TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaime Banks
PY  - 2018
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433138294
TI  - Avatar, Assembled
T2  - The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4331-3829-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054567
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -