TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morse,Margaret
TI  - Virtualities: television, media art, and cyberculture 
SN  - 0253211778 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 302.23 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Communication
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social interaction
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Virtual reality
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -