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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ken Hillis
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 27.05.2009
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Scienze della comunicazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società
• EAN: 9780822344346
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4434-6
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Categorie: Soziologie, Informationstechnik (IT), allgemeine Themen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Information Technology, Computers - General Information