Online a Lot of the Time: Ritual, Fetish, Sign

by Ken Hillis

Book Overview

A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons thousands of miles apart via webcams. These are just a few of the ritual practices that have developed and are emerging in online settings. Such Web-based rituals depend on the merging of two modes of communication often held distinct by scholars: the use of a device or mechanism to transmit messages between people across space,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344483
• ISBN13: 9780822344483
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"