Shaping virtual lives. Online identities, representations, and conducts

• Druk: Łódź, 2012
• Redakcja naukowa: Andy Ross, Theo Meder, Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

In recent years, a new cultural sphere based on instant exchange of information has led to new kinds of communication, not merely for practical purposes but also for entertainment, social contact, the exchange of beliefs and opinions, and even the expression of emotions. Online life has become an integral part of people’s existence and therefore merits ethnological research. This volume presents selected papers from a panel session on virtual lives held at the 10th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) titled People Make Places: Ways of Feeling the World, 17-21 April 2011, Lisbon, Portugal. The authors investigate a range of topics: rules, rituals, morals and self-representations in the worlds of social media and gaming; how avatars are used for self-representation on dating sites; the rivalry between the inhabitants of Moscow and St. Petersburg as expressed on an Internet forum; websites for mourning over and remembering suicide victims in two countries; and the way the Internet can be used by new vernacular religious movements.

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• Redakcja: Andy Ross, Theo Meder, Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska
• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-7525-671-0
• ISBN druku: 978-83-7525-671-0
• Liczba stron: 144

Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska and Theo Meder, Preface 	7 
Theo Meder, "You have to make up your own story here": Identities in cyberspace from Twitter to Second Life 	9 
Jennifer Meta Robinson, Performing self: Questions of identity competence in a virtual world point to real life constructions 	35 
Óli Gneisti Sóleyjarson, Rules and boundaries: The morality of Eve Online 	53 
Anders Gustavsson, Messages on memorial Internet websites relating to suicide in Norway and Sweden 	69 
Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska and Andy Ross Matchmaking through avatars: Social aspects of online dating 	89 
Maria Yelenevskaya, Moscow and St. Petersburg compete: Negotiating city identity on ru.net 	101 
Robert Howard, Digital devotees: Vernacular authority in a new kind of religious movement 	129 
List of Contributors 	141