The “metaverse” has gained immense attention as the next internet frontier, holding
significant economic implications, especially for the IT sector. To establish the groundwork …

User embodiment is important for many virtual reality (VR) applications, for example, in the
context of social interaction, therapy, training, or entertainment. However, there is no data …

Understanding Digital Literacies Second Edition provides an accessible and timely
introduction to new media literacies. This book equips students with the theoretical and …

Electronic sports (eSports) and other variants of 'digital sports' have increased in popularity
all over the world and may even come to challenge hegemonic concepts of sport. More …

This article proposes the concept of “plaything” as an instrument to inquire on the ontology
and epistemology of the things we play with. Extending Barad's (2007) onto-epistemology …

The purpose of this article is to introduce readers to phenomenological inquiry, an inductive
qualitative research approach that is rooted in the philosophical proposition that researchers …

The practice of designing Interactive Digital Narratives [IDN] is often described as a
challenge facing issues such as the “narrative paradox” and avoiding the unintentional …

As screen-based virtual worlds have gradually begun facilitating more and more of our
social interactions, some researchers have argued that the virtual worlds of these …

Like other games in its series, Assassin's Creed III (AC3) is heavily invested in a
wellresearched, nuanced representation of historical conflicts. Yet as with any historical text …

Critics have argued that human-controlled avatar interactions fail to facilitate the kinds of
expressivity and social understanding afforded by our physical bodies. We identify three …