The submissive speaks: The semiotics of visuality in virtual BDSM fantasy play

Proceedings - Sandbox Symposium 2006: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium, Sandbox '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 99-102

  Bardzell, Shaowen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fantasy; metaverse; social semiotics; virtual BDSM; visuality

Indexed keywords

FANTASY; GAME TECHNOLOGIES; INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE; POWER DYNAMICS; SECOND LIFE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SEMIOTICS;

EID: 34748846188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183316.1183330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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