Avatares em rede: comunicação, mobilidade e transformação

Abstract

Research on the avatar: notions, contexts, media, functions and its correlated processes, from Hinduism (± 500 BC) to Computer Science (since 1970). Critical reasoning about the main conceptualizations of avatar in fields as Cyberculture, Game Studies, New Media and Software Studies. Introduction and analysis on the type of avatars, its proprieties and dynamics most commonly used in 3D platform Second Life (Linden Lab, 2003). Empirical research on the main processes involved during interactions between users, avatars and Second Life platform‘s events. Considerations on the presence of avatar in Contemporary Technoculture, according to New Psychoanalysis‘s communication theory emerged in the 1980s, called Transformatic. Finally, the avatar understood in scalability terms, as part of a hardly measurable complex network, and with a functioning that can make the emergence of processes of communication, mobility and transformation.