Open AccessPerforming Self: Questions of Identity Competence in a Virtual World Point to Real Life Constructions
Author(s) -
Jennifer Meta Robinson
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
wydawnictwo uniwersytetu łódzkiego ebooks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
DOI - 10.18778/7525-671-0.03
Subject(s) - virtual world , metaverse , competence (human resources) , ethnography , interpersonal communication , identity (music) , point (geometry) , sociology , psychology , life world , aesthetics , computer science , virtual reality , human–computer interaction , social psychology , epistemology , art , anthropology , philosophy , mathematics , geometry
The Author provides an ethnographic examination of interpersonal communication in a virtual world uncovering how the technology of virtual worlds reveals the technologies of culture and how both are a means for shaping our experience of the world and for revealing the world we seek to know.
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