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Screenshot of some of my resources collected in RefWorks Link to my first resource Object, Me, Symbiote, Other: A social typology of player-avatar relationships by Jaime Banks. First Monday , Volume 20, Number 2 - 2 February 2015 The author looks at the outlook of the player to avatar connection and examines if their relationship can be seen as a variably social relationship or not. This resource points out that the player and avatar relationship can be very strong when a player has the ability to customize their avatar which leads to a stronger connection. The article looks deep into the PAR ( the player and avatar relationship) to discover if this relationship can ever so often be called a social relationship. As the avatar is non a real person it is said to be non-existing outside the player's mind. To further develop the research of the PARs and to establish if these relationships are capable to be social relationships an investigation was done. The players of the MMO (World o...