![]() It was one of the first places that I heard extensively about the kinds of educational uses of Second Life. (Check out the session called Brace for Impact: How User Creation Changes Everything). Here, for example, is a link to the webcast of a session of the 2005 Games, Learning, and Society conference at Madison, Wisconsin. which almost always connects what's taking place online to what's going on in our lives off line. More often, though, there are a complex set of social ties, economic practices, political debates, etc. We learn things about our first lives by stepping into a Second or parallel life which allows us to suspend certain rules, break out of certain roles, and see the world from a fresh perspective. ![]() Even when we go onto the digital world to "escape" reality, we end up engaging with symbolic representations which we read in relation to reality. ![]() The last several decades of observation of the digital world teaches us that the digital world is never totally disconnected from the real world. Valve to live their fantasies of social change (elsewhere), or do they, in some measurable way, fertilize politics in the world beyond the screen? My main question to Jenkins and all of you concerns the relationship between this virtual world and "first life." Do these virtual worlds merely provide an inconvenient youth with a The question which Scholtz posed to me was deceptively simple: I asked if I could cross-post my response here on the blog. Scholtz asked politely if I might weigh in on some of their arguments (always a dangerous thing since I am not on the list and not fully following their conversations) and clarify my position. Trebor Scholtz suggesting that there had been some interesting responses to the Shirkey-Coleman-Jenkins exchanges over at the iDC (Institute for Distributed Creativity) mailing list. After having written so much about Second Life during my recent exchanges with Beth Coleman and Clay Shirky, I swore to myself that I would not write about this virtual world for a bit and let reality catch up with some of my theories. ![]()
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