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Liminal Phases of Avatar Identity Formation in Virtual World Communities

August 7th, 2011 | Author: Ragitake

In 2007-2009, I was conducting research and giving presentations on community building and community management on the Isle of Wyrms. I recently combined that work with some of my research on avatar agency and autonomy for a chapter in a book on avatar identity that just came out.

My chapter is “Liminal Phases of Avatar Identity Formation in Virtual World Communities”
in Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds,
edited by Anna Peachey and Mark Childs: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r579q311805q356r/,
also available via Google Books:http://bit.ly/pj9bo2.

From the abstract: This chapter examines the early phases of entrance into virtual worlds as a “newbie” avatar within the framework of van Gennep and Turner’s liminal phases of neophyte initiation rituals. This analysis of the avatar in liminal states examines how, even in seemingly anarchistic virtual worlds such as Second Life™, social norms and sanctions emerge to influence avatar identity formation and persistence. Observations on avatar identity development in liminal phases are drawn from the author’s research studies of avatars becoming initiated into dragonhood conducted on the Isle of Wyrms in Second Life™ from 2007 to 2009. Theoretical underpinnings of the chapter are illustrated using case studies highlighting key liminal phases of avatar development.

Stay tuned for news on other forthcoming publications, as well as tidbits on my new OS virtual worlds project.

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