Category: Virtual Community
The sheer number of anthropology PhD candidates walking around the many 3D MMO’s should suggest that there’s something more powerful going on than simply the idle passing of hours. Whether physical or virtual we human beings are community creating creatures. When your identity doesn’t sync with the dominant identity in your physical neighborhood, virtual community can reach across geography to create new communities.
Avatar Hangouts
Avatar Hangouts is a new meetup! Come visit with old friends & make new ones. 2nd Saturday of the Month: 9a California / 5p London / 2a Sydney.
Through the dark of a phosphor moon, or wandering the virtual cemetery
Could memorializing these past soul bits become a celebration of ascension to a timeless future?
Another Internet is Possible
Promised utopia, we got moronic videos to sell crap. Another Internet is possible! Must The Internet serve commodity culture like all media before it?
One Plus One Equals Three – Part II
I bite my lip as I hand my daughter Mia over to Frank, my partner. The urge…
One Plus One Equals Three – Part I
The doctor walks into the recovery room, her smile hidden below her mask as she places the…
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…
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…
Building Communities with Strangers
THE BLACK SUN, 12 May — In the physical world, you help the old neighbor carry their…
Culture is Virtual
NEW CALEDON, 22 September — When human beings interact they create culture. Culture in physical space; culture…