Thursday, December 04, 2014

Virtual worlds research: methodological issues: 9 December

Two research presentations and a discussion, taking place in Second Life. Date: 9 December 2014, Time: 12 noon Second Life time, (8pm UK time) see http://tinyurl.com/muua96f for times elsewhere (duration - 90 minutes)
Place: Infolit iSchool, Second Life http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/165/195/463

Sheila Webber (University of Sheffield Information School, Sheila Yoshikawa in Second Life) and Marshall Dozier (University of Edinburgh, Pancha Enzyme in Second Life) will present on Social, ethical, digital: issues in 3D worlds research
Evelyn McElhinney (Glasgow Caledonian University, Kali Pizarro in SL) will present on Qualitative research in Social virtual worlds.
There will then be a roundtable discussion with the speakers and Clara O'Shea (University of Edinburgh, Klara Otsuka in SL).

Infolit iSchool is in the virtual world Second Life. You need a SL avatar and the Second Life browser installed on your computer. Go to http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/134/47/22
Event is free, no registration required. Presentations will be in voice, discussion in text chat.

A Sheffield iSchool Centre for Information Literacy Research event

All welcome!

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