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Virtual environments and cultures : a collection of social anthropological research in virtual cultures and landscapes / Urte Undine Frömming [editor].

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Virtual environments and cultures : a collection of social anthropological research in virtual cultures and landscapes / Urte Undine Frömming [editor].
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, [2013]

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Frömming, Urte Undine
Description
265 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Summary
Virtual reality is no longer an issue that we can avoid or ignore. It is an essential part of our experience, influencing cultures and individuals all over the world. This book presents a collection of ethnographic research in the virtual world of Second Life, and can be seen as an attempt to discover the challenges and limits of social anthropological research with an avatar in virtual cultures and environments. The contributions in this book demonstrate that the development of "digital codes" has meanwhile gone so far that anthropologists have started to conduct fieldwork inside digital user-generated worlds. This volume investigates the challenges facing a reality that is strongly and maybe irrevocably entangled with virtual reality. This development holds disadvantages and dangers but advantages as well - such as freedom of expressions for minority groups, social online activists, religious communities or artists. All research is based on qualitative methods, with group and single interview situations and participant observation over a period of between three and ten months. Book jacket.
Subject
  • Ethnology > Research
  • Shared virtual environments > Research
  • Virtual reality > Research
  • Second Life (Game) > Social aspects
  • Video games > Social aspects
  • Virtual reality > Social aspects
  • Online identities
  • Second Life
  • Virtuelle Realität
  • Sozialanthropologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Entangled Realities in Virtuality / Urte Undine Frömming Frömming, Urte Undine 23 -- Chapter I Appropriation, Construction, and Imagination of Landscape, Space and Place in Virtual Worlds 35 -- [Dis]orientation: Mapping in Second Life / Emily Smith Smith, Emily 37 -- Form Wilderness to Virtuality: Virtual Nature and Landscape in Second Life / Christina Voigt Voigt, Christina 51 -- Place and Non-Place in Second Life / Josefine Borrmann Borrmann, Josefine 63 -- Chapter II Gender, Belonging, and Motherhood in Virtual Cultures 73 -- Waiting for Zowie: Notes from the Digital Uterus / Alina Trebbin Trebbin, Alina 75 -- Crossing Boundaries or Reinforcing Norms? Gender Performances in Second Life / Sarah Kiani Kiani, Sarah 93 -- The Amazon of Aquarius: An Ethnographic Journey Through Gender Issues in Second Life / Elena Quintarelli Quintarelli, Elena 105 -- Queer and Trans Experience in Second Life: An Experimental Dialogue / Emma Corbett-Ashby Corbett-Ashby, Emma 119 -- Virtual Romance: Love Relationships in Second Life / Katharina Frucht Frucht, Katharina 131 -- Furries / Julia Zaremba Zaremba, Julia 141 -- Chapter III Religiosity in Virtual Worlds 149 -- Cyberspace and the Sacred / Ranty R. Islam Islam, Ranty R. 151 -- Religiosity in a Virtual World: Reasons and Motivations / Thomas John John, Thomas 165 -- Muslims and the Virtual / Manizhe Ali Ali, Manizhe 177 -- Tabernacle in the Wilderness: Hierophany in Virtual Space / Mike Terry Terry, Mike 189 -- Chapter IV Conflicts and Activism in Virtual Worlds 201 -- Virtual Representations of the Middle East Conflict / Tobias R. Becker Becker, Tobias R. 203 -- Becoming an Activist in Virtual Worlds -- Experiences of Social Activism in Second Life / Sara Ferrari Ferrari, Sara, Tiina Kivelä Kivelä, Tiina 213 -- Chapter V Art Production and Artists in Second Life 223 -- Listen to the Radio: AM Radio, Second Life, and Innovations in an Emerging Medium / Samantha Fox Fox, Samantha 225 -- Art Production and its Conceptual Systems in Second Life / Lidia Rossner Rossner, Lidia 233 -- Second Life: Exploring Virtual Space and its Creative Possibilities / Jordana Goldmann Goldmann, Jordana 247 -- The Story of a Digital Samurai / Fidel Devkota Devkota, Fidel 257.
ISBN
  • 9783631630006
  • 363163000X
LCCN
^^2013004775
OCLC
  • 846518791
  • SCSB-12361371
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library