11/5/15
Second life field trip
- Plush Nonprofit Commons
- Tour, MagicChair
- Multiple tours
- Flying to catch tour?
- Multiple people on a chair
- Links to outside non profit sites, free stuff (off and online)
- Solidity of walls and buildings versus being able to walk through other avatars
- Looks of worlds—why ivy in the nonprofit commons? How does the appearance and ecology relate to the purpose of the island? Are they disjunct?
- Is SL abandoned or are there too many islands/sprawl?
- Meeting with Tom’s graduate student
- Started with voice, but turned off
- Invite her back for class?
- Seems like they're continuing research on SL, grant for work
- Oahu Cinema Drive-In
- Vacation for pay, rent hut
- Allows for a private space, in a place where you can teleport anywhere
- How to cultivate and enforce social rules?
- Relaxation vs more functional use of nonprofit commons
- Is there a marker of language identity? Should we assume everyone speaks English
- Politicized places: Chinese activists who made the SL Great Wall
- National Shrine
- Purpose: to experience the sacrament when you can’t be there
- How to keep track of who visits?
- Not automatic
Virtual communities project
- How to establish/protect your own (researcher's) identity
- Private message
- Show description of project
- Show course listing
- Different collection methods
- Ok to ask users to talk outside of the virtual world, if the platform is too hectic
- Surveys are useful, but use other methods (interviews) too to figure out reasons behind answers
- Limit scope, MINI-ethnography
- Be as specific as possible while still interesting
- Is just observation ok if the researcher doesn't want to intrude on the community?
- What is private vs public information
- Ask the administrators or moderators of sites
- Some questions (not too sensitive ones) may be ok to ask
- Tinder/dating sites and deception
- Researcher could reveal self as researcher
- Meta research on how to do research on such platforms
- Not necessarily disingenuous to make a profile because it’s an open space, anyone can make a profile
- Ability to build rapport, especially in communities with set rules
- Interviews are helpful
- Online sociality, how do users interact and build rapport with each other?
- Being a beginner can be useful because that's how we learn the norms of a culture, e.g. the reading on medical school students
- How is membership is marked on profiles?
“Terms and Conditions May Apply” documentary
- What’s the alternative to using this technology?
- Interconnectedness of every site/profile with Facebook
- Victim blaming: is it the users’ fault? Is the onus on individuals?
- We have relationships with other people and companies, individuals cannot control everything that's out there about themselves
- Does reading the terms and conditions help?
- Stanford Law article
- Anonymity & the masses
- Data is aggregated and anonymous until someone is targeted
- Use of cookies
- Lots of data but easy to find with Ctrl F
- In China, misspelling words on purpose so as to not be so easily searchable
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Is the potential to prevent/stop crime great enough to invade everyone’s privacy?
- The problem with prevention—can’t say it will ever happen
- Is the terrorism/national security reasoning a cover?
- How many terrorists are actually caught?
- Don't we all have six degrees to a criminal?
- Slippery slope to business and profit interests
- China and US
- In China, one expects surveillance, versus here in the "land of free"
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