Life in Virtual Reality
How do people live and interact in Cyberspace? Scientists and sci-fi writers have tackled this question for decades, yet the idea of a spatially distinct social site ›inside‹ the internet remained an imaginary for the longest time. In the 2010s, this changed: the proliferation of affordable virtual...
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| description | How do people live and interact in Cyberspace? Scientists and sci-fi writers have tackled this question for decades, yet the idea of a spatially distinct social site ›inside‹ the internet remained an imaginary for the longest time. In the 2010s, this changed: the proliferation of affordable virtual reality hardware and the emergence of social VR platforms attracted a growing number of tech enthusiasts for whom social life in VR has by now become a mundane, everyday reality. During his four-year ethnography, Felix Krell lived among, observed, and interviewed long-term users of the platform VRChat to explore what using VR technology really feels like for those with years of lived experience, and how members of emergent virtual communities negotiate their social interactions. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1779142026-06-22T05:36:04Z Life in Virtual Reality Krell, Felix Virtual Reality Social Platform Everyday Life Media Studies Media Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT1 Media studies: internet, digital media and society How do people live and interact in Cyberspace? Scientists and sci-fi writers have tackled this question for decades, yet the idea of a spatially distinct social site ›inside‹ the internet remained an imaginary for the longest time. In the 2010s, this changed: the proliferation of affordable virtual reality hardware and the emergence of social VR platforms attracted a growing number of tech enthusiasts for whom social life in VR has by now become a mundane, everyday reality. During his four-year ethnography, Felix Krell lived among, observed, and interviewed long-term users of the platform VRChat to explore what using VR technology really feels like for those with years of lived experience, and how members of emergent virtual communities negotiate their social interactions. 2026-06-22T05:36:01Z 2026-06-22T05:36:01Z 2026-06-21T16:01:39Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103021_9783839472453_18 2702-8984 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114373 9783839472453 9783837672459 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177914 eng Edition Medienwissenschaft open access image/jpeg Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114373/1/9783839472453.pdf transcript Verlag transcript 10.14361/9783839472453 10.14361/9783839472453 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c 9783839472453 9783837672459 transcript 336 open access |
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