William S. Bainbridge

Gebundenes Buch

An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion

The Veneration of Deceased Family in Online Games

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

William Sims Bainbridge is Director, Cyber-Human Systems Program, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-49054-4
• 2014 edition
• Seitenzahl: 133
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781137490544
• ISBN-10: 1137490543
• Artikelnr.: 41645219