[Air-L] Second Life- second thoughts

[tom abeles]

Hi Scott

How do you think about this arena sociologically when the half life for 
change is so short across this area and SL is the first to emerge of a type 
of environment that is expected to be doubling in numbers yearly?

Right now, environments like SL are seen much like the New World was seen by 
the first explorers who mapped their reality onto the new lands. Thus, it 
might seem more interesting to look at the immigrants and explorers.

The rise of interactivity via the emerging technologies of PDA's and dual 
band cell phones which add dimensions to cross border knowledge transitions 
seems to point to much of the problems we are now seeing in the physical 
universe and would seem to suggest that close study would be instantaneously 
historical in nature, past rather than present/future oriented

thoughts?

tom

tom abeles


>From: "Scott MacLeod" <helianth at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>Subject: Re: [Air-L] Second Life
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:18:38 -0400
>
>I'm posting below two courses in Second Life on Berkman Island (Harvard).
>
>The first starts on September 18. The second, which I'm teaching,
>begins tomorrow, August 29.
>
>Both offer ways to begin to think about SL sociologically.
>
>Scott
>
>
>Virtual Reality
>Becca Nesson
>Berkman Island, Fall 2007
>Tuesdays 8-10 ET, 5-7 SLT
>http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nesson/e3/
>
>
>Society and Information Technology in SL (vis-à-vis Manuel Castells'
>research on the Network Society)
>Scott MacLeod - scott at scottmacleod.com
>Berkman Island, Fall 2007
>Wed – 7-9 ET, 4-6 SLT
>http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com
>http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm
>
>
>
>On 8/28/07, Alex -Vipowernet <alex at islands.vi> wrote:
> > Me too!
> >
> > Dr. Alex Randall
> > Prof Communications
> > Univ of the Virgin Islands.
> >
> >
> >   Second Life Education Workshop 2007,
> >   http://www.simteach.com/slccedu07proceedings.pdf
> >
> >   On 8/28/07, CHUNG Wai Keung <wkchung at smu.edu.sg> wrote:
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > Wonder if anyone has come across any theoretical/sociological study 
>on
> >   > Second Life?  I would very much appreciate if someone can point to 
>me
> >   > the relevant literature.  Many thanks!
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