Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities

ISBN-13: 9781032055039 / Angielski

Poppy Wilde

Opis

Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of entangled subjectivity, affects and embodiments – what it means and how it feels to be posthuman.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Proposing the Posthuman Gamer

Chapter 3: Who am "I"? Troubling the Self

Chapter 4: From Acting to Intra-Acting

Chapter 5: Enacting and Embodying Empathy

Chapter 6: Emergent Subject Positions

Chapter 7: From Emergence to (Susp)endings

Chapter 8: A Contingent Conclusion

O autorze

Poppy Wilde is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University, UK. Her work focuses on what it means and how it feels to be posthuman, by exploring how posthuman subjectivities are entangled and embodied.