project idea

One component of my group’s definition of digital literacy included the idea that to be digitally literate means to have the ability to function and operate within a digital environment. A lot of people take this to a different level and actually “live” in a digital environment (like Second Life). For this project, I was thinking it might be interesting to compare the way these people live and communicate within this type of environment (an environment that attempts to create a virtual reality that so closely imitates the real world in economy, communication, relationships, etc.) to the way they conduct themselves in the real world. I’d like to look at the way people’s aliases differ from the way they look, act, etc. in real life. This sort of goes along with the other ideas mentioned about misrepresentation/identity in a digital environment.