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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. Coming of Age in Second Life is the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous 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. Coming of Age in Second Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself.
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9780691135281 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 21, 2008, cover price $42.00
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9780691146270 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 22, 2010, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds.
9780536017796, titled "Introduction to Computers & Networks" | Ginn Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $55.40 | also contains Introduction to Computers & Networks
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9781400829729 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 7, 2010, cover price $22.95
Product Description: The advent of social media offers anthropologists exciting opportunities to extend their research to communities in fresh ways. At the same time, these technological developments open up anthropological fieldwork to different hazards...read more
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9780415821742 | Routledge, August 19, 2014, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: The advent of social media offers anthropologists exciting opportunities to extend their research to communities in fresh ways.
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9780415821759 | Routledge, August 18, 2014, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The advent of social media offers anthropologists exciting opportunities to extend their research to communities in fresh ways.
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9780691149509 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 4, 2012, cover price $77.00
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9780691149516 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $24.95
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9781848606449 | Sage Pubns Ltd, December 22, 2009, cover price $143.00
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9781848606456 | Sage Pubns Ltd, December 22, 2009, cover price $66.00
9780155073104, titled "Harbrace College Handbook: Brief" | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | also contains Harbrace College Handbook: Brief
Product Description: The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied...read more
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9780822342618 | Duke Univ Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives.
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9780822342830 | Duke Univ Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives.
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9780761960973 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 23, 2005, cover price $175.00
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9780155073104 | Harcourt College Pub, January 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | also contains Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online
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