Virtual environments and cultures : a collection of social anthropological research in virtual cultures and landscapes / Urte Undine Frömming [editor].

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Urte Undine Fromming -- Entangled Realities in Virtuality -- ch. I Appropriation, Construction, and Imagination of Landscape, Space and Place in Virtual Worlds / Emily Smith -- [Dis]Orientation: Mapping in Second Life / Christina Voigt -- Form Wilderness to Virtuality: Virtual Nature and Landscape in Second Life / Josefine Borrmann -- Place and Non-Place in Second Life -- ch. II Gender, Belonging, and Motherhood in Virtual Cultures / Alina Trebbin -- Waiting for Zowie: Notes from the Digital Uterus / Sarah Kiani -- Crossing Boundaries or Reinforcing Norms? Gender Performances in Second Life / Elena Quintarelli -- The Amazon of Aquarius: An Ethnographic Journey Through Gender Issues in Second Life / Emma Corbett-Ashby -- Queer and Trans Experience in Second Life: An Experimental Dialogue / Katharina Frucht -- Virtual Romance: Love Relationships in Second Life / Julia Zaremba Furries -- ch. III Religiosity in Virtual Worlds / Rarity R. Islam -- Cyberspace and the Sacred -- Thomas John Religiosity in a Virtual World: Reasons and Motivations / Manizhe Ali Muslims -- Mike Terry Tabernacle in the Wilderness: Hierophany in Virtual Space -- ch. IV Conflicts and Activism in Virtual Worlds -- Tobias R. Becker Virtual Representations of the Middle East Conflict / Tiina Kivela -- Becoming an Activist in Virtual Worlds -- Experiences of Social Activism in Second Life -- ch. V $t Art Production and Artists in Second Life -- Samantha Fox Listen to the Radio: AM Radio, Second Life, and Innovations in an Emerging Medium / Lidia Rossner -- Art Production and its Conceptual Systems in Second Life / Jordana Goldmann -- Second Life: Exploring Virtual Space and its Creative Possibilities / Fidel Devkota.

Virtual reality is no longer an issue that we can avoid or ignore. This book presents a collection of ethnographic research in the virtual world of Second Life, and can be seen as an attempt to discover the challenges and limits of social anthropological research with an avatar in virtual cultures and environments.