Bonnie Nardi

Bonnie Nardi is an anthropologist whose most recent work concerns virtual worlds. Her book, My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. She is co-author (with Tom Boellstorff, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor) of the forthcoming Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (Princeton University Press). Nardi is known as the lead author of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (Nardi & O'Day 1998). She is also well known for her work on activity theory. She is a full-time professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine where she leads the TechDec research lab.