Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation (Hardcover)

B. Coleman

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2011-11-11
  • 售價: $1,620
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,588
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262015714
  • ISBN-13: 9780262015714
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商品描述

Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and off-, what she calls the "x-reality" that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neither virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express our new agency--our new power to customize our networked life. By avatar, Coleman means not just the animated figures that populate our screens but the gestalt of images, text, and multimedia that make up our online identities--in virtual worlds like Second Life and in the form of email, video chat, and other digital artifacts. Exploring such network activities as embodiment, extreme (virtual) violence, and the work in virtual reality labs, and offering sidebar interviews with designers and practitioners, she argues that what is new is real-time collaboration and copresence, the way we make connections using networked media and the cultures we have created around this. The star of this drama of expanded horizons is the networked subject--all of us who represent aspects of ourselves and our work across the mediascape.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「哈囉,阿凡達!或者說,{llSay(0, '哈囉,阿凡達!'); 是一段小巧且使用者友善的程式碼,讓我們能夠編寫我們的虛擬自我。在《哈囉,阿凡達!》一書中,B.科爾曼探討了我們從類比到數位的文化轉變中一個重要的方面:在線上和離線之間的連續性,她稱之為跨越虛擬和真實的「x-現實」。她觀察到一個既非虛擬也非真實,而是包含多種網絡組合的世界的出現。她主張,阿凡達的角色是幫助我們表達我們的新能力-自定義我們的網絡生活。科爾曼所指的阿凡達不僅僅是出現在我們屏幕上的動畫角色,還包括構成我們在線身份的圖像、文字和多媒體元素-在第二人生等虛擬世界中,以及電子郵件、視頻聊天和其他數位工具中。她探討了身體化、極端(虛擬)暴力以及虛擬現實實驗室中的工作等網絡活動,並提供了與設計師和從業人員的旁白訪談。她主張,新的特點是實時協作和共存,以及我們使用網絡媒體建立連接和創造的文化。這個擴展視野的劇情的主角是網絡主體-我們所有代表自己和工作方面的人,在媒體風景中展現。」