01821cam a2200277   4500001000500000005001700005008003900022010001600061020003500077020003600112082001500148100002100163245007900184260005300263300003400316440004600350504006600396505061800462520025801080650003501338650003201373650003201405650002401437650004501461650003701506760620181127183948.0970925s1998    inua     b   s001 0 eng  a   97040901  a0253211778 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a0253333822 (cloth : alk. paper)00a302.232211 aMorse, Margaret.10aVirtualities :btelevision, media art, and cyberculture /cMargaret Morse.  aBloomington :bIndiana University Press,cc1998.  axii, 266 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. 0aTheories of contemporary culture ;vv. 21  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.  apt. 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.grt  aIn 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. 0aCommunicationxSocial aspects. 0aComputers and civilization. 0aMass mediaxSocial aspects. 0aSocial interaction. 0aTelevision broadcastingxSocial aspects. 0aVirtual realityxSocial aspects.