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The body and the screen : theories of Internet spectatorship /

"Internet and computer users are often represented onscreen as active and empowered--as in AOL's striding yellow figure and the interface hand that appears to manipulate software and hypertext links. In The Body and the Screen Michele White suggests that users can more properly be understo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Michele, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The body, the screen, and representations : an introduction to theories of Internet spectatorship
  • Making Internet and computer spectators
  • Visual pleasure through textual passages : gazing in multi-user object-oriented settings (MOOs)
  • Too close to see, too intimate a screen : men, women, and Webcams
  • The aesthetic of failure : confusing spectators with Net art gone wrong
  • Can you read me? : setting-specific meaning in virtual places (VP)
  • This is not photography, this is not a cohesive view : computer-facilitated imaging and fragmented spectatorship
  • Afterword : the flat and the fold : a consideration of embodied spectatorship.