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.