What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition by

What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837645798)

Vendor: Rune Klevjer
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Format: Paperback
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What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition by

What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition

$50.00
What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition by

What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition

$50.00
Format: Paperback
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What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan G?zel, Jg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.

Author: Rune Klevjer
ISBN-10: 3837645797
ISBN-13: 9783837645798
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2022
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
By Rune Klevjer
By Rune Klevjer
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Rune Klevjer is an associate professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. He specializes in computer game theory, with particular interest in player-avatar relationships, narrative, and the nature of fictional representation in virtual environments.

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