Ethnography and Virtual Worlds Quotes

“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.”
― Tom Boellstorff, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

“Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.”
― Tom Boellstorff, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

“Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.”
― Tom Boellstorff, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method