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Posthuman gaming : avatars, gamers, and entangled subjectivities / by Poppy Wilde.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilde, Poppy (Lecturer in media), author.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in game studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- Video games.
- Avatars (Virtual reality)--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- Avatars (Virtual reality).
- World of Warcraft (Game)--Case studies.
- World of Warcraft (Game).
- Fantasy gamers--Psychology--Case studies.
- Fantasy gamers.
- Video gamers--Psychology--Case studies.
- Video gamers.
- Posthumanism.
- Self.
- Subjectivity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : color illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Poppy Wilde is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK. Her work focuses on what it means and how it feels to be posthuman, by exploring how posthuman subjectivities are entangled and embodied.
- Contents:
- Proposing the posthuman gamer
- Who am "I"? : troubling the self
- From acting to intra-acting
- Enacting and embodying empathy
- Emergent subject positions
- From emergence to (susp)endings
- A contingent conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wilde, Poppy Posthuman gaming
- ISBN:
- 9781003207191
- 1003207197
- 9781000962994
- 1000962997
- 9781000963076
- 1000963071
- Publisher Number:
- 40032170250
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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