Michael R. Heim

For other people with the same name, see Michael Heim (disambiguation).
Michael R. Heim
Born 1944
California
Occupation Author, Teacher

Michael R. Heim MA, PhD is an American author and educator. Known as "the philosopher of cyberspace",[1] Heim's three scholarly books - Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (Yale University Press, 1986), The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press, 1993), and Virtual Realism (Oxford University Press, 1998) - have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. He taught at Missouri Western University in the 1980s, was an online lecturer for Connected Education in the mid-1980s, and taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, 1995-2002. Heim is currently a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine.

References

  1. JOHO - Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization, 16 May 1998


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