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Creating second lives = community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Creating second lives/ edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse.
Reminder of title:	community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual /
other author:	Ensslin, Astrid.
Published:	New York :Routledge, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 230 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Human-computer interaction. -
Online resource:	Click here to view
ISBN:	9780203828571 (ebook)

Creating second lives = community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual /
Creating second livescommunity, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual /[electronic resource] :edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse. - New York :Routledge,2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 230 p.) :ill. - Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ;8. - Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ;7..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Liberate your avatar : the revolution will be socially networked / Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould -- 2. 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 -- 3. Programming processes : controlling second lives / Elizabeth Burgess -- 4. Embodiment and gender identity in virtual worlds : reconfiguring our 'volatile bodies' / Sonia Fizek and Monika Wasilewska -- 5. The body of the avatar : constructing human presence in virtual worlds / Denise Doyle -- 6. The grips of fantasy : the construction of female characters in and beyond virtual game worlds / Isamar Carrillo Masso -- 7. Second chances : depictions of the natural world in Second life / Joseph S. Clark -- 8. Avatar needs and the remediation of architecture in Second life / Astrid Ensslin -- 9. The event of space : defining place in a virtual landscape / Eben Muse.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780203828571 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555546
Human-computer interaction.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QA76.9.H85 / C74 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 006.8 / C912

Creating second lives = community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual /
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