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Ariel Waldman
October 19, 2011
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Keynote from Joint Technology Associations Conference (2007)
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October 19, 2011
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Transcript
* virtual communities
Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML
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Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML
Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML Purveyor of Cool Sh**, ShakeWellBeforeUse.com
Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML Purveyor of Cool Sh**, ShakeWellBeforeUse.com
Columnist, Engadget
* omg, what’s going on!?
* virtual reality
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* there has been a shift
* there has been a shift virtual
* there has been a shift virtual augmented
“virtual communities form when people carry on public discussions long
enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships” - Rheingold
* motivations
* motivations intimate interaction
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* motivations intimate interaction
* motivations intimate interaction storytelling
* motivations intimate interaction storytelling
* motivations intimate interaction storytelling
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* need to share
* expression
+ = need to share = personal expression
need to share + expression = user generated content
* user is the storyteller
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* user controls + creates
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* interactive listening
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* living, breathing virtual world
* global microbrand
* experiences
* recipes
* scripting
* hactivism
* sharing on a larger scale
* global warming
* virginia tech
* understanding
* users are the resource
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Philip Rosendale, Linden Labs * where we’ve been
alpha in 2002 beta in 2003
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october 2006 - 1 million accounts december 2006 - 2
million accounts january 2007 - 3 million accounts
200k online at any time
* communities aren’t compartmentalized
* user experience
* wimps (window, icon, menu, pointing device )
* wimps (window, icon, menu, pointing device ) * guis
(graphical user interface ) * zuis (zoomable user interface )
* biofeedback (to be determined )
* acquaintances
* personal expression
* reactions
* augmented reality
* social technology
* virtual communities