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An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion

The Veneration of Deceased Family in Online Games

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  • © 2014

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (CRPC)

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This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest to the recent Elder Scrolls Online.

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William Sims Bainbridge is Director, Cyber-Human Systems Program, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA.

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