Tom Boellstorff, Anthropologist, Coming of Age in Second Life
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English - September 13, 2022 09:19 - 33 minutes - 47.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Design designers experience uiux design designer googledesign interface mobile technology uxui Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Liam speaks to Tom Boellstorff, Anthropologist and UCI Professor, whose ethnographic work in Second Life (documented in his book, Coming of Age in Second Life) provides important insights into how virtual space – and our interface with it – informs and interacts with our lives in actual space.
In virtual worlds like Second Life, inhabitants exist only through their own acts of creation, which also serve as a primary mode of experiencing life in virtual space.
Full transcript + images: https://www.iamli.am/design-notes-podcast/tom-boellstorff-virtual-anthropology
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