Bonnie Nardi
Bonnie Nardi is an American 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 Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (Princeton University Press, 2012). 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 professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where she leads the TechDec research lab.