附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
pt. 1. Virtualities as Fictions of Presence. 1. Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework. 2. The News As Performance: The Image As Event -- pt. 2. Immersion in Image Worlds: Virtuality and Everyday Life. 3. Television Graphics and the Virtual Body: Words on the Move. 4. An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television. 5. What Do Cyborgs Eat? Oral Logic in an Information Society -- pt. 3. Media Art and Virtual Environments. 6. The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between: Video Installation Art. 7. Cyberscapes, Control, and Transcendence: The Aesthetics of the Virtual.
摘要: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.
