My Avatar, My Self : Identity in Video Role-playing Games

Waggoner, Zach

ISBN 10: 0786441097 / ISBN 13: 9780786441099

Editore: McFarland & Company, 2009

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• Titolo: My Avatar, My Self : Identity in Video Role-playing Games
• Editore: McFarland & Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0786441097
• ISBN 13: 9780786441099
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

With videogames now one of the world s most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological influence on real-world players. This book examines the relationships between virtual and non-virtual identity in visual role-playing games. Utilizing James Gee s theoretical constructs of real-world identity, virtual-world identity, and projective identity, this research shows dynamic, varying and complex relationships between the virtual avatar and the player s sense of self and makes recommendations of terminology for future identity researchers.

Informazioni sull?autore

Zach Waggoner has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Arizona State University. He is Course Coordinator for The Writers’ Studio at Arizona State University and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.