Ken Hillis

Online a Lot of the Time

Ritual, Fetish, Sign

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Produktbeschreibung

A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons thousands of miles apart via Web-cameras. These are just a few of the ritual practices that have developed and are emerging in on

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344346
• ISBN-10: 0822344343
• Artikelnr.: 25876763

Autorenporträt

Ken Hillis is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality and a co-editor of Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Rituals of Transmission, Fetishizing the Trace 1
1. Rituals 47
2. Fetishes 79
3. Signs 103
4. "Avatars Become /me": Depiction Dethrones Description 133
5. So Near, So Far, and Both at Once: Telefetishism and Rituals of
Visibility 203
Afterword: Digital Affectivity 261
Notes 267
Works Cited 287
Index 303