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Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies

Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies

Jones, Steve
Banks, Jaime

Hardcover

Series: Digital Formations, Book 106

Business of ArtGeneral ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 143313828X
ISBN13: 9781433138287
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Nov 30 2017
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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