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Through computer technology we can abandon reality for a virtual world. In these new computer-generated places, which at first glance seem free from trouble and sorrow, you can create a new self. This work takes us through the electronic looking-glass, as it investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the 21st century.
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"Excellent journalistic study of virtual realities...and a useful account of how these technologies are evolving from mere games to parts of a lifestyle" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Inspiring, troubling and consistently thought-provoking" (Hot Books Observer)
"Guest must be commended for investigating this topic. It is an area of digital culture ripe for further serious study as we continue to emerge from postmodernity into an era perhaps better described as the metamodern" (Observer)
"Remarkably timely...an enthusiastic guide, who explains often complex ideas with a minimum of jargon, and tells some great stories" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Guest maintains a sober head amid much Aquarian moonshine, and keeps his interviewees sympathetic, a fine achievement in a universe of geeks, fraudsters, and oddballs." (Daily Telegraph)
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"Inspiring, troubling and consistently thought-provoking" (Hot Books Observer)
"Guest must be commended for investigating this topic. It is an area of digital culture ripe for further serious study as we continue to emerge from postmodernity into an era perhaps better described as the metamodern" (Observer)
"Remarkably timely...an enthusiastic guide, who explains often complex ideas with a minimum of jargon, and tells some great stories" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Guest maintains a sober head amid much Aquarian moonshine, and keeps his interviewees sympathetic, a fine achievement in a universe of geeks, fraudsters, and oddballs." (Daily Telegraph)
Second Lives explores the culture of virtual lives - and those that inhabit them - the romantics, the traders, the dreamers, those who fantasise about world domination, the disabled, the military and the police.
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- PublisherArrow
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0099493772
- ISBN 13 9780099493778
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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