Lindy, I share your dislike for lazy journalists, but I don't see how what you describe relates to collateral misinformation. By the way, not all SL critics haven't tried it. Could I be controversial and say that I do not like SL either? And yes, I have given it a fair try, but I simply cannot get past the clunky technology and the endless rendering lag. Best Regards, Andres -- Andres Guadamuz AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699 Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317 a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/ SCRIPT-ed Journal of Law, Technology and Society http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed IP/IT/Medical Law LLM by Distance Learning http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/distancelearning/ Lindy McKeown wrote:
What a great term...I think it applies to both the media and academic presentations as well as Wikipedia...like when some ill informed journalist talks about things like SL with all the inaccuracies and rumour or when someone who has never used SL for anything more than to replicate a boring ,non-participatory lecture in a replica of their RL lecture hall and comments in a presentation or paper on SL being a waste of time instead of their pedagogy being he item in question...perfect examples of collateeral misinformation to me.
Lindy
Lindy McKeown aka Decka Mah
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March 08, 2008: collateral misinformation
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=collateral+misinformation&def id=2903349
When someone alters a [Wikipedia] article to win a specific argument, anyone who reads the false article before the "error" is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation.
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