TELETECHNOLOGIES, PLACE AND COMMUNITY

Rowan Wilken in his book, Teletechnologies, Place and Community, analyses comprehensively how notions of place and community are emp loyed in the writing on teletechnologies from the early 1980s to the 2000s and how these are influenced by those technologies of dis tance. Community here is examined as a declining social form in need of a radical revision, as well as an emerging virtual communi ty because of networked communication technologies. Place is described as dematerialised and free from constraints, or as a metaph or represent...[Read more]