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Hello avatar

Beth Coleman

2011194 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2011
first published
  • 2011MIT Press · 194 pages · ENGISBN 9780262015714
  • 2012Mediacat Yayincilik · 224 pagesISBN 9786054584062

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.

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