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Digital Anthropology: Tom Boellstorff, "Coming of Age in Second Life"
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Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, Anthropologist and UCI Professor, whose ethnographic work in Second Life (documented in his book, Coming of Age in Second Life) provides important insights into how virtual space – and our interface with it – informs and interacts with our lives in actual space.
In virtual worlds like Second Life, inhabitants exist only through their own acts of creation, which also serve as a primary mode of experiencing life in virtual space.
Full transcript + images: https://www.iamli.am/design-notes-podcast/tom-boellstorff-virtual-anthropology
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Manage episode 340999355 series 1511778
Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, Anthropologist and UCI Professor, whose ethnographic work in Second Life (documented in his book, Coming of Age in Second Life) provides important insights into how virtual space – and our interface with it – informs and interacts with our lives in actual space.
In virtual worlds like Second Life, inhabitants exist only through their own acts of creation, which also serve as a primary mode of experiencing life in virtual space.
Full transcript + images: https://www.iamli.am/design-notes-podcast/tom-boellstorff-virtual-anthropology
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