Sweedish Connection

I've been meeting with my group partners in SL lately, yesterday I met up with Maya from the UK and another girl from Pisa Italy. The one from Italy works on tuberculosis at her college and the other was working for her masters. We talked about social interaction in second life compared to skype. We also talked about some of the issues of SL including language barriers.
I couldn't give put in my presentation at the end though, I left for my next class 15 minutes early.

Introduction Research paper

Social interactions are the acts of two or more people who are both engaged towards each other. These acts or actions take on one set of similarities when carried out in person and another when two or more individuals are in a virtual environment. The social interactions have similarities between these two categories and also have individual benefits. Both the environments of Second Life(SL) and of everyday life have the necessity of social interaction in order to accopmlish task and humans have the need for social interaction in general. What advantages, disadvantages, and similarities are their with face to face interactions compared to interactions in SL?

Murrell Smith Research Paper
I. INTRODUCTION - What advantages and disadvantages are their with face to face
interactions compared to interactions in SL and other forms of
communication.
II. BODY – Pros,more confidence,can be in different locations,more people
can communicate at once,virtual expressions Cons, lack of detailed
facial expressions, can be awkward,
A. Advantages of SL social interaction
1. Confidence
a. more outgoing
b. less embarrassment
2. Brings people from different locations together
a. Easier to group up over internet
i. More people can be in discussion with chat in typing
b. Can have international groups meet efficiently
3. Virtual Expressions
a. Avatar movement
b. Can feel realistic
B. Advantages of face to face
1. Facial Expressions
a. Nuances of physcial communication
i.Genuine reactions
ii.Eye Contact
2. Can be less awkward than meeting online
3. Physical Contact
C. Compared with other forms of Communication
1. Feels much more in-person than voice only
2. SL is real time and IM, is faster than email
3. Headsets give perception reality
III. CONCLUSION
A. Analytical summary
1. Pros SL
2. Pros of in person
3. Pros of SL to alternative forms
B. Thesis reworded
C. Concluding statement

Research Question

What advantages and disadvantages are their with face to face interactions compared to interactions in SL.

INTRODUCTION
Art can be defined as illustrative or decorative material(dictionary.com). Based on this understanding of art, the virtual art in Second Life falls under printed art since it is pixelized. There is a wide variety of art in Second Life featuring contemporary art and representations of classic masterpieces. These virtual creations are commonly housed in galleries. Beautiful objects and textures that can be called art is part of what makes Second Life entertaining, but is also a topic of its own in the virtual art community. Second Life has many 2D and 3D forms of art such as print art and sculptures that can be found in galleries like the Blackwater, Dresden and Faith Maxwell galleries.

Introduction

Here in Warrensburg there are not that many things to do for fun and I usually run out when I'm not doing homework or working. What I need is a neverending experience full of things to do and explore that I can't do in my confined life right now. I'm twenty and too young yet to dance at the clubs here, so thats out. There arn't so many waves to ride in Missouri either. Outside this place, inside Second Life there is plenty to do though. Entertainment, agreeable occupation for the mind, Second Life fits this definition perfectly with so many things to do like dancing at clubs with real streaming music, catching a wave at Tropical Island Surfing, or driving bumper cars in the sky at Fruitopia Kingdom and the only way to start is to jump right in.

Peer Reveiw

Feb 5th 2009 Kyle and I just went over each others blogs, he said my punctuation was a little off around the second comma after "occupation for the mind". I reveiwed his and said that 2nd Life should be spelled out. Other than that he ended with a closer statement and I could too.