Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human Paperback - 2015
by Tom Boellstorff; Preface by Tom Boellstorff
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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
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- Title Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
- Author Tom Boellstorff; Preface by Tom Boellstorff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New
- Pages 348
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2015-08-25
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
- ISBN 9780691168340 / 0691168342
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Internet, Virtual reality
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.8
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