
La bibliothèque numérique des universités publiques du Sénégal
Auteur(s): Banks, Jaime
Editeur: Peter Lang
Année de Publication: 2018
pages: 346
ISBN: 978-1-4331-3828-7
eISBN: 978-1-4331-3829-4
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.