eprintid: 11296
rev_number: 6
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/01/12/96
datestamp: 2010-11-24 14:37:30
lastmod: 2014-08-18 21:18:00
status_changed: 2010-12-16 11:57:39
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Grieve, Gregory
title: Virtually Embodying the Field: Silent Online Buddhist Meditation, Immersion, and the Cardean Ethnographic Method
ispublished: pub
subjects: 200
divisions: 72050
keywords: Sinne , Internet , virtuelle Welten , Buddhismus , Second Lifesenses , internet , virtual worlds , Buddhism , Second Life
cterms_swd: Ästhetik
cterms_swd: Wahrnehmung
cterms_swd: Religion
abstract: This article sketches the Cardean Ethnographic research method that emerged from two years of study inSecond Life’s Zen Buddhist cloud communities. Second Life is a 3D graphic virtual world housed in cyberspace that can be accessed via the Internet from any networked computer on the globe.Cloud communitiesare groups that are temporary, flexible, elastic and inexpensive in the social capital required to join or to leave. In our research, we found ourselves facing a two-sided methodological problem. We had to theorize the virtual and its relation to the actual, while simultaneously creating practices for an effective ethnographic method. Our solution,named after the Roman Goddess of the hinge, Cardea,was a method that uses the model of a hinge to theorize the virtual as desubtantialized and the worlds opened up by cyberspace as nondualistic. This understanding of the virtual worldscalled for a classic ethnographic methodbased on participant observation and thick description. 
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2010
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00011296
portal_cluster_id: p-relinternet
portal_order: 04.1
ppn_swb: 1650465289
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-112963
language: eng
bibsort: GRIEVEGREGVIRTUALLYE2010
full_text_status: public
publication: Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Vol. 04.1 Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses
editors_name: Heidbrink, Simone
editors_name: Miczek, Nadja
citation:   Grieve, Gregory  (2010) Virtually Embodying the Field: Silent Online Buddhist Meditation, Immersion, and the Cardean Ethnographic Method.  Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Vol. 04.1 Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/11296/1/03.pdf