Book 2011
Hello avatar
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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Human behavior models
- Human-computer interaction
- Virtual reality
- Philosophy
- Avatars (Virtual reality)
- Reality
- Psychological aspects
- Shared virtual environments
In this book, the author examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and off-, what she calls the "x-reality" that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neither virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express our new agency--our new power to customize our networked life.