[Air-L] SL Journalism research

[Heath Row]

You should be sure to reach out to Wagner James Au, whose new book The
Making of Second Life is worth a read. You should also contact Eric
Reuters.

Heath

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Annabelle
<annabellebj at student.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I¹ve been lurking on this list for a little while now and think the time has
> come to speak up. I am an undergrad Honours student from Sydney Uni and am
> researching SL for my thesis. This list has been very generous with honours
> enquiries before and I am hoping to tap into that expertise!
>
> I¹m looking at the role of journalism (using a fairly broad definition) in
> Second Life, and how this impacts upon governance and the idea of a Œpublic
> sphere¹ within SL. I am planning to research this through using a public
> forum in SL and a blog, complemented by individual interviews and textual
> analysis of some of the journalistic publications themselves. I would really
> like some feedback on whether anyone has done this kind of research before,
> how successful or otherwise it was and any tips on how to get it up and
> running.
>
> I would also love to hear from anyone who has done any research or study of
> journalism in virtual worlds. I¹m particularly interested in the idea of
> journalism as Œpublic conversation¹ and ideas about the public sphere and
> public opinion negotiation. I know there is a growing body of work on
> governance in virtual worlds (or the lack thereof) and would also appreciate
> any pointers towards any new or social science based work in this area
> (there appears to be lots of scholarship around legal questions of
> governance and not so much on the social/political side ­ but maybe I¹m
> wrong!).
>
> Thank you for any help or pointers. Will keep the list posted on when the
> public forum is happening and hopefully see some of you there in SL.
>
> Regards,
>
> Annabelle Boyd Jones
>
> Honours Student, Department of Media and Communications
> The University of Sydney
> e: annabellebj at student.usyd.edu.au
>
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