|
The Archives
-
06.24.08Quick Link: Podcast on SL, Religion, and ‘Coming of Age in Second Life’The Metaverse Journal has a podcast online that features a short review of Tom Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life as well as an interview with Dr. Helen Farley about religion and Second Life. I've written about Tom's book previously, and there were engaging discussions on Savage Minds that are worth checking out for both an "in SL" and an outsider's perspectives on anthroplogy in virtual worlds.
-
06.15.08Anthropology and Second Life: It’s All About Real Estate, with Some Chat Thrown InI'm a big fan of Coming of Age in Second Life, the new book by Tom Boellstorff and touched on it recently. Now the anthropologists are chewing over the contribution Tom's book makes to their field. Of particular interest is the following claim by the blog's author (emphasis added): Indeed, Boellstoroff’s book confirms my conviction that Second Life is mostly about real estate, with a little relationship stuff thrown in for good measure. If Boellstoroff never really convinced me that I should care about Second Life, it is because he doesn’t even try. His argument is that whether we care about virtual worlds ...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.