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BL
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643395
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Chan, Melanie.
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| Title & Author
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Virtual reality : : representations in contemporary media /\ Melanie Chan.
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vi, 204 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781441175311 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 1441175318 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-198) and index.
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Includes filmography.
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| Contents
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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.
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Virtual reality in mass media.
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Mass media and technology.
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Virtual reality-- Social aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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006.8
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| LC Classification
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P96.V55C53 2014
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