"If people really don't want to interact with strangers they probably would not choose to participate in Second Life" Second Life can be anything a person wants it to be; it can be a game with structure & rules, it can be a community or group with interaction, it can be a virtual (second) reality that may or may not mirror real life, it can also be a solitary activity where you do your own thing and putter on your land - or go for 'bush-walks' and 'walk-abouts' throughout the grid. :) Tracy - aka TracyTrail Blazer in SL ******************************************** Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media Design Institute Research Coordinator - NetLab - Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 tkennedy@netwomen.ca www.netwomen.ca www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative Virtual Research Assistant - Centre for Digital Media Great Northern Way Campus 555 Great Northern Way Vancouver, BC V5T 1E2 Research Director Netwomen Consulting ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mark Bell Sent: November 14, 2006 2:01 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] refs on myspace and facebook Bonnie, Just a note. There is no overall shared activity in Second Life. M On 11/14/06, Bonnie Nardi <nardi@ics.uci.edu> wrote: If people really don't want to interact with
strangers they probably would not choose to participate in Second Life, WoW, and many other virtual worlds that are heavily social but also focused on some kind of shared activity.