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A collection of 30 essays, interviews, and free-form monologues on a host of wired subjects,
Clicking In reflects both the scope and unevenness of the Internet, while offering similar pleasures of serendipitous discovery as you leaf through the offerings. The essays range from a straightforward primer on computer viruses, to medical discussions of brain/computer interfaces, abstruse musings on the paradoxes of virtual reality, and reflections on life in a world where the things of greatest value have no physical existence. It's an unabashedly intellectual book with a brittle digirati edge, but one in which many readers will find contributions that inform and stimulate.
From Library Journal
A professor of electronic art at University of California, Davis, and an interactive media art pioneer, Leeson has collected essays and interviews from an eclectic group of this decade's digital literati. These "representative ideas from individuals and communities inhabiting electronic spaces" introduce an array of fascinating issues raised by the digitalization that permeates our lives. For instance, Sandy Stone, Sherry Turkle, and Jaron Lanier remind us that increased interaction with people through a digital veil forces us to reconsider gender, identity, and invisibility as preconceptions based on visual clues melt away. The digital-specific art portion of the book includes discussion by Leeson of her own work and short sections on Jenny Holtzer, Joseph Kosuth, and Interactive Art. If your computer meets the system requirements, the included CD-ROM will succeed as a work of interactive art and provide video clips from some of the contributors. Although this work delivers something for everyone interested in the implications for our changing digital world, it is best suited for academic libraries.
Judith Lesso, West Virginia Univ. Lib., MorgantownCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.