You’ll Have to Get An Avatar. Sorry.
This latest video from Draxtor Despres covers a variety of topics related to the real world’s struggle against adoption of virtual worlds - and how the struggle is truly in vain.
A quote from Philip Rosedale sums it up best: “If you were in your working career around about 1998 or 1999 you had to get an email. You didn’t want to, but at that point you felt like the world would leave you behind. You’re all just eventually going to have to have an avatar, and some of you will still not really want to have one when you finally have to get one. But you will.”
Ethnography in Second Life - Resistance is Futile! - The Drax Files for May 2009: Dareth Denimore is a sociology student at Cambridge University in the UK. He just finished a survey on relationships in SL and in the process talked to over 200 avatars about their habits when it comes to relationships and..well, relations. Draxtor Despres, fresh back from the first ever virtual journalism summit at WSU in Pullman, WA, profiled this energetic young man. Watch for some Philip Rosedale hidden in this video as well…
May 8th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
A lot of people still don’t want email, but they’re stuck with it at work.