| Description |
1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 14 |
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Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 14.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Approaching the Study of Virtual Worlds -- 2. Virtual Worlds as Emerging Cyber-Hybrids: Accounting for the Travel between Research Sites with Actor-Network-Theory -- 3. Presence in Virtual Worlds: Mediating a Distributed, Assembled and Emergent Object of Study -- 4. Understanding Cyborgism: Using Photo-Diary Interviews to Study Performative Identity in Second Life -- 5. Designing Childhoods: Ethnographic Engagements in and around Virtual Worlds -- 6. A Situated Video Interview Method: Understanding the Interplay between Human Engagement and the Power of Scripted Animations of a Virtual World -- 7. Comparing Novice Users' Sense-Making Processes in Virtual Worlds: An Application of Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology -- 8. Exploring Stakeholders of Open-Source Virtual Worlds through a Multimethod Approach |
| Summary |
"This volume presents a wide range of methodological strategies that are designed to take into account the complex, emergent, and continually shifting character of virtual worlds. It interrogates how virtual worlds emerge as objects of study through the development and application of various methodological strategies. Virtual worlds are not considered objects that exist as entities with fixed attributes independent of our continuous engagement with them and interpretation of them. Instead, they are conceived of as complex ensembles of technology, humans, symbols, discourses, and economic structures, ensembles that emerge in ongoing practices and specific situations. A broad spectrum of perspectives and methodologies is presented: Actor-Network-Theory and post-Actor-Network-Theory, performativity theory, ethnography, discourse analysis, Sense-Making Methodology, visual ethnography, multi-sited ethnography, and Social Network Analysis"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Virtual reality -- Social aspects -- Research -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Plesner, Ursula, editor
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Phillips, Louise (Louise J.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781136250514 |
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1136250514 |
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