... It also challenges conventional ideas in the sociology of science and technology and develops
a realist and Weberian approach to the social dynamic of new technologies. Possible Worlds
is the first book to examine the social aspects of virtual reality and provides a ...

... mediated communication alters our perception of concepts such as: identity, reality and community ...
His work examines virtual environments as cultural technologies informed by specific Western ...
is an Epstien scholar and PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social ...

Abstract The relation between humans and machines has come to assume a central place
within the social sciences, particularly in debates about the role of science and about
information technologies. Cyberculture plays a key role in these debates, drawing its ...

... Nunes 10 Always Already Virtual: Feminist Politics in Cyberspace 179 Patricia Wise 11 The
Technologization of the Sacred: Virtual Reality and the ... au) Nicola Green has recently returned
from researching in the Department of Sociology, University of California (Berkeley), USA. ...

... will be essential reading for all of those interested in the social relations of the new information
technologies.' Donald MacKenzie, Professor of Sociology, Edinburgh University ... Virtual Society?
Technology, Cyberbole, Reality STEVE WOOLGAR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ...

... and development programs require inputs from individuals with expertise not only in computer
science, engineering, and psychology, but also in sociology, economics, business ... Virtual Reality:
Scientific and Technological Challenges VirtualREALITY xiii http://www ...

... Keywords: Computer-Mediated-Communication; Information and Communication
Technologies; Sociology of Technology; Virtual Reality Introduction. 1.1 Networked virtual
reality (VR) is a rapidly growing area of research and development. ...

... Towards a New Ecology edited by Scott Lash, Bronislav) Szerszynski and Brian Wynne For Weber
Essays on the Sociology of Fate ... the Body in the Age of Cybernetics The Future Looms: Weaving
Women and Cybernetics The Design of Virtual Reality Postmodern Virtualities ...

... The 'hidden depths' of the dimensionless realms of virtual reality have been fictionally portrayed –
in the cyberpunk ... such, CMC is important socially, psychodynamically and philosophically (Land,
1995), and a sociology (or anthropology) of virtual communities may ...

... Author Information. 1 Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at
Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture
and Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology. 2 ...