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1. Slide 1: Can You See the Real Virtual Me An Exploration of Digital and Analog Identities in Second Life
2. Slide 2: “ Virtual worlds construct places and involve multiple people, it is perhaps not surprising to customs and cultures emerge that are ” built around cultural places. – Snowdon, Churchil and Munro in Collaborative Virtual Environments
3. Slide 3: “ Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships ” in cyberspace. –Howard Rheingold
4. Slide 4: “ As much as the synthetic space had come to feel real, the Earth now appears somewhat unreal. I’m arguing both are real that , but that their cultural differences are so great as to ” culture shock. impose a truly mind-altering – E. Castranova
5. Slide 5: Why?
6. Slide 6: User created Digital = culture Deserve our attention Why? Economy Increasing cultural involvement We are media Culture redefined
7. Slide 7: What is Second Life?
8. Slide 8: What isMulti Second Life? User Virtual Environment
9. Slide 9: Not a Game No missions No goal No defined path
10. Slide 10: “ while tick-tocking for her prims to rez on her avi, i worried if she was a greifer, grid hopper, or just wanted all sim my L$. then the ” crashed and i went back to rl.
11. Slide 11: BSU Involvement in SL CMD English 104
12. Slide 12: Not Alone
13. Slide 13: Identity Analog Identity Digital Identity
14. Slide 14: Avatar Name (Visual (Taxonomy narrative) narrative) Identity in SL Actions and Location speech (Geographical (Textual narrative) narrative)
15. Slide 15: The Story Center Hund reds o f visi tors Exhib its Museu m/ Galler y
16. Slide 16: Identity Types Identity Slippage Identity Stability Identify Shift
17. Slide 17: Psycho-social Role reversal moratorium Slight change from analog identity When who you (digital) are and who you (analog) are don’t match. Identity Slippage
18. Slide 18: explore new Second Life allows anyone to places and experiences environment” Many different situations in a safe
19. Slide 19: I am who I Replication am, digital of analog or analog identity Always mediated Always mediated Never complete Identity Stability
20. Slide 20: perfect. “I could be me.” I want to be
21. Slide 23: Identity Shift Total change of Identity Identity conflict Hidden identities Identify Shift
22. Slide 25: Please come and visit Let me show you around