Creating Second Lives : Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual.

This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically€in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ensslin, Astrid
Otros Autores: Muse, Eben
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Temas:
Human-computer interaction.
Virtual reality.
Online social networks.
Online identities.
Second Life (Game) > Social aspects.
Avatars (Virtual reality)
Avatars (Computer graphics)
Computer science.
Mining engineering.
Réalité virtuelle.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet)
Identité numérique.
Second Life (Jeu) > Aspect social.
Avatars (Infographie)
virtual reality.
Human-computer interaction
Online identities
Online social networks
Virtual reality
Sociala nätverk online.
Virtuell verklighet.
Människa-dator-interaktion.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically€in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book's philosophy is multi-disciplinary and its€goal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, wh.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages)
ISBN:9780203828571
0203828577

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