This place still looks like a construction site, but will have to leave the finer building details to later. Just reading Beth Kolko
"Building a World with words: The Narrative Reality of Virtual Environments" - turns out that aside all the usual babble of the political/culturally/pedagogically liberating possibilities of MOO space, she actually analyses the MOO environment from a rhetoric and narrative point of view. She makes a distinction between mapped and amorpheus virtual space (i.e. here the realistically rendered rooms and rooms intented to provide "a formless space" for interaction) which I like - and should be of use for ACLA paper. Btw, thanks to Frank and his illustriousFragment.nl (previously Webbah) site for providing me with the correct URL to Kolko's article - the link on her own homepage is 404. And it's like the zillioneth researcher homepage I've been visiting today that hasn't been updated since who-knows-when. Somehow it strikes me as a bit odd, that people who devote their entire academic life to researching online life can't be bothered to update their own vitae...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 18:00