Creating second lives : community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual / edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ensslin, Astrid.

Muse, Eben J.

Series:

Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 8.

Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Virtual reality.

Online social networks.

Online identities.

Second Life (Game)--Social aspects.

Second Life (Game).

Avatars (Virtual reality).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, which man

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613151360

9781283151368

1283151367

9781136809286

1136809287

9780203828571

0203828577

OCLC:

730151723