Online a lot of the time
Subtitle: ritual, fetish, sign
By: Ken Hillis.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780822344346; 9780822344483
Subjects: Web 2.0 -- Social aspects; Online social networks; Online identities; Shared virtual environments -- Social aspects; Internet games -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rituals of transmission, fetishizing the trace; title: Rituals; title: Fetishes; title: Signs; title: "Avatars become / me" : depiction dethrones description; title: So near, so far, and both at once : telefetishism and rituals of visibility; title: Afterword : digital affectivity.