Digital Reality

As contemporary scholars journalists and commentators have indicated mobile digital devices promote a constant shift of attention between the world around us and the stimulations afforded by screen-based interfaces. Investigating these uniquely contemporary hybrid interactions Melanie Chan posits that while digital technologies are part of a long and historic trajectory they nonetheless may instigate new forms of corporeal practices and experiences. How might continuous engagement with mobile devices and associated software impact our perception of sensory embodied experience? <br/><br/>Drawing upon existing scholarship around mobile media and new media <i>Digital Reality</i>explores digital technologies as phenomena (observable items such as such as smart-phones handsets consoles head-mounted displays and goggles) in the light of theories of reality and corporeality. In so doing the book highlights the qualitative dimensions of our sense of aliveness movement and interaction within a range of environments (virtual real or hybrid). Ultimately the book illuminates how our sense of shared objective reality changes due to hybrid forms of reality.