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..
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.