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Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies (Digital Formations, Band 106) - Hardcover

Buch 13 von 21: Digital Formations
 
9781433138287: Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies (Digital Formations, Band 106)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 143313828X ISBN 13: 9781433138287
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Avatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars―not as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like graphics and glitches. Each chapter accounts for the empirical, theoretical, technical, and popular understandings of these avatar "components"―60 in total―altogether offering a nuanced explication of avatars-as-assemblages as they matter in contemporary society and in individual experience. The volume is a "crossover" piece in that, while it delves into complex ideas, it is written in a way that will be accessible and interesting to students, researchers, designers, and practitioners alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jaime Banks (Ph.D., Colorado State University) is Assistant Professor at West Virginia University’s Department of Communication Studies. Her social scientific work is animated by questions about how digital games influence how we see ourselves and about how humans relate to the technologies they use. She is a research associate at WVU’s Interaction Lab, was the founding Chair of the National Communication Association’s Game Studies Division, and serves on the editorial boards of Communication Research Reports and the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
143313828X
ISBN 13 
9781433138287
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
328
Herausgeber
Banks Jaime
Kontakt zum Hersteller
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com

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