num_pages: 264
description: A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online virtual worldsEthnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kinda concise comprehensive and practical guide for students teachers designers and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds including both game and nongame environments. Written by leading ethnographers of virtual worlds and focusing on the key method of participant observation the book provides invaluable advice tips guidelines and principles to aid researchers through every stage of a project from choosing an online fieldsite to writing and publishing the results.
language: English
title: Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
publisher: Princeton University Press