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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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 50 - 62
Main Authors: HARRELL, D. FOX, CHONG-U LIM
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2017
Subjects:
Avatars (Virtual reality)
Online identities
Gender stereotypes
Racism
Video games
Application software
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.