This is an example of how a research project in SecondLife might be done in the future, on a larger scale in order to consider how learning about and across difference can occur in SecondLife. Primarily, future research might consider in what capacity SecondLife can be a tool in transformative education.

Whole Foods brands itself as a progressive, socially-conscious, epicurean paradise, and it is an extensively branded. Tonight we are all spectators to a Tibetan freedom protest across the street.

I have myself participated to the panel discussions lead by Jason Pine about how new practices that appear to have emerged in virtual worlds related to identity construction and world building, have created the potentials to re-write some of the old categories.