Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and their mutual influences on each other.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 The Emergence of Digital Technology: Chapter 4 The Quantization of Everyday Life Chapter 5 Digital Technology Develops Part 6 Art: Chapter 7 The Work of Art in the Digital Art Chapter 8 Cultural Biases Inherent in Digitization Chapter 9 The Composite Image Part 10 Communication / Media: Chapter 11 Machine Mediation of Social Interaction Chapter 12 The Metaphor of Cyberspace Part 13 Perception / Representation / Cognition: Chapter 14 The Digital Environment Chapter 15 Virtual Reality and Other Substitutes Chapter 16 Indexicality Chapter 17 Epilogue
Mark J.P. Wolf is Assistant Professor in the Communication Department of Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon.