
Interactive Realism
The Poetics of Cyberspace
Daniel Downes(Author)
McGill-Queen's University Press
Will be published approx. on 3. March 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-7735-2920-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Interactive realism is a new and original theory of the Net that explains cyberspace as a social phenomenon." Mark Poster, author of "The Second Media Age" and "The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context"
Reviews / Votes
"This thoughtful and ambitious book offers an interpretive framework for cyberspace that steps outside the simplistic utopian and dystopian camps." Sheryl N. Hamilton, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University "This is an important book that may well initiate the next phase of growth in media ecology extending and refining Innis and McLuhan." Stuart Moulthrop, Information Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore "Downes addresses subjects such as immersion, presence, interactivity, virtual spaces and communities...The arguments in the debate are carefully examined, offering the reader balanced and multiple positions on the subjects. The contextualization of the debates and theoretical constructions is precise and developed in different levels, from the most abstract socio-philosophical level to the debates pertinent to cyberculture and information technologies...the quality of the theoretical constructions is impeccable, offering to the reader new insights to the existent bibliography and a solid basis to the arguments in favour of the method proposed.-Yara Mitsuishi, RCCS, March 09More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-2920-5 (9780773529205)
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Additional editions

E-Book
03/2005
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€29.49
Available for download
Person
Daniel Downes is assistant professor and coordinator of the Information and Communication Studies Program, University of New Brunswick at Saint John.