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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Creating Second Lives : |b Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Creating Second Communities; 1 Liberate your Avatar: The Revolution Will Be Socially Networked; 2 An Imagined Community of Avatars?: A Theoretical Interrogation of Second Life as Nation through the Lens of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities; 3 Programming Processes: Controlling Second Lives; Part II: Creating Second Identities; 4 Embodiment and Gender Identity in Virtual Worlds: Reconfiguring Our 'Volatile Bodies'; 5 The Body of the Avatar: Constructing Human Presence in Virtual Worlds. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6 The Grips of Fantasy: The Construction of Female Characters in and beyond Virtual Game WorldsPart III: Creating Second Spaces; 7 Second Chances: Depictions of the Natural World in Second Life; 8 Avatar Needs and the Remediation of Architecture in Second Life; 9 The Event of Space: Defining Place in a Virtual Landscape; Afterword: Virtual Worlds and the Research Question; Contributors; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Human-computer interaction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Virtual reality. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Online social networks. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Online identities. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Second Life (Game) |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Avatars (Virtual reality) | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Avatars (Computer graphics) | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Human-computer interaction. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Online identities. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Online social networks. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Second Life (Game) |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Virtual reality. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Computer science. | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Mining engineering. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Réalité virtuelle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Réseaux sociaux (Internet) | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Identité numérique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Second Life (Jeu) |x Aspect social. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Avatars (Infographie) | |
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