Author:
Owen, David, 1970- author.
ImprintJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Descriptionvii, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Digital like me -- The gamer as cyborg -- The illusion of agency in a virtual environment -- Winning the hearts and thumbs of the people.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
Note:"The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of video games, including affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate--the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling whose dynamics suggest a fulfillment of dramatist Atonin Artaud's vision of the "body without organs.""-- Provided by publisher.
