HELLO AVATAR

Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar!)/ is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural shift from analog to digital: the continuum between online and of f-, what she calls the x-reality that crosses between the virtual and the real. She looks at the emergence of a world that is neithe r virtual nor real but encompasses a multiplicity of network combinations. And she argues that it is the role of the avatar to help us express...[Read more]