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Virtual Reality : How Does It Operate through Communication Process ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Şentürk, Aytuğ A. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Aside from the well known ideological features of the conventional media VR technologies and representations display a distinctive ideological characteristic. They have their own selfreferential universe of representations. Under the illusion of a reality reflection with respect to simulations people are deprived of an original correspondence of reality inside the immersion of VR. Heretowith virtuality would be identified as an ambivalent term which is inclusive of two almost oppositional meanings. Whereas one of the meanings is concerned with the negative connotations such as “illusion”, “fake” and “deficiency” the other meaning triggers the “potentiality” as opposed to “actuality” in general. In Lacanian approach about “the mirror stage” it would be implicated that the notion of the “I” as ego is the “image of the image” which constitutes a simulacra as the image of the human subject sets a virtual reality through a splitted self as “the referent”. According to this determinant it is uneasy to suppose an immediate process of communication since all communication process is mediated through a splitted and divided existence which lacks a complete subjectivity without the simulacra as the image and the referent as the body that together require a virtual constitution. Hence the understanding of the place of “virtual” in the communication process calls forth a requirement to examine symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and Lacanian analysis. In this paper the concept of mediated communication is analyzed in its relations with the process of reification and the notion of virtual reality with a relatively new approach to describe the conceptualization of social reality as an abstract notion within the position of the subject. This is an normative analytical paper where an analysis of virtual reality made in accordance with Lacanian analysis, symbolic interactionism and phenomenology. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cim.anadolu.edu.tr/pdf/2005/Senturk.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
