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 in the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He applied the methods of anthropology to study man...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He applied the methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 316 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780691135281 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
PART I: SETTING THE VIRTUAL STAGE l
CHAPTER l: THE SUBJECT AND SCOPE OF THIS INQUIRY
3
Arrivals and departures
—
Everyday Second Life
—
Terms
of discussion
—
The emergence of virtual worlds
—
The
posthuman
and the human
—
What this, a book, does.
CHAPTER
2:
HISTORY
32
Prehistories of the virtual
—
Histories of virtual technol¬
ogy
—
A personal virtual history
—
Histories of virtual
worlds
—
Histories of cybersociality research
—
Techne.
CHAPTER
3:
METHOD 6O
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
87
CHAPTER
4:
PLACE AND TIME
89
Visuality and land
—
Builds and objects
—
Lag
—
Afk
—
immersion
—
Presence.
chapters: personhood
118
The self—The life course
—
Avatars and alts
—
Embodi¬
ment
—
Gender and race
—
Agency.
CHAPTER
6:
INTIMACY
151
Language
—
Friendship
—
Sexuality
—
Love
—
Family
—
Addiction.
CHAPTER
7:
COMMUNITY I79
The event
—
The group
—
Kindness
—
Griefing
—
Between
virtual worlds
—
Beyond virtual worlds.
PART III: THE AGE OF TECHNE
203
CHAPTER
8:
POLITICAL ECONOMY
205
Creationist capitalism
—
Money and labor
—
Property
—
Governance
—
Inequality
—
Platform and social form.
CHAPTER
9:
THE VIRTUAL
237
The virtual human
—
Culture and the online
—
Simula¬
tion
—
Fiction and design
—
The massively multiple
—
Toward an anthropology of virtual worlds.
Glossary
251
Notes
255
Works Cited
2/1
Index
303
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| adam_txt |
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
PART I: SETTING THE VIRTUAL STAGE l
CHAPTER l: THE SUBJECT AND SCOPE OF THIS INQUIRY
3
Arrivals and departures
—
Everyday Second Life
—
Terms
of discussion
—
The emergence of virtual worlds
—
The
posthuman
and the human
—
What this, a book, does.
CHAPTER
2:
HISTORY
32
Prehistories of the virtual
—
Histories of virtual technol¬
ogy
—
A personal virtual history
—
Histories of virtual
worlds
—
Histories of cybersociality research
—
Techne.
CHAPTER
3:
METHOD 6O
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
87
CHAPTER
4:
PLACE AND TIME
89
Visuality and land
—
Builds and objects
—
Lag
—
Afk
—
immersion
—
Presence.
chapters: personhood
118
The self—The life course
—
Avatars and alts
—
Embodi¬
ment
—
Gender and race
—
Agency.
CHAPTER
6:
INTIMACY
151
Language
—
Friendship
—
Sexuality
—
Love
—
Family
—
Addiction.
CHAPTER
7:
COMMUNITY I79
The event
—
The group
—
Kindness
—
Griefing
—
Between
virtual worlds
—
Beyond virtual worlds.
PART III: THE AGE OF TECHNE
203
CHAPTER
8:
POLITICAL ECONOMY
205
Creationist capitalism
—
Money and labor
—
Property
—
Governance
—
Inequality
—
Platform and social form.
CHAPTER
9:
THE VIRTUAL
237
The virtual human
—
Culture and the online
—
Simula¬
tion
—
Fiction and design
—
The massively multiple
—
Toward an anthropology of virtual worlds.
Glossary
251
Notes
255
Works Cited
2/1
Index
303 |
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