California quail: http://bit.ly/HarbinBook, Tom Boellstorff 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)), Media Anthropology, New Amazon web page ~ https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132/ ...

New Amazon web page ~
https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132/

New short web address ~
http://bit.ly/HarbinBook


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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

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Tom Boellstorff <tboellst@uci.edu>	Sep 10 (2 days ago)
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Wonderful news, Scott—congratulations and I am flattered by your engaging with my work! All the best, Tom

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Thanks, Tom, so much for your great "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008) and your engagement with my book, as well. 

I looked up last July 2015 all the courses I could find that teach your "Coming of Age in SL" and found one at MIT, one from MIT OCW, and one each from Cornell, UC Berkeley and Brown, all of which you'll find here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-hot-springs-book.html - plus much more about my Harbin book thematically. My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book can be read chapter to chapter with yours. And I hope to reach out to the professors above in these regards. Do you know of other syllabi where your CoAiSL is taught? I'd like my book to get onto university syllabi. 

I've also added our chapter 1s to the amazing Pokemon Go Syllabus in GDocs, in week 3, under "theorizing place" - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xYuozfkON-RVZQkr7d1qLPJrCRqN8TkzeDySM-3pzeA/edit?usp=sharing - but these same chapters could be read in terms of the digital and the real, where I examine the virtual and and the actual, as central themes in my book. 

Here's the new bit.ly URL for my academic and researcher-oriented Harbin book - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook (with about 180 photos of Harbin) - where researchers & internet librarians will find the DISCOUNT code.

All the best, Scott

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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[Taking the whole AoIR list off of this email thread so they don’t get spammed…]

That all sounds great! I don’t know off hand of other syllabi using my book but I know there are a good number. Sorry this is so rushed—I’m in O’Hare airport between flights, heading to Notre Dame to give a talk tomorrow. Congrats once again! All the best, Tom


Not sure how the Notre Dame talk is being announced. There are a few videos on my stuff out there - Drax did a really wonderfully produced one a few months ago - here’s the link! All the best, Tom

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Thanks, Tom!

Appreciating your great generativity with regards to digital anthropology!

Can you point please to a recent YouTube or UC video, for example, of a talk of yours incorporating your thinking in CoAiSL, with "Ethnography and Virtual Worlds" and other related publications - and your upcoming talk at Notre Dame?  

Will probably reply to Barry Wellman on the AoIR re his WUaS Universal Translator email as research project (from today) - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - and ways in which ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as a new method I'm developing will also facilitate an universal translator. Re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, check out the 36 slides of a talk I gave at UC Berkeley last November - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tAhXFinq8xm8BDFcceoHsNBHJi0wpS0HDFh40PXsQ2I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p - also on my Harbin book page - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. 

All the best, Scott

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Not sure how the Notre Dame talk is being announced. There are a few videos on my stuff out there - Drax did a really wonderfully produced one a few months ago - here’s the link! All the best, Tom

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The Drax Files: World Makers [Episode 31: Tom Boellstorff]

 

Draxtor Despres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk

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Hi Media Anthropology colleagues,

I just shared this announcement of my new ethnographic book with a virtual world aspect with the Association of Internet Researchers.

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 Tom Boellstorff's "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. (CC wiki 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


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Thanks to Tom Boellstorff so much for his great "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (Princeton 2008) and his engagement with my book, as well (in the AoIR and in other ways). 

I looked up last July 2015 all the courses I could find that teach his "Coming of Age in SL" and found one at MIT, one from MIT OCW, and one each from Cornell, UC Berkeley and Brown, all of which you'll find here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/07/syzygium-harbin-hot-springs-book.html - plus much more about my Harbin book thematically. My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book can be read chapter to chapter with his. And I hope to reach out to the professors above in these regards. Does anyone know of other syllabi where Tom's CoAiSL is taught? I'd like my book to get onto other university syllabi. 

I've also added Tom and my chapter 1s to the amazing Pokemon Go Syllabus in GDocs, in week 3, under "theorizing place" - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xYuozfkON-RVZQkr7d1qLPJrCRqN8TkzeDySM-3pzeA/edit?usp=sharing - but these same chapters could be read in terms of the digital and the real, where I examine the virtual and and the actual, as central themes in my book. 

Here's the new bit.ly URL for my academic and researcher-oriented Harbin book - http://bit.ly/HarbinBook (with about 180 photos of Harbin) - where researchers & internet librarians will find the DISCOUNT code.

All the best, Scott

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

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