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Social and Virtual Space

Author : Laura Chernaik
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838640699
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Social and Virtual Space written by Laura Chernaik and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a material and semiotic study of transnationalsim, analyzed in terms of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The objects of analysis range from the aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, to science fiction by Pat Cadigan, CJ Cherryh, and Samuel Delaney, to material-semiotic feminist theory by Donna Harraway, to the neo-Marxist historical geography of Mike Davis and David Harvey. The book is centrally concerned with the social and cultural change brought about by the rise of the new social movements in the United States, such as the women's movement and the lesbian, gay, queer, and transgendered movements, and the backlash by the American new right against this change. Ethical and political concerns are central to the arguments, which is framed in terms of Emmanuel Levinas's notion of radical, non-reciprocal responsibility. Laura Chernaik is a free-lance writer.

Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age

Author : Ragnar Audunson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311063662X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age written by Ragnar Audunson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being public meeting places in their communities. Digitization and globalization poses new challenges in relation to upholding a sustainable public sphere. Can libraries, archives and museums contribute in meeting these challenges?

Life Online

Author : Annette N. Markham
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0761990313
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Life Online written by Annette N. Markham and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Life Online, Annette Markham adopts an ethnographic approach to understanding Internet users by immersing herself in online reality. She finds that to understand how people experience the Internet, she must learn how to be embodied there.

Exploring Technology and Social Space

Author : John Macgregor Wise
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761904220
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Technology and Social Space written by John Macgregor Wise and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-09-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the fundamental assumptions that we hold about the role of technology in our lives, Technology and Social Space describes the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world. In a patient and thoughtful style, author J. Macgregor Wise elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. The book argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist episteme (or set of assumptions) that radically separates humans from technologies, focusing on questions of determination and identity. In an attempt to provide a clearer view of technology and social space, the book explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency. Working from within these alternative epistemes, the book turns its attention to the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace. Technology and Social Space draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Bruno Latour, and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace, and debates over a New World Information and Communication Order. Ultimately, the book describes the possibilities and limitation of human agency within the new wired world. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and sociology.

Social and Virtual Space

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780838644317
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Social and Virtual Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theming Of America

Author : Mark Gottdiener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000306275
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Theming Of America written by Mark Gottdiener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Gottdiener explores the nature of social change as it has developed since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America, from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disney World, from the Mall of America to your local mall. Nowhere can modern Americans escape the profusion of recognizable symbols and signs attached to virtually every aspect of their culture constantly reminding them that they are on familiar and comforting grounds. "Just come in, friend, and buy; make yourself at home," these symbols seem to say, thus tying media culture and the seduction of consumerism to the production of ingeniously designed symbolic spaces. This is the first book to explore the origins, nature, and future of themed spaces in our information-overloaded world. Gottdiener begins with a brief historical account of the shifting importance of themes in the construction of built space. He then evaluates the economic basis for the increasing reliance on symbols in the marketing of commercial enterprises and analyzes contemporary trends in themed restaurants, malls, airports, theme parks, museums, and war memorials. Final chapters are devoted to examining such critical issues as the disappearance of public space, the relation between themes and mass media industries, and the future of symbolic spaces.

Virtual Geographies

Author : Mike Crang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134703740
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Geographies written by Mike Crang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature: * investigate how visions of cyberspace have been constructed * offer a critical assessment of the status of virtual environments and geographies * explore how virtual environments reshape the way we think and write about the world. This book sets recent technological developments in a historical and geographical perspective to offer a clearer view of the new vistas ahead.

Community Engagement in the Online Space

Author : Dennis, Michelle
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668451913
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Community Engagement in the Online Space written by Dennis, Michelle and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of the internet, online communities have emerged as a way for users to share their common interests and connect with others with ease. As the possibilities of the online world grew and the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the world, many organizations recognized the utility in not only providing further services online, but also in transitioning operations typically fulfilled in-person to an online space. As society approaches a reality in which most community practices have moved to online spaces, it is essential that community leaders remain knowledgeable on the best practices in cultivating engagement. Community Engagement in the Online Space evaluates key issues and practices pertaining to community engagement in remote settings. It analyzes various community engagement efforts within remote education, online groups, and remote work. This book further reviews the best practices for community engagement and considerations for the optimization of these practices for effective virtual delivery to support emergency environmental challenges, such as pandemic conditions. Covering topics such as community belonging, global health virtual practicum, and social media engagement, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for program directors, faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, students of higher education, business leaders and executives, IT professionals, online community moderators, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Mental Health and Social Space

Author : Hester Parr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444399691
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health and Social Space written by Hester Parr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces. Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and 'the local' Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use and understanding of different social spaces

