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Being virtual : who you really are online / / Davey Winder



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Autore: Winder Davey Visualizza persona
Titolo: Being virtual : who you really are online / / Davey Winder Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina: 303.4833
Soggetto topico: Online social networks
Online identities
Shared virtual environments - Social aspects
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Being Virtual; Contents; Preface: New Beginnings; I: Identity Crisis; 1: Online Tribes; 2: Growing Up Online; 3: Enabling Technologies; 4: With This Click, I Thee Wed; 5: Gender Bending; 6: Age Matters; II: Being There; 7: Virtual Worlds, Real Lives; 8: Social Networks and Second Lives; III: Game Over; 9: Addicted to Murder; 10: Rape of an Avatar; 11: The Taboo Busters; 12: Age Play; IV: Logging Off; 13: The Google Effect; 14: Oh My God, They Stole Kenny!; V: So who ARE we online?; 15: The Collaborative You; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Thanks to the Internet, it has never been so easy to become the person of your wildest dreams. Immersive 3D worlds such as Second Life and THERE.com provide an escape route from the ordinary, into a virtual world where you have the power to mould your life in any way you please. Forget about walking, wheelchair users can fly. Pensioners wipe away the pains of age, discovering youthful exuberance and making young friends once more. No wonder it has become harder than ever to honestly answer the question: who am I? In Being Virtual, Davey Winder looks at how an increasing number of us are livi
Titolo autorizzato: Being virtual  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-34267-3
9786612342677
0-470-71208-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828206603321
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