virtual space, and very likely to keep this advantage in virtual society, this upmanship advantage in turn may strengthen real-life layered structure. Therefore, the Internet influence on the society is not a coessential process of all social groups, but an erosion process start from the middle- upper class. But no matter how fast this \is processing, for a very long period in the future, most of the population will still be no luck to “live in” this virtual
society, we can not contact them in the internet. When we are doing research on virtual community, still should not forget that behind the computer monitors, we are facing a lively person, they are the same as us live in a real world. Therefore anthropological fieldwork
method is not outmoded, no matter online or offline life, both require the investigators involve into its culture, learning their language or (network language), familiar with their lives (online or offline), even become a member of them. The internet makes
anthropologists back to their swivel chair on certain extent, but opened a wider world in front of him.
Ethnography in Virtual World 虚拟世界的民族志
