Creating second lives : community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual [E-Book] / edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse.
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Personal Name(s): | Ensslin, Astrid. |
Muse, Eben J. | |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011
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Physical Description: |
viii, 230 pages, illustrations |
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englisch |
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9780203828571 9780415884204 0203828577 |
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Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ;
8 |
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- Introduction / Eben Muse and Astrid Ensslin
- Creating second communities. Liberate your avatar: the revolution will be socially networked / Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould
- An imagined community of avatars : a theoretical interrogation of "Second life" as nation through the lens of Benedict Anderson's imagined communities / Kevin Miguel Sherman
- Programming processes: controlling "second lives" / Elizabeth Burgess
- Creating second identities. Embodiment and gender identity in virtual worlds: reconfiguring our "volatile bodies" / Sonia Fizek and Monika Wasilewska
- The body of the avatar: constructing human presence in virtual worlds / Denise Doyle
- The grips of fantasy: the construction of female characters in and beyond virtual game worlds / Isamar Carrillo Masso
- Creating second spaces. Second chances: depictions of the natural world in "Second life" / Joseph S. Clark
- Avatar needs and the remediation of architecture in "Second life" / Astrid Ensslin
- The event of space: defining place in a virtual landscape / Eben Muse
- Afterword / Tom Boellstorff.