[MD] Inorganic, organic, social, intellectual,.... virtual

[Peter Corteen]

Marsha, you make me think you must be a real earth woman.

-Peter

2008/9/5 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>

> At 02:34 AM 9/5/2008, you wrote:
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>> Hi Arlo,
>>
>> you have obviously been around these virtual worlds for some time and you
>> raise some interesting points about the notion of identity. I'm still very
>> new to SL but I found that it's possible to change the avatars body, skin
>> and clothing in a few clicks which can be confusing for people who you met
>> previously with a different appearance so already I started to make an
>> avatar that looks close to the RL me (minus some wrinkles) as I feel
>> uneasy
>> about pretending to be something I am not. Having said that I will
>> probably
>> end up with a few accounts where I can project different, more idealised,
>> personna under a different SL name.
>>
>> Like in RL you will find people who want to deceive others for their own
>> ends. SL is a moral world and you have to work in order to enjoy it.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>
> Greetings Peter,
>
> Today in real life men are getting face lifts.  Instead of pretending, you
> too can be as pretty as Joan Rivers.
>
> Marsha
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>  2008/9/4 Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu>
>>
>> > [Krimel to Peter]
>> > If you are looking for a real "second life" you might consider World of
>> > Warcraft.
>> >
>> > [Arlo]
>> > May I suggest Cenarion Circle server-world? There you will meet a
>> helpful
>> > and kind shaman named Aenea (named after the heroine in Dan Simmons
>> Hyperion
>> > quadrilogy), who has attained the highest level currently possible in
>> her
>> > world, and who is now eying the depths of Serpentshrine Cavern.
>> >
>> > There are many papers examining "identity" and the ideas of
>> > representational avatars for various identity constructions. Even way
>> back
>> > before MMORPGs, researchers were looking at MUDs and MOOs as areas which
>> > problematized the notion of "one body, one identity". Indeed, the notion
>> of
>> > "identity" itself is fairly problematic, since even "IRL" we assume
>> > sometimes largely different identity roles. Which is "us"? One? All? Is
>> > there "one core identity" that rules them all? Sherrie Turkle's (now
>> > "ancient" by web standards) piece in Wired "Who am we?" (
>> > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/turkle.html) was one of the
>> first
>> > popular pieces to consider that "identity construction" is both a
>> socially
>> > negotiated process and a plurality of personae none of which could be
>> said
>> > to be "any more real" than any other.
>> >
>> > By the way, if you missed it here is a funny clip from The Office (US)
>> > where Dwight talks about his foray into Second Life (
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d_fqDcN1s).
>> >
>> >
>> >
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