The Oxford handbook of virtuality / edited by Mark Grimshaw.

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Book
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English
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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xiv, 773 pages : ill. ; 26 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Contributors
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • The virtuality and reality of avatar cyberspace / Bruce Damer & Randy Hinrichs
    • The physical and social reality of virtual worlds / Philip Brey
    • Envisioning the virtual / Brian Massumi
    • Being more than yourself : virtuality and human spirit / André Nusselder
    • Mythologies of virtuality : "other space" and "shared dimension" from ancient myths to cyberspace / Maria Beatrice Bittarello
    • The paradox of virtuality / Michael R. Heim
    • Psychology & perception
    • Avatar psychology / James K. Scarborough & Jeremy N. Bailenson
    • Not quite human : what virtual characters have taught us about person perception / Elizabeth J. Carter & Frank E. Pollick
    • Emotions and altered states of awareness : the virtuality of reality and the reality of virtuality / Jean-Claude Martin
    • Applying psychological plausibility to the uncanny valley phenomenon / Angela Tinwell
    • The psychology of addiction to virtual / Deborah Abdel Nabi & John P. Charlton
    • Environments : the allure of the virtual self
    • Being present in a virtual world / Giuseppe Riva & John A. Waterworth
    • Immersion in virtual worlds / Gordon Calleja
    • Culture & society
    • Communication in virtual worlds / Paul C. Adams
    • Virtual reality : so good, they named it twice? : a Lacanian perspective from literature and the other arts
    • / david rudd
    • History and cultural heritage in virtual environments / Erik Champion
    • Flirting, cheating, dating, and mating in a virtual world / Julie M. Albright & Eddie Simmons
    • Cybersex / Ståle Stenslie
    • A virtual assembly : constructing religion out of zeros and ones / Robert M. Geraci
    • Acoustemologies of the closet / William Cheng
    • Sound
    • Breaking the fourth wall? : user-generated sonic content in virtual worlds / Karen Collins
    • Sonic virtuality : understanding audio in a virtual world / Tom A. Garner & Mark Grimshaw
    • Virtual worlds : an ethnomusicological perspective / Trevor S. Harvey
    • The music that's not there
    • Image
    • Through the looking glass : philosophical reflections on the art of virtual
    • Worlds / Gary Zabel
    • Recreating visual reality in virtuality / Anthony Steed
    • The translation of art in virtual worlds / Patrick Lichty
    • Painting, the virtual and the celluloid frame / Simon J. Harris
    • Economy & law
    • Virtual law / Greg Lastowka
    • Avatars inc. : the legal personality of avatars / Angela Adrian
    • Virtuality in the sphere of economics / Vili Lehdonvirta
    • A-life & artificial intelligence
    • On the role of "digital actors" in entertainment-based virtual worlds / Phil Carlisle
    • Evolution in virtual worlds / Tim Taylor
    • Virtual ecologies and environments / David G. Green & Tom Chandler
    • Computational modeling of brain function and the human haptic system at the neural spike level : learning the dynamics of a simulated body / Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre
    • Technology & applications
    • Distributed embodiment : real presence in virtual bodies / John A. Waterworth & Eva L. Waterworth
    • Level of realism : feel, smell and taste in virtual environments / Alan Chalmers
    • Developing handheld augmented reality interfaces / Mark Billinghurst, Huidong Bai, Gun Lee, Robert Lindeman
    • Avoidable pitfalls in virtual world learning design / Keysha I. Gamor
    • Clinical uses of virtual worlds : from medicine to psychology and rehabilitation / Giuseppe Riva
    • Military simulations using virtual worlds / Roger Smith
    • Utopia & dystopia
    • Ethics at the boundaries of the virtual / Charles M. Ess
    • The social imaginary of virtual worlds / Patrice Flichy
    • Virtuality and humanity / David Kreps
    • Virtual dystopia / Andrea Hunter & Vincent Mosco
    • Afterword / Tom Boellstorf
    • Index.
    Other title(s)
    Virtuality
    ISBN
    • 9780199826162 (alk. paper)
    • 0199826161 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2013018114
    OCLC
    842350823
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