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Talking, Looking, Flying, Searching: A research report on information seeking in Second Life

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This research project examines how residents of the virtual world Second Life seek & find information, based on ethnographic research by a graduate student in library and information science.

This research project examines how residents of the virtual world Second Life seek & find information, based on ethnographic research by a graduate student in library and information science.

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  • librariandreamer Margaret Ostrander, Manager, Search at Thomson Reuters This represents the reported use of libraries, in SL and in real life, by the interview informants in this study. Five in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 'everyday' Second Life users (e.g. not librarians, library students or others overtly connected to SL libraries). So, all five of the interview subjects used libraries in real life, while zero had ever used one in Second Life. 4 years ago
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