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1/12/07

Larry Johnson: Who’s Listening to the Avatars?

Recent online conversations revealed a great disparity of perceptions on questions of identity, credibility, and civic engagement between those who have spent time in virtual worlds, and those who haven’t. Is it right to reject virtual worlds as irrelevant before exploring them?

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