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Tables of Contents for The Virtual
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
xv
The return of the virtual
1
17
Definitions of the virtual
2
2
Virtualisms in history
4
11
Utopian virtualism
15
1
Summary
16
2
The virtual and the real
18
27
Virtually real
20
3
Slippage
23
2
The virtual is real but not actual
25
1
Virtual thinkers: Proust, Bergson, Deleuze
26
12
Memory
38
3
Technologies of the virtual
41
2
Summary
43
2
Digital virtualities
45
36
Simulation
47
7
Virtual reality and virtual environments
54
11
Applications of virtual reality
65
4
Computer as filter
69
4
The autonomy of the virtual
73
6
Summary
79
2
Virtual Africa
81
12
Globalization
82
3
Digital virtuality and globalization
85
2
Virtual Africa
87
5
Summary
92
1
Joystick generation: cyberpunks, camkids and family life
93
23
Cyberserfs in Cyberia
95
4
Internet proofing
99
5
Cyberpunks or virtual subcultures?
104
3
Virtual fears: hackers and real knowledge
107
2
Joystick generation: virtual subculture
109
5
Everyday virtuality
114
1
Summary
115
1
Work: virtual working
116
44
Virtualized work
120
7
Virtualizing skill: the trades and professions
127
3
Alienation
130
2
The quality of work: data overload and instruction rituals
132
3
Users
135
2
Computerization of the workplace
137
3
The `workstation'
140
1
The flexible office
141
2
Ubiquitous computing
143
2
Clerical workers
145
2
Bodies at work
147
3
Technicians and support workers
150
6
Digital agents
156
2
Summary
158
2
Business sense for a virtual world
160
24
Economic virtualism
161
4
Digital virtuality: banks and brokerages
165
3
Virtual information: online rumours
168
2
Digital virtuality at actual firms
170
5
Managing the virtual and actual
175
2
Brands and relationships
177
5
Summary
182
2
Risk culture, trust and the virtual
184
21
Risk avoidance and `risk society'
186
2
Knowledge societies, the media and risk
188
3
Individuals and the experience of risk
191
3
A tetrology of risk
194
8
Risk culture of everyday life
202
1
Summary
203
2
The future of the virtual
205
10
Terrorism as virtual war
209
2
The future of the virtual
211
4
Notes
215
5
References
220
14
Index
234