| Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment Contributor(s): Jones, Steve (Editor), Sundén, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820462047 ISBN-13: 9780820462042 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2002006254 |
| Series: Digital Formations (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 228 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sund n explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sund n shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the virtual as itself embodied. |