Hi Tom, MIT's Michael Fischer's book "Emergent Forms of Life and The Anthropological Voice" offers the most interesting and edifying way I've seen for conceiving of how to look at the effects of new information technologies. Scott Fischer, Michael M. J. 2004. Emergent Forms of Life and The Anthropological Voice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822332388/sr=8-1/qid=1142266707/ref=pd_bbs... On 8/28/07, tom abeles <tabeles@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Scott
How do you think about this arena sociologically when the half life for change is so short across this area and SL is the first to emerge of a type of environment that is expected to be doubling in numbers yearly?
Right now, environments like SL are seen much like the New World was seen by the first explorers who mapped their reality onto the new lands. Thus, it might seem more interesting to look at the immigrants and explorers.
The rise of interactivity via the emerging technologies of PDA's and dual band cell phones which add dimensions to cross border knowledge transitions seems to point to much of the problems we are now seeing in the physical universe and would seem to suggest that close study would be instantaneously historical in nature, past rather than present/future oriented
thoughts?
tom
tom abeles
From: "Scott MacLeod" <helianth@gmail.com> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Second Life Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:18:38 -0400
I'm posting below two courses in Second Life on Berkman Island (Harvard).
The first starts on September 18. The second, which I'm teaching, begins tomorrow, August 29.
Both offer ways to begin to think about SL sociologically.
Scott
Virtual Reality Becca Nesson Berkman Island, Fall 2007 Tuesdays 8-10 ET, 5-7 SLT http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nesson/e3/
Society and Information Technology in SL (vis-à-vis Manuel Castells' research on the Network Society) Scott MacLeod - scott@scottmacleod.com Berkman Island, Fall 2007 Wed – 7-9 ET, 4-6 SLT http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm
On 8/28/07, Alex -Vipowernet <alex@islands.vi> wrote:
Me too!
Dr. Alex Randall Prof Communications Univ of the Virgin Islands.
Second Life Education Workshop 2007, http://www.simteach.com/slccedu07proceedings.pdf
On 8/28/07, CHUNG Wai Keung <wkchung@smu.edu.sg> wrote:
Wonder if anyone has come across any theoretical/sociological study
on
Second Life? I would very much appreciate if someone can point to me the relevant literature. Many thanks!
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