TY - BOOK AU - Riha,Daniel TI - The Real and the Virtual: Critical Issues in Cybercultures SN - 9781848880122 AV - QA76.9.C66 .R435 2009 U1 - 303.4834 PY - 2020/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Computers and civilization KW - Internet-Social aspects KW - Cyberspace-Social aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- The Real and the Virtual: Critical Issues in Cybercultures -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Theories and Concepts of Cyberspace and Cyberculture -- Redefining the Body in Cyberculture: Art's Contribution to a New Understanding of Embodiment -- Human Bodies in Cyberspace -- PART II. Online Communities, Web 2.0 and Emerging Practices In Social Networking -- Hybrid Communities to Digital Arts Festivals: From Online Discussions to Offline Gatherings -- This Time It's Personal: Social Networks, Viral Politics and Identity Management -- The Second Self Through Second Life -- PART III: Cybersubcultures -- Sex, Sexuality, and Cyberspace -- The Use of Social Networking Sites And Their Relation to Users' Offline Networks -- Cybergrace Among Eating Disorder Survivors in Singapore -- PART IV: The Future of Interactive Entertainment -- Playing Games as an Art Experience -- Anthropology of Accessibility: The Perceptual Problems of Human-Computer Interactions -- PART V: Social Presence in Virtual Worlds -- Social Nature of Time and Space in Online Games: Designing Fantastic Social Worlds -- Web Based Authorship in the Context of User Generated Content: An Analysis of a Turkish Web Site: Eksi Sozluk -- PART VI: The Cultures of Online Learning and Educational Use of Videogames -- The 3-D Virtual Library Concept Revisited -- Cyberculture: Learning New Literacies through Machinima -- PART VII: Digital Art and Interactive Storytelling -- 'Print Novels and the Mark of the Digital': Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions and Media Convergence -- Intermedial Performance: Digital Connectivity -- PART VIII: Cyber-Policy and Cyber-Democracy and their Impact on National and Global Politics -- Governance and the Global Metaverse -- Politics and Social Software: Recommendations for Inclusive ICTs; Mediatisation of Terror in Cyberspace: Scrutinizing Al-Qaeda's Media Strategy UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6359675 ER -