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What is the impact of virtual worlds on civic engagement? MIT researchers will study

By Bill Densmore - Posted on September 15th, 2007
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Brad Seawell of the MIT Communications Forum writes to note that a free public forum on Thurs., Sept. 20 launches a new center studying the relationship between emerging media and civic engagement. A key area of inquiry is how virtual worlds such as SecondLife affect civic engagement in the real world.
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Second Life in the Journal of Media Literacy
Submitted by Martin Rayala on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 16:02.

The new issue of the Journal of Media Literacy has a couple of articles that explore the implications for virtual communities like Second Life.
Check it out on my blog at http://MartinRayala.blogspot.com

Second Life - TRADE OFFs
Submitted by Rob Williams on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 17:42.

As a casual player in Second Life, Bill -

I see some promise and some peril there.

I hope that any SL-focused event will consider both.

Thanks for posting this!

Rob

Thanks for posting this event
Submitted by Colin Rhinesmith on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 21:00.

I'm currently enrolled in a course at Emerson College titled Hub2. The event at MIT is very relevant to our discussion of using Second Life as a potential tool for civic engagement. I've also posted this event announcement to our online course forum, so thanks for passing along this information.