Teletechnologies, Place, and Community

ISBN-13: 9780415875950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 274 str.

Rowan Wilken

Opis

In this wide-ranging study, Rowan Wilken re-evaluates how ideas of place and community intersect with and help us make sense of a world transformed by information and communication technologies.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Techno-Sociality: Computer-Mediated Communication and Virtual Community  2. The Problem of Community  3. Haunting Affects: Place in Virtual Discourse  4. Machines of Tomorrow Past: Early Experiments in Architectural Computing  5. Fantasies of Transcendence and Transformative Imagination: Architectural Visions of Cyberspace  6. Domesticating Technology, Mobilising Place  7. Rethinking Teletechnologies, Place, and Community

O autorze

Rowan Wilken is a lecturer in media and communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia