Identity and Agency


Chapter 10 deals with issues of identity and agency as they concern both Virtual Humans and those interacting with them with virtual environments.

We'll post useful models and additional analysis here.





Selected References


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Savin-Baden, M., Tombs, G., Burden, D and Wood, C. (2013). ‘It’s almost like talking to a person: student disclosure to pedagogical agents in sensitive settings’. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 5(2), 78-93.

Savin-Baden, M. (2015). Rethinking Learning in an Age of Digital Fluency Is being Digitally Tethered a New Learning Nexus? London: Routledge.

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