Hanging Out In The Virtual Pub

Author : Lori Kendall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520935985

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Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the emerging social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a ground-breaking study of the social and cultural effects of a medium that allows participants to assume identities of their own choosing. Despite the common assumption that the personas these men and women craft for themselves bear little resemblance to reality, Kendall discovers that the habitués of BlueSky stick surprisingly close to the facts of their actual lives and personalities.

Author : Lori Kendall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780520230385

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Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub by Lori Kendall Pdf

In this ethnography, Lori Kendall examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is an analysis of the emerging social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a study of the social and cultural effects of a medium that allows participants to assume identities of their own choosing.

Author : Lori Sue Kendall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X57525

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Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub by Lori Sue Kendall Pdf

Author : Shaun Moores
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230360129

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Media, Place and Mobility by Shaun Moores Pdf

Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living.

Author : Bianca C. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372134

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The Pursuit of Happiness by Bianca C. Williams Pdf

In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens. Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power differentials within the African diaspora.

Author : Gregory Price Grieve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317293255

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Cyber Zen by Gregory Price Grieve Pdf

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical investigation reveals that online Buddhist practices have at best only a family resemblance to canonical Asian traditions and owe much of their methods to the late twentieth-century field of cybernetics. If, however, they are judged existentially, by how they enable users to respond to the suffering generated by living in a highly mediated consumer society, then Second Life Buddhism consists of authentic spiritual practices. Cyber Zen explores how Second Life Buddhist enthusiasts form communities, identities, locations, and practices that are both products of and authentic responses to contemporary Network Consumer Society. Gregory Price Grieve illustrates that to some extent all religion has always been virtual and gives a glimpse of possible future alternative forms of religion.

Author : Mike Crang,Phil Crang,Jon May
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134703746

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Virtual Geographies by Mike Crang,Phil Crang,Jon May Pdf

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature: * investigate how visions of cyberspace have been constructed * offer a critical assessment of the status of virtual environments and geographies * explore how virtual environments reshape the way we think and write about the world. This book sets recent technological developments in a historical and geographical perspective to offer a clearer view of the new vistas ahead.

Author : Daniel, Ben Kei
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781609600419

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Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena by Daniel, Ben Kei Pdf

"This book satisfies the need for methodological consideration and tools for data collection, analysis and presentation in virtual communities, covering studies on various types of virtual communities, making this reference a comprehensive source of research for those in the social sciences and humanities"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sasha Barab,Rob Kling,James H. Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521520819

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Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning by Sasha Barab,Rob Kling,James H. Gray Pdf

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Author : Kiran Lakkaraju,Gita Sukthankar,Rolf T. Wigand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107128828

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Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds by Kiran Lakkaraju,Gita Sukthankar,Rolf T. Wigand Pdf

This cross-disciplinary exploration of MMOs and other complex online worlds melds work from computer science, psychology and social science.

Author : Gregory Price Grieve,Daniel Veidlinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317950349

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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media by Gregory Price Grieve,Daniel Veidlinger Pdf

Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly networked and digital era. Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the context of technologies such as virtual worlds, social media, and mobile devices, authors ask how the Internet affects identity, authority and community, and what effect this might have on the development, proliferation, and perception of Buddhism in an online environment. Together, these essays make the case that studying contemporary online Buddhist practice can provide valuable insights into the shifting role religion plays in our constantly changing, mediated, hurried, and uncertain culture.

Author : Payal Arora
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317678922

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The Leisure Commons by Payal Arora Pdf

There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.

Author : Tom Boellstorff,Bonnie Nardi,Celia Pearce,T. L. Taylor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691264851

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Ethnography and Virtual Worlds by Tom Boellstorff,Bonnie Nardi,Celia Pearce,T. L. Taylor Pdf

A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyond Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds, and focusing on the key method of participant observation, the book provides invaluable advice, tips, guidelines, and principles to aid researchers through every stage of a project, from choosing an online fieldsite to writing and publishing the results. Provides practical and detailed techniques for ethnographic research customized to reflect the specific issues of online virtual worlds, both game and nongame Draws on research in a range of virtual worlds, including Everquest, Second Life, There.com, and World of Warcraft Provides suggestions for dealing with institutional review boards, human subjects protocols, and ethical issues Guides the reader through the full trajectory of ethnographic research, from research design to data collection, data analysis, and writing up and publishing research results Addresses myths and misunderstandings about ethnographic research, and argues for the scientific value of ethnography

Author : Li, Honglei
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466603134

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Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories by Li, Honglei Pdf

"This book gives in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation,covering the concept of virtual community participation, followed by several streams of virtual community participation theories"--Provided by publishe

Author : Joel Weiss,Jason Nolan,Jeremy Hunsinger,Peter Trifonas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1611 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402038037

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International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments by Joel Weiss,Jason Nolan,Jeremy Hunsinger,Peter Trifonas Pdf

The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds. The book is divided into four sections: Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments; Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management; Out-of-School Learning Environments; and Challenges for Virtual Learning Environments. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, case studies from practical and research settings, as well as several provocative "classics" originally published in other settings.