Blog Entry: Stereotypes Through my field work in this class I have been surprised time and time again by how wrong some of my misconceptions of the virtual worlds were. Having never been a gamer, I must admit that I was one of the people who imagined permanently adolescent males alone in mom`s basement leveling [...]

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Blog Entry: Activism within Second Life One of the things that surprised me most about Second Life was the amount of personal interest groups that form in the world. I found groups for all kinds of hobbies and passions. There was a reggae group who discussed reggae, hip hop groups, but what I found most [...]

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A Day in the Life I get home from school at 5:00 p.m., excited about the prospect of playing a video game for my homework. I ask my begrudging roommate to let me use his computer for a few hours with the promise of a reconciliatory pint after to help heal his wounds caused by [...]

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The most significant obstacle of my second life field work has been the inconsistency of my four year old Dell Inspiron 1420 Laptop. Although the computer has served me well in the basic Microsoft Word world of an undergraduate anthropology student, it has not stood up to the processes of the live action MMOG. From [...]

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