Online a Lot of the Time

Author: Ken Hillis
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B003DA5LWQ

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

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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, and a ritual gathering of people in the same place for the performance of activities intended to generate, maintain, repair, and renew social relations. In Online a Lot of the Time, Ken Hillis explores the stakes when rituals that would formerly have required participants to gather in o Check Online a Lot of the Time our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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