Representing bodies in virtual space: The rhetoric of avatar design

Information Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 177-186

  Kolko, Beth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Avatar; Computer mediated communication; Gender; Graphical virtual reality; HCI; Multimodal communication; Rhetoric; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033240624     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019722499128484     Document Type: Article

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