Virtual Sociocultural Convergence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtual Sociocultural Convergence write by William Sims Bainbridge. This book was released on 2016-07-06. Virtual Sociocultural Convergence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the remarkable sociocultural convergence in multiplayer online games and other virtual worlds, through the unification of computer science, social science, and the humanities. The emergence of online media provides not only new methods for collecting social science data, but also contexts for developing theory and conducting education in the arts as well as technology. Notably, role-playing games and virtual worlds naturally demonstrate many classical concepts about human behaviour, in ways that encourage innovative thinking. The inspiration derives from the internationally shared values developed in a fifteen-year series of conferences on science and technology convergence. The primary methodology is focused on sending avatars, representing classical social theorists or schools of thought, into online gameworlds that harmonize with, or challenge, their fundamental ideas, including technological determinism, urban sociology, group formation, freedom versus control, class stratification, linguistic variation, functional equivalence across cultures, behavioural psychology, civilization collapse, and ethnic pluralism. Researchers and students in the social and behavioural sciences will benefit from the many diverse examples of how both qualitative and quantitative science of culture and society can be performed in online communities of many kinds, even as artists and gamers learn styles and skills they may apply in their own work and play.
Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics
Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics write by Jin, Dal Yong. This book was released on 2010-11-30. Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book aims to engage the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework, exploring diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to cultural studies, and from policy studies to ethnography"--Provided by publisher.
Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds
Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds write by Kiran Lakkaraju. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This cross-disciplinary exploration of MMOs and other complex online worlds melds work from computer science, psychology and social science.
Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities
Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities write by William Sims Bainbridge. This book was released on 2019-02-25. Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deeply explores production-capable social media channels, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may generalize to the real-world distributed manufacturing of the near future. Distributed manufacturing offers the promise of bringing jobs back to local communities, producing goods that are personalized or harmonize with distinctive cultures, and thereby reversing significant aspects of the globalization that has dominated in recent years. Large corporations may still have important roles to play, but in collaboration with local workshops, providing machinery, software, databases of designs, and communication media suitable for a diverse and dynamic workforce. For years, a set of computer simulation laboratories has flourished, in which millions of people have used virtual machines to produce a great variety of products: massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Their systems are highly diverse, complex, and provide information capable of serious social science analysis. This book deeply explores 30 of these production-capable social media, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may generalize to the real-world distributed manufacturing of the near future. This book begins with an overview of this universe of online virtual worlds then demonstrates the principles of virtual manufacturing, modes of work-related communication, socio-economic structures and dynamics, and the function of artificial intelligence in these human-technology systems. It concludes with consideration of the large-scale technical and cultural variation illustrated both by individual examples and by the rather large industry in which they have long been successful.
The Digital Social
The Digital Social - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Digital Social write by Alphia Possamai-Inesedy. This book was released on 2019-12-02. The Digital Social available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The edited volume aims to present a critical analysis of the current state of research on religion and belief systems in the realm of the ‘Digital Social’. The rapid expansion and democratization of digital technologies in conjunction with the significant shifts taking place within the practices of religion and belief through digital technology demand a critical examination across the social sciences and humanities. These changes call for an overview of not only our current methodological tool box but also the epistemological and ethical considerations that researchers must contend with. The proposed volume provides a critical framework that recognizes that the social, and therefore the religious, cannot be fully understood without recognizing how the digital world actively constitutes notions such as identity, social networks, embodiment, and social institutions. While some specific methods will be discussed, the volume’s emphasis remains on the critical epistemological and logistical considerations that are needed when undertaking this form of research.
