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Everyday eBay:
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"A collection as rich, diverse and surprising as eBay itself, Everyday eBay brings together a great group of scholars and eBayers to help us think through what eBay means. This collection will be required reading for anyone trying to make sense of this new virtual marketplace." *
"This book is a first, sorely needed attempt to learn from eBay, to understand it, and to situate it in the broader field of contemporary culture." *
"Everyday eBay represents a pivotal benchmark in the maturing field of new media studies." Routledge, 2006
Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of eBay that examines how the site has become a global social, cultural, and economic phenomenon. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume approach eBay from a wide variety of perspectives, revealing how the auction site has become a bellwhether of taste and material culture, a research tool, a nexus for the increasingly uniquitous practice of selling and buying goods online, and a facilitator of global consumerism
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"Digital Sensations is the best critique of virtual reality's implications we now have. Rather than breathlessly celebrating the limitless digital future, Hillis carefully explores its continuities with certain earlier tendencies in Western culture and shows their common dangers." University of Minnesota Press, October 1999
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Buy it Now! at Amazon.com Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology--or the idea of the technology--so prevalent precisely now? What does it mean--what does it do--to us? Digital Sensations looks closely at the ways representational forms generated by communication technologies--especially digital/optical virtual technologies--affect the "lived" world. Virtual reality, or VR, is a technological reproduction of the process of perceiving the real; yet that process is "filtered" through the social realities and embedded cultural assumptions about human bodies, perception, and space held by the technology's creators. Through critical histories of the technology--of vision, light, space, and embodiment--Digital Sensations traces the various and often contradictory intellectual and metaphysical impulses behind the Western transcendental wish to achieve an ever more perfect copy of the real. Because virtual technologies are new, these histories also address the often unintended and underconsidered consequences--such as alienating new forms of surveilance and commodification--flowing from their rapid dissemination. Current and proposed virtual technologies refelct a Western desire to escape the body. Exploring topics from VR and other earlier visual technologies, Digital Sensations' penetrative perspective on the cultural power of place and space broadens our view of the interplay between social relations and technology. Digital Sensations is Volume 1 in University of Minnesota's series, Series Editors: Mark Poster, University of California at Irvine; Samuel Weber, UCLA; Katherine Hayles, UCLA.
Digital Sensations is published in Portuguese translation as:
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* Sensações digitais: Espaço, identidade e corporificações na realidade virtual* Editora Unisinos, São Leopoldo - RS - Brasil 2004 Click Here to view the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Sensações digitais
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