Making sense of reality : culture and perception in everyday life /

This book suggests that the realities we take as 'real' are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as...

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Main Author: DeNora, Tia (Author)
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications, 2014.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book suggests that the realities we take as 'real' are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always, 'virtually real', that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781446288320 (ebook) :