Digital Cultures, Lived Stories and Virtual Reality

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1. Story cultures: Toward a humanistic understanding of online experience and digital technologies in business contexts: Practical and theoretical considerations of a business anthropologist
	Gloss on organizing themes and claims
	Book form
2. A new story moment: Lived stories and the experience of virtual reality
	How the study was conducted
	Lived story
	Lived stories: Embodiment and participation in VR
		Respondent reactions to 360 video and to being in an HTC Vive Headset:
	Perception and VR
	Emotional meaning and authenticity in VR and journalistic credibility
	Emotional management and VR
	How users navigate VR content: The analogy of ritual
	VR as liminal space: The magic circle analogy
	Navigating VR content: Being in the present moment
	The experience of place in VR
	The empathy paradigm and VR
	Empathy and the suffering subject
	Ethics: VR and the journalist\'s dilemma
	A new story culture and the allure of VR for early adopters ( and )
	Conclusion: Anthropological gloss
	Gloss on some of the study\'s other applications
3. Earnestness and the commonplace: Visual storying in the digital space
	Introduction
	How we carried out the study
	The visual sensorium, arresting imagery, the bricoleur, the commonplace
	The concept of arresting imagery
	Arresting images/iconographic images
	Visual bricoleurs
	Commercial imagery and the bricoleur
	Synaptic play
	Visual imagery, social media and the commonplace
	Weaving meaning into images of the everyday
	Placemaking and the commonplace
	The commercial and communicative significance of the commonplace and of placemaking
	The spirit of the gift: Sharing visual imagery and the energy exchange
	Lifeways and the pursuit of beauty among different age groups
	Place and self
		Self-enhancement
	Co-authorship and the social/relational self
	Using visual imagery and visual social media to express the \"individuated self\"
	Commitment to an interest, a profession, a craft
	The pursuit of beauty
	The beauty of childhood and parenthood
	Concluding remarks on noticing
4. Gift economies and play of social media: The new social in social media platforms
	Introduction
	The social media vanguard
	Identity projects and the idea of a creative community in social media
	Learning social media, finding a voice through participation
	Individualism/relationalism: Finding a voice with others help
	Social media and the ethnographic example of a gift economy
	What is a gift economy?
	From mass to personal messaging: In social media the most effective messaging is personal peer messaging
	Consumption/shopping and social media
	Creative mixing and matching and cultivating different sides of oneself
	From long form to short form in social media
	Social media platforms as different conceptual structures, different language games
	Some brief comments on the creative work of different social media platforms
		Facebook
	The two sides of Twitter: Creativity and destruction
	Transformations in Twitter language
	The creative work of Instagram and other visual social media platforms
	Spotify
	Pinterest
		TikTok, SnapChat, Vine
	Waze: Mapping and driving as collaborative projects
	Money and social media: Venmo
	Summary: Interpretations of meanings and trends in social media—social media platforms and play spaces
5. Play narratives: Mobile technologies and the play of time and place
	Business problems
	Who was interviewed: The structure of the project
	Play, smallness, toys, and smartphones
	The symbolism of the small in the consumer world
	Play and places
		Smartphone scripts and analogies: Building a dwelling place, the architecture of happiness: Mapping and exploring a space
	Self-inscription and a sense of the local: Place-making
	Serendipity and the play of time: Multiple temporalities
	Routine and time\'s cycle in the mobile life
	Rejoining the mobile life: Inaugural time
	Episodic time and event time
	Social gregariousness and time
	Time and the play of search: Consumption in the mobile/digital life
	Playing with tablets
	The spontaneous gesture and tablets
	Children-centered households
	Children-centered households and tablets
	Conclusion
6. From epic to romance: Digital play narratives in Singapore
	The Singaporean self and the mobile life
	In Sync: The self and social media in Singapore
		Rejoining the mobile life: Empathy and emotional alignment
	The kiasu spirit versus the kampong spirit
	Memoryscapes: The symbolism of land and food in Singapore
	Exploration, play, and the digital life in Singapore
	Creating a digital play space for the self (Singaporean digital play)
	Family and the digital life
	Tablets
	Brief chapter summary
7. The ritual transmission of news and the transition to digital story creation: The transition to digital news and its discontents
	Business objectives and anthropological objectives: Opening gloss
	The ritual dimension of news and story creation in the era of digital journalism
	Convergence culture and reading culture considered as challenges to journalists
	How people read today: The new news literacy
	Narrative forms today
	Digital journalism and its discontents
	Journalistic drive
	Balancing journalistic drive with audience feedback and metrics
	All digital news sites
	Innovative and traditional story creation
	Being mission and data driven
	Local news online
	The developing ecology of digital news
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