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

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2014

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781137490605
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Computers and Internet
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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