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 [...]
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Go Virtual Presentation
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged avatars, education, govirtual07, identity, semiotics on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Rate My Dorm Room
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adolescents, facebook, identity on August 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From the article: Old media targets the facebook crowd comes this: …many traditional media companies are also seeking to capture the Facebook crowd. But one such “old” media company hoping to make big a youth push that might surprise you is E.W. Scripps (SSP), the newspaper publisher that also owns cable channels Food Network, DIY [...]
The Cross-Media Self
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged blogging, cross-media storytelling, facebook, identity, literacy, media, new literacies, new video, semiotics, twitter, youtube on August 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday when I added Andy Piper as a friend on Facebook, I flippantly said “now we’re friends everywhere” – since I knew him on Second Life, on Facebook, on twitter, on flickr, on his blog, and through his comments on my blog. He paused for a while, then replied with a wide ASCII grin: “friends [...]
Facebook: A Space to Play
Posted in cyberculture, tagged facebook, identity on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m now on facebook! Thanks to my friend Kate who I bumped into at the BlogHer Conference in Second Life, and who told me that you can play scrabble through facebook, I stopped resisting and joined up, and yes… now I am addicted! And enjoying a long distance one word a day game of scrabble. [...]
Nudes Descending- Interactive SL Art
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged art, arts, identity, photography, popular culture, the body on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gaza does it again – you might remember Gaza Stripped, an article from Slatenight magazine (now sadly on hiatus for the time being), where Gaza, pictured below, discussed her philosophy about real/virtual/pop art. Nude Descending is another play on an artistic icon, in which falling nude art pieces topple down a staircase, and if you [...]
Four Eyed Monsters – the full feature film on youtube
Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged cross-media storytelling, identity, media, new literacies, new video, popular culture, youtube on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In February I blogged about the innovative movie Four Eyed Monsters. Now the young producers have put the entire feature film on youtube, so here it is: I’m so excited to be able to watch this after missing out on it when it was shown in Second Life. I love it!
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 [...]
I’m Heading Off for June to Speak, Research, Speak, Plan more Research etc etc…
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged academic life, children's literature, cross-media storytelling, education, fanfiction, feminism, gaming, identity, linguistics, literacy, machinima, media, music, NMC, personal, popular culture, presentations, publications, semiotics, visual literacy, youtube on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The major speaking event I have is the featured session at the NMC Summer Conference. I was specifically invited to speak about a “bit of everything” related to my research, so here’s the slides that accompany the talk. I hope I can arrange an audio stream to support the slides for the near future. And [...]
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
Youtube’s Geriatric1927 Featured in “My Generation” Video
Posted in cyberculture, tagged identity, music, new video, youtube on April 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I love this! Earlier this week I watched Geriatric1927′s latest youtube video and he announced that he had been involved in this music video of the famous song, “My Generation”. In this version, a whole bunch of musical seniors have been used to create an amazing music video to raise awareness of aged care issues. [...]
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 [...]
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