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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 265 pages, b&w and colour photos in text, NOT ex-library. Book shows little wear, one straightened corner fold, handling marks on the rear board. Clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Entangled Realities in Virtuality / Urte Undine Frömming; -- 1: Appropriation, Construction, and Imagination of Landscape, Space and Place in Virtual Worlds --[Dis]Orientation: Mapping in Second Life / Emily Smith; Form Wilderness to Virtuality: Virtual Nature and Landscape in Second Life / Christina Voigt; Place and Non-Place in Second Life / Josefine Borrmann; -- 2: Gender, Belonging, and Motherhood in Virtual Cultures -- Waiting for Zowie: Notes from the Digital Uterus / Alina Trebbin; Crossing Boundaries or Reinforcing Norms? Gender Performances in Second Life / Sarah Kiani; The Amazon of Aquarius: An Ethnographic Journey Through Gender Issues in Second Life / Elena Quintarelli; Queer and Trans Experience in Second Life: An Experimental Dialogue / Emma Corbett-Ashby; Virtual Romance: Love Relationships in Second Life / Katharina Frucht; Furries / Julia Zaremba; -- 3: Religiosity in Virtual Worlds -- Cyberspace and the Sacred / Ranty R. Islam; Religiosity in a Virtual World: Reasons and Motivations / Thomas John; Muslims and the Virtual / Manizhe Ali; Tabernacle in the Wilderness: Hierophany in Virtual Space / Mike Terry; -- 4: Conflicts and Activism in Virtual Worlds -- Virtual Representations of the Middle East Conflict / Tobias R. Becker; Becoming an Activist in Virtual Worlds: Experiences of Social Activism in Second Life / Sara Ferrari & Tiina Kivela; -- 5: Art Production and Artists in Second Life -- Listen to the Radio: AM Radio, Second Life, and Innovations in an Emerging Medium / Samantha Fox; Art Production and its Conceptual Systems in Second Life / Lidia Rossner; Second Life: Exploring Virtual Space and its Creative Possibilities / Jordana Goldmann; The Story of a Digital Samurai / Fidel Devkota -- This edited volume compiles significant research findings and theoretical insights into the complex world of virtual environments and their impact on culture and society. This collection is a groundbreaking work in the field of digital anthropology, exploring the dynamics of online communities, virtual identities, and digital interactions in various virtual landscapes. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which virtual environments shape, influence, and redefine social and cultural practices in the digital age.…

Zustand: New. Virtual reality is no longer an issue that we can avoid or ignore. 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. Editor(s): Froemming, Urte Undine. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 600. . 2013. New edition. Hardcover. . . . .…

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Zustand: New. Virtual reality is no longer an issue that we can avoid or ignore. 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. Editor(s): Froemming, Urte Undine. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 600. . 2013. New edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…