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e-mail trouble : love and addiction @ the matrix
Baty, S. Paige. (University of Texas Press, 1999)McNichols Campus Library
RC 569.5 .I54 B38 1999
Amazon.com review:
"This is about a society of isolates who all communicate with one another from terminal sites. This is about being disembodied, distanced, distinct, and that sort of boundary-thing. It is not about being present. It is not about being there. It is not about a shared history, or a shared meal, or a shared story, or any kind of mutuality. It is about contact between virtual strangers. . . . It happens when you feel that you are so alone that you need anybody to talk to--anybody at all--because you believe that your connections have failed you. This kind of connection leaves you cold and dead inside, because it lacks history and a language of belonging." In this daring, postmodern autobiography, S. Paige Baty recounts her search for love and community on the Internet. Taking Jack Kerouac's On the Road as a point of departure, Baty describes both an actual road trip to meet the object of an e-mail romance and the cyber-search for connection that draws so many people into the matrix of the Internet. Writing in a bold, experimental style that freely mixes e-mails, poems, fragments of quotations, and puns into expository text, she convincingly links e-mail trouble with "female trouble" in the displacement of embodied love and accountable human relationships to opaque screens and alienated identities. Her book stands as a vivid feminist critique of our culture's love affair with technology and its dehumanizing effect on personal relationships. "
Netaholics? : the creation of a pathology
Surratt, Carla G.. (Nova Science Publishers, c1999)McNichols Campus Library
RC 569.5 .I54 S87 1999
McNichols Campus Library
RC 564 .P784 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-175) and index.
Psychology and the Internet : intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications
Gackenbach, Jayne (ed.). (Academic Press, c1998)McNichols Campus Library
ZA 4201 .P8 1998
Sex and the Internet : a guidebook for clinicians
Cooper, Al (ed.). (Brunner-Routledge, 2002)McNichols Campus Library
RC 560 .S43 C664 2002
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