What is it about avatars that make them so addictive, and such a pleasure for us to shape, to consume products for, to create so that they are evocative and edgy and sexy and seductive and aesthetically appealing? As we mold our post-modern bodies with a guilty pleasure, embracing the contrasts of fantasy over reality [...]
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Gene vs. Pixel
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged avatars, beauty on December 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Go Virtual Presentation
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged avatars, identity, education, semiotics, govirtual07 on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Here are my slides – I wasn’t going to put them up because they’re a weaving together of a few other talks which are already on slideshare! Also they are designed to be viewed as double page spreads in the in-world book format. There is a paper based on the “play” section of the paper [...]
Go Virtual!
Posted in New Media Literacies, Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged academic life, avatars, conference talks, education, identity, publications on September 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Thanks to the wonderful Jokay, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the NSW Learnscope “Go Virtual” conference today. There were about 20 participants actually in Wollongong, where the conference was held physically, and another 30 or so participants attending from inside Second Life. Apart from a few technical issues (and these seem [...]
Creativity in Second Life: Educator’s Panel
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged avatars, conference talks, education, identity, NMC, presentations, slcreativity on August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The final panel session for the NMC’s Symposium on Creativity in Second Life was wonderful! Chaired by Alan Levine (CDB Barkley), it involved a diverse range of educators involved in Second Life, reflecting about the week’s sessions and creativity in SL in general. Educators included: Lori Bell (aka Lorelei Junot), Alliance Library System Jo Kay [...]
NMC Session: Creative Identity Play
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged avatars, beauty, education, fashion, feminism, identity, NMC, presentations, slcreativity, the body, visual literacy on August 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I presented my session about avatars and identity play in Second Life. It was more of a workshop than a presentation, and there were some wonderfully fascinating stories people shared about their avatars: why they created them and crafted them the way they did; what decisions they made about identity markers to include; how [...]
Simpsons Avatar
Posted in cyberculture, tagged avatars on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nice marketing ploy – create your own Simpsons avatar. Everybody wants one – and even though there isn’t an automatic way to embed, I’ve seen screenshots all over flickr, a flickr group dedicated to them and they’ve started filtering into my daily blog feeds. Aren’t memes fun!
Meez.com and the “Age of the Avatar”
Posted in cyberculture, tagged avatars on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
meez.com is an online community incorporating forums, private messaging, friends and basically a community targetting younger users (with defined spaces for 13-15 year olds). From the site: A Meez is your 3D I-D which you create and use to represent yourself everywhere you go on the Internet. You can personalize your Meez to look like [...]
Pleasure, Play, Participation and Promise: the audio to my conference talk
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged academic life, adolescents, art, avatars, conference talks, education, feminism, gaming, identity, linguistics, literacy, machinima, media, new literacies, new video, NMC, nmc2007, presentations, semiotics, the body, video games, visual literacy, youtube on June 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Thanks to the wonderful Alan Levine, I now have the audio recording to go with my NMC talk, here: Alan’s write-up of my talk is on the NMC blog here – thanks so much!
Postcards from Second Life
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged art, avatars, cross-media storytelling, identity on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
south beach strip club in Second Life, originally uploaded by amywilson. Amy Wilson’s (Freelunch’s) Postcards from Second Life is now available, and there will be a free signing of the book in Second Life on Saturday, June 2nd, 6pm PST at the Pooley Auditorium (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pooley/250/6/38). The book, a set of watercolors documenting the travels of [...]
Youth Online – almost there!
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged academic life, adolescents, avatars, blogging, children, education, fanfiction, feminism, gaming, identity, linguistics, literacy, new literacies, personal, publications, semiotics, SFL, television, the body, video games, visual literacy on May 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yay! Here is my final book cover!!! And here is one of the endorsements: How lovely of Len Unsworth to write such kind words.
My June Plans
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged academic life, avatars, conference talks, education, identity, new literacies, NMC on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have quite a busy schedule planned for June, with talks, presentations, panel discussions, and research network meetings. I will first be arriving in San Francisco where I’ll be meting up with colleagues to discuss some joint research project plans (and going to the Ghiradelli chocolate factory, let’s not forget!) Then its a very busy [...]
Proposed Book Cover Design
Posted in Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged academic life, adolescents, art, avatars, blogging, education, fanfiction, feminism, gaming, identity, linguistics, literacy, new literacies, personal, secondlife, semiotics, the body, visual literacy on April 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This is the proposed book cover design for my book!!! Yay!!! Finally its *almost* here. I am very excited now to be this close
I’m in Vogue!
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged avatars, fashion, identity, new literacies on April 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The May edition of Australian Vogue Magazine, that is… See the front cover headline there “Is your life better online?” – that’s the byline for an article called A Life Less Ordinary written by Cathrin Schaer. I don’t have permission to reproduce the article, but it begins thus: Imagine being given licence to completely reinvent [...]
Romanticism and Second Life Fashion
Posted in Second Life, tagged avatars, fashion, identity, semiotics, the body on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Having an avatar has made me much more aware of fashion, the fashioned body, and the relationship between fashion and identity. I think spaces like Second Life where the customisation of the avatar is a constant fascination (which drives the thriving fashion industry) prompt us to become more reflective about fashion and the body as [...]
You Only Live Twice: SL on Australian TV (again)
Posted in Second Life, cyberculture, tagged avatars, identity on March 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the full recording plus supplementary interviews from the recent Four Corners report about Second Life.
Second Life Media
Posted in Second Life, cyberculture, tagged avatars, identity, machinima, new video on March 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I don’t know when the buzz will die down a bit about Second Life, but it seems to be mainstream media’s hot new topic – here are a couple of news items: Virtual Worlds have Real Popularity Living Inside a Second Life Back to Indie media, there’s a fascinating new machinima series called My Second [...]
Fashion is an Art
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, avatars, secondlife on March 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve fallen in love with these “Devil-wears-Prada” fashionistas from the Second Life fashion house, “House of Lu” and their label: Paper Couture. Their work is a bit edgier than most of the popular SL fashion houses, and whoever is behind it has enough snarkiness to make them amusing. But their work consists of some lovely [...]
The Convergence of Web Culture and Video Conference
Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged academic life, adolescents, avatars, blogging, conference talks, education, fanfiction, identity, machinima, new literacies, new video, secondlife, youtube on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hey… this looks like a FAB conference!!!
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