Virtual Reality Cyberspace: Challenges to Communication Studies

Abstract

This paper describes the most dramatic development within the new generation of computer-based media currently emerging, that of virtual reality/cyberspace. This discussion presents a number of challenges to the field of communication studies: to deal with the technosphere; to articulate the continuous discontinuity in communication technology; to avoid the threat of the ultimate second reality, and to benefit from the opportunity of the ultimate writing/drawing space.