Avatar, assembled : : the social and technical anatomy of digital bodies / / edited by Jaime Banks.
digital bodies; social anatomy; technical anatomy
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| Superior document: | Digital Formations ; Volume 106 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, [New York] : : Peter Lang,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Digital formations ;
Volume 106. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: (dis)assembling the avatar / Jaime Banks
- The social
- Life & death : the meaning of (digital) existence / Teresa Lynch & Nicholas L. Matthews
- Shape & size : the body electric / James M. Falin & Jorge Peña
- Race and otherness : the utopian promise and divided reality / Kristine L. Nowak
- Boobs & butts : the babes get the gaze / Jesse Fox
- Face & hair: looks that change behaviors / Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn
- Voice and sound : player contributions to speech / Hanna Wirman & Rhys Jones
- Gesture and movement : indices of presence / Sita Popat
- Names & labels : strategic (de)identification / Mark R. Johnson
- Gear & weaponry : market ideologies of functional and cosmetic items / William Robinson & David Calvo
- Companions & vehicles : permutations of digital entities / Rabindra A. Ratan
- Alignments & alliances : associations of value / Kristine Ask & Mark Chen
- Morality & personality : perfect and deviant selves / Matthew Grizzard & Changhyun Ahn
- Relationships & reputation : part of the main(frame) / Nicholas David Bowman
- Headcanon & lore : owning the narrative / John Carter McKnight
- Cosplay & conventions : exporting the digital / Nicolle Lamerichs
- The technical
- Rules & mechanics : parameters for interactivity / Andy Boyan & Jaime Banks
- Achievements & levels: building affirmational resources / John A. Velez
- Spells & statistics : inside the black box / Christopher A. Paul
- Class & role : frameworks for (inter)action / Oskar Milik
- Resources & inventories : useful fictions / Isaac Knowles
- Code & logic : procedural desire / Peter Kudenov
- Glitches & lag : unanticipated variables / Mark R. Johnson
- Pixels and polygons : the stuff of light-beings / Roger Altizer, Jr
- Embellishment & effects : seduction by style / Dominic Kao & D. Fox Harrell
- Perspective & physics : frames for play / Ryan Bown & Gabe Olson
- Mobility & context : of being and being there / Edward Downs
- Engines & platforms : functional entanglements / Casey O¿Donnell
- Interfaces and mods : customizing the gateway / Nathan Stevens & Anthony Limperos
- Controllers & inputs : masters of puppets / Daniel Roth, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Sebastian von Mammen, & Marc Erich Latoschik
- Licensing and law : who owns an avatar? / Tyler T. Ochoa & Jaime Banks
- Contributors.