Virtual Activism: RootsCamp Second Life
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
RootsCampSL started today on a fake hill in the virtual land of Second Life. A transcript of the gathering is available online.
I’m pretty new at the SL experience. We had to do some of this in the Sports Informatics class last spring, so my avatar — Old McDunnough — was still virtually living somewhere when [...]
by Kevin Makice
A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.
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RootsCampSL started today on a fake hill in the virtual land of Second Life. A transcript of the gathering is available online.
I’m pretty new at the SL experience. We had to do some of this in the Sports Informatics class last spring, so my avatar — Old McDunnough — was still virtually living somewhere when it came time for the 4p Eastern meeting. Will helped me get oriented, and fortunately there were a number of newbies like me sitting in the wrong direction, etc. We talked about how to run this week of SL camp, and then went into some gleeful reports from various corners. These are all grassroots political organizers; I’m not. RootsCamp aside, I’m more the write some essays kind of activism.
I doubt I’ll be able to make every meeting this week, what with grad school and a real-life version of this to plan (sans the Progressive focus). But I would like to hear about other experiences, if anyone else is going to sit in on an afternoon session.
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[...] I put up some more comments here, and I do plan to go back at some point, although probably not able to do so every day. For those more technically inclined (or people who just want an excuse to try Second Life), join the community. You will also need to download the desktop application to allow you to peer into that world. [...]