Tom Boellstorff
Autor(a) de Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
About the Author
Tom Boellstorff is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
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Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research (2010) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
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- Sexo
- male
- Ocupação
- assistant professor (anthropology)
- Organizações
- University of California, Irvine (Department of Anthropology)
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Institute for Community Health Outreach (board member)
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (national co-chair)
Australian National University (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies)
Duke University (visiting professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology) - Pequena biografia
- Tom Boellstorff is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. He obtained his bachelors degrees in Linguistics and Music and later obtained his Ph.D in Anthropology from Stanford University. He also went to Advanced Indonesian Institute for Language study in Makassar, Indonesia.
He is the author of The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton University Press, 2005) – its Indonesian translation was released on July 30, 2009; A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2007); and Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Princeton University Press, 2008). He is also a Core Faculty member for the Culture and Theory Ph.D. program at Irvine, as well as a Program Faculty member for the Arts, Computation, and Engineering graduate program. He has worked as a consultant for the Intel Corporation, and sits on the advisory boards of two community-based HIV/AIDS organizations in Indonesia.
He speaks English, Indonesian, German and Russian.
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Not a popular-science book but a serious ethnographical treatise. As a non-user, I think I gleaned a worthwhile knowledge of the Second Life virtual world, which I nuttily wish were a primitive-to-the-nth-power precursor of a future milieu into which people's minds could be fully uploaded. (Boellstorff isn't interested in such posthuman possibilities, though.)
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Well I suppose THAT is an advantage of Second Life. When the conversation slows, you hit a button and the people you are talking to just vanish. But why spend time in a world whose most interesting characteristic is an easy escape from the vapid and boring conversations that it otherwise offers?
If you get serious about Second Life you can buy property and build objects and sell stuff and decorate your avatar with fancy skins... and then you can hang around in your fancy skin and still have boring conversations with people. But while wearing really cool virtual clothes! Am I not getting this? I am not getting this. Yes, I gather that virtual sex is a pretty big part of Second Life, and you can see the possibilities. Maybe that is what people are really doing in Second Life. I haven't gone there, so I can't say.
Boellstorff treats Second Life as its own culture. He gives it a serious anthropological once over and does a good job of it. If you care about Second Life, this could serve as a theoretical, but also practical, introduction to the norms and habits of the world. It seems to be a little dated however.
I've also heard that Second Life is not quite the hot property or hot world that it was a few years ago. But the best way to explore Second Life is just to sign up and poke around, and I don't regret doing so. I suppose I can imagine life circumstances where it would be a wonderful place to go. I'm just not in those circumstances.… (mais)