The Virtual

Name: The Virtual
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415281812
Price: 11350 KES
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ISBN: 9780415281812

by Rob Shields

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Key Ideas

ISBN-10 0415281814

ISBN-13 9780415281812

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 28th, 2002

Print length 262 Pages

Weight 292 grams

Dimensions 20.00 x 13.40 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: History of ideas History of ideas Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects Ethical & social aspects of IT Virtual reality

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This work argues that the virtual has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society for the public realms of politics and business as well as private life from sex to shopping.

This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies themselves he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is also an essential concept needed to manage innovation and risk. It is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract. The virtual, he argues, has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society in the public realms of politics, business and consumption as well as in our private lives.

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