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Coming of Age in Second Life
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Taschenbuch von Tom Boellstorff
Sprache: Englisch

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"Tom Boellstorff describes Second Life warmly and intelligently, highlighting its issues in a thought-provoking manner that is always backed up with evidence. There's an almost tangible depth to his analysis that makes it really stand out. This is just the kind of portrait of a virtual world that I've been waiting to see for years: a full-blooded, book-length tour de force."--Richard A. Bartle, author of Designing Virtual Worlds

"This is the first book to take a sustained look at an environment like Second Life from a purely anthropological perspective. It is sure to become the basis for a new conversation about how we study these spaces. It is impossible to read this book and not come away asking questions about how our lives are being transformed in very real ways by what is happening in the virtual."--Douglas Thomas, author of Hacker Culture

"Taking the bold step of conducting ethnographic fieldwork entirely 'inside' Second Life, Tom Boellstorff invites readers to meditate on the old and new meanings of the virtual and the human. He presses the inventive and compelling claim that anthropologists would do well to imagine culture itself as already harboring the notion of the virtual. Boellstorff argues that being 'virtually human' is what we have been all along."--Stefan Helmreich, author of Silicon Second Nature

"Tom Boellstorff describes Second Life warmly and intelligently, highlighting its issues in a thought-provoking manner that is always backed up with evidence. There's an almost tangible depth to his analysis that makes it really stand out. This is just the kind of portrait of a virtual world that I've been waiting to see for years: a full-blooded, book-length tour de force."--Richard A. Bartle, author of Designing Virtual Worlds

"This is the first book to take a sustained look at an environment like Second Life from a purely anthropological perspective. It is sure to become the basis for a new conversation about how we study these spaces. It is impossible to read this book and not come away asking questions about how our lives are being transformed in very real ways by what is happening in the virtual."--Douglas Thomas, author of Hacker Culture

"Taking the bold step of conducting ethnographic fieldwork entirely 'inside' Second Life, Tom Boellstorff invites readers to meditate on the old and new meanings of the virtual and the human. He presses the inventive and compelling claim that anthropologists would do well to imagine culture itself as already harboring the notion of the virtual. Boellstorff argues that being 'virtually human' is what we have been all along."--Stefan Helmreich, author of Silicon Second Nature

Über den Autor
Tom Boellstorff
With a new preface by the author
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691168340
ISBN-10: 0691168342
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Boellstorff, Tom
Zusammengestellt: Boellstorff, Tom
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 233 x 151 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Tom Boellstorff
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 104785045
Über den Autor
Tom Boellstorff
With a new preface by the author
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691168340
ISBN-10: 0691168342
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Boellstorff, Tom
Zusammengestellt: Boellstorff, Tom
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 233 x 151 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Tom Boellstorff
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 104785045
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