I’ve wondered online before about the potential for politics, on online facilities like Second Life. I’ve now found, through the website of German Green MP Anna Lührmann what seems to be an official space for German politics on Second Life - very like a virtual version of the public noticeboard stands that are a feature of elections in some continental European countries, though not here in the UK.
I’m quite a novice myself in using Second Life, but if anyone knows anything similar for UK politics on SL, then I’d be very interested to know about it.
It has been wisely said that actually learning how to use SL is one of the main obstacles to its expansion, and my computer also seems to struggle somewhat to keep up - I think I read somewhere that the average SL avatar (character) uses the same amount of electricity a year as a Mexican citizen…
August 7th, 2007 at 11:55
I don’t know how it works for the UK, here in Italy there is not such a conventional and “public” place where all people go, but we have individual places bought by some famous politicians (for example the foreign Minister, Massimo D’Alema) with their own moneys or some places built by famous newspapers (for example Repubblica). But at present SL is used mostly as it was a kind of television. I think this is because SL is not so popular among people yet.
August 7th, 2007 at 13:07
If I live to be 1000 I will never understand why people choose to abandon real life for a poor virtual copy. I never got into Bored of the Rings either…
Isