Creating Second Lives

Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual
Herausgeber: Ensslin, Astrid; Muse, Eben

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book's philosophy is multi-disciplinary and its goal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, which manifests itself in 'natural' and built environments as well as the triad of space, place and landscape. The contributors' disciplinary backgrounds include media, communication, cultural and literary studies, and they examine issues of reception and production, identity, community, gender, spatiality, natural and built environments using a plethora of methodological approaches ranging from theoretical and philosophical contemplation through social semiotics to corpus-based discourse analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781138243217
• ISBN-10: 1138243213
• Artikelnr.: 47581363

Autorenporträt

Astrid Ensslin is Lecturer in Digital Communication, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University. Eben Muse is Lecturer in Interactive Media, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Eben Muse and Astrid Ensslin Part I: Creating Second
Communities 1. Liberate your Avatar: The Revolution Will Be Socially
Networked, Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould 2. An Imagined Community of
Avatars? A Theoretical Interrogation of Second Life(TM) as Nation through
the Lens of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, Kevin Miguel Sherman
3. Programming Processes: Controlling Second Lives, Elizabeth Burgess Part
II: Creating Second Identities 4. Embodiment and Gender Identity in Virtual
Worlds: Reconfiguring our 'Volatile Bodies', Sonia Fizek and Monika
Wasilewska 5. The Body of the Avatar: Constructing Human Presence in
Virtual Worlds, Denise Doyle 6. The Grips of Fantasy: The Construction of
Female Characters in and beyond Virtual Game Worlds, Isamar Carrillo Masso
Part III: Creating Second Spaces 7. Second Chances: Depictions of the
Natural World in Second Life(TM), Joseph S. Clark 8. Avatar Needs and the
Remediation of Architecture in Second Life(TM), Astrid Ensslin 9. The Event
of Space: Defining Place in a Virtual Landscape, Eben Muse Afterword, Tom
Boellstorff