morse focuses on the interactions  that people have with machines and images. Morse contends  that such interactions, far from being liberating, actually  cloak an impoverished public sphere by idealising  impersonal relations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0253211778 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253333822 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97040901 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communication--Social aspects.<br/>Computers and civilization.<br/>Mass media--Social aspects.<br/>Social interaction.<br/>Television broadcasting--Social aspects.<br/>Virtual reality--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23