Wonderful news, Scott—congratulations and I am flattered by your engaging with my work! All the best, Tom tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/>
On Sep 10, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Scott MacLeod <scott@scottmacleod.com> wrote:
Hi Tom and AoIR,
Here is my new book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" re virtual world generation, with Discount code here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - for https://www.createspace.com/6072369. (It comes into conversation with your, Tom, "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008)).
It's also the first book published in the new Academic Press at World University and School, planned for all 7,943 languages, with machine translation. (World University and School seeks to become the "Harvards of the Web" in all ~200 countries, creating major online universities, and accrediting on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC.
Click on the Harbin Gate link in Google Street View part way down the book's main page to begin to visit Harbin online.
All the best, Scott
scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org
On 6/30/16 5:10 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
Tom (and AoIR),
Thanks very much, and fascinating!
My ~550 page actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs ethnographic book - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html (May 2016) - due out in paper soon (in a new Academic Press at World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - planned in all 8k languages, with machine translation), addresses many related questions.
I look forward to reading it closely, and re the "actual" anthropologically.
All the best, Scott
On 6/30/16 4:09 PM, Tom Boellstorff wrote:
Dear all: my article “For Whom the Ontology Turns: Rethinking the Digital Real” is now out in a pre-print version from Current Anthropology and is open access. Here is the link:
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/687362
Even though this is published in an anthropology journal, I’ve really written it to speak to questions of the “real” with regard to digital technology and culture. I hope you enjoy it!
All the best, Tom Boellstorff
tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/>
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