An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion
Autor: | W. Bainbridge |
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EAN: | 9781137490599 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 12.07.2016 |
Untertitel: | The Veneration of Deceased Family in Online Games |
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Schlagworte: | avatar computer game cyber-human systems death human-computer interaction information technology online religion resurrection role-play social computing technology virtual world |
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This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online.
William Sims Bainbridge is Director, Cyber-Human Systems Program, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA.
William Sims Bainbridge is Director, Cyber-Human Systems Program, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA.