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Realizing that Orientation Island doesn’t fit the needs of many educators, the New Media Consortium has unveiled its own orientation island for newbies. Particularly helpful is the “Pier of Culture,†which discusses, among other things, griefers (disruptive avatars), machinima (video production in Second Life), and poseballs (objects that animate avatars who sit on them). -
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Online virtual worlds could soon be accessible to blind people thanks to research by students at IBM in Ireland. -
1voteTwo 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.
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1voteLinden Lab is pressured from all sides. They are being sued (along with ten Internet Service Providers) by French parent-teacher group Familles de France. Their Terms of Service have been found to be legally unenforceable by Judge Eduardo Robreno. German TV News Magazine Report Mainz has raised a scandal about Second Life and child pornography.
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1voteAccording to a post from Nuschi Martynov that arrived on our desks, and a babelfish translation of this German blog post political activists opposed to the G8 are meeting in Second Life to avoid the big fence and 16,000 policemen stopping them protesting up close and personal in meat space.
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1voteNow maker Linden Lab is trying to lay down the law regarding what is and isn't permitted in Second Life... In a blog posting the company noted it would not tolerate certain activities within the virtual world, including "real-life images, avatar portrayals, and other depictions" of sexual acts involving children, sexual violence including rape, and other "
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1voteLast month, two Belgian publications reported that the Brussels police have begun an investigation into a citizen's allegations of rape -- in Second Life.
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1votePeter Ludlow on policing SL: Companies like SL have a difficult time dealing with transgressions b/c dispute resolution is hard, & dealing with troubled adolescents and troubled adults is hard. It can be done, but the people that game companies throw at these social problems are typically either people with an engineering background or unpaid volunteers with little to no formal training.
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