Coming of Age in Second Life : An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Boellstorff, Tom, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Edición:First new edition paperback.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Atarazanas > Valencia
Interaktive Medien
Society.
Second Life
Ethnologie
Virtuelle Realität
Virtual reality.
Second Life (Game)
Ethnology > Fieldwork.
Ethnology > Computer network resources.
Ethnology.
Internet.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
virtual reality.
Realite virtuelle.
Second Life (Jeu)
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Ethnologie > Multimedias interactifs.
Ethnology > Interactive multimedia.
Interactive multimedia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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