A Treasure Trove of Information in an Unusual Place

The last couple of posts have dealt with virtual worlds. I mentioned one in particualar called "Second Life." Well, I was poking around and found, amazingly enough, an incredible research site there.

The project is the brain child of Aleks krotoski, a doctoral student at the University of Surrey. She is conducting research on the matrices of interaction online in the virtual world of Second Life, but she has also "built" a research library with links to 50 journals, research papers and web sites of serious research on Internet studies, Multi-user Gaming, and Computer Mediated Communication. I suspect that future posts in this blog will include downloads from this library.

It's also a lot more interesting than just a list of links. If you are a Second-Lifer, you can find the Social Simulation Research Lab at co-ordinates 188, 95, 23. To register for Second Life and download the software, go to SecondLife.com.