Avatar, Assembled - The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies (Hardcover, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Digital Formations, 106
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2018
Editors:	Jaime Banks
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	328
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-3828-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > General
LSN:	1-4331-3828-X
Barcode:	9781433138287

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