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• 02.11.09
  Mormon Avatars, the Super Bowl, and Second Life Education in Virtual Worlds, Identity and Expression, Second Life | (0)

  Avatars are heating up. The recent Super Bowl featured an avatar-focused commercial for Coca-Cola which proved that avatars are approaching mainstream consciousness. (And also implies that it's only when you log off and stop living in an aimless fantasy that you'll meet the cute guy or gal "behind the avatar" - It's the Real Thing, no?) One angle to the role of the avatar as identity is how religion fits into the avatar practice. The Mormon Times recently took a look at this angle by asking the hard question: "Can an avatar be Mormom?" The answer seems self-evident: yes! Of course ...

  Tagged: avatar, identity, Molly Farmer, Mormon Times, Mormons, religion, Second Life
  

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