By Tom Boellstorff,Bonnie Nardi,Celia Pearce,T. L. Taylor,George E. Marcus
Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single e-book of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and sensible advisor for college students, academics, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic the right way to research on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written by way of major ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the major approach to player remark, the ebook offers worthy recommendation, tips, guidance, and rules to assist researchers via each level of a undertaking, from opting for a web fieldsite to writing and publishing the results.
- presents sensible and specific suggestions for ethnographic study personalized to mirror the categorical problems with on-line digital worlds, either video game and nongame
- attracts on study in a number digital worlds, together with Everquest, moment existence, There.com, and international of Warcraft
- offers feedback for facing institutional evaluation forums, human matters protocols, and moral matters
- publications the reader during the complete trajectory of ethnographic learn, from examine layout to information assortment, info research, and writing up and publishing learn effects
- Addresses myths and misunderstandings approximately ethnographic study, and argues for the clinical price of ethnography
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