Ethnography and Virtual Worlds (eBook)

A Handbook of Method, Updated Edition

Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T. L. Taylor (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2024
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26486-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyondEthnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kinda concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds, and focusing on the key method of participant observation, the book provides invaluable advice, tips, guidelines, and principles to aid researchers through every stage of a project, from choosing an online fieldsite to writing and publishing the results.Provides practical and detailed techniques for ethnographic research customized to reflect the specific issues of online virtual worlds, both game and nongameDraws on research in a range of virtual worlds, including Everquest, Second Life, There.com, and World of WarcraftProvides suggestions for dealing with institutional review boards, human subjects protocols, and ethical issuesGuides the reader through the full trajectory of ethnographic research, from research design to data collection, data analysis, and writing up and publishing research resultsAddresses myths and misunderstandings about ethnographic research, and argues for the scientific value of ethnography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Activity Theory • Actor–network theory • Affordance • Anecdote • anonymity • anthropologist • Blog • Consideration • Culture • Database • Email • ethnography • Ethnomethodology • Everyday life • Experiment • Explanation • Fan convention • field research • Finding • Franz Boas • Grand theory • Handbook • Human–Computer Interaction • human subject research • Instance (computer science) • Instant Messaging • institutional review board • interaction • Internet forum • Intersubjectivity • learning • lifeworld • Literature • literature review • Machinima • Methodology • Monograph • narrative • Norm (social) • Notation • Online and offline • Online Community • Online Game • Online interview • participant • participant observation • Processing (programming language) • Publication • Qualitative research • quantitative research • Requirement • role-playing • Science • Screenshot • Second Life • Skype • social networking service • Social Science • Social Theory • Sociology • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Technology • Technology and society • theory • Understanding • Virtual World • Website • word processor • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-26486-4 / 0691264864
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-26486-8 / 9780691264868