Virtual reality : representations in contemporary media /: representations in contemporary media. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Melanie Chan.
• Other Names: Chan, Melanie
• Contents: Histories of virtual reality -- Virtually real and really virtual -- Technological intimacy and social estrangement in strange days -- Virtual identities and material bodies -- Virtual reality, transcendence and flights from embodiment in source code -- Technology, embodiment and being-in-the-world -- Virtuality and simulation in William Gibson's Zero history -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Subjects: 006.8; Technology: general issues; Virtual reality in mass media; Mass media and technology; Virtual reality -- Social aspects; Technology & Engineering -- General; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623564742; 1623564743
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.