Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433135604
• ISBN13: 9781433135606
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"