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INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY Choose one of the five following topics that most interests you for a semester-‐ Long project in three parts worth 45% of your overall grade. PART ONE of the project will be an ETHNOGRAPHIC CRITICAL REVIEW of the book suggested 15% of your grade. 3-4 page. You have to read and answer this project from the book “coming of AGE in second life”. Topic: : THE INTERNET AND VIRTUAL culture Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Tom Boellstorff. 2010. Princeton University P. Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Lif e create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love -‐-‐ the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living amo ng and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditi onally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so -‐ called real world. Coming of Age in Second. Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. PART TWO: What are contemporary directions in research regarding internet groups as culture? PART THREE: How is a sense of community created in the absence of physical interaction? . -
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