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Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds (repost)

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Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds (repost)

Anna Peachey, Mark Childs, "Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds"
S ger | 2011 | ISBN: 0857293605 | 335 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Virtual worlds are impacting on the lives of millions of people, reaching from communication to education, recreation to business. A significant aspect of these environments is the requirement for users to create an avatar, a character to represent their interactions inworld. Because activity within virtual worlds can be anonymous, and the appearance of these avatars completely malleable, within such spaces we can be whatever we choose to be. Once decoupled from who we physically are, our notion of individual identity is potentially unlimited. Virtual worlds are therefore becoming arenas for experimentation with, and exploration of, identity.

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