In world, you can contact me, "wata
Klata", a.k.a. Bruce Edmonds (shown in the picture) or just drop
by. There is a list of interesting places in SL is available
here, places in SL to learn about SL.
You have to subscribe to use Second Life and install their software but
this is free. You can subscribe using this link.
Why Second Life is Interesting to Social Researchers
Several reasons:
It is real social interaction resulting in real communities,
furthermore these are (largely) new
real communities forming and developing.
As a contrasting case with respect to real life. Some
things (e.g. the strength of some social norms, topologies of
interaction, effective annonymity) are different in Second Life, as
compared to real life, so it is interesting to see how this results in
different social styles/forms/institutions.
For a sociological introduction to these issues see:
