the one-hundred-and-ninth episode of ventriloquy explores multiculturalism in Second Life.
the impetus for this, is the Lion City sim - a place which anyone with an interest in Singapore can visit to get a taste of the urban landscape of the tiny city-state which is my Real Life home.
i discuss just what constitutes 'home', laud the growing diversity of accents and voices that we encounter in our Second Life adventures, and elaborate on how i feel about the relative importance of realism with regards believability in learning environments.
please do join me in this 5.7 MB download :-)
Show notes:
- Imzadi (Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki)
- Gwyneth Llewelyn's 20 March 2005 blog entry (the internationalization of Second Life) Gwyn's Home
- Wagner James Au's 23 August 2006 blog entry (a brother-HUD of man) New World Notes
- origin of Singapura (thinkquest.org)
- Ivan Chew's 24 February blog entry (Setting up the Second Life "Singapore island" sim: Interview with Alvin) Rambling Librarian: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian
- Peranakan Corner, Hyperborea
- Fort Malaya, Tovadok II
- The Truman Show (wikipedia entry)
