Comments on: Second Life: Metanomics with Tom Boellstorff http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/03/second-life-metanomics-with-tom-boellstorff/ Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity. Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Prokofy Neva http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/03/second-life-metanomics-with-tom-boellstorff/comment-page-1/#comment-257880 Prokofy Neva Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:22:52 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=2707#comment-257880 I was sorry to miss this. Tom is great. What's interesting to me is that he sees a future of avatarization. It always seemed self-evident to me, but I have to say that much of the mass social media like Facebook and Twitter isn't about avatarization but about RL photos and sharing other content. Most people are socializing on Mobile and on those platforms and they are not in avatars as such, although one could argue that Twitter icons are a kind of avatar and people fussing with their pictures and status on FB are making a kind of avatar (but I think maybe that's stressing it, and in reality, they are making placeholders for their RL selves that are a kind of business card that you can then click on and take further. I keep wanting to bank on avatars in virtual worlds as separate spaces, but then keeping wondering if suddenly video is going to get better and faster and cheaper and even interactive/clickable so that it will replace avatarization... I was sorry to miss this. Tom is great. What’s interesting to me is that he sees a future of avatarization. It always seemed self-evident to me, but I have to say that much of the mass social media like Facebook and Twitter isn’t about avatarization but about RL photos and sharing other content. Most people are socializing on Mobile and on those platforms and they are not in avatars as such, although one could argue that Twitter icons are a kind of avatar and people fussing with their pictures and status on FB are making a kind of avatar (but I think maybe that’s stressing it, and in reality, they are making placeholders for their RL selves that are a kind of business card that you can then click on and take further.

I keep wanting to bank on avatars in virtual worlds as separate spaces, but then keeping wondering if suddenly video is going to get better and faster and cheaper and even interactive/clickable so that it will replace avatarization…

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]]> By: soror Nishi http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/03/second-life-metanomics-with-tom-boellstorff/comment-page-1/#comment-257315 soror Nishi Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:14:18 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=2707#comment-257315 Thanks to both of you, I wasn't able to attend in person, but thought the vid was inspiring. All the issues you discussed are fascinating and have been discussed back and forth in blogs over the years, and will continue to be. Great food for thought. Thanks to both of you, I wasn’t able to attend in person, but thought the vid was inspiring.

All the issues you discussed are fascinating and have been discussed back and forth in blogs over the years, and will continue to be.

Great food for thought.

]]> By: Tom Boellstorff http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2011/02/03/second-life-metanomics-with-tom-boellstorff/comment-page-1/#comment-257307 Tom Boellstorff Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:03:02 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=2707#comment-257307 Thanks so much for posting this. It was a truly wonderful discussion and such a treat for me... 18 more months still of being Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist... such an amazing learning experience for me but I really, really miss being able to spend more time in sl having just these kinds of experiences. So invite me again sometime... please? And do whatever you did to get that amazing audience too... Thanks so much for posting this. It was a truly wonderful discussion and such a treat for me… 18 more months still of being Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist… such an amazing learning experience for me but I really, really miss being able to spend more time in sl having just these kinds of experiences.

So invite me again sometime… please? And do whatever you did to get that amazing audience too…

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