Today we started class in our regular cave classroom. Perhaps unsurprisingly, when I first built the space I modeled it on the attributes of a physical classroom. It has a “front” with a podium and a blackboard and virtual books. At the time I guess I designed it thinking that those things would signal “classroom.” Using it for these first weeks, it has already come to feel like a classroom—albeit a much more cute and colorful one than those in […]

Categories: Digital Anthropology • Tags: mineclass, Minecraft

This year my birthday happened to land on the same day as our digital anthropology class. This turned out to be a great opportunity to make a point related to some things we have been discussing in class concerning the nature of digital objects: How are the virtual objects different than actual physical objects but still real? Well at some point when I wasn’t paying attention a person or persons in the class festooned the area around where I stand […]

Categories: Digital Anthropology • Tags: mineclass, Minecraft