Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Return of the Virtual 2. The Virtual and the Real 3. Digital Virtualities 4. Virtual Africa 5. Joystick Generation 6. Work: Virtual working 7. Business Sense for a Virtual World 8. Risk, Trust and the Virtual Conclusion: The future and the virtual

About the Author

Rob Shields

Reviews

"Rob Shields has written an encyclopedia of the virtual that will prove to be as indispensable to the layman as to the researcher."
-Pierre Levy, Canada Research Chair on Collective Intelligence, University of Ottawa
"Shields succeeds in removing the mask of The Virtual, revealing its productivity, ubiquity, and logic. The resulting text offers a compelling social critique of abstraction-on our screens, in the workplace, and within the very forces of globalization."
-Greg Elmer, Boston College