Both Wendy Chun and Vernor Vinge’s presentations were excellent.
Chun’s talk was wide ranging: she talked about imagined communities (ala Benedict Anderson) and Open Source and Free Software, Habermas and the epistolary novel, the Hong Kong Bus Uncle, and much more. I never thought I’d see someone use a packet sniffer at an academic talk. Altogether, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'virtuality'
Virtual Citizenship Part II
December 10th, 2007 · No Comments · General
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Second Life
November 20th, 2007 · No Comments · General
I am puzzled by Second Life. I like the idea of a virtual environment and everything I’ve read about it is positively amazing. But I just can’t get the hang of it. I think my problem is that I don’t have any real objectives, nor any friends who use it to help me explore. I [...]
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