Poppy Wilde

Posthuman Gaming

Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects and embodiments - what it means and how it feels to be posthuman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032055039
• ISBN-10: 1032055030
• Artikelnr.: 69983972

Autorenporträt

Poppy Wilde is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK. Her work focuses on what it means and how it feels to be posthuman, by exploring how posthuman subjectivities are entangled and embodied.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Proposing the Posthuman Gamer
Chapter 3: Who am "I"? Troubling the Self
Chapter 4: From Acting to Intra-Acting
Chapter 5: Enacting and Embodying Empathy
Chapter 6: Emergent Subject Positions
Chapter 7: From Emergence to (Susp)endings
Chapter 8: A Contingent Conclusion