Beyond the Crystal Set

My article on Disability in Second Life was published in Eureka Street on 2 May 2007.
Subsequent to all the research I did, I’ve now discovered Jenna, another disabled user of Second Life. Jenna is disabled and shy, and likes many areas of new media interaction, “I love to explore and play video games, I love on line environments like chat [...]

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Teenagers can find isolation and fellow-angst sufferers in social networking. MySpace and its fellow travellers can allow teenagers to avoid having to talk to adults and have their insecurities shared. Lisa Mitchell wrote a fascinating piece for The Age on Monday 14 May 2007 which asked the question about whether it was really healthy for [...]

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