My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games - Softcover

Waggoner, Zach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786441097 ISBN 13: 9780786441099

Verlag: McFarland, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

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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. Features 15 photographs of videogame screens, and an appendix of sample videogame transcription data.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McFarland
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0786441097
• ISBN 13: 9780786441099
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar