1st Edition
Creating Second Lives Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual
Introduction, Eben Muse and Astrid Ensslin Part I: Creating Second Communities Chapter One: Liberate your Avatar: The Revolution Will Be Socially Networked, Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould Chapter Two: An Imagined Community of Avatars? A Theoretical Interrogation of Second Life™ as Nation through the Lens of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Kevin Miguel Sherman Chapter Three: Programming Processes: Controlling Second Lives, Elizabeth Burgess Part II: Creating Second Identities Chapter Four: Embodiment and Gender Identity in Virtual Worlds: Reconfiguring our ‘Volatile Bodies’, Sonia Fizek and Monika Wasilewska Chapter Five: The Body of the Avatar: Constructing Human Presence in Virtual Worlds, Denise Doyle Chapter Six: The Grips of Fantasy: The Construction of Female Characters in and beyond Virtual Game Worlds, Isamar Carrillo Masso Part III: Creating Second Spaces Chapter Seven: Second Chances: Depictions of the Natural World in Second Life™, Joseph S. Clark Chapter Eight: Avatar Needs and the Remediation of Architecture in Second Life™, Astrid Ensslin Chapter Nine: The Event of Space: Defining Place in a Virtual Landscape, Eben Muse Afterword, Tom Boellstorff
Biography
Astrid Ensslin is Lecturer in Digital Communication, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University.
Eben Muse is Lecturer in Interactive Media, School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor University.
