Accelerated Contact

Authors

  • John D. Mock CLP, University of Coimbra (Doctoral Program in Materialities of Literature)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-1_15

Keywords:

New Media, Virtual Identity, X-Reality, Network Communities

Abstract

Review of B. Coleman, Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, 216 pp. ISBN 978-0262015714.

 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-1_13 

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Author Biography

John D. Mock, CLP, University of Coimbra (Doctoral Program in Materialities of Literature)

John D. Mock has his BA in English from Indiana University (Bloomington, 1988), where the title of his Honors Thesis was “Shared Tendencies and Intentions: Examining Hardy and Hawthorne Together”. He spent one year of study (1986-1987) at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, where he studied theater and Thomas Hardy. His MA in English, from the University of Maryland (College Park, 1991), included a thesis that was titled “Hemingway’s Orpheus: Influence and Affluence in In Our Time”. From 1988-1991, John taught at the University of Maryland at College Park. In Portugal, he taught at Catholic University of Portugal (Leiria) for five years. Since 1998, he has taught at the University of Coimbra. John D. Mock has always had an interest in the Classics, in Fantasy and Science Fiction, and in the American Literature that was produced in the 1920s and 1960s. He also is interested in Popular Culture. The title of his thesis project is «The Electronic Body in Time and Space, or, Cyberpunk Is Dead: Long Live Cyberpunk».

References

Coleman, Beth (2011). Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

BethColeman_HelloAvatar

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Published

2013-06-30

How to Cite

Mock, John D. 2013. “Accelerated Contact”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 1 (1):213-15. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-1_15.

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2013): Estranging Pessoa with the Materialities of Literature

Section

Recensões | Reviews

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