TY - BOOK AU - Downes,Daniel TI - Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace SN - 9780773572607 AV - HM851 U1 - 303.48/34 PY - 2005/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Cyberspace-Social aspects KW - Digital media-Social aspects KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Inventio Fortunata -- 1 The Dual Specificity of Cyberspace -- 2 The Magic Mirror: Technology and the Transformative Turn -- 3 Media Ecology, the Prosthetic Other, and the Artifactual Self -- 4 Virtuality and the Bit Republic -- 5 The Iconic Landscapes of Cyberspace -- 6 From Public Image to Public Memory: Building Heterotopia -- Conclusion: The Fortunes of Invention -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y N2 - It is commonplace in our digitized world to think that technology is the primary agent of psychological and social change. In Interactive Realism Daniel Downes argues that it continues to be people who construct social reality through their interactions, critiquing the tranformative turn in media studies UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3331573 ER -