ekral’s IPC411 class blog

Today in class we discussed the possibility of actually building a business on Secondlife.  The 7 topics that we decided on are: Furniture, Escort Service/Dating, Pool Bar/Swim up bar, Cloths, Drive-thru, Night Club, Art We then went on to do our own research about our businesses to further elaborate on our picks.

This past week I was on Second Life during class time. This was the time where my group was interviewing different people(avatars) numerous questions. I chose to teleport myself to different places so that I could achieve a wide range of social situations in which I could conduct the research. The diversity of the avatars […]

We talked about many things dealing with the nature of Second Life in the class period today. Chapter 3 discusses the pros and cons for considering SecondLife as self contained and to study it in its own terms. Focus groups about Second Life in SecondLife in its own environment. Actual events forming in SecondLife. There is a […]

Today in class we discussed the extent to which virtual reality and present and past times. Technology has become such an increasing phenomenon in our everyday lives. We went on to talk about how we established these traits from our past…such as playing dress up when I was a little girl. It embodies virtuality. It […]

Today in class we explored further into SecondLife. It was a little confusing at first because it is still pretty new to me…but after time I noticed that I could find out through exploration and trial and error. The first task I tried to complete was to find out how to get rid of the […]

I spent a little bit of time in Secondlife exploring what it was all about. I found out many different things that my avatar could do. Once I grasped how to move her around… I went about exploring other worlds and places that had people with same interests as myself. It was interesting to find […]