Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds

Over the last 30 years there has been an expansion of network mediated social activities, and an accompanying explosion of research interest into the poetics of networked communication. Of particular interest is the rise of what have come to be known as “virtual worlds”: persistent graphical environ...

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description Over the last 30 years there has been an expansion of network mediated social activities, and an accompanying explosion of research interest into the poetics of networked communication. Of particular interest is the rise of what have come to be known as “virtual worlds”: persistent graphical environments populated (and often partially authored) by large communities of individual users. Interactors in these worlds are embodied as avatars: digital puppets or representations through which the user exerts his or her will on the environment. It is this virtual embodiment that makes today’s virtual worlds so interesting. With virtual embodiment comes a host of new and important communicative possibilities, and an assortment of new challenges and literacies including a wide range of nonverbal communication behaviors and non-linguistic social signaling options. In this book, we begin the work of articulating the challenges and possibilities for non-verbal communication in virtual worlds. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, we consider the past, present, and future of human communication online.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1773182026-06-06T22:01:07Z Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean El-Nasr, Magy Seif Nixon, Michael education, games, performance, communication, non-vernal thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology::JMHC Interpersonal communication and skills Over the last 30 years there has been an expansion of network mediated social activities, and an accompanying explosion of research interest into the poetics of networked communication. Of particular interest is the rise of what have come to be known as “virtual worlds”: persistent graphical environments populated (and often partially authored) by large communities of individual users. Interactors in these worlds are embodied as avatars: digital puppets or representations through which the user exerts his or her will on the environment. It is this virtual embodiment that makes today’s virtual worlds so interesting. With virtual embodiment comes a host of new and important communicative possibilities, and an assortment of new challenges and literacies including a wide range of nonverbal communication behaviors and non-linguistic social signaling options. In this book, we begin the work of articulating the challenges and possibilities for non-verbal communication in virtual worlds. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, we consider the past, present, and future of human communication online. Published 2026-06-06T22:01:05Z 2026-06-06T22:01:05Z 2026-03-11 book 978-1-105-52229-1 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177318 eng image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://playstorypress.org/books/virtual-body-language/ https://playstorypress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/VirtualBodyLanguageCover-copy.png Play Story Press Play Story Press 10.17613/j2red-v8t39 10.17613/j2red-v8t39 b81bccd1-e4f6-45a3-a336-f32dd4e6af5d 978-1-105-52229-1 ScholarLed Play Story Press Pittsburgh, PA open access
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Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds
title Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds
title_full Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds
title_fullStr Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds
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title_short Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds
title_sort nonverbal communication in virtual worlds
topic education, games, performance, communication, non-vernal
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology::JMHC Interpersonal communication and skills
topic_facet education, games, performance, communication, non-vernal
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology::JMHC Interpersonal communication and skills
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