| Description |
viii, 230 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 8 |
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Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Eben Muse and Astrid Ensslin -- Creating second communities. Liberate your avatar: the revolution will be socially networked / Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould -- An imagined community of avatars : a theoretical interrogation of "Second life" as nation through the lens of Benedict Anderson's imagined communities / Kevin Miguel Sherman -- Programming processes: controlling "second lives" / Elizabeth Burgess -- Creating second identities. Embodiment and gender identity in virtual worlds: reconfiguring our "volatile bodies" / Sonia Fizek and Monika Wasilewska -- The body of the avatar: constructing human presence in virtual worlds / Denise Doyle -- The grips of fantasy: the construction of female characters in and beyond virtual game worlds / Isamar Carrillo Masso -- Creating second spaces. Second chances: depictions of the natural world in "Second life" / Joseph S. Clark -- Avatar needs and the remediation of architecture in "Second life" / Astrid Ensslin -- The event of space: defining place in a virtual landscape / Eben Muse -- Afterword / Tom Boellstorff. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Human-computer interaction.
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Virtual reality.
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Online social networks.
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Online identities.
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Second Life (Game) -- Social aspects.
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Avatars (Virtual reality)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ensslin, Astrid.
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Muse, Eben J.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415884204 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780415884204 |
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0203828577 (master e-book) |
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9780203828571 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203828571 (electronic bk.) |
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