DEFINITION OF A VIRTUAL WORLD “ A synchronous, persistent network of people, represented as avatars, facilitated by networked computers.” Mark Bell, “Toward a Definition of V irtual Worlds”

POINT OF VIEW: in cinema, this is chosen for you, but in SL . . . .

POINT OF VIEW IN SECOND LIFE L1Aura Loire

The various points of view that the participant in a virtual world chooses can be both tools for machinima--for digital storytelling--and are also one of the ways through which a virtual world is experienced. In a way, Second Life is all immersive, interactive art installation space and we are all performance artists within it. BIW is a particularly liminal and tricksterish virtual space, part of a mixed reality project.

Virtual Subjectivity a mode of first-person experience in a virtual world that is founded on a fusion of visual and metaphoric point of view, shaped through "self-design" of the avatar and environment, reinforced and extended through social interaction, and enacted through virtual agency. L1 at Maya Paris’s Sexicality