Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

This book discusses virtual society and the Cultural Practice of Study, technology and Organization in Narratives of the e-Economy, and the reality of Virtual Social Support in London.

Abstract

1. Introduction: Five Rules of Virtuality 2. They Came, They Surfed, They Went Back to the Beach: Conceptualizing Use and Non-use of the Internet 3. Visualization Needs Vision: The Pre-paradigmatic Character of Virtual Reality 4. How Social is Internet Communication? A Reappraisal of Bandwidth and Anonymity Effects 5. New Public Places for Internet Access: Networks for Practice-Based Learning and Social Inclusion 6. Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the e-Economy 7. Confronting Electronic Surveillance: Desiring and Resisting New Technologies 8. Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work 9. Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Study 10. The Reality of Virtual Social Support 11. Real and Virtual Connectivity: New Media in London 12. Presence, Absence, and Accountability: Email and the Mediation of Organizational Memory 13. Inside the Bubble: Communion, Cognition, and Deep Play at the Intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace 14. The Day-to-Day Work of Standardization: A Sceptical Note on the Reliance on IT in a Retail Bank 15. Cotton to Computers: From Industrial to Information Revolutions 16. Mobile Society? Technology, Distance, and Presence 17. Abstraction and Decontextualization: An Anthropological Comment