users roles, cultural identity and open access in second life
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Users Cultural Identities, Roles and Open Access in Second Life. Presentation in ISSOME conference doctoral forum 24.8.2011.TRANSCRIPT
Users roles, cultural identity and open access in Second Life
Focus My research focuses on users cultural
identities, roles and Open Access activities impact in Second Life.
Themes: education, enterprises and entertainment.
Methods Text content analysis Qualitative visual content analysis Semiotic visual analysis Questionnaires Interviews
Cultural identity Cultural identity is fundamental symbol
of a persons existence. Culture in virtual worlds comprised of
people, and people are requirement for culture to exist.
Open Access in VWs Open Access in virtual worlds can be
interpreted as free access to virtual environments, free opportunity to create objects and to copy and share alike them further free.
Libre Access means cost free and permission free access.
Gratis access means just cost free.
A little bite of Virtual Worlds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GPcW2Q-b24&list=PLC505E316DB51834A&feature=plpp_play_all
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Anna-Kaisa Sjölund, PhD st. Hanna MeinsterUniversity of Turku, digital [email protected]