Virtual Worldmaking: A Phantasmal Media Approach to VRChat

Social VR expresses human subjectivities on multiple scales, from within its computational structure to interpersonally between users. Theorizing bodies as situated, distributed, and imbued with affect, this thesis analyzes how the systemic proliferation of the “anime girl” avatar in the social VR p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Andrea Shinyoung
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139259