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Online a lot of the time : ritual, fetish, sign / Ken Hillis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillis, Ken.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Web 2.0--Social aspects.
- Web 2.0.
- Online social networks.
- Online identities.
- Shared virtual environments--Social aspects.
- Shared virtual environments.
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A theorization of how rituals that would formerly have required participants to gather in one physical space are reformulated for the Web.
- Contents:
- Introduction : rituals of transmission, fetishizing the trace
- Rituals
- Fetishes
- Signs
- "Avatars become / me" : depiction dethrones description
- So near, so far, and both at once : telefetishism and rituals of visibility
- Afterword : digital affectivity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036476
- 9780822392224
- 0822392224
- 9781283036474
- 1283036479
- OCLC:
- 1143831769
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