Ethnography & the Virtual World

Ethnography & Dunia Virtual: Internet di Indonesia
Rabu, 26 September 2012, pk. 18.00
C2O Library & Collabtive
Jl. Dr. Cipto 20 Surabaya 60264

Bersama:
Tom Boellstorff
– Profesor Antropologi, University of California, Irvine
– Editor-in-Chief, American Anthropologist

Saat ini, jutaan orang di dunia menghabiskan waktu mereka dalam dunia virtual online. Tom Boellstorff mempelajari dunia virtual dengan metode etnografi yang serupa denganyang dia gunakan untuk penelitiannya di Indonesia: pengamatan partisipatif, wawancara, FGD, dan analisis wacana. Dengan metode-metode yang ketat, beliau mempelajari berbagai dimensi dalam dunia virtual, antara lain isu gender, ras, seks, uang, konflik dan perilaku antisosial, konstruksi tempat dan waktu. Mari bergabung dalam acara ini untuk mendengarkan metode etnografi dunia virtual, dan kaitannya dengan internet di Indonesia.

Tom Boellstorff adalah Profesor Departemen Antropologi di University of California, Irvine, dengan fokus penelitian antropologi seksualitas, antropologi globalisasi, antropologi dunia virtual, kajian Asia Tenggara, dan antropologi linguistik. Semenjak 2007, dia menjabat sebagai kepala redaksi jurnal American Anthropologist. Beliau telah melakukan lebih dari 20 tahun penelitian lapangan di Indonesia.

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Ethnography & the Virtual World: Internet in Indonesia
Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 6pm
C2O Library & Collabtive
Jl. Dr. Cipto 20 Surabaya 60264

featuring
Tom Boellstorff

  • Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
  • Editor-in-Chief, American Anthropologist 2007-2012

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group. Join this event to learn about the ethnography of the virtual world, particularly in Indonesia.

Tom Boellstorff is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He was the editor-in-chief of the American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropologists Association, and has recentely joined the faculty of the new Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. He’d done almost 20 years of field research in Indonesia.

Some of his publications are:

  • Ethnography & Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (download chapter 1)
  • Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (download chapter 1)
  • A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
  • The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Indonesian e-book)

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