Posts Tagged "relationships"

• Days of Remembrance – in SL and thesixtyone

  On Technology

   
  A day of remembrance to remember those who have lost their lives is being held at the Big Easy sim in Second Life on April 17. Those who have experienced the loss of a friend in a virtual world are invited to participate in this full day community event. A listing of those [...]

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• Quantum Existence in Abstractia

  On Mind

   
  “But it’s the interplay of the ‘real’ with the virtual that is the richest source for the possibilities of change. If we purely think of virtual worlds as separate, we’re ignoring the fact that they are NOT walled gardens. They may have walls – platforms like World of Warcraft erect as many barriers between the [...]

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• Messages from the Past

  On Technology

  I don’t know who created this but, I thought it to be touching:
  http://animalcrossingtragedy.ytmnd.com/
  Here is a link to information about the game noted, Animal Crossing.

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• Online Relationships

  On Mind

  Setting up performances in virtual space is a lot like setting up performances in RL. In the end, a musician works with other people to bring music to an audience. When the arrangements for promotion, payments, sound set-up, etc are all taken care of in a professional and pleasant manner, the whole experience [...]

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• Where Everyone Knows Your Name

  On Mind

  I had come across an article called “Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as “Third Places” by Steinkuehler and Williams
  They referred to the MMORPG space as a type of community – a type of place for social gathering. The implication is that as our daily lives continue to grow more complicated and [...]

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