Name: Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies (Digital Formations)
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ISBN: 9781433138287

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Publisher

Peter Lang

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

326

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781433138287

Synopsis "Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies (Digital Formations) "

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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