According to Burgess, cultural participation plays a major part in the foundation of mass video culture & networking or social sites. Drax's videos further affirms this idea by showing and visually explaining that second life lets users participate and discuss feelings thoughts and ideas about certain cultural, social, and economical situations happening in day to day life. The pressure of who you are, what class you relate with, what gender you belong to etc., doesn't matter in this "life". It becomes a means of communication among several masses surrounding the world, where users also get to experience parts of the world they are not familiar with.
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In addition to eliminating the “pressure of who you are”, I feel like the anonymity of second life also allows people to freely express their opinions with no fear of judgment.
ReplyDeleteI, however, only ever see people using secondlife as means of furthering their arguments in reallife, not to offer some subvert or eber preverted point of view their would not share in real life.
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