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Virtual reality as locality: Lecture Notes
Understanding social life today, according to Appadurai, involves examining the "production of locality." Appadurai says that people strive to bridge
Culture is our killer app
One of the key points to Boellstorff's argument is that we are virtually human: "our 'real' lives have been 'virtual' all along. It is in being
Facebook and making community: Lecture Notes
Daniel Miller writes: "Facebook has reversed two centuries of flight from community." Miller argues that Facebook is not just an aggregate of personal
Facebook and Social Network Analysis (SNA): Lecture Notes
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Digital Archives, Digital Gaming: Lecture Notes
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