Heroism, Gaming, and the Rhetoric of Immortality
This dissertation examines rhetorics of heroism and immortality as they are negotiated through a variety of (new) media contexts. The dissertation demonstrates that media technologies in general, and videogames in particular, serve an existential or “death denying” function, which insulates individu...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7693 |