TY - BOOK
T1 - Avatar, assembled
T2 - The social and technical anatomy of digital bodies
AU - Banks, Jaime
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York.
PY - 2018/1/12
Y1 - 2018/1/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.3726/978-1-4331-3829-4
DO - 10.3726/978-1-4331-3829-4
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85090223405
SN - 9781433138287
BT - Avatar, assembled
PB - Peter Lang AG
ER -