Posts Tagged ‘obama’
Real Politics Made Virtual
If you take a look at the image to the left, you might imagine it’s the latest machinima for promoting something in Second Life®. After all, machinimas are getting better and better, and since virtual world sales (or shows; or events; or whatever) are definitely worth the expense to do a promotional video that looks awesome, you might be right. However, you’d be probably quite surprised to figure out that…
Obama becomes second President to use Second Life as a dissemination tool
I’ve failed to keep in touch with the cool things happening in Second Life®, and this one definitely was quite an encouraging one: US President Barack Obama, while on his state visit in Ghana, streamed his address to audiences in Second Life and Metaplace, something which for some reason failed to escape the watchful eyes of most of the mainstream media. Thankfully, we can rely on our faithful in-world journalists…
Obama brings RL discussion of politics to Second Life
In an excellent piece of work, in-world video reporter Draxtor Despres brings us the coverage of might be a beginning for RL politicians to seriously use Second Life® as a platform to bring together citizens around a topic and listen to them: The topic is the US’s possible forthcoming national healthcare policy; notice how eager Obama’s representatives in Second Life have embraced the virtual world technology to recreate a “talk at…
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