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Coming of Age in Second Life : An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human /
"Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents. He conducted his research in exactly the same way anthropologists study cultures and social groups in the so-called real world to explore issues of gender, race, sex, money, con...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First new edition paperback. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1. Setting the virtual stage : 1. The subject and scope of this inquiry : Arrivals and departures ; Everyday Second Life ; Terms of discussion ; The emergence of virtual worlds ; The posthuman and the human ; What this, a book, does -- 2. History : Prehistories of the virtual ; Histories of virtual technology ; A personal virtual history ; Histories of virtual worlds ; Histories of cybersociality research ; Techne -- 3. Method : Virtual worlds in their own terms ; Anthropology and ethnography ; Participant observation ; Interviews, focus groups, and beyond the platform ; Ethics ; Claims and reflexivity -- Part II. culture in a virtual world : 4. Place and time : Visuality and land ; Builds and objects ; Lag ; Afk ; Immersion ; Presence -- 5. Personhood : The self ; The life course ; Avatars and alts ; Embodiment ; Gender and race ; Agency -- 6. Intimacy : Language ; Friendship ; Sexuality ; Love ; Family ; Addiction -- 7. Community : The event ; The group ; Kindness ; Griefing ; Between virtual worlds ; Beyond virtual worlds. Part III. The age of techne : 8. Political economy : Creationist capitalism ; Money and labor ; Property ; Governance ; Inequality ; Platform and social form : 9. The virtual : The virtual human ; Culture and the online ; Simulation ; Fiction and design ; The massively multiple ; Toward an anthropology of virtual worlds -- Glossary. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents. He conducted his research in exactly the same way anthropologists study cultures and social groups in the so-called real world to explore issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group. Now with a new preface in which the autor places his book in light of hte most recent transformations in online culture, Coming of age in Second Life remains the clasic ethnography of virtual worlds"-- |c Page 4 of cover. | |
| 586 | |a Honorable Mention, 2008 PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers. | ||
| 586 | |a Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association. | ||
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