Category: City
The virtual century didn’t kill journalism or libraries, it stripped away artifacts on their journey to a golden age. So too virtuality isn’t the end of The City, it is the rebirth. The new, permeable city interacts with many publics in a complex world. Let’s take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight, in Virtual Suburbia.
S&TVC Episode 2 – It’s only a date auction
Hearing the ground beneath us harden I tightened my grip on his reins and rose into a…
Second Life Erotic Photography: An interview with Nearly Doune
Second Life Erotic Photography: An interview with Nearly Doune Warning: This post is about Second Life Erotic…
S&TVC Episode 1 – How I “Lost That Loving Feeling”
Before I begin this first episode of Sex & the Virtual City, I’d like readers to know…
Exploring Second Life Families – Part 2
How do Second Life families start? How do they get together? How do they grow? Let’s say…
Exploring Second Life Families – Part 1
Some visitors to this blog may know that I was recently the maid of honour at my…
Tom Boellstorff 2: Is it Fierce? Or, Hotness Based Research
One of my favorite parts of the conversation Kathleen Cool and I had with Tom Boellstorff was…
How To Date A Virtual Woman
Recently, iRez publisher Vaneeesa Blaylock tagged me with this, “Yordie Sands also dares to talk about something…
Tom Boellstorff 1: Exploring the Digital Jungle
In 2008 Tom Boellstorff published Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human….
Hosoi Ichiba’s New Beginning
My first Gimme Six article featured the Hosoi Ichiba sim group. Unlike other games, the places we love…
From Resident to Citizen in Second Life
Like a half-blind newborn, we begin our Second Life rather aimlessly bumping into things as we learn…
Whose Rule is it Anyway? An Intro to Digital Citizenship
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the term Digital Citizens. That term is typically used…
With this ring… Exploring Second Life Weddings
Last night I was invited to be my friend’s Maid of Honour in her upcoming Second Life…
Romance Upon the Seas
Photo: Yordie & friend aboard SS Titanic Location: Hawser @ Blake Sea, Second Life It was the 100th…
Data Crunch
I know, I know, I haven’t been as prompt with my blog postings this week. Here’s the…
The 5 Things I Want in a Virtual Relationship
I know I have really high expectations and I don’t apologise for it. In fact, it’s one…
My Second Life Romance – Part 3
Unlike the end of Part 1 and Part 2, I sorta know how this piece will end. I…
Cut Up Reality
I don’t know why I’m suddenly so sensitive to the notion of time and reality, but it…
Boredom in the Fourth Dimension
If I’ve learned anything so far from this research, it is that virtual reality and “real” reality…
My Second Life Romance – Part 2
This is the second part of the story of my second life romance. If all the guys…
My Second Life Romance – Part 1
I’ve wanted to write about Second Life romance for a long time. In fact, I’ve written about…
Is usability a dirty word in SL?
At the risk of sounding like a total noob (yes, I have been a SL “resident” since…
Safety Not Guaranteed
MADRID, 1615 — Following up on his publication of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha…
The Power of Touch
As some of you may have noticed from my posts, I’ve had an innate fascination for…
Half Lives
For obvious reasons, a recurring theme in art history since the beginning of times, and in every…
Virtually Ethical
As a qualitative researcher, one of my primary areas of concern when conducting research in a RL…
Descartes’ Imagination
All this talk about Cartesian Dualism and Daniel Dennett’s entertaining interpretations of what it could mean in the…
One Day, One Cat
Ok, so this has absolutely nothing to do with Virtual Education or virtual anything for that matter….
Cartesian Sins and Virtues
It may seem ironic, at first glance to be “dissing” Cartesian philosophy on a blog titled “I…
Transparency
I’ve been pondering how to make research more transparent for a few years now, and I have…
The Virtual Salon
All this talk about Salons and blogs got me thinking about the role of virtual worlds in…