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Two researchers at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln have completed a study on “deception in cyberspace,” and they’ve hit on something pretty interesting: In text-based chat rooms, people who are lying generally get anxious. But in virtual worlds that let people create avatars, that edginess seems to fade away. “This suggests that ‘wearing a mask’ in cyberspace may reduce anxiety in deceiving others,” the researchers conclude. -
1voteIn a Podcast with The Chronicle, Tom Boellstorff, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine, talks about, among other things, how people bond and change genders in Second Life. Mr. Boellstorff spent two-and-a-half years exploring the culture of the virtual world through a digital character he created named Tom Bukowski.
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2voteAcademic paper about LiveJournal
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2voteAcademic paper on Livejournal
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