The adventures and misadventures of rivas franizzi, SL ethnographer and traveler. Into a sort of bri.

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.

Just another another blog for class. The internet is a powerful medium for communication. One result of being able to share information on a global level has been the emergence of Social Networking Sites. Social network sites are defined as websites that allow participants to construct a public or semi-public profile within the system, that formally articulate their relationship to other users in a way that is visible to anyone who can access their profile.

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.