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sue phillips

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  • discovered what a transsexual was and that I might well be one
  • impact of virtual worlds. Do they offer a more liberating experience than real life, or does anonymity bring out our worst instincts?
  • virtual world is becoming a uniquely comforting place for those who find reality challenging or hostile.
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  • the real-life me was overwhelmed with fear and self-doubt," he says.
  • what people do in the virtual space is feeding back into, and improving, their real lives. Political and social activism is also taking root in the virtual world, sparking hopes that it could change things in the real world.
    • sue phillips
       
      Is it really improving thier real lives?
  • significant new modality of human interaction," claims the website of Tom Boellstorff, an anthropologist at the University of California, Davis, who has been studying the impact of virtual worlds on relationships since 2004, via his avatar Tom Bukowski. "You'll see all kinds of expansions of virtual worlds into domains of human life that we can't predict," he adds.
  • ability to choose your own body
  • has "all kinds of implications", says Boellstorff, particularly for disabled people, who in Second Life can do the same things with their bodies as everyone else.
  • Second Life's potential for people with disabilities. "For me, the 'Aha!' moment was when I stumbled upon a [virtual] quadriplegics' meeting," she says. She found people there who were severely disabled in real life but able to walk or even fly in Second Life.
  • Transgender Resource Center (TRC),
    • sue phillips
       
      This group may have saved some from committing suicide, but is encouraging abnormal sexual behavior (from the Biblical view) morally acceptable?
  • geographic and social barriers disappear
  • people from around the world meet to discuss challenges facing humanity
    • sue phillips
       
      People may be more open to sharing their feelings authentically online, where no one really knows them, than they would be at a large meeting in person.
  • Second Life, together with Peggy Weil of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Their aim is to simulate what it is like to be detained without recourse to legal help. "You can bring home the idea of what it means to have your habeas corpus stripped," says de la Peña.
    • sue phillips
       
      Simulations of situations in the real world may give people emapthy and understanding for those who have actually experienced the situation.
  • simulations are "more powerful" than a library or museum, because they exist 24 hours a day, and anyone from around the world can enter, keeping issues alive even when they fall out of the public eye.
  • What exactly is the relationship between someone's real image and their virtual one?
  • the choice between fantasy and reality may reveal something about one's personality. Research by Nick Yee of Stanford University in California suggests that extroverts tend to use avatars to try out new identities, whereas introverts tend to create avatars that are extensions of their real selves.
  • requirement for you to build and continuously manage your online identity.
  • five scenarios best describes your online profile-digitally disguised: there is absolutely nothing about you on the web; digitally dissed: there is little on the web about you; digitally disastrous: there is much information about you on the web, but it has little relevance to what you want to express about yourself; digitally dabbling: there is some on-brand information on the web about you, and what is there is relevant to your personal brand; or digitally distinct: there are lots of results about you and most, if not all, reinforce your unique promise of value.
  • build an online reputation
    • sue phillips
       
      this article talks about working on your online identity almost from an advertizing viewpoint (your personal brand). You want to be able to find yourself in a Google search with losts of positive qualities.
  • Invest in a solid understanding of your strengths, goals and compelling personal brand attributes.
    • sue phillips
       
      This appears to be talking about your real life strengths, goals and attitudes about things- not a virtual reality.
  • cultivate a web presence
    • sue phillips
       
      by using blogs, creating a professional website, using networking sites and web-based communities to appear the way you want to look on a Google Search. Does this really show authenticity? Or are you becoming a salesman of your "good qualities"? It sounds more like slick advertising to me.
  • The effort to market yourself in an integrated, differentiating way demonstrates that you are a savvy marketer. By expanding your online presence, connecting it with your real-world visibility, you put yourself directly on the path to true career distinction.
    • sue phillips
       
      Sounds like a symbol broker to me
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    Some use avatars to escape reality and try out new personas (extroverts), others are extentions of their real selves (introverts).
triciameyer

Diigo and Christian leadership article - 8 views

Sue, I too usually print out articles and highlight and write in the margin. I agree that I may be convinced to read documents online since I can diigo them! Tricia suephillips wrote: > I foun...

sheadley

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture - 0 views

  • the formation of a transdenominational and transnational online Christian social network. First, it explores online Christian community
    • sheadley
       
      thanks for sharing this, Jeanette. this is helpful and could be a nice start to a lit review for TCC
  • 5loaves.net
sheadley

St Pixels: Website - 0 views

  • Imagine church with no cobwebs, wooden pews, hymn books, overhead projector, leaking roof, organ fund... or even church building. That's where you are right now. Welcome to St Pixels, the online church in 3D where you can meet others, talk about serious and not-so-serious stuff, discuss what you do and don't believe, go to regular services, and join a pioneering worldwide community. If you're new here and want to find out more, go to our Discover section. If you'd like to register and find out what it's like to join the St Pixels community, click here!. And if you have trouble registering, click here. For media enquiries, please click here. Pray as we can, not as we can't TimT offers us some questions about how we use different types of prayer here.Tim says..."If you're like me, the possibility of prayer spends a lot of its time buried somewhere under one of those heaps of clutter on the metaphorical desk of life. So how do we start to bring prayer a bit closer to the top of the heap?"Why not share with us your own experiences of trying to find an appropriate and realistic pattern of prayer for your everyday life. Let us know what you find helpful - or what you find difficult. Photography Competition StPixels is holding its First Photography Competition. This contest will run for 6 weeks; from September 5 through October 16.The six weekly competitions will feature a different theme each week, and the themes correspond to the six days of creation. So, the six themes are:Light and DarkSky and SeaGod's Green EarthSun, Moon, and StarsFish and BirdsGod's Creatures, Great and SmallFor complete details, please look here. Th
    • sheadley
       
      Here is an example of a "virtual church"
sheadley

EDFL675-HEADLE2: Authenticity online - 0 views

  • Ananthaswamy, A.
    • sheadley
       
      Sue, did you download a copy of this article and if so, could you send it on to me for a peek? Scot
sheadley

EDFL675-HEADLE2: Humility in the Culture of Technology - 0 views

  • “faddish technological endeavors.”
    • sheadley
       
      I must admit that I have been in this game so long that I no longer long for the har copies of student papers although I must admit I often print out dissertation proposals and mark them up by hand. Tradeoffs abound. I am confident that I would not have had the opportunity to work with most of the people in this course if we had not chosen to do this course online. ON the other hand, what fun and satisfaction would be found sitting around the seminar table on a cool fall Saturday morning with our coffee and scones, discussing the text and drawing our ideas up on the whiteboard.
    • djohnsto
       
      ...or the blackboard?
triciameyer

This is awesome! - 9 views

I can't wait to show this tool to my teachers. I have always felt a bit guilty about printing out articles and wasting all that paper. But, I felt that I had to in order to make them useful to me....

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