In my introduction to the list I described the report I co-authored with Rita J. King last year called "Digital Diplomacy: Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds," (Carnegie Council 2009) which explored the potential of virtual worlds for cultural relations and cultural diplomacy (sometimes called public diplomacy). The findings have in the past few months been presented to the White House, US Secretary of State and a series of other non-US cultural relations NGOs, civil societies and ministries. Here's a link: <a href="http://dancinginkproductions.com/projects/understanding-islam-through-virtual-worlds/">http://dancinginkproductions.com/projects/understanding-islam-through-virtual-worlds/</a><div>
<br></div><div><div>We blog and write about the uses of the space for cultural relations and digital work frequently.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Joshua S. Fouts<br>Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs;<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jo Kay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joannamkay@gmail.com">joannamkay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Sadly, I think the journalist responsible for that article is lazy and outta the loop. You'll find more than 100 examples of educational uses which have been or are currently being undertaken in Second Life at the moment via: <a href="http://wiki.jokaydia.com/page/Edu_SL" target="_blank">http://wiki.jokaydia.com/page/Edu_SL</a> <br>
<br>Regards,<br>Jo Kay<br>________________________________<br>Freelance Design, Virtual Worlds and Facilitation<br>Islands of jokaydia: <a href="http://jokaydia.com/" target="_blank">http://jokaydia.com</a><br>
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<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Andreas Schiffler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aschiffler@ferzkopp.net" target="_blank">aschiffler@ferzkopp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Ran across the article "Whatever happened to Second Life?"<br>
<a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1" target="_blank">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/354457/whatever-happened-to-second-life/1</a><br>
Quote: "Three years on, and Second Life seems no closer to finding a<br>
respectable reason for being than it did in 2006."<br>
<br>
In Slashdot comments, people are dropping for various reasons, from the<br>
lack of "combat physics" to the loss of being "free of all rules and<br>
social restrictions". As for myself, I never found it very compelling<br>
beyond the technical if its sheer scale and that it was cross-platform<br>
with functional Mac and Linux clients.<br>
<br>
My question to the list: Is anyone still using SL and if so for what?<br>
<br>
--Andreas<br>
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