A01=Zach Waggoner
Author_Zach Waggoner
Category=UGG
Category=UYZ
Category=WDHW
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Product details
- ISBN 9780786441099
- Weight: 290g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2009
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With videogames now one of the world's most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological influence on real-world players. This book examines the relationships between virtual and non-virtual identity in visual role-playing games. Utilizing James Gee's theoretical constructs of real-world identity, virtual-world identity, and projective identity, this research shows dynamic, varying and complex relationships between the virtual avatar and the player's sense of self and makes recommendations of terminology for future identity researchers.
Zach Waggoner has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Arizona State University. He is Course Coordinator for The Writers’ Studio at Arizona State University and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
