The virtual game Second Life is catching on in Europe in a big way. We talked about Second Life in past classes. It's a virtual environment, where you establish your avatar and your "second" life. It is very unlike the traditional video game. It would interesting to study the popularity of Second Life, and why might certain regions log on more than other regions. It's amazing to see 1.7 million users have logged on in the past 60 days. The website itself had 3.6 million visitors in March.
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This is really interesting. I would love to read something about cultural traits that made CMC environments more attractive for some but not others.
There is an interesting experiment with Second Life in academic conferences. The Association for Internet Research (Aoir) is going to create a space in Second Life so conference attendees can interact in this computer-medaited environment. Let's see if Second Life fits the culture of interaction in academia
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