Hanging Out In The Virtual Pub

Author : Lori Kendall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230361
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub written by Lori Kendall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Kendall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230388
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub written by Lori Kendall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub written by Lori Sue Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shaun Moores
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230360122
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media, Place and Mobility written by Shaun Moores and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0822372134
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Happiness written by Bianca C. Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317293258
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Zen written by Gregory Price Grieve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134703740
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Geographies written by Mike Crang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 160960041X
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena written by Daniel, Ben Kei and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521520812
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning written by Sasha Barab and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Kiran Lakkaraju
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108558984
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds written by Kiran Lakkaraju and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the rapidly-growing arena of 'virtual worlds', such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs), individuals behave in particular ways, influence one another, and develop complex relationships. This setting can be a useful tool for modeling complex social systems, cognitive factors, and interactions between groups and within organizations. To study these worlds effectively requires a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates social science theories with big data analytics. This broad-based book offers a comprehensive and holistic perspective on the field. It brings together research findings from an international team of experts in computer science (artificial intelligence, game design, and social computing), psychology, and the social sciences to help researchers and practitioners better understand the fundamental processes underpinning social behavior in virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft, Rift, Eve Online, and Travian.