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Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies
Edited by Jaime Banks
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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.
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Publisher | Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published date | 17 Nov 2017
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 328
Dimensions | 225 x 150 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 480g
ISBN | 978-1-4331-3560-6
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BISAC | social science / media studies
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