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Media, Technology, and Globalization
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well...
Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Virtual reality (VR) technology has been developed commercially since the early 1990s [1]. Yet it is only with the growth of the Internet and other hi...
Social Theory for the 21st Century
An Age of Limits outlines a new social theory for understanding contemporary society. Providing an analysis of why political, economic and cultural po...
Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This Element lays out a new f...
Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Virtual environments provide places for 'being there together', for avatars to interact with each other in computer-generated spaces. They range from ...
The Self and the Other
This study, first published in 1984, presents an explanation and critical examination of the theories of Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl and Hegel on the f...
Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to lite...
Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how th...
Media, Technology and Globalization
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The Social Dynamic Of Virtual Reality Technology
Virtual reality (VR) has become a revolutionary technology allowing users to experience nearly unlimited computer-generated realities--exercising a st...
Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change challenges the prevailing notion that science and technology are constructed or socially shaped. The...
Work and Play in Shared Virtual Environments brings together contributions from leading social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted r...
Shows interplay between culture in analysis of...
A Critical Approach
A lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the 19th and 20th century. Chronologically organized, the book...
The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today's principal source of information, entertainment and much ...