NEW MEDIA STUDIES Backchannel ELI2008

Pathfinder Linden talk.



"...Mapping something you know onto something you are not sure about..." (half baked jot)

Two things happening at once in SL: The oddity of watching you type in SL as you type - recorded by Vidya.
How many conversations go on at the same time in SL, in terms of alienation and play?
Our avatars have body language indepedent of our actions.

1. User to user
2. User to the other's av
3. Other user to the first user's av
4. Avatar to avatar
   

Quite the epistemological framework!
(Question for discussion: how is this similar to real life?) (Bryan)

Bryan's favorite SL error this season:

Backchannel for NMC Regional Presentation, Fall 2006

Welcome, everyone!
-Bryan

I've never mediated PowerPoint before, this should be fun!
- Vidya