Avatar, Assembled

Avatar, Assembled

by Steve Jones and Jaime Banks
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 12/01/2018

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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.

ISBN:
9781433143267
9781433143267
Category:
Media studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
12-01-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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