Tag: Second Life

There are no utopias, as I believe I’ve said before

Bullies are everywhere. Even in Second Life. Why research bullying in a virtual online world? Funding for this project has come from the Dean of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Professor Christine Ennew, who describes bullying as a complex issue and one which perhaps hasn’t had the research attention it deserves. Professor Ennew said: “When …

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"Shipwrecked and abandoned"

This ties in nicely with the earlier post of my CBC column on virtual worlds: Warren Ellis searches for signs of life in Second Life. Lots of people have had lots to say about the recent hype surrounding Second Life, but very few have addressed the basic experience of the world — that you’re incredibly …

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From MUD to MOO to a whole Second Life

This week’s CBC Web column… *** The search for new worlds to visit isn’t confined to the crew of Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise, nor does it necessarily involve outer space. These days, you can find all the strange worlds you could ever want to visit right on your computer–worlds populated with other visitors from the …

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Whenever I think I might like to pop into Second Life again…

…I read something like this. There are no Utopias, online or off.