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Avatar, Assembled

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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Jaime Banks EAN: 9781433138287 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-30 CITY: GENRE: COMPUTERS / Computerized Home & Entertainment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Media studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society

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      Jaime Banks (Ph.D., Colorado State University) is Assistant Professor at West Virginia University’s Department of Communication Studies. Her social scientific work is animated by questions about how digital games influence how we see ourselves and about how humans relate to the technologies they use. She is a research associate at WVU’s Interaction Lab, was the founding Chair of the National Communication Association’s Game Studies Division, and serves on the editorial boards of Communication Research Reports and the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.
      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Jaime Banks EAN: 9781433138287 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-30 CITY: GENRE: COMPUTERS / Computerized Home & Entertainment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Media studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society

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      Jaime Banks (Ph.D., Colorado State University) is Assistant Professor at West Virginia University’s Department of Communication Studies. Her social scientific work is animated by questions about how digital games influence how we see ourselves and about how humans relate to the technologies they use. She is a research associate at WVU’s Interaction Lab, was the founding Chair of the National Communication Association’s Game Studies Division, and serves on the editorial boards of Communication Research Reports and the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

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