An Emergent Second Life?

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Former and current Media Studies students Bianca Ahmadi and Juan Rubio and faculty member Jason Pine have produced a television show in collaboration with Paper Tiger TV . The show focuses on identity in the virtual world, Second Life, and what it can tell us about identity in everyday experience. It suggests that self-designed experiences may enable us to articulate emergent identities for ourselves and for others. The program combines a live studio audience, videotaped testimonials of Second Life users who express profound personal investments while creating their avatars and environments, and experimental machinima (machine cinema) to evoke the experience of virtual self-design and world-building.   
   
The show airs on December 3, at 8:00 p.m. on Manhattan Neighborhood Network  (MNN), and at 3:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m., on Brooklyn Community Access TV  (BCAT).

The show’s producer and director is Bianca Ahmadi; associate producer, Juan Rubio; editor, Juan David Gonzalez; and content director, Jason Pine.



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