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008			970925s1998 inua b s001 0 eng
010			_a 97040901
020			_a0253211778 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a0253333822 (cloth : alk. paper)
082	0	0	_a302.23 _221
100	1		_aMorse, Margaret.
245	1	0	_aVirtualities : _btelevision, media art, and cyberculture / _cMargaret Morse.
260			_aBloomington : _bIndiana University Press, _cc1998.
300			_axii, 266 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aTheories of contemporary culture ; _vv. 21
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.
505			_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. _g _r _t
520			_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.
650		0	_aCommunication _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aComputers and civilization.
650		0	_aMass media _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aSocial interaction.
650		0	_aTelevision broadcasting _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aVirtual reality _xSocial aspects.
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