New World Notes: New World Newsfeed

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

New World Newsfeed

Recent SL-related dispatches from the outside world...

- CBS News Video - New Life in Cyberspace
Competent and moving mainstream media profile of longtime friend Baccara Rhodes and Wilde Cunningham, profiled in New World Notes here and here, centering on their use of SL as therapy for real life illness/disability, featuring the people behind the avatar. Bonus new world media ethics query: Should the CBS reporters have disclosed that their parent corporation invested in an SL-centric company and has numerous branded locations in-world? The answer probably depends on whether SL is perceived as an exclusive walled garden, or an open network.

Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 04:23 PM in New World Newsfeed | Permalink

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