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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Owen, David, 1970- author.     Subjects     Video games -- Social aspects.     Avatars (Virtual reality)     Online identities.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Owen, David, 1970- author.       by title:      Player and avatar : ...         MARC Display

Player and avatar : the affective potential of videogames / David Owen. by Owen, David, 1970- author. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017] Subjects Video games -- Social aspects.   Avatars (Virtual reality)   Online identities. ISBN:  9781476667195 (paperback alkaline paper) 1476667195 (paperback alkaline paper) Description:  vii, 230 pages ; 23 cm. Contents:  Digital like me -- The gamer as cyborg -- The illusion of agency in a virtual environment -- Winning the hearts and thumbs of the people. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of video games, including affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate--the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling whose dynamics suggest a fulfillment of dramatist Atonin Artaud's vision of the "body without organs.""--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 794.8 Ow Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 794.8 Ow Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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