Manon of second life: Teaching in the virtual world

Technology and Culture

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 430-441

  Berger, Molly W ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 44349176883     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tech.0.0035     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. The number of Second Life residents is disputed. Commentators typically make a distinction between the number of people who have accounts and a more realistic number of people who continue to check in at least once a week after having been a member for over three months. See, for example, Henry Jenkins, "Notes from a New World: An Interview with Wagner James Au (Part Two)," http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/04/ interview_with_wagner_james_au_1.html (accessed 16 January 2008);
2. Stevenson Swanson, "Two Worlds Forge New Reality," Chicago Tribune, 1 April 2007, 3.
3. The concert, That Red Guy, was sponsored in partnership with Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, and OneCommunity and the New Media Consortium of Austin, Texas. It was performed live on 14 April 2007 at Cleveland's Masonic Auditorium and simulcast into three venues in Second Life. See http://www.redanorchestra.org (accessed 16 January 2008).
4. Robert K. Elder, "1.4 Million Get a Virtual Life," Chicago Tribune, 13 November 2006, 1.
5. Clay Risen, "Gaming the System - Is It Time for the Real Government to Step into the Virtual World?" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10 December 2006, H1.
6. Molly Moore, "French Politics in 3-D on Fantasy Web Site," Washington Post, 30 March 2007, A1.
7. Christine Lagorio, "Pepperdine in a Treehouse," New York Times, 7 January 2007.
8. Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen (New York, 1997);
9. Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (New York, 1996);
10. Paulina Borsook, Cyberselfish (New York, 2000);
11. William J. Mitchell, e-topia: "Urban life, Jim - but not as we know it" (Cambridge, Mass., 1999).
12. Turkle, 18.
13. Ibid., 14.
14. Julian Dibbell, My Tiny Life (New York, 1998).
15. Jared Bendis, "Developing Educational Virtual Worlds with Game Engines" (paper delivered to the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques), 8 August 2007, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1282040.1282068 (accessed 16 January 2008). See also http://www.jared-jared.com (accessed 16 January 2008).