Digital Sensations or Business Intelligence

Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality

Author: Ken Hillis

Ken Hillis is assistant professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction: Digital Relations
1	A Critical History of Virtual Reality	1
2	Precursive Cultural and Material Technologies Informing Contemporary Virtual Reality	30
3	The Sensation of Ritual Space	60
4	Sight and Space	90
5	Space, Language, and Metaphor	133
6	Identity, Embodiment, and Place - VR as Postmodern Technology	164
	Epilogue: Digital Sensations	200
	Notes	213
	References	239
	Index	257

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Business Intelligence

Author: Elizabeth Vitt

This book illustrates how organizations can make better, faster decisions about their customers, partners, and operations by turning mountains of data into valuable business information that's at the fingertips of decision makers. It describes what's involved in using business intelligence to bring together information, people, and technology to create successful business strategies-and how to execute those strategies with confidence. Real-life case studies show how world leaders in finance, manufacturing, and retail have successfully implemented business intelligence solutions and detail the benefits they have reaped.

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This book illustrates how organizations can make better, faster decisions about their customers, partners, and operations using business intelligence, the process of turning large amounts of data into valuable information and making it easily available to decision makers. The book describes the components and general architecture that most business intelligence solutions share, offers stories of how real companies have implemented business intelligence solutions, and describes steps for implementing a business intelligence solution in an organization. Vitt has six years of business development and project management experience in business intelligence. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)