Tom Boellstorff will be chatting to educational researchers (of virtual worlds) on December 1st 4pm GMT.
Tom is a Professor in the Dept of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine and also Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, Journal of the American Anthropological Association. The SLurl is: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/University%20of%20Worcester/156/194/25.
This will hopefully be of interest to those that have read his book “Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtual Human”, a chapter of which we use as core reading on IDEL Week 4.
Thanks for the link Fiona, it was really interesting to hear Tom speaking. He talked about his research in to SL and also mentioned a forthcoming Handbook he has been co-authoring about doing effective research in SL. Should be published next June or July.
Oh great tip regards the “handbook for effective research in SL” – will keep an eye for that – or of course you can post a link here on the Hub if you see it first!
Am glad it was an interesting talk – I was very disappointed to have a conflicting event I couldn’t change.
Fiona