Hello Avatar - Rise of the Networked Generation

An examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In By avatar, Coleman means not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities--in virtual worlds like Second Life and in the form of email, video chat, and other digital artifacts. Exploring such network activities as embodiment, extreme (virtual) violence, and the work in virtual reality labs, and offering sidebar interviews with designers and practitioners, she argues that what is new is real-time collaboration and copresence, the way we make connections using networked media and the cultures we have created around this. The star of this drama of expanded horizons is the networked subject--all of us who represent aspects of ourselves and our work across the mediascape.

Product details

• Authors: B Coleman, B. Coleman, Coleman B., Clay Shirky
• Assisted by: Shirky Clay (Foreword)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9780262549899
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54989-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Guides; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Human–computer interaction, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), COMPUTERS / Social Aspects