ANTH 2160 Lecture : SLsummaryChapter Eight.docx
10 Apr 2012
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Addresses politics and economic together boellstorff sees them as aspects of the same cultural domain. Pivotal difference between virtual worlds and actual world is that virtual worlds can be owned. Neoliberalism: an ideology founded in use of market mechanisms and personal responsibility as principles of governance: crowdsourcing . Selfhood understood as customization of the social pg 207. Linden lab paid incentives to properties receiving the most traffic also affect where a property appeared in menu: highest paying job was sex worker. Only by owning property could residents build objects with permanence economic system in second life predicated on property. Sl originally object based economy- residents taxed per prim created. Shift from object based to property based economy-- Land barons purchased land and resold (flipping it: requires significant social engineering- usually including zoning, organizing events, and identifying whole areas with specific communities.
