Projection into the Virtuality

The Creeping Virtuality of Place

Places are inherently dynamic. The boundaries of administrative regions (e.g., provinces and countries) and natural regions (e.g., coastlines, ecosystems, mountains, ice sheets, tectonic plates) can alter over time, as can their names. Cities have a daily influx and egress of people and vehicles, buildings go up and down, streets sometimes get repaired, added, etc. Even when a place persists, i...

Virtuality and Virtualization

The Virtuality of Territorial Borders

Structuring Virtuality

The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of an empirical procedure for generating user-based cognitive and social cognitive models of tasks/problems/contexts that can be employed to create readily navigable link structures for virtuality-mediated communication and collaboration purposes. Employing a natural language, user-based method, this study describes patterns found across 128 in...

Understanding Virtuality

Although virtual interactions are often assumed to be separate and distinct from the “real world,” they are ultimately situated in material reality. In this paper I propose that a situated approach to understanding virtuality can be drawn from Goffman’s Frame Analysis (1974/1986). I explain how Goffman’s terminology and concepts afford a powerful way of integrating the study of virtual action a...