The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition

Alexander Reid * Runner-Up, JAC / W. Ross Winterowd Award 2007 for best book in composition theory. New Media Theory Edited by Byron Hawk Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-022-9 (paperback, $27.00); 978-1-60235-023-6 (hardcover,  $54.00); 978-1-60235-024-3 (PDF, $19.99); 978-1-60235-532-3 (EPUB, $19.99) © 2007 by Parlor Press. 224 pages, with bibliography, and index Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book In The Two Virtuals, Alex Reid shows that to understand the relationship between our traditional, humanistic realm of thought, subjectivity, and writing and the emerging virtual space of networked media, we need to recognize the common material space they share. The book investigates this shared space through a study of two, related conceptions of the virtual. The first virtual is quite familiar; it is the virtual reality produced by modern computing and networks. The second, less familiar, virtual comes from philoso