Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies - Softcover

 
9780803975194: Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies

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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.

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Rob Shields lectures in Culture and Communication at Lancaster University and maintains links with Carleton University, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. He is author of Places on the Margin (1990) and Lifestyle Shopping (1993), and co-editor of Social Engineering: The Technics of Change (1995).

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David Chaney Durham University

Sadie Plant University of Birmingham

Mike Featherstone University of Teesside

Andre Lemos Universite Paris V

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ISBN 10:  080397518X ISBN 13:  9780803975187
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996
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