J0anna's Academic Adventures...

A blog about knowledge, adventure & discovery! My research to date has explored areas such as representations of gender, performance & identity in online games & environments, & the use of virtual environments in education. I am currently a research associate @ the GNWC Masters of Digital Media program @ the Centre for Digital Media.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Sunday Reading

* Here's one of the recent Anonymous videos about protesting against Scientology online and offline.
The hacker group has been counting down to TODAY, Feb 10, for a big assault against the Scientology "cult". So I am sure there will be some major strikes online and off today. It will be interesting to see what happens and how the media responds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4yLnFMFM9g

* IBM expands business centre for India in 'Second Life'
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/IBM_expands_business_centre_for_India_in_Second_Life/articleshow/2738243.cms

* Cool new PicLens firefox add on lets you view pictures in a 3d side scroll reminiscent of the iphone's itunes browser
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579

* Social Media Information Flow
http://hq.andrewshuttleworth.com/hq/2008/02/social-media-on.html

* Loving your avatar: identity, immersion and empathy
http://warburton.typepad.com/liquidlearning/2008/01/loving-your-ava.html

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