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Teletechnologies, place, and community / Rowan Wilken.
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Wilken, Rowan
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Description
xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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HM851 .W55155 2011
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Information technology
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Social aspects
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Telematics
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Social aspects
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Cyberspace
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Telecommunication
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Electronic villages (Computer networks)
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Communication and technology
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Architecture and technology
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Comedia
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Summary note
"Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts for thinking about these issues, but what relevance do these concepts now hold for us? In this wide-ranging study, Wilken re-evaluates how ideas of place and community intersect with and help us make sense of a world transformed by information and communication technologies. This interdisciplinary investigation ranges across diverse textual and contextual terrain, exploring approaches from media and communications, architectural history and theory, philosophy, sociology, geography, literature, and urban design. The rich analysis of these myriad texts reveals the complex and at times contradictory ways in which notions of place and community circulate in relation to these technologies of distance. Wilken examination underscores both the enduring importance of ideas of place and community in the present age, and the urgent need to continue to engage with, think about and reconfigure these twin ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Techno-sociality : computer-mediated communication and virtual community
2. The problem of community
3. Haunting affects : place in virtual discourse
4. Machines of tomorrow past : early experiments in architectural computing
5. Fantasies of transcendence and transformative imagination : architectural visions of cyberspace
6. Domesticating technology, mobilising place
7. Rethinking teletechnologies, place, and community.
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ISBN
9780415875950 ((hardback))
0415875951 ((hardback))
LCCN
2011004441
OCLC
466361312
Other standard number
3622681
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