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Conference on children's lit to take place in Second Life
Conference on Literature in Virtual Worlds On August 4th, 2008, and again on August 6th ( Read more... ) -
Web broadcast: It’s a Small World: How Virtual Worlds Are Changing the Ways We Relate”
The Web broadcast of the MIT event I went to on Wednesday has been posted online ( Read more... ) -
More about access to virtual worlds + In which formats do blind readers get their books?
The AFB AccessWorld Extra just arrived in my inbox, and it included the results from a set of questions sent out in December regarding where blind readers get their books and in what formats they like to read. I am including that information here, but I also wanted to mention that the March issue will include an article titled ( Read more... ) -
Accessibility and democracy in Second Life
Kes: Note how the article on accessibility in Second Life unpacks assumptions about who is playing MMOs and thereby adding some more questions to the connection between online personae and identity, particularly in relation to feeling included within or excluded from communities. These questions are becoming more important as other sorts of social ( Read more... ) -
MIT: Virtual Worlds and the Future of Collective Action
Kes: I'm going, is anyone else interested ( Read more... ) -
Cory Doctorow book signing in Second Life
From Cory's announcement list:
On July 24, I'll be appearing in the online world Second Life to do a book signing/launch for my new novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. The Second Lifers have been conducting a contest to ( Read more... )