Virtual Selves, Virtual Communities: Self-Narration and Social Relations in Multi-User Virtual Environments. (3rd May 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Virtual Selves, Virtual Communities: Self-Narration and Social Relations in Multi-User Virtual Environments. (3rd May 2016)
- Main Title:
- Virtual Selves, Virtual Communities: Self-Narration and Social Relations in Multi-User Virtual Environments
- Authors:
- Butler, Stephanie
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Using case studies, the author analyzes how people with myalgic encephalomyelitis|chronic fatigue syndrome construct their subjectivities in the multi-user virtual environment Second Life. The findings of the study reveal people's anxieties about identity and belonging, especially where interlocking disadvantages such as economic class, gender, mental health, disability, and chronic illness influence who is accepted as a member of the support groups held in-world.
- Is Part Of:
- Auto/biography studies. Volume 31:Number 2(2016)
- Journal:
- Auto/biography studies
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Number 2(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 2 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0031-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 373
- Page End:
- 398
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05-03
- Subjects:
- Autobiography -- Periodicals
Autobiography
Periodicals
920.005 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raut20 ↗
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/abs ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/08989575.2016.1138359 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0898-9575
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 0537.005900
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