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August 14, 2009

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Shirley Williams

Is your SL avatar a projection of yourself?


I am currently reading Peter Bradwell's The Edgeless University, there is a lot of information in it and I'll write a review when I finish it. But today I was reading a sub-section entitled: Learning in an immaterial world, the opening sentence starts:
"Second Life, an immersive virtual world in which people control avatars (digital projections of themselves)..."

I wonder if people using Second Life actually see their avatar as a projection as themselves or something else. I've noticed that people new to Second Life describe what they did in a session, while as more experienced people talk about what their avatar did, so I think projection maynot be quite the right word.

Keywords: Digital identity, Edgeless University, LLL3D, Muvenation, mvn08, Second Life, SL, ThisIsMe

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    Depends what you mean by projection.  If I'd like it to look like I'd like to look given the chance, then probably yes.  If you mean if I consider it part of myself, then yes as it is because its me doing things and to pretend its not is taking disassociation to an interesting level.

    Richard. on Friday, 14 August 2009, 14:38 BST # |

  2. Your message appeared as if I had added the comment on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nelliemuller?v=feed&story_fbid=1331

    It appears you are using my ID to make these announcements on facebook.

    Any thoughts on how to stop this since it's not the first time?

     

    Warm wishes,

    Nellie Deutsch

    Nellie Deutsch on Friday, 14 August 2009, 17:23 BST # |

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    Nothing that I am doing to push to your account - are you pulling on things tagged mvn08?

    Shirley Williams on Friday, 14 August 2009, 17:29 BST # |

  4. Very interesting topic indeed. I wanted to write a comment but in the end it was soo long that I decided to post it. If you are interested you can read it here: http://aberriolo.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/on-avatars/

    Antonella Berriolo on Saturday, 15 August 2009, 10:25 BST # |

  5. An interesting and very much under discussed topic in any practical sense.  I also blogged about a recent change in identity

    http://eduworlds.org/virtual-worlds/second-life/deconstructi 

    Paul Sweeney on Thursday, 20 August 2009, 13:40 BST # |

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    Thanks Antonella and Paul you have raised issues I hadn't considered. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

     Shirley

    Shirley Williams on Thursday, 20 August 2009, 21:18 BST # |

  7. Shirley, I'was reading a post (in one of my favourite blogs) and I thought that may be you and your student would like to read it too. Full of interesting ideas.

     http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/08/29/am-i-me-the-voice-

    Antonella Berriolo on Sunday, 30 August 2009, 12:02 BST # |

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