In recent years, a new cultural sphere based on instant exchange of information has led to new kinds of communication, not merely for practical purposes but also for entertainment, social contact, the exchange of beliefs and opinions, and even the expression of emotions. Online life has become an integral part of people’s existence and therefore merits ethnological research.
This volume presents selected papers from a panel session on virtual lives held at the 10th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) titled People Make Places: Ways of Feeling the World, 17-21 April 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.
The authors investigate a range of topics: rules, rituals, morals and self-representations in the worlds of social media and gaming; how avatars are used for self-representation on dating sites; the rivalry between the inhabitants of Moscow and St. Petersburg as expressed on an Internet forum; websites for mourning over and remembering suicide victims in two countries; and the way the Internet can be used by new vernacular religious movements.
Author(s): Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska (editor); J. Andrew Ross (editor); Theo Meder (editor)
Publisher: Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 140
City: Łódź
Tags: Folklore, Online culture, second live, eve online, mmog, twitter, online dating, digital jesus,
Preface
‘You have to make up your own story here’: Identities in cyberspace from Twitter to Second Life: Theo Meder, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performing self: Questions of identitycompetence in a virtual world point to real life constructions: Jennifer Meta Robinson, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.
Rules and boundaries: The morality of Eve Online: Óli Gneisti Sóleyjarson, Reykjavík, Iceland
Messages on memorial Internet websites relating to suicide in Norway and Sweden: Anders Gustavsson, University of Oslo, Norway
Matchmaking through avatars: Social aspects of online dating 1Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Department of Ethnology and Folklore, University of Łódź, Poland, Andrew Ross, formerly Oxford University
Moscow and St. Petersburg compete: Negotiating city identity on ru.net: Maria Yelenevskaya, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Digital devotees: Vernacular authority in a new kind of religious movement: Robert Glenn Howard, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
