Digital Anthropology: Tom Boellstorff on How Virtual Worlds Shape Our Actual Lives

13/09/2022 33 min Temporada 2 Episodio 1
Digital Anthropology: Tom Boellstorff on How Virtual Worlds Shape Our Actual Lives

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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    Subscribe to Design Notes: 👉Google Podcasts 👉iTunes 👉Spotify 👉Pocket Casts 👉RSS

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