Author: María Magdalena López de Anda
Programme: Doctoral Programme on the Information and Knowledge Society
Language: Spanish
Supervisor: Dr. Raúl Trejo Delarbre
Faculty / Institute: Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Key words: Communication, Second Life, Virtual worlds, Identity, Representation
Summary
We investigated communication practices in the virtual world Second Life, in order to understand through a sociocultural approach the situated strategies of symbolic exchange performing, the way of participants understood their structural conditions and the agency involved with them. We conducted an ethnographic study between 2006-2009 that included participant observation, interviews, off line observation of users and their on line activities, and analysis of secondary products.