The Oxford handbook of virtuality / edited by Mark Grimshaw.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An anthology of thinking on virtuality from the perspective of a variety of philosophical and applied fields of study, the Oxford Handbook of Virtuality comprises 44 chapters covering topics such as presence, immersion, emotion, ethics, virtual utopias and dystopias, image, sound, literature, AI, law, economics, education, medical and military applications, religion, and sex. A variety of views on virtuality is offered from each discipline represented, and the relationships between virtuality and reality and actuality are extensively debated.

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Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The virtuality and reality of avatar cyberspace / Bruce Damer & Randy Hinrichs -- The physical and social reality of virtual worlds / Philip Brey -- Envisioning the virtual / Brian Massumi -- Being more than yourself : virtuality and human spirit / André Nusselder -- Mythologies of virtuality : "other space" and "shared dimension" from ancient myths to cyberspace / Maria Beatrice Bittarello -- The paradox of virtuality / Michael R. Heim -- Psychology & perception -- Avatar psychology / James K. Scarborough & Jeremy N. Bailenson -- Not quite human : what virtual characters have taught us about person perception / Elizabeth J. Carter & Frank E. Pollick -- Emotions and altered states of awareness : the virtuality of reality and the reality of virtuality / Jean-Claude Martin -- Applying psychological plausibility to the uncanny valley phenomenon / Angela Tinwell -- The psychology of addiction to virtual / Deborah Abdel Nabi & John P. Charlton -- Environments : the allure of the virtual self -- Being present in a virtual world / Giuseppe Riva & John A. Waterworth -- Immersion in virtual worlds / Gordon Calleja -- Culture & society -- Communication in virtual worlds / Paul C. Adams -- Virtual reality : so good, they named it twice? : a Lacanian perspective from literature and the other arts -- / david rudd -- History and cultural heritage in virtual environments / Erik Champion -- Flirting, cheating, dating, and mating in a virtual world / Julie M. Albright & Eddie Simmons -- Cybersex / Ståle Stenslie -- A virtual assembly : constructing religion out of zeros and ones / Robert M. Geraci -- Acoustemologies of the closet / William Cheng -- Sound -- Breaking the fourth wall? : user-generated sonic content in virtual worlds / Karen Collins -- Sonic virtuality : understanding audio in a virtual world / Tom A. Garner & Mark Grimshaw -- Virtual worlds : an ethnomusicological perspective / Trevor S. Harvey -- The music that's not there -- Image -- Through the looking glass : philosophical reflections on the art of virtual -- Worlds / Gary Zabel -- Recreating visual reality in virtuality / Anthony Steed -- The translation of art in virtual worlds / Patrick Lichty -- Painting, the virtual and the celluloid frame / Simon J. Harris -- Economy & law -- Virtual law / Greg Lastowka -- Avatars inc. : the legal personality of avatars / Angela Adrian -- Virtuality in the sphere of economics / Vili Lehdonvirta -- A-life & artificial intelligence -- On the role of "digital actors" in entertainment-based virtual worlds / Phil Carlisle -- Evolution in virtual worlds / Tim Taylor -- Virtual ecologies and environments / David G. Green & Tom Chandler -- Computational modeling of brain function and the human haptic system at the neural spike level : learning the dynamics of a simulated body / Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre -- Technology & applications -- Distributed embodiment : real presence in virtual bodies / John A. Waterworth & Eva L. Waterworth -- Level of realism : feel, smell and taste in virtual environments / Alan Chalmers -- Developing handheld augmented reality interfaces / Mark Billinghurst, Huidong Bai, Gun Lee, Robert Lindeman -- Avoidable pitfalls in virtual world learning design / Keysha I. Gamor -- Clinical uses of virtual worlds : from medicine to psychology and rehabilitation / Giuseppe Riva -- Military simulations using virtual worlds / Roger Smith -- Utopia & dystopia -- Ethics at the boundaries of the virtual / Charles M. Ess -- The social imaginary of virtual worlds / Patrice Flichy -- Virtuality and humanity / David Kreps -- Virtual dystopia / Andrea Hunter & Vincent Mosco -- Afterword / Tom Boellstorf -- Index.

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