Ethnographic Research Proposal
October 10, 2008
“The Digital Disconnect”
Breakdown:
Using Second Life as a jumping off point i want to delve into the use of digital worlds as a form of escape. Ultimately I’m interested in how individuals navigate the divide between their organic world and their digital world.
When one escapes the hassles and stresses of a first life by choosing to spend one’s free-time in a second life what do they give up? What are points of conflict? Romantic relationships? Career? Friends? Family? Etc.
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it might be interesting and relevant to look at how the “divide” between organic and digital life is dissolved, or the other sorts of relationships that exist between the two. For example, how are work and play woven through each other in media design? How is intimacy changing as public space and publics are digitized? (think of the Intimacy of Strangers video short about the cell phone)…