EAN: 9783319760988

LIVING AND DYING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - MARGARET ...

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.

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