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Month: September, 2007

Travis Ross on Virtual Cultures

27 September, 2007 (19:37) | Synthetic Worlds | No comments

Fellow PhD student Travis Ross got to do a guest blog on Virtual Cultures today about Tacit Knowledge!
Click here and check it out.

World of Warcraft as Management Training

25 September, 2007 (14:18) | World of Warcraft, Synthetic Worlds | 1 comment

Mark Bell today proposed an idea to me which I’m going to try to persue in a more in depth sense for an upcoming panel discussion. We talked about World of Warcraft and its ability to train management skills through normal game play. Though here I will use the terms “manager” and “leader” interchangeably, I […]

Avatar Creation: Morning Ritual or Philosophy for the Future?

23 September, 2007 (20:47) | Avatar, Synthetic Worlds | 1 comment

Recently a fellow student at IU, Phoebe Elefante, made a statement that got me thinking. She said, quite simply: “I am my avatar.” This made me consider the implications of avatar creation, and how choices we make every day are much like avatar creation in games.
As an example of an avatar, the image bar […]