Popat, SH orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-5496 (2017) Gesture and Movement: Indices of Presence. In: Banks, J, (ed.) Avatar, Assembled: The Social and Technical Anatomy of Digital Bodies. Digital Formations . Peter Lang , New York, USA . ISBN 9781433135606
Abstract
Avatar, Assembled is a curated volume that unpacks videogame and virtual world avatars—not as a monolithic phenomenon (as they are usually framed) but as sociotechnical assemblages, pieced together from social (human-like) features like voice and gesture to technical (machine-like) features like graphics and glitches. Each chapter accounts for the empirical, theoretical, technical, and popular understandings of these avatar "components"—60 in total—altogether offering a nuanced explication of avatars-as-assemblages as they matter in contemporary society and in individual experience. The volume is a "crossover" piece in that, while it delves into complex ideas, it is written in a way that will be accessible and interesting to students, researchers, designers, and practitioners alike.
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Keywords: | Avatars; Gesture; Movement; Videogaming; Presence; Bodies | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Leeds | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications | ||||
Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2017 12:06 | ||||
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2018 01:38 | ||||
Published Version: | https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/77825 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Publisher: | Peter Lang | ||||
Series Name: | Digital Formations | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4331-3829-4 |