What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games: Revised and Commented Edition

Klevjer, Rune

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dc.contributor.author	Klevjer, Rune	de
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-11T13:07:28Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-11T13:07:28Z
dc.date.issued	2022	de
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-8394-4579-2	de
dc.identifier.issn	2750-3747	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/83813
dc.description.abstract	What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? The author examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, the author argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.publisher	transcript Verlag	de
dc.subject.ddc	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject.ddc	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject.other	Videogames; Avatar; Fictionality; Cinema; Media Studies	de
dc.title	What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games: Revised and Commented Edition	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet	de
dc.description.review	reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839445792.pdf	de
dc.source.volume	3	de
dc.publisher.country	DEU	de
dc.publisher.city	Bielefeld	de
dc.source.series	Game Studies
dc.subject.classoz	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject.classoz	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Computerspiel	de
dc.subject.thesoz	computer game	en
dc.subject.thesoz	virtuelle Realität	de
dc.subject.thesoz	virtual reality	en
dc.subject.thesoz	interaktive Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	interactive media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Ästhetik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	aesthetics	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Fiktion	de
dc.subject.thesoz	fiction (imagination)	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Medientheorie	de
dc.subject.thesoz	media theory	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-83813-6
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0	en
ssoar.contributor.institution	transcript Verlag	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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internal.identifier.thesoz	10056015
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internal.identifier.thesoz	10051928
dc.type.stock	monograph	de
dc.type.document	Monographie	de
dc.type.document	monograph	en
dc.source.pageinfo	240	de
internal.identifier.classoz	1080404
internal.identifier.document	20
internal.identifier.ddc	070
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445792	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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internal.identifier.review	2
internal.identifier.series	1946
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