Reimagining the Avatar Dream: Modeling Social Identity in Digital Media.
The article discusses research on the use of avatars in digital media as an aspect of social identity, addressing the notion of the Avatar Dream. Topics include the relation of physical identity to virtual identity; the relation of racial and gender stereotypes to online game avatars; and Chimeria p...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 50 - 62 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2017
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| Sumario: | The article discusses research on the use of avatars in digital media as an aspect of social identity, addressing the notion of the Avatar Dream. Topics include the relation of physical identity to virtual identity; the relation of racial and gender stereotypes to online game avatars; and Chimeria platform application interfaces, domain epistemologies, and applications. |
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