Coming of age in Second Life, an anthropologist explores the virtually human, Tom Boellstorff
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Coming of age in Second Life, an anthropologist explores the virtually human, Tom Boellstorff
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Coming of age in Second Life
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bibliography
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Tom Boellstorff
Sub title
an anthropologist explores the virtually human
Table Of Contents
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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