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No-longer-places in Virtual Worlds: The Precarity and Impermanence of Digital Religious Places through a Buddhist Lens

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This paper explores the ephemerality of digital spaces by paying special ethnographic attention to removed or deleted spaces—what I call no-longer-places—from the Buddhist corners of the virtual world of Second Life. While some Buddhist informants in Second Life tended to attribute the virtual disappearances to the Buddhist truth of impermanence, the Buddhist communities of Second Life were built to endure for some time. Therefore, the instances of failed no-longer-places continue to have cultural significance in their own meaningful and haunting ways.

Source: Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

DOI: 10.17928/jjadh.5.2_6

Author: Jessica Marie Falcone

Language: English

Topic: Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Subfield: Religious studies

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3116067883

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