Embodied narrative: The virtual nomad and the meta dreamer

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 209-222

  Doyle, Denise ^a   Kim, Taey ^b  

^a Digital Media Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Metadata; Non human body web 2.0; UGC (user generated contents); Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008756579     PISSN: 14794713     EISSN: 20400934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/padm.3.2-3.209_1     Document Type: Article

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