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Cala - Transgender in Second Life: Second Life is a Post-Gender environment - 0 views

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second life gender transgender

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  • Peiwen NM3225 on 22 Mar 09
     
    Second Life enables people to interact on an equal level with one another because discographies of the players are not made known to others.Hence,people's real identities are protected and they can truly express who they want to be in the game.
C C

Constructions & Reconstuctions of Self in Virtual Reality - 0 views

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  • unparalleled opportunity to play with one's identity and to "try out" new ones
  • All provide worlds for social interaction in a virtual space, worlds in which you can present yourself as a "character," in which you can be anonymous, in which you can play a role as close or as far away from your "real self" as you choose.
  • Engagement with computational technology facilitates a series of "second chances" for adults to work and rework unresolved personal issues and more generally, to think through questions about the nature of self, including questions about definitions of life, intentionality, and intelligence.
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  • what can be counted on as real in virtual space.
  • examine it, do something new with it, and revise her relationship towards it
  • not for escape but as a vehicle for engaging in a significant dialogue with important events and relationships in her "real" life
  • But of course, for most people such recreations of self are difficult. Virtual worlds provide environments for experiences that may be hard to come by in the real.
  • play with no concern that "he," Peter, will be held accountable in "real life" for his character's actions, quarrels, or relationships
  • possibilities the medium offers for projecting both conscious and unconscious aspects of the self
  • Identity, after all, literally means one. When we live through our electronic self-representations we have unlimited possibilities to be many. People become masters of self-presentation and self-creation. The very notion of an inner, "true self" is called into question.
  • game allows its players to experience rather than merely observe what it feels like to be the opposite gender or to have no gender at all
  • Virtual reality is not "real," but it has a relationship to the real. By being betwixt and between, it becomes a play space for thinking about the real world. It is an exemplary evocative object.
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