Almost Twenty Questions . . .

This post comes out of a swath of questions that came up during our group discussions. They representing our general interests and many of these ideas have and will become enlarged on the site.

After much consideration, a lot of pushing around and a some casual editorial sight of hand, I've narrowed our original ideas into several broad groupings:
Observations & Phenomenological, Story Telling & Memory, Ethics, Gender & Body, Identity and Economics.

Second Life

I was introduced to Second Life when we started working on this project during the spring 2009. I had read about Second Life and snapped up some bits of information about the virtual reality from mainstream media before we started. Logging on to Second Life and creating an avatar was a bit like and role-playing game. As I moved into the world I learned to find free stuff, got myself some hair some clothes and started making myself "a home".

Virtual or Real

I find it hard to understand what people mean when they say a virtual world. Do they mean the internet, because so many things on the internet are real. Maybe not physical, but real in the world. When I move my money from one account to the other, that is real. When I chat to people online through msn it is real, even if we don't meet in the physical world and the names we use are not our own names, and the stories we tell about ourselves are lies, the meeting is real.