The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds An Ethnography of a Second Life Community

• Published in: Space and culture Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 239 - 259
• Main Authors: Bardzell, Shaowen, Odom, William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2008; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Body; Communities; Embodiment; Emotions; Ethnography; Games; Human-computer interaction; Internet; Place; Semiotics; Social Relations; Space; Symbolism; Virtual reality; interaction; Second Life; place; embodiment; body; experience; space

The article examines the mutually constituted relations among avatars, space, and artifacts represented in a Gorean community in Second Life. Combining virtual ethnography (i.e., participant observations and in-depth interviews) with the growingly important concept of experience design in human—comp...