Me and Testy, Testy and me

So, my relationship with my avatar, Testy Outlander, has reached a whole new level. I realized this last week when I was in-world last week and my cell rang. It was an old friend, but before I picked up the call……I made sure that I/Testy was seated in a relaxed, comfortable, out-of-the-way place.
Pause.
What? I have [...]

Read Full Post »

Flow

My blog posts have been all-Hine-all-the-time this week, but I can’t help it. She inspires me!
Back to the spaces and places debate. Hine points out, rightly by how I see things, that  ”We can usefully think of the ethnography of mediated interaction as mobile rather than multi-sited” (p 64) and:
By focusing on sites, locales and places, we may [...]

Read Full Post »

Literature review

My Literature review is now complete, including an overview of four major factors I believe will heavily influence information seeking behaviors within Second Life:

Sociability: SL is social, it’s a virtual world where people love to connect
Active learning: experience is how people figure out new things in SL
User contributed content: SL residents are the architects of [...]

Read Full Post »

Theoretical framework for my project

Information seeking behavior theories + Online gaming theories + Library 2.0 = grounding framework for my research

I know this will evolve, but I just had to record this thought that came after many hours digging up sources for my literature review.

Read Full Post »