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Users roles, cultural identity and open access in Second Life
Focus My research focuses on users cultural
identities, roles and Open Access activities impact in Second Life
Themes: education, enterprises and entertainment.
Methods Text content analysis Qualitative Visual Content analysis Questionnaires Interviews
Cultural identity Cultural identity is fundamental symbol
of a persons existence.
Culture in virtual worlds comprised of people, and people are requirement for culture to exist.
Open Access in VWs Open Access in virtual worlds can be
interpreted as free access to virtual environments, free opportunity to create objects, avatars, cultural products and services to copy and share alike them further free.
Libre Access is cost free and permission free access.
Gratis access is cost free.
Definition (draft) Virtual extensions for people, new
environments, part of augmented reality, which users can benefit in different areas (like education, entertainment, business) of life.”
