What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some
realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and
multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and
experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as 'real' are the result
of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things -
technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these
practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always 'virtually
real', that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us
how the sense of reality that