Avatars As Communicators Of Emotions
ScienceDaily (July 10, 2008) — ''Current interactive systems enable users to communicate with computers in many ways, but not taking into account emotional communication.''
An Avatar is a user or creators representation of him/herself, which is used as a virtual person in chat rooms, cyber world, forums or in video or internet games.
I find the idea of having a virtual me that i've created fun, but maybe thats because i'm a teenager, you know, the whole thing about avatars is you control your destiny, for the stereotypical 45 year old social outcast who say, lives with his parents, having an avatar is a way to be everything he wants to be, online he can transform into a rich good looking twenty-something, with a model for a wife and a two perfect children with whom he travels the world in his private jet. Whereas for me creating an avatar is enjoyable for the simple fact that i can dress it up in cute outfits and control it's every move making it do crazy things that i would'nt dare do in real life.
However whether people create an avatar to escape their terrible home lives for hours or if it's just a innocent form of ''big kid play'', those who create avatars are consiencely or sub-consiencely playing out their hopes and dreams or simply what they wish to experience without the repercussions that real life offers.
The topic of Avatars has been treated as something outrageous and unrealistic, as if only the weirdest people would take part in something that has actually changed modern day culture. I feel people don't gage why others have avatars, journalist have conducted reports from a purely superficial point of view, only looking at avatars as a type of game or activity and not as a second life, which it has become to many.
Many forums such as GAMETRAILERS.COM and ANSWERBAG.COM currently have debates on whether Avatars are positive or negative , personally I believe it depends on the indivisual, how it affects your life and how serious this pixelized you is taken .
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