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Synopsis
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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About the Author
Rob Shields teaches at the Department of Sociology at Carlton University in Ottawa, and is the author of Lefebvre, Love and Shopping (Routledge).
Review
Rob Shields has written an encyclopedia of the virtual that will prove to be as indispensable to the layman as to the researcher.
–Pierre Levy, Canada Research Chair on Collective Intelligence, University of Ottawa
Shields succeeds in removing the mask of The Virtual, revealing its productivity, ubiquity, and logic. The resulting text offers a compelling social critique of abstraction-on our screens, in the workplace, and within the very forces of globalization.
–Greg Elmer, Boston College
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0415281814
- ISBN 13 9780415281812
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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