An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion: The Veneration of Deceased Family in Online Games

Product Description


This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online.


About the Author


William Sims Bainbridge is Director, Cyber-Human Systems Program, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA.