Rowan Wilken is a lecturer in media and communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts for thinking about these issues, but what relevance do these concepts now hold for us? In this wide-ranging study, Wilken re-evaluates how ideas of place and community intersect with and help us make sense of a world transformed by information and communication technologies.

Introduction 1. Techno-Sociality: Computer-Mediated Communication and Virtual Community 2. The Problem of Community 3. Haunting Affects: Place in Virtual Discourse 4. Machines of Tomorrow Past: Early Experiments in Architectural Computing 5. Fantasies of Transcendence and Transformative Imagination: Architectural Visions of Cyberspace 6. Domesticating Technology, Mobilising Place 7. Rethinking Teletechnologies, Place, and Community