Rethinking the digital virtual as a realm of experience, action, and relationships.
Borrowed from philosophy by computer science, the concept of the “virtual” has been used since the late 1980s to refer to interaction with a simulated environment (Woolley, 1992). It subsequently expanded to become a means of examining digital practices more broadly (Woolgar, 2002), accompanying th...
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Borrowed from philosophy by computer science, the concept of the “virtual” has been used since the late 1980s to refer to interaction with a simulated environment (Woolley, 1992). It subsequently expanded to become a means of examining digital practices more broadly (Woolgar, 2002), accompanying the spread of the “immersive web paradigm” (Boullier, 2008). This evolution has been met with concern: the allure of the virtual is said to be taking precedence over the real (Jauréguiberry, 2000; Tu... |
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