Virtual reality :

Chan, Melanie.

Virtual reality : representations in contemporary media / Melanie Chan. - 1st ed. - New York : Bloomsbury ; c. 2014. - vi, 204 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index. Includes filmography.

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.

9781441175311


Virtual reality in mass media.
Mass media and technology.
Virtual reality--Social aspects.





006.8 / CHA