Online a Lot of the Time - Ritual, Fetish, Sign

Informationen zum Autor Ken Hillis is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality and a co-editor of Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire. Klappentext A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons thousands of miles apart via Web-cameras. These are just a few of the ritual practices that have developed and are emerging in on Zusammenfassung A theorization of how rituals that would formerly have required participants to gather in one physical space are reformulated for the Web. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Rituals of Transmission, Fetishizing the Trace 1 1. Rituals 47 2. Fetishes 79 3. Signs 103 4. "Avatars Become /me": Depiction Dethrones Description 133 5. So Near, So Far, and Both at Once: Telefetishism and Rituals of Visibility 203 Afterword: Digital Affectivity 261 Notes 267 Works Cited 287 Index 303

Product details

• Authors: Ken Hillis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2009
• EAN: 9780822344346
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4434-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Soziologie, Informationstechnik (IT), allgemeine Themen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, Computers - General Information