Creating second lives
Subtitle: community, identity, and spatiality as constructions of the virtual
By: edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse
Series: Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture -- 8; Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture -- 8.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780415884204
Subjects: Online identities; Human-computer interaction; Second Life (Game); Social aspects; Virtual reality; Avatars (Virtual reality); Online social networks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eben Muse and Astrid Ensslin; title: Creating second communities. Liberate your avatar: the revolution will be socially networked / Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould; title: 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; title: Programming processes: controlling "second lives" / Elizabeth Burgess; title: Creating second identities. Embodiment and gender identity in virtual worlds: reconfiguring our "volatile bodies" / Sonia Fizek and Monika Wasilewska; title: The body of the avatar: constructing human presence in virtual worlds / Denise Doyle; title: The grips of fantasy: the construction of female characters in and beyond virtual game worlds / Isamar Carrillo Masso; title: Creating second spaces. Second chances: depictions of the natural world in "Second life" / Joseph S. Clark; title: Avatar needs and the remediation of architecture in "Second life" / Astrid Ensslin; title: The event of space: defining place in a virtual landscape / Eben Muse; title: Afterword / Tom Boellstorff.