Digital sensations : space, identity, and embodiment in virtual reality / Ken Hillis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillis, Ken.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 1.

Electronic mediations ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Virtual reality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology-or the idea-so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean-what does it do-to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at the ways representational forms generated by communication technologies-especially digital and optical virtual technologies-affect the "lived" world. Ken Hillis's penetrating perspective on the cultural power of place and space broadens our view of the interplay between social relations and technology.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Digital Relations; 1. A Critical History of Virtual Reality; 2. Precursive Cultural and Material Technologies Informing Contemporary Virtual Reality; 3. The Sensation of Ritual Space; 4. Sight and Space; 5. Space, Language, and Metaphor; 6. Identity, Embodiment, and Place-VR as Postmodern Technology; Epilogue: Digital Sensations; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8977-6

OCLC:

615015885

Publisher Number:

9780816632503