Word: interaction
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Unlike more conventional online networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, whose members are limited to mere profile pages, SL offers its subscribers an online world where their avatars, cartoon proxies for real-life people, interact, albeit online, in all the ways you and I interact in the real world. Among other things, SL has its own currency, the Linden dollar, which can be exchanged for American dollars...
...student-worker solidarity has been tremendously effective. We can use our unique position to send a clear message to Harvard: Students care about the way that workers are treated. We need to continue to demonstrate to the administration that the guards that keep us safe and with whom we interact daily are just as much a part of our community as our deans and professors, and we will not allow their demands for a better workplace to go ignored. As a university, Harvard can choose to be a microcosm reflecting society’s worst ills (oppression, discrimination, inequality...
...avatars, which are virtual character representations of themselves that can be anything from men and women to butterflies. Second Life is not a game so much as it is an “online community” because there is no specific goal or winner. Users are able to interact, create buildings, and buy land on the Second Life globe...
...obvious pitfall is that it risks replacing vertical, national boundaries with horizontal ones based on class and talent. Harvard graduates have long occupied distinguished places in American society, but they always remained unambiguously part of it. In their cities, factories, churches, and legislatures, they had little choice but to interact and cooperate with their less privileged countrymen. In the wars honored inside Memorial Hall and Memorial Church, they fought and died alongside everybody else...
...data revealed that students tend to interact with residential tutors in a casual social setting more frequently than in an academic advising context. It also indicated that students feel safe and secure in their Houses, but that they do not interact much with housemates outside their blocking group—possibly because of the physical structure of the Houses...