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NSBA report on the SNS use of students and the potential educational benefits. -
2voteGlasure's first online game was Everquest and her avatar was female. But all anyone noticed were her pixel breasts, and this despite her considerable gaming expertise. Fed up, she switched digital identities. "And I picked the biggest, blackest guy I could find," she says. She called him Stygion Physic — Stygion from the River Styx, Physic for healing. That's the closest she could get to "Bad Medicine" in the game, City of Heroes. And with her change of avatar, her pleasure in the game changed. "When I play this big guy, everybody listens to me," she says. "Nobody argues with me. If there's a group of people standing around, I say, 'OK, everybody follow me!' And they do. No questions asked."
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1voteThe University of Plymouth, in Britain, has established a region in the virtual world Second Life to educate students about contraception and sexual health. The site’s digital characters, called avatars, can even grab free condoms from a dispensing machine.
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2voteI'm an academic but I'm also a blogger. For me, these are separate identities. I write formal papers that I spend months trying to find the language to properly express what's going on. [On my blog] I write in an off-the-cuff manner, trying to paint impressions rather than nuance. Unfortunately, many feel as though a blog must be formal & then they project this view onto my writing...
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1voteNegative op-ed about danah boyd's myspace/facebook class division blog.
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1voteSince Linden Lab last month deleted the digital version of Woodbury U from SL, bloggers have debated online whether the severe step was justified. Unruly avatars apparently destroyed regions of SL & harassed other avatars using Woodbury Island as their home base. At best, administrators of the region allowed the violent avatars to operate there; at worst, they joined in the mischief.
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