Interactive Realism

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 09