What do you guys think of the following quote from the jmir paper:
Throughout this paper we will use the term “nonvirtual world” to refer
to our corporeal existence instead of the term “real world.” The term
“real world” connotes that other worlds are not “real.” This creates a
psychological bias minimizing the “realness” of virtual worlds.
Should I call this laptop a nonvirtual laptop? Does calling it real
create a bias against the realness of virtual laptops?
Is this like implying that something is wrong with not being hear if
it is called "deaf" rather than hearing impaired? If a world is not
real, it is lacking something that a corporeal world has, right? Does
it deserve a bias?
Alicia
On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Sal Armoniac wrote:
To quote Dr. Gregory House: "everyone lies." ;)
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:18 PM, David Henn <[email protected]>
wrote:
This point may have been made already, since I've not read the
entire thread, so please forgive any redundancy. It may be useful to
remember that gender/age/identity certainty has been an issue since
before remote correspondence of any kind was invented, let alone
once couriers and mail were "invented." There are plenty of RL
individuals who cross-dress or otherwise disguise their true gender/
age/identity with significant success in face-to-face interactions.
In this respect, nothing new is introduced as far as gender/age/
identity certainty in e-mail, chat rooms, or virtual worlds except
for the degree of separation between the physical presences in RL
and/or the speed of communication, possibly believability in the
case of someone creating a photorealistic representation of his/her
assumed identity/av.
That said, I "know" plenty of people who play cross-gender 'toons on
WoW with varying reasons and degrees of role play from telling you
he/she is not really that gender the first time you meet them to
concealing it until it's discovered during a raid when the player
comes onto voice chat and the player makes no effort to disguise his/
her voice. Most of the time, no harm done.
Just sayin',
David
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:58 -0400, Sal Armoniac wrote:
If the girl is doing this to damage other girls, perhaps take
vengence on a friend who likes older men, or if she IMPERSONATES a
real 37 year old male, then she is acting unethically. Chat rooms,
however, are different from virtual worlds in subtle ways and VERY
different from real worlds. In chat rooms you often don't know the
gender of your comrades at all unless they reveal it to you. This
has been true even of email. Gender and age matter in
relationships in the real world. In the virtual world, it isn't an
issue unless it's extended beyond the playground.
Sarah
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