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