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Online a lot of the time : ritual, fetish, sign

Publisher: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Introduction : rituals of transmission, fetishizing the trace -- Rituals -- Fetishes -- Signs -- "Avatars become / me" : depiction dethrones description -- So near, so far, and both at once : telefetishism and rituals of visibility -- Afterword : digital affectivity.
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Document Type: Book
ISBN: 9780822344346 0822344343 9780822344483 0822344483
OCLC Number: 611036017
Description: X, 316 S.
Contents: Introduction : rituals of transmission, fetishizing the trace --
Rituals --
Fetishes --
Signs --
"Avatars become / me" : depiction dethrones description --
So near, so far, and both at once : telefetishism and rituals of visibility --
Afterword : digital affectivity.
Responsibility: Ken Hillis.

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Explores the stakes when rituals that would formerly have required participants to gather in one physical space are reformulated for the Web. This title develops a theory of how ritual, fetish, and  Read more...

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"Online a Lot of the Time tackles the complex subject of telepresence more convincingly than anything else around. It suggests that the sign/body of an online digital avatar occupies a 'middle Read more...

 
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