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Re: [xmca] Business in virtual worlds

I'd be very interested to see something in mca on telepresence and virtual world communication. I think articles on this tend to go elsewhere. On xmca I'd like to hear, if and when your time allows, Mike, your experiences and reflections on the effectiveness of virtual presence media for teaching/communication.
I have a collection of articles on some aspects of these issues. As to "classics", you might look at: 

Benedikt. Ed. Cyberspace: First Space. MIT Press. 1994.
M. Lombard & Ditton. The heart of it all: the concept of presence. online. 1997. updated version in press in new volume :
Lombard, M., & Jones, M. T. (in press). Defining presence. In F. Biocca, W.A. Ijsselsteijn, J. Freeman, & Lombard, M. (Editors), Immersed in Media I: Telepresence Theory, Measurement and 
Technology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
See also F. Biocca. 2003. Towards a more robust theory and measure of social presence. Presence (journal from ACM) 12(5): 456-480.
This work is pretty good about defining the basic issues and dimensions of co-presence for communicative purposes, but not specific to issues like teaching and learning in virtual media. I think some interesting things on that are coming from the current work of Constance Steinkuehler at Wisconsin, and of course from her former mentor, Jim Gee, now at Arizona State. 

JAY.

Jay Lemke
Professor
Educational Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
www.umich.edu/~jaylemke




On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Mike Cole wrote:


Donna, Michael, Bruce .......

As many of you know, I do a fair amount of lecturing and seminar
participation via internet video. In addition, for quite a while a few years 
ago, several colleagues and I conducted periodic joint courses where
students engaged in common research projects; the seminars were set up as 
quasi-structured discussions of theory and practice at the sites
interacting.
Now the issue of telepresence has appeared in my life again and I assume it 
is of interest to others. What do you consider key readings?
Is it clear to you why no articles on telepresence and whatever the relevant 
set of contrasting terms are, have appeared on xmca??
mike

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Donna Russell, Ph.D.
<russelldl@umkc.edu>wrote:


Hello all

This article describes a strike of IBM in Second Life.  Actually this
strike
was the topic of a presentation in a Second Life session at ISCAR. Bruce 
Robinson presented on his study of this strike.  During the session,
Michael
Evans presented on his study of telepresence in virtual worlds and I
presented on my use of CHAT to study virtual learning environments.
I am also interested in telepresence and how this impacts the development of advanced learning processes. I have looked into flow as an aspect of 
telepresence.
I am also interested in social issues games that are now being developed as as means to engage students and develop social and cultural awareness.
I would be interested in any information or insight from this group on a 
CHAT study of these environments.

Donna

Donna L. Russell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Learning Technologies
Educational Psychology
Curriculum and Instructional Leadership
School of Education
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, MO  64110

office: 816.235.2232
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cell:  314.210.6996.
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it."  --Albert Einstein


On 1/19/09 5:35 PM, "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi Richard--
Hi richard-
A fascinating day to be thinking about the internet and organizing, with 
MLK
on our minds and the promise of a wireless breakdown in DC tomorrow at 
the

height of a ceremony which owes a good deal to internet 2.0!!
Thanks for pointing out this article. Brings together a lot of important arguments, especially for those on XMCA interested in social movements 
and

CHAT, that are very worthwhile discussing.
Odd that no one responded among those for whom this is a special theme. 
Perhaps they needed a little more context.

By coincidence, I heard of an organization that is trying to take on
scientology,
which is very hard on its critics, using some of the tools and ideas in 
this

article..... which is a reminder that the value orientation of those

being
of those synchronizing and coordinating using these tools could give on 
pause for thought about its implications.

mike
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Richard Beach <rbeach@umn.edu> wrote:
Here's an interesting article in The Nation on how the Web as a tool may 
mediate "social change"

Social Movements 2.0: Harnessing the Power of the Web for Change,

Brendan

Smith and Tim Costello and Jeremy Brecher, The Nation.
<


http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/120406/social_movements_2.0%3A_harness

ing_the_power_of_the_web_for_change/?page=entire<

http://www.alternet.org/medi
aculture/120406/ social_movements_2.0%3A_harnessing_the_power_of_the_web_for_c 
hange/?page=entire>





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