TY - BOOK AU - Chan,Melanie TI - Virtual reality: representations in contemporary media SN - 9781441175311 U1 - 006.8 22 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury KW - Virtual reality in mass media KW - BUEsh KW - Mass media and technology KW - Virtual reality KW - Social aspects KW - COMAME KW - November2016 N1 - 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 ER -