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Pregnancy and birth in SL
by Khoisan Fisher Just a quick post, since I’ve little time to write extensively at the moment and since, in any…
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It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Your Avatar Is Doing?
The psychologist Jeremy Bailenson’s quest to prepare us for the coming virtual world (ILLUSTRATION: RAYGUN STUDIO) January 8, 2013 • By Bonnie Tsui…
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Avatar therapy: From couch to cyberspace
The author is listed as “Samantha Murphy is a counsellor and freelance writer based in Pennsylvania“. Psychotherapy in a virtual world…
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In online virtual worlds like Second Life, people are forming new kinds of relationships and living new kinds of lives outside bodies in entirely re-imagined selves
In online virtual worlds like Second Life, people are forming new kinds of relationships and living new kinds of lives…
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Study Shows Virtual Therapy Outperforms Real-World Shrinks
Could virtual worlds be used to provide therapy to those who lack access to a real-world practitioner? That’s the premise of…
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VIRTUAL PSYCHOLOGY: A second life for practice?
Research suggests that using avatars in therapy, business consulting and training may be as effective as their real-life counterparts, and…
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Second Life’s cloud move could lower land prices, hurt OpenSim
BY DAVID KARIUKI · SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 Second Life is moving its architecture to the cloud, Linden Lab announced last week, and that might…
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Grids try to find balance on child avies
BY DAVID KARIUKI · MARCH 28, 2018 Child avatars are a sensitive topic in virtual worlds. For some users, the presence…
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What GDPR means for our readers
BY MARIA KOROLOV · MAY 25, 2018 You might have noticed a flood of emails lately and website popups asking you to…
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