Hello Avatar Rise of the Networked Generation

Name: Hello Avatar Rise of the Networked Generation
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ISBN: 9780262015714

ISBN-10: 0262015714

ISBN-13: 9780262015714

Edition: 2011

Authors: B. Coleman, Clay Shirky

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Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and off-, what she calls the "x-reality" that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neither virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express our new agency--our new power to customize our networked life. By avatar, Coleman means not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/4/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

B. Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. She is Faculty Director of the C3 Game Culture and Mobile Media initiative.