[This message from Anthropology professor Tom Boellstorff at the University of California Irvine appeared on air-l, the listserv of the Association of Internet Researchers. –Matthew]
Date: Sat, 9 April 2022
From: Tom Boellstorff <tboellst@uci.edu>
Subject: Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times
Dear all: the documentary Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times is now freely available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wgJKr744hY. This film, by the wonderful filmmaker Bernhard Drax, is about research I conducted with three colleagues about how people were using Animal Crossing and Second Life during the early days of the pandemic.
Bernhard really is a remarkable filmmaker, who also directed Our Digital Selves (https://youtu.be/GQw02-me0W4), a film about earlier collaborative research I conducted regarding disability and virtual worlds. I term this kind of work “paraethnographic film,” about which I recently published an article in Visual Anthropology Review (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/512046md), including a teaching supplement (https://www.visualanthropologyreview.org/var371-suppl-boellstorff). I hope you enjoy it!
All the best, Tom Boellstorff
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