Anthropology Blogging 101: Archaeogaming
In this edition of Anthropology Blogging 101, we feature Andrew Reinhard, founder of Archaeogaming. His application of archaeology to virtual…
Posts Tagged 'World of Warcraft'
Happy 10th Anniversary World of Warcraft!
Today is the 10th Anniversary of World of Warcraft! Click below to for an hour and a half of cut…
The Cool, the Nerdy and the Geeky: A Look at Personalities
This post is part of the series Anthropology in Outerspace which examines representations of anthropology in science-fiction. To read previous…
So, you want to get a master’s degree?
You’re interested in a topic and you’d like to start a master’s degree to be able to explore it. Great! But where to begin?
Before you start filling out applications for universities, there are two very important things you need to do, the first of which I’ll address today and the second in a coming post.
1. You need to clarify what you’ll work on;
2. Decide whom you want to work with.
Living in video games and living life like a video game
I got hooked on World of Warcraft the first time I played it.
The game had been online for years when I first set foot in Azeroth in 2009. I had heard of the game of course, and was fascinated by the fact that it’s economy had expanded from game to Ebay. In China, some people worked in WOW “factories” where they played to create top-level characters that could later be sold to lazy players. I had also heard of some extreme cases in which people had gotten so addicted to it, that they stopped going to school or work for weeks or months.
