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An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion: The Veneration of Deceased Family in Online Games

By William Sims Bainbridge (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-349-50438-1, 978-1-137-49059-9
DOI
10.1057/9781137490599
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
981 kB (1004263 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture
Edition
1
Pages
X, 133\144
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
general;Cultural StudiesReligion and Society;Social Aspects of Religion;So

Description

This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online.

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