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Living and Dying in a Virtual World : Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life Hard cover - 2018
by Margaret Gibson
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- Title Living and Dying in a Virtual World : Digital Kinships, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life
- Author Margaret Gibson
- Binding Hard Cover
- Condition New
- Pages 154
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
- Date 2018-08-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9783319760988_pod
- ISBN 9783319760988 / 331976098X
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.44 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 1.12 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 201.7
From the rear cover
This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. At fourteen years old, Second Life can no longer be perceived as the young, cutting-edge environment it once was, and yet it endures as a place of belonging, fun, role-play and social experimentation. In this volume, the authors argue that far from facing an impending death, Second Life has undergone a transition to maturity and holds a new type of significance. As people increasingly explore and co-create a sense of self and ways of belonging through avatars and computer screens, the question of where and how people live and die becomes increasingly more important to understand. This book shows how a virtual world can change lives and create forms of memory, nostalgia and mourning for both real and avatar based lives.