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- catalog abstract ""This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies themselves he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is also an essential concept needed to manage innovation and risk. It is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract. The virtual, he argues, has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society in the public realms of politics, business and consumption as well as in our private lives."--Book cover.".
- catalog contributor b12683710.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies themselves he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is also an essential concept needed to manage innovation and risk. It is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract. The virtual, he argues, has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society in the public realms of politics, business and consumption as well as in our private lives."--Book cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-233) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction 1. The Return of the Virtual --- 2. The Virtual and the Real --- 3. Digital Virtualities --- 4. Virtual Africa --- 5. Joystick Generation --- 6. Work: Virtual working --- 7. Business Sense for a Virtual World --- 8. Risk, Trust and the Virtual --- 9. The future and the virtual.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 246 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415281806 (hb)".
- catalog identifier "0415281814 (pb)".
- catalog isPartOf "Key ideas".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "303.48/33 21".
- catalog subject "HM851 .S546 2003".
- catalog subject "Information society.".
- catalog subject "Virtual reality Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction 1. The Return of the Virtual --- 2. The Virtual and the Real --- 3. Digital Virtualities --- 4. Virtual Africa --- 5. Joystick Generation --- 6. Work: Virtual working --- 7. Business Sense for a Virtual World --- 8. Risk, Trust and the Virtual --- 9. The future and the virtual.".
- catalog title "The virtual / Rob Shields.".
- catalog type "text".