Virtualities
Subtitle: television, media art, and cyberculture
By: Margaret Morse.
Series: Theories of contemporary culture ;; v. 21
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Virtual reality -- Social aspects; Communication -- Social aspects; Television broadcasting -- Social aspects; Mass media -- Social aspects; Social interaction; Computers and civilization
Description: In 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.