Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution (2011) .. by Jeremy Bailenson
Contents
Introduction … 1
1 Dream Machines … 9
2 A Museum of Virtual Media … 24
3 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall … 37
4 Winning Virtual Friends and Influencing Virtual People … 65
5 The Virtual Laboratory … 83
6 Who Am I? … 95
7 Re-creating Yourself … 109
8 Street Smarts … 122
9 Eternal Life … 138
10 Digital Footprints … 154
11 The Virtual “Jones” … 169
12 Virtually Useful … 191
13 Virtual Yin and Yang … 227
14 More Human Than Human … 256
Acknowledgments … 263
Notes … 269
Index … 292