I'm Busy Enough... What Do I Need a Second Life For? Alan Levine New Media Consortium

Sans handout http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Busy_Second_Life

http://sl.nmc.org/wiki/Busy_Second_Life

http://vworld.fas.org/

http://metaversed.com/25-apr-2007/gartner-2011-80-internet-users-will-have-second-life

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/21/more-us-warcraft-pla.html

Levine’s Law Start with the #@+^ demo!

Jacob Hall, NMC Campus in Second Life

http://valleywag.com/373678/are-second-life-users-on-drugs

Add “get a first life” image http://www.getafirstlife.com/

FoDS

Field of Dreams Syndrome

Congress? http://tinyurl.com/2j95hb

"Actually, maybe Congress should get an online life. In Second Life, participants create fake personas and spend endless hours interacting in a fantasy world with few tangible results to show for it -- kind of like, well, Congress." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102372.html

Those People & Time Henry Jenkins, SXSW 2008

The Skeptics

The Gamer The Graphics SUCK! There’s nothing to do.

The Fearful Too weird! I got chased by a giant penis

The Boss How do I make money?

The Traditionalist I can do that in a discussion board

http://www.nmc.org/

NMC Campus Launches Jan 2006 http://sl.nmc.org/2006/06/12/seriously-engaging-movie/

http://sl.nmc.org/2006/07/04/third-time-charm/

http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/

Social Spaces

Visceral Behind every avatar is a real person

Let’s Go in… NMC Create SL Account http://sl.nmc.org/join

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