usc faculty seminar 3.11.2008
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Faculty Seminar on Virtual WorldsEpisode 4 - Behavior - 3/11/08
cory ondrejka - [email protected] williams - [email protected]
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what are people doing?
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this is an important discussion
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because...
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certain behaviors over-reported
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certain behaviors over-reported
“sex in second life”
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research gets duplicated
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research gets duplicated
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(uncritically duplicated)
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change happens
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change happens
“You are standing in the middle of a foreboding great room.” !=
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not to mention
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how does behavior here
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how does behavior here
impact life out here
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how does behavior here
impact life out here
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before we talk to the expert
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four stories that might help to provide context for why more
research is needed
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first, let’s talk about sex
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because everyone else wants to
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because everyone else wants to
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and everyone opines on how prevalent it is online
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or, in Second Life, for example:
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Information Week: 30%
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James Au: 5%
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Wired: “No one will know”
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we study sex in the real world
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and there are a host of questions about how avatars
impact real-world
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trust
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trust
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identity
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identity
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doesn’t this merit serious study?
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two, the new
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want to know a secret?
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a secret never before revealed?
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sometimes, when people are online they pretend to be
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a different gender
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ZOMG! Alert the President!
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“Mr. President, something freaky is going on...”
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hope he can keep us safe
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but, in all seriousness
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online community research has happened before...
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not to harp on this paper
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but, let us, it’ll be fun...
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(plus, it will let me mention Richard Bartle)
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this paper says:
“Results revealed that the majority of gamers (57%) had gender swapped their game character. This included over half of all males (54%) and
more than two-thirds of females (68%).”
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now, it’s not their fault that
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turned that into:
“Up to 70% of female players said they chose to use male identities
while inside internet games”
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which, in turn,
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further modified into:
“The study discovered that 68% of women who played computer games online have chosen male characters, often to ward off
unwanted attention from men or to gain the upper hand over
opponents.”
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leading to:
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Richard Bartle has traced through this nicely on his blog
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but it raises a host of points
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including storypropagation and accuracy
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what impact this has on virtual world and game research in general
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but more importantly
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what about Nick Yee’s work
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or, for that matter, Richard’s
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online gender swapping has a long history of study
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how do their results fit into this history?
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which brings up the third point
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if this is true
“You are standing in the middle of a foreboding great room.” !=
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or this, actually
“You are standing in the middle of a foreboding great room.” ==
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how have behaviors changed
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(or not changed)
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as a result of differing representations
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it seems unlikely that
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text
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cartoons
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3d cartoons
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would have the same
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emotional
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cognitive
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community
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impact
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after all, no one would argue
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“Seals are killed for fur”
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would be nearly as impactful as
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which all impacts the most important question
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how does behavior here
impact life out here
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so, let me turn it over to Dmitri
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(sadly, don’t have Dmitri’s slides yet, so imagine a very compelling
talk inserted here)
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so, what’s next?
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march 25th:government,
national security,legal,and
regulatory issues
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stop talking now