The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality 1st Edition by Mark Grimshaw ISBN 0190270357 9780190270353

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ISBN 10: 0190270357
ISBN 13: 978-0190270353
Author: Mark Grimshaw
The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality 1st Edition: 

As this comprehensive and multidisciplinary book makes clear, virtuality has a pedigree that pre-dates the computer age and modern virtual worlds, a pedigree that can be traced back to classical mythology and beyond. Equally, the concept of virtuality is not the province of one field of study alone but is the foundation and driving force of many, both theoretical and applied.

Our conceptualizations and applications of virtuality are multiple, as contributors demonstrate across the nine sections of the book that move from philosophy to technologies and applications before returning to philosophy again for a discussion of the utopias and dystopias of virtuality. The almost 50 essays contained within range freely across subjects that include the potential of virtuality, ethics, virtuality and self, presence and immersion, virtual emotions, image, sound and literature, computer games, AI and A-Life, Augmented Reality and Real Virtuality, law and economics, medical and military applications, religion, and cybersex.

Throughout, contributors discuss differences between virtuality, reality, and actuality, in debates filtered through the lenses of the disciplines represented here, and speculate on future directions. It is not at all clear that there are differences and, if such distinctions are to be found, the boundaries between virtuality, reality, and actuality continually shift as ideas, modes of organization, and behaviors constantly flow from one to the other regardless of direction. The Handbook presents no unified definition of virtuality to comfort the reader, rather a multiplicity of questions and approaches underpinned by provocative statements that should further fuel the debates surrounding our notions of virtuality.

 

The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF VIRTUALITY

1. THE VIRTUALITY AND REALITY OF AVATAR CYBERSPACE

2. THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL REALITY OF VIRTUAL WORLDS

3. ENVISIONING THE VIRTUAL

4. BEING MORE THAN YOURSELF: VIRTUALITY AND HUMAN SPIRIT

5. MYTHOLOGIES OF VIRTUALITY: “OTHER SPACE” AND “SHARED DIMENSION” FROM ANCIENT MYTHS TO CYB

6. THE PARADOX OF VIRTUALITY

PART II. PSYCHOLOGY AND PERCEPTION

7. AVATAR PSYCHOLOGY

8. NOT QUITE HUMAN: WHAT VIRTUAL CHARACTERS HAVE TAUGHT US ABOUT PERSON PERCEPTION

9. EMOTIONS AND ALTERED STATES OF AWARENESS: THE VIRTUALITY OF REALITY AND THE REALITY OF VIRTUALITY

10. APPLYING PSYCHOLOGICAL PLAUSIBILITY TO THE UNCANNY VALLEY PHENOMENON

11. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION TO VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: THE ALLURE OF THE VIRTUAL SELF

12. BEING PRESENT IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

13. IMMERSION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

PART III. CULTURE AND SOCIETY

14. COMMUNICATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

15. SO GOOD, THEY NAMED IT TWICE? A LACANIAN PERSPECTIVE ON VIRTUAL REALITY FROM LITERATURE AND THE

16. HISTORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

17. FLIRTING, CHEATING, DATING, AND MATING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

18. CYBERSEX

19. A VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY: CONSTRUCTING RELIGION OUT OF ZEROS AND ONES

20. ACOUSTEMOLOGIES OF THE CLOSET

PART IV. SOUND

21. BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL? USER-GENERATED SONIC CONTENT IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

22. SONIC VIRTUALITY: UNDERSTANDING AUDIO IN A VIRTUAL WORLD

23. VIRTUAL WORLDS: AN ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

24. THE MUSIC THAT’S NOT THERE

PART V. IMAGE

25. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF VIRTUAL WORLDS

26. RECREATING VISUAL REALITY IN VIRTUALITY

27. THE TRANSLATION OF ART IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

28. PAINTING, THE VIRTUAL, AND THE CELLULOID FRAME

PART VI. ECONOMY AND LAW

29. VIRTUAL LAW

30. VIRTUALITY IN THE SPHERE OF ECONOMICS

PART VII. A-LIFE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

31. ON THE ROLE OF “DIGITAL ACTORS” IN ENTERTAINMENT-BASED VIRTUAL WORLDS

32. EVOLUTION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

33. VIRTUAL ECOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTS

34. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF BRAIN FUNCTION AND THE HUMAN HAPTIC SYSTEM AT THE NEURAL SPIKE LEVEL:

PART VIII. TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS

35. DISTRIBUTED EMBODIMENT: REAL PRESENCE IN VIRTUAL BODIES

36. LEVEL OF REALISM: FEEL, SMELL, AND TASTE IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

37. DEVELOPING HANDHELD AUGMENTED REALITY INTERFACES

38. AVOIDABLE PITFALLS IN VIRTUAL-WORLD LEARNING DESIGN

39. MEDICAL CLINICAL USES OF VIRTUAL WORLDS

40. MILITARY SIMULATIONS USING VIRTUAL WORLDS

PART IX. UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA

41. ETHICS AT THE BOUNDARIES OF THE VIRTUAL

42. THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY OF VIRTUAL WORLDS

43. VIRTUALITY AND HUMANITY

44. VIRTUAL DYSTOPIA

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