Second Life

Type

The Second life could be a simple online game. But it was beyond the horizon.
Literally, it was a "second life".

It is used for treatment helping abused children, disable children and autism patients.
Or amazingly it is used as a real class room for the college students.

Possible Cost - "PBS FRONTLINE, Growing Up Online"

Addition to the Online

Loss of true personna in the real world as opposed to second world

Extinction of communication between familiy

Victims of marketing

Possible Benefits

Rehabilitation - Treatment for the disabled, abused children and austim patients.

New space - new class room instead of real class room - "Campus life comes to second life"

Open Ended - Every body can join without any stigmatizaion.

Utilizing enormous source of people who are on line in a every corner of country -"HowObamaDidIt."

ex) Obama : 104,000 Texans joined its social networking donated $55M in a month

PBS , Growing up online

Growing teens are in front of online where they want to define themselves or they are forced to define themselves as the media's predestined set.

The interviw of one NYU professor impresses to me

"the media does not care about who they are or what they need but what the media want them to be to sell their products..."


At first glance, the teens seem to be a controller or main host of the online or mass media. But the this program warns that they are just main target of their marketing. And they could be a main victims of the mass media.