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Food 4 Thought

As stated in my previous post I’m continuing to elaborate on findings from question four of our survey.There is one response I would like to elaborate on here. There are a lot of difficulties with cultural norms, though. For example, certain behaviors in one culture may be considered normal, while in another culture they are frowned on or even offensive. It’s interesting to discover these things, and I think it encourages people to reflect on their own behavior in ways that they may not have if they were only exposed to their local culture. It also helps to unite the world. Cultures used to be isolated, and communication only happened through politics or business. As the internet becomes cheaper and more pervasive, it shortens the distance between one culture and another. It quite literally brings them closer together so that they can see that the people of another culture are really not very different from the people of their own. It no longer becomes possible to hold biases about those people once you’ve made friends with them. This respondent raises the interesting issues of cultural norms and how there can [ READ MORE ]

Spring Cleaning a Little Early

Well this past week certainly has felt like spring (although today has returned to more winter like conditions) and that has been the subject of most of WorldPlay’s work for the past week. After our winter hiatus for the holidays, we now have the large responsibility of cleaning up the Wiki that we have set [ READ MORE ]

Interactions… Good, Bad, or Ugly?

The assignment for everyone here at WorldPlay over the past week has been to conduct some in depth analysis on one of our survey questions. The question is as follows: 4. In general terms, how do you feel about the ability to interact with players from other countries in virtual worlds? Do you view this as [ READ MORE ]

My Welcome to the Blog and Friday Update

Welcome to WorldPlay Research’s new blog. We’ve set up this blog in order to help everyone track the WorldPlay project’s progress and to share our findings to those who are interested. Each researcher will be posting several updates since over the course of the semester we will be branching out and working on different sections [ READ MORE ]

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