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200 14$aThe virtual$b[electronic resource] /$fRob Shields
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210   $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2003
215   $a1 online resource (263 p.)
225 1 $aKey ideas
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [220]-233) and index.
327   $aBOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The return of the virtual; 2 The virtual and the real; 3 Digital virtualities; 4 Virtual Africa; 5 Joystick generation: cyberpunks, camkids and family life; 6 Work: virtual working; 7 Business sense for a virtual world; 8 Risk culture, trust and the virtual; 9 The future of the virtual; Notes; References; Index
330   $aThis 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 contemporar
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