Reinventing ourselves : contemporary concepts of identity in virtual worlds

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Reinventing Ourselves:Contemporary Conceptsof Identity in Virtual Worlds; Acknowledgments; Author Biographies; Contents; Chapter 1: Virtual Worlds and Identity; 1.1 Avatars and Virtual Worlds; 1.2 Reinventing Ourselves; 1.3 Introduction: Identities, Avatars and the Relationship Between Them; 1.3.1 Identity: A Primer

Mark Childs; 1.3.2 The Self and Second Life, A Case Study Exploring the Emergence of Virtual Selves

Simon Evans; 1.3.3 Liminal Phases of Avatar Identity Formation in Virtual World Communities

Nicola Marae Martínez. 1.3.4 Encountering Oneself and the Other: A Case Study of Identity Formation in Second Life

Maeva Veerapen1.4 Factors That Support the Development of Identity in Virtual Worlds; 1.4.1 Virtual Fashion Play as Embodied Identity Re/Assembling: Second Life Fashion Bloggers and Their Avatar Body Images

Christine Liao; 1.4.2 Embodying Self in Virtual Worlds

Ali Mazalek, Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Michael Nitsche and Tim Welsh; 1.4.3 Is That Your Boyfriend? An Experiential and Theoretical Approach to Understanding Gender Bending in Virtual Worlds

Ferdinand Francino and Jane Guiller. 1.4.4 Constructing Disability in Online Worlds Conceptualising Disability in Online Research

Diane Carr; 1.5 Managing Multiple Identities Across Different Environments; 1.5.1 As Long as They Don't Know Where I Live

Poppy McLeod and Gilly Leshed; 1.5.2 Multiple Personality Order

Richard Gilbert, Jessica Foss and Nora Murphy; 1.5.3 Comparing Avatar and Video Representations

Ralph Schroeder; 1.6 Creating an Online Identity for a Physical World Purpose. 1.6.1 What Is My Avatar? Who Is My Avatar? The Avatar as a Device to Achieve a Goal: Perceptions and Implications

Marc Conrad, Alec Charles and Jo Neale1.6.2 Situated Learning in Virtual Worlds and Identity Reformation

Anne Adams, Lluisa Astruc, Cecilia Garrido and Breen Sweeney; 1.6.3 Virtual Worlds and Identity Exploration for Marginalised People

Jon Cabiria; 1.7 A Note on Keeping It Real; References; Chapter 2: Identity: A Primer; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Different Definitions of Identity; 2.3 Self-Informative Identity; 2.4 Masks and Faces: Presenting Ourselves to Others. 2.5 Self-Representation and Avatars2.6 The Creation of an Online Identity and the "True Self"; 2.7 Re-Representation and Role-Play; 2.8 Persistent and Evolving Online Identity; 2.9 Responses to Representation; 2.10 Self-Presence and Embodiment; 2.11 What Purpose Does Identity in Virtual Worlds Serve?; References; Chapter 3: The Self and Second Life: A Case Study Exploring the Emergence of Virtual Selves; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Review of Existing Literature; 3.2.1 Theoretical Background: The Self; 3.2.2 The Self in Virtual Worlds; 3.2.3 A Note: Social Psychological Research in Virtual Worlds