Persistence of place in a virtual world per Tom Boellstorff (CoAiSL< >@HarbinBook) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GYs_9PjFs … "Our Digital Selves" [Drax 2018]

Persistence of place in a virtual world per Tom Boellstorff (CoAiSL< >@HarbinBook) https://t.co/Nhg4StS0SG "Our Digital Selves" [Drax 2018]
— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) October 21, 2017

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/921873401827835904

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Our Digital Selves Official Teaser #1 [Drax Files Special coming 2018]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GYs_9PjFs

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Appreciating the focus in this video on virtual worlds as assistive technologies ...

Assistive Technologies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies

Virtual Worlds -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

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My "The Making of Virtual Harbin in Second Life Introduction" video ...

Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction

The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator (MacLeod 2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE
(accessible from: http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html)

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Harbin gate in Google Streetview ...

Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in SL & OpenSim (MacLeod) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE … > GoogleStreetView Harbin

Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in SL & OpenSim (MacLeod) https://t.co/gwIX5rCEe9 > GoogleStreetView Harbin
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) October 23, 2017

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/922496364218433537

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Re all this coding, what new insights will this give us into "place" into culture, or even Harbin's alternative culture? What will we study differently online at virtual Harbin Hot Springs, compared with on the ground, in the valley Harbin Hot Springs?

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Both books by Tom (https://johnpostill.com/2009/07/13/summary-of-boellstorff-2008-coming-of-age-in-second-life/) and me (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook - with chapter summary comparison - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/06/bipedalism-naked-harbin-ethnography.html) facilitate comparatively, and in conversation, new anthropological approaches to developing these questions further ... and mine re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

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What an amazing new system a Google Streetview realistic virtual universe/{Harbin} at cellular and atomic levels will become.