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End of the virtual : digital methods : inaugural lecture delivered on the appointment to the Chair of New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam on 8 May 2009 / by Richard Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Richard.
- Series:
- Inaugural lecture series / Amsterdam University ; 339
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Internet research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (37 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Digital methods may be contrasted with what has come to be known as virtual methods, a currently dominant approach to the study of the Internet. Virtual methods, rooted in the U.K. Virtual Society? program (1997-2002), sought to ground cyberspace by demonstrating how it was hardly a realm apart. Whereas virtual methods have made great strides, they rely on methods imported from the humanities and the social sciences. Do the methods have to change, owing to the specificity of the medium and its objects? With the end of the virtual, I propose that Internet research may be put to new uses, given
- Contents:
- Notes; References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-45408-0
- 9786612454080
- 90-485-1128-3
- OCLC:
- 609851396
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