jeden zajímavý mail z diskuse o korporativnosti Second Life probíhající na Empyre ML
Already the anthropology of Second Life is showing the great inequalities of
this new world in construction. The fact is that linden dollars cost actual
dollars, and you have to have a state-of-the art computer to access second
life. Anthro professors across the U.S. report that most anthro undergrads
have not heard of second life, and those who have heard of it either have
not accessed it or have only seldom accessed it.
Regarding digital art on second life, much advertisement is placed there by
the big corporations, as any of you may have noticed, but the shows of other
kinds are very expensive to set up, maybe except for music, since any
musician can attach his or her own music to the piece of land s/he owns (or
can't if, like me, doesn't own a piece of land).
Internet as a whole is freer and more accessible than second life; from my
point of view second life is a segregated, gated community, where money
talks louder than it does in the rest of the web.
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Cornell University/ Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan