What is the Avatar?
Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition
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Beschreibung
The annotated new edition of Rune Klevjer's ground-breaking book »What is the Avatar?«.
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 Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.
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Rune Klevjer
Themen in »What is the Avatar?«
Videogames Videogames Avatar Avatar Fictionality Fictionality Cinema Cinema Virtual Reality Virtual Reality Media Media Computer Games Computer Games Media Aesthetics
Stimmen zu »What is the Avatar?«
»Klevjers Dissertation ist nach wie vor eine wichtige und lesenswerte Arbeit, die trotz verständlicher Sprache und hervorragender Lesbarkeit nicht an Komplexität verliert und durchaus noch immer als Grundlagenwerk zu avatarbasiertem Spielen gelten kann.«
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»Klevjer's dissertation is still an important and readable work which, despite its comprehensible language and excellent readability does not lose any of its complexity and still a fundamental work on avatar-based games.«
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