Banca de DEFESA: ITALO SILVA BERNARDES

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ITALO SILVA BERNARDES
DATE: 26/09/2022
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: PLATAFORMA TEAMS
TITLE:

Avatar: interaction aesthetics and the character-player

KEY WORDS:

avatar, reader, character, representation, identification, aesthetics, interaction.

PAGES: 79
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This dissertation will address the avatar in digital games, under the argument that it operates in a hybrid manner between player and character. Treating the player as reader and the game as text provides implications that lay the course for the avatar to be dissected in its formal attributes. The "reader-character" perspective foments a discussion that is supported by how these entities are treated by literary studies, especially regarding the possible outlines concerning concepts such as representation, identification, and aesthetics. From those considerations and subsequent analysis, there’s a tensioning of W.J.T. Mitchell's atomistic representational model and the formulation of defining attributes of the avatar follows, whose consequences serve as a tool to postulate a category of "aesthetics of interaction" that would facilitate the understanding of games as contemporary fictional instruments.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - GABRIEL VICTOR ROCHA PINEZI
Presidente - 1867895 - ANDERSON LUIS NUNES DA MATA
Interna - 6414821 - CINTIA CARLA MOREIRA SCHWANTES
Interna - 1247419 - PATRICIA TRINDADE NAKAGOME