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* virtual communities

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Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML

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Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML

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Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML Purveyor of Cool Sh**, ShakeWellBeforeUse.com

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Ariel Waldman Digital Anthropologist, VML Purveyor of Cool Sh**, ShakeWellBeforeUse.com Columnist, Engadget

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* omg, what’s going on!?

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* virtual reality

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* there has been a shift

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* there has been a shift virtual

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* there has been a shift virtual augmented

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“virtual communities form when people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships” - Rheingold

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* motivations

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* motivations intimate interaction

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* motivations intimate interaction

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* motivations intimate interaction storytelling

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* motivations intimate interaction storytelling

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* motivations intimate interaction storytelling

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* need to share

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* expression

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+ = need to share = personal expression

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need to share + expression = user generated content

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* 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

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* global microbrand

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* experiences

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* recipes

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* scripting

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* hactivism

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* sharing on a larger scale

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* global warming

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* virginia tech

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* understanding

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* users are the resource

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Philip Rosendale, Linden Labs * where we’ve been

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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

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200k online at any time

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* communities aren’t compartmentalized

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* user experience

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* wimps (window, icon, menu, pointing device )

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* wimps (window, icon, menu, pointing device ) * guis (graphical user interface ) * zuis (zoomable user interface )

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* biofeedback (to be determined )

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* acquaintances

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* personal expression

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* reactions

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* augmented reality

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* social technology

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* virtual communities