online gaming, avatars and identity
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gui, Wei
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- Digitaal
- Thesaurus
- games, gender, lichamen, identiteit, internet, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw, proefschrift
- Description
- 'This dissertation employs the avatar, the virtual character in online games, as an exploration object: it upholds the perspective of embodiment: it scrutinizes the concepts of the body, sex, and gender, in online gaming: it aims to to find out more about the changes in the issue of identification in the information era, and unifies its finding through the prism of synchronicity.'