Event Recap: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more
Filed at 9:00 am on February 14, 2008 in Civic Engagement, Credibility, Games, Identity, Digital Divide • Leave a comment
On January 28, the MacArthur Foundation co-hosted its second event in a virtual world. The topic was ‘civil liberties and virtual worlds,’ featuring Jack Balkin of Yale Law School and Robin Harper of Linden Lab in conversation with Jonathan Fanton, President of the Foundation. USC and Global Kids co-hosted the event.
Thanks go out to Jack Balkin, professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School and Robin Harper, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development from Linden Lab for their participation. Thanks also to the Second Life community for their thoughtful and engaged questions and to Barry Joseph and Rik Panganiban from Global Kids and Doug Thomas from the Institute for Networked Culture for their participation and leadership.
Back in June, President Jonthan Fanton launched MacArthur’s examination of philanthropy in virtual worlds when he first hosted Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale. Our civil liberties event continues that examination, and we look forward to upcoming events which will shed additional light.
- TOP STATS:
- More than 200 avatars attended the event from the adult and teen grids from approximately sixteen countries. Over 100 additional people listened to the event live on the web.
- PARTICIPANT REVIEWS & ANALYSIS:
- Announcements and reviews of the event from around the web included Terranova, Mixed Realities, InKenzo, Massively, and Prokofy’s blog on Second Thoughts
- Pre-event analysis on this blog from co-organizers Doug Thomas and Barry Joseph
- TOP EVENT PRODUCTS:
- images: watch the slide show from Flickr here
- audio: listen to audio stream
- video: watch the video (large download)
- MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVES:
- Check out Global Kids’ multimedia archive of the event (includes pictures, chat log, and video coverage)
WHAT’S NEXT?
Watch this blog for details on the next event in MacArthur’s series on philanthropy in virtual worlds: MacArthur Program Officer Kathy Im will moderate a discussion on credibility and journalism.
Next: [Reblogged] John Palfrey: The MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning > >
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