Part 1. Setting the virtual stage: 1. The subject and scope of this inquiry: Arrivals and departures; Everyday Second Life; Terms of discussion; The emergence of virtual worlds; The posthuman and the human; What this, a book, does -- 2. History: Prehistories of the virtual; Histories of virtual technology; A personal virtual history; Histories of virtual worlds; Histories of cybersociality research; Techne -- 3. Method: Virtual worlds in their own terms; Anthropology and ethnography; Participant observation; Interviews, ...
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Part 1. Setting the virtual stage: 1. The subject and scope of this inquiry: Arrivals and departures; Everyday Second Life; Terms of discussion; The emergence of virtual worlds; The posthuman and the human; What this, a book, does -- 2. History: Prehistories of the virtual; Histories of virtual technology; A personal virtual history; Histories of virtual worlds; Histories of cybersociality research; Techne -- 3. Method: Virtual worlds in their own terms; Anthropology and ethnography; Participant observation; Interviews, focus groups, and beyond the platform; Ethics; Claims and reflexivity -- Part II. culture in a virtual world: 4. Place and time: Visuality and land; Builds and objects; Lag; Afk; Immersion; Presence -- 5. Personhood: The self; The life course; Avatars and alts; Embodiment; Gender and race; Agency -- 6. Intimacy: Language; Friendship; Sexuality; Love; Family; Addiction -- 7. Community: The event; The group; Kindness; Griefing; Between virtual worlds; Beyond virtual worlds. Part III. The age of techne: 8. Political economy: Creationist capitalism; Money and labor; Property; Governance; Inequality; Platform and social form: 9. The virtual: The virtual human; Culture and the online; Simulation; Fiction and design; The massively multiple; Toward an anthropology of virtual worlds -- Glossary.
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