Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society

Virilio, Paul, 17n, 117, 224n

virtual community, x, xii–xiii, 9, 48, 54, 62,

63, 68, 78, 80, 99, 100, 103, 117, 119,

122, 123, 149, 164, 173, 188, 192, 194–7,

198, 201–6, 224n, 225n

dichotomies of, 179, 203–4

and physical communities, xii, 204–5

three domains of, 204–5

utopian and dystopian versions of,

7, 18–19n, 52, 57, 74–5, 83, 98, 115,

120n, 128, 157, 179, 189, 191–2,

194–5, 202, 203, 224n

and virtual flânerie, 199–201, 210, 223–4n

virtual reality, 16, 72, 94, 114, 121n, 130,

135, 190, 196

and cyberspace, ix, 44–6, 49, 122, 201

‘virtual urbanization’ perspective, 67–9, 91

‘virtuvoltage’, 46

virus, 105

Voog, Anna, 220–1

Walt Disney Studios, 120

Wark, McKenzie, 38, 97–8, 223n

Wasserman, I.M., 214

Watergate, 165n, 208

Watts, Duncan, 189

Weaver, W., 55–6, 82n

Wehner, Joseph, 76–77, 79, 81

the WELL, 47, 61–2, 132, 225n

Wellman, Barry, 17n, 194, 202, 204

Wenger, E., 176

Wertheim, Margaret, 190–1

Whitaker, R., 223n

White, Mimi, 1–3, 17n

Whittle, D., 195, 224n

Wiener, Norbert, 56–57

Williams, Christopher, 18n

Williams, Raymond, 85–6, 91–2, 120n, 140,

161–2, 178–9

mobile privatization, xii, 88, 91–3, 98,

99–100, 199

source and agent, 161–2

technical invention, 140

technology-as-socially-configured, 140

Willson, Michelle, 195, 225n

Winston, Brian, 13–14, 19n

Wired, 43n, 73, 113, 115, 189, 190, 202

Wise, J. Macgregor, 202

World Bank, protests, 80

World Health Organization (WHO), 222n

World Wide Web (WWW), 47, 50, 60, 75,

79, 91, 96, 100, 104, 115, 132, 150, 166n,

189, 212, 216

World-Wide-Wait, 90, 201

Y2K bug, 2

Zettl, H., 106

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