TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen,David
TI  - Player and avatar: the affective potential of videogames 
T2  - Studies in gaming
SN  - 9781476667195 (softcover : alk. paper)
AV  - GV1469.3 .O94 2017
U1  - 794.8 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
KW  - Video games
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Avatars (Virtual reality)
KW  - Online identities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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.""--
ER  -