Researching Virtual Worlds

Methodologies for Studying Emergent Practices
Herausgeber: Phillips, Louise; Plesner, Ursula

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a wide range of methodological strategies that are designed to take into account the complex, emergent, and continually shifting character of virtual worlds. It interrogates how virtual worlds emerge as objects of study through the development and application of various methodological strategies. Virtual worlds are not considered objects that exist as entities with fixed attributes independent of our continuous engagement with them and interpretation of them. Instead, they are conceived of as complex ensembles of technology, humans, symbols, discourses, and economic structures, ensembles that emerge in ongoing practices and specific situations. A broad spectrum of perspectives and methodologies is presented: Actor-Network-Theory and post-Actor-Network-Theory, performativity theory, ethnography, discourse analysis, Sense-Making Methodology, visual ethnography, multi-sited ethnography, and Social Network Analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415624442
• ISBN-10: 0415624444
• Artikelnr.: 36541795

Autorenporträt

Louise Phillips is Associate Professor in Communication Studies at the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Denmark. Ursula Plesner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Approaching the study of virtual worlds Ursula Plesner and
Louise Phillips 2. Virtual Worlds as emerging cyber-hybrids: Accounting for
the travel between research sites with Actor-Network-Theory Ursula Plesner
3. Presence in Virtual Worlds: Mediating a Distributed, Assembled and
Emergent Object of Study Dixi Louise Strand 4. Understanding Cyborgism:
Using Photo-Diary Interviews to Study Performative Identity in Second Life
Ulrike Schultze 5. Designing Childhoods: Ethnographic Engagements in and
Around of Virtual Worlds Minna Ruckenstein 6. A Situated Video Interview
Method: Understanding the Interplay between Human Engagement and the Power
of Scripted Animations of a Virtual World Sisse Siggaard Jensen 7.
Comparing Novice Users' Sense-Making Processes in Virtual Worlds: An
Application of Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and
Brenda Dervin 8. Exploring Stakeholders of Open Source Virtual Worlds
through a Multi-method Approach Zeynep Yetis, Robin Teigland and Paul M. Di
Gangi