Social and Virtual Space

Author : Laura Chernaik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611473094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Social and Virtual Space written by Laura Chernaik and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and Virtual Space is a material and semiotic study of transnationalism, analyzed in terms of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The objects of analysis range from the aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, to science fiction by Pat Cadigan, C. J. Cherryh, and Samuel Delany, to material-semiotic feminist theory by Donna Haraway, and to the neo-Marxist historical geography of Mike Davis and David Harvey. The book is centrally concerned with the social and cultural change brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by the rise of the new social movements in the United States. Chernaik analyzes both activists' movement-based speeches and writings, and more academic work informed by the women's movements and by the lesbian, gay, queer, and transgendered movements, showing how new forms of community enabled new ways of thought. She argues that the rise of the American new right, both the Christian right and the foreign policy-centered neoconservatism, was a backlash against these historical changes. Ethical and political concerns are central to Chernaik's argument, which is framed in terms of Emmanuel Levinas's notion of radical, non-reciprocal responsibility. Levinas's notion of responsibility is a culture-specific one, the responsibility of the oldest child, 'I before all others'. The ethical relation Levinas argues for is used in the discussion of science fiction novels by Pat Cadigan, C. J. Cherryls, and Samuel Delany. Chernaik argues that literature can show the conplicated relations between the different factors that interact to produce change in a way that can be helpful for historical analysis. The middle chapters of Social and Vertical Space turn to a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of transnational accumulation and its relation to technoscience. Chernaik examines the historical geography of Mike Davis and David Harvey. She shows that the historical geographers, drawing on the Regulation School in economics, give us the best analaysis of transnationalis

Cyborgs@Cyberspace?

Author : David Hakken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135964130
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Cyborgs@Cyberspace? written by David Hakken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethinking of the traditional separation of anthropology and technical studies. Drawing on three decades of research on contemporary technological societies, this book outlines a fresh way of thinking about technology and offers an ethical and political response to the challenge of truly living as "cyborgs" in the age of cyberspace.

Virtual Space

Author : Lars Qvortrup
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447102258
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Space written by Lars Qvortrup and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the edited research papers resulting from an ambitious, cross-disciplinary research project, this volume examines the spatiality of virtual inhabited 3D worlds - virtual reality and cyberspace. (Three other volumes look at Interaction, Staging and Methodology.) It is about the communication spaces emerging at the Internet and supported by special 3D interfaces. It is also about the virtual spaces created by virtual reality hardware (CAVEs, panoramic screens, head mounted display systems etc.) and software. Virtual Space: Spatiality in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds is interdisciplinary. It deals with philosophical, psychological, communicational, technological and aesthetic aspects of space. While philosophy raises the question concerning the ontology of space - what is space - psychology deals with our perception of space. Communication theory looks at the way in which space supports communication (i.e. that space is a medium for communication), and finally aesthetic analyses exemplify the use of virtual space in virtual cities, in museums and in art.

Consensual Illusion: The Mind in Virtual Reality

Author : Vanja Kljajevic
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662637421
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Consensual Illusion: The Mind in Virtual Reality written by Vanja Kljajevic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is inspired by the contemporary fascination with virtual reality and growing presence of this type of technology in everyday life. It explores the ways in which virtual reality evokes illusory transformation responses. The power of virtual reality is in making the mediation by technology in these experiences appear irrelevant to cognitive processes, so much so that it is often assumed that skills acquired in virtual environments are generally transferable to the physical world. However, cognition is affected by virtual reality technology, which is reflected in issues related to virtual embodiment, choice of spatial strategies, differences in neural and electrophysiological patterns associated with movement processing when navigating virtual vs. physical environments, and, at least to some extent, in virtual proxemics. In addition to spatial cognition, the book explores the sense of self in virtual reality, social interaction and virtual togetherness, action and motor cognition, calling to mind debates from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Real Spaces

Author : David Summers
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Real Spaces written by David Summers and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing fundamental problems in modern Western approaches to art, this bold, brilliant, and important book proposes a new and flexible conceptual framework for the understanding of art by replacing the notion of the "visual arts" with that of the "spatial arts." 350 illustrations.

Coming of Age in Second Life

Author : Tom Boellstorff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168342
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in Second Life written by Tom Boellstorff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. At the time of its initial publication in 2008, Coming of Age in Second Life was the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group. Coming of Age in Second Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself. Now with a new preface in which the author places his book in light of the most recent transformations in online culture, Coming of Age in Second Life remains the classic ethnography of virtual worlds.

Cultures of the Internet

Author : Professor Robert M Shields
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446225905
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of the Internet written by Professor Robert M Shields and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is here but have we caught up with all the implications for culture and everyday life? This collection of original articles on the development of computer-mediated communications brings together many of the most accomplished writers on the Net and cyberspace. Cultures of Internet examines the arrival of e-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospect of an online world' - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it supplements the physical encounters between actors in public spaces that are abandoned to the homeless. The book is distinguished by a critical and social tone. It presents systematic descriptions of the development of the Internet, its history in the military-industrial complex, the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel, and the building of information superhighways'. It also explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.

Virtual Globalization

Author : David Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134561369
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Globalization written by David Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies.