Player and avatar : the affective potential of videogames / David Owen.

By:

Owen, David, 1970-

Series: Studies in gamingPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]Description: vii, 230 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781476667195 (softcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

794.8 23

LOC classification:

GV1469.3 .O94 2017

Summary: "The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of video games, including affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate--the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling whose dynamics suggest a fulfillment of dramatist Atonin Artaud's vision of the "body without organs.""-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of video games, including affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate--the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling whose dynamics suggest a fulfillment of dramatist Atonin Artaud's vision of the "body without organs.""-- Provided by publisher.