Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games

Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen

doi:10.4324/9780429422508-11

Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games

Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen

Institut for Kommunikation

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Abstract

Andreas Gregersen provides an account of how players might be said to “identify” with video game avatars. Through a case study of The Witcher 3, the possibility of an isomorphic relation between the virtual body of a video game character and the player’s actual body is explored.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Screening Characters : Theories of Character in Film, Television, and Interactive Media
Redaktører	Johannes Riis, Aaron Taylor
Antal sider	14
Forlag	Routledge
Publikationsdato	2020
Sider	174-188
Artikelnummer	10
Kapitel	3
ISBN (Trykt)	9781138391826
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422508-11
Status	Udgivet - 2020

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