%0 Generic %1 Chase-DunnInoue:2009 %A Chase-Dunn, Christopher K. %A Inoue, Hiroko %C Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 8-11 %D 2009 %K cyber space theory world-system %T Can You Really Study the World-system in Second Life? %X This paper reviews recent methods for using the Internet to do social science research on world-system issues and also discusses the uses of the Internet for doing world politics. Research projects and political groups can easily hold meetings inside virtual worlds using avatars that represent real-world participants from distant locations. Global web surveys, network studies of web contents and the use of multiplayer virtual worlds for social and economic experiments are discussed. Ethnography and focus group discussions in virtual worlds on global issues are examined, including those that seek to improve the abilities of people from the global north and the global south to solve problems together. The use of wiki processes for democratic group document production and decision-making are also discussed. Participant observations in social movements, strikes and other collective actions in virtual worlds are also considered. We discuss the results of research that uses counts of web pages to study the sizes of transnational social movements and their links with one another. We also discuss a project that will bring people from the global north and the global south together to discuss the idea of a global peoples's parliament.

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