2012

Projects from 2012

How do you define community and the role of the individual in it? What’s the difference between the community you chose in the virtual world of Second Life and real life communities? How does the notion of a global community work either inworld or in real life? If you were to travel abroad for your future studies, where would you go and why?

Here are the various ways our A&S Wired students have answered these questions as they explored, interviewed residents and researched about a particular site in Second Life.

Group Name	Group Participants	Region of Study and SLurl
Theotis (in honor of Beasley)	Asbeezy aka Bigpoppa42 HustlaDaRabbit iWhitewheat	JAPAN Japan Chubu 196, 86, 22 Moderate Maturity Rating
Focus of Study Initiation into a Samurai warrior clan
Purple Ducks	belle1406 bethanylynne13 cbrad2 imenaaa Mitchell Lin	EGYPT Moor 65, 211, 22 Moderate Maturity Rating
Focus of Study: Sim Use and Design (ancient vs. modern); how Egyptian politics in real life tie into what goes on in SL Egypt
Seychelles	aprilcpeace Arikatect Christina3071 Sarina Altenhofen	FRANCE Seychelles 90, 140, 22 General Maturity Rating
Focus of Study: public vs. private spaces in a virtual world region for social networking
Primeix	eviemarie63 damacy1 findingtheairport Hotrod97 Kahr82	SPAIN Virtual Spain 147, 23, 25 General Maturity Rating
Focus of Study: why people come back to a place focused on newcomers
Dee	RamenNoodlesx sophiaUKY sparknerd2010 VolpezLaRoux	ENGLAND, Isle of Dee DEE 252, 49, 61 Moderate Maturity Rating
Focus of Study: Sense of Community and How a Roleplay Community Functions
Bricksquad	xB3LIEVEinBLUEx Soccham UKfanTDAV	FRANCE3D FRANCE3D Sentu Novio 97, 57, 22 General Maturity Rating
Focus of Study: determine how FRANCE3D works as a cosmopolitan canopy