Comments on Weekend Viewing: Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff Talks <i>Coming of Age in SL</i> at the Chicago Humanities FestivalTypePad2010-12-03T12:18:44ZSLHamlethttps://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/12/tom-boellstorff-on-second-life-chicago-humanities/comments/atom.xml/Matt Heinrich commented on 'Weekend Viewing: Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff Talks <i>Coming of Age in SL</i> at the Chicago Humanities Festival'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef0147e265101d970b2011-02-07T22:23:24Z2011-02-07T22:23:24ZMatt Heinrichhttp://www.chicagohumanities.orgAwesome review, NWN. Thanks to you too for the shoutout, Tom, and thanks for making this such a fun event....<p>Awesome review, NWN. Thanks to you too for the shoutout, Tom, and thanks for making this such a fun event. I've said it before, and I'll say it again-- working on this event was one of my favorite projects in my career at the Chicago Humanities Festival (so far).</p>
<p>Hey NWN, do you think CHF should expand into Second Life? Is there an audience for hour-long talks (or footage of said talks) in Linden Land?</p>Tom Boellstorff commented on 'Weekend Viewing: Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff Talks <i>Coming of Age in SL</i> at the Chicago Humanities Festival'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341bf74053ef0147e065380c970b2010-12-05T15:34:21Z2010-12-05T15:34:21ZTom Boellstorffhttp://www.anthro.uci.edu/faculty_bios/boellstorff/boellstorff.phpThanks for the shoutout! For the past three years and for another 18 months basically (until August 2012) I'm Editor-in-Chief...<p>Thanks for the shoutout! For the past three years and for another 18 months basically (until August 2012) I'm Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. It's been a great experience and a great honor but the price has been almost no time for research or even to go into sl, much less other virtual worlds. So this was a great chance to talk about what virtual worlds are and what we can learn about them to a lay audience. The simultaneous physical-world/virtual-world aspect of it was tricky to pull off, Matt Heinrich and other folks at the Chicago Humanities Festival were awesome in making it happen!</p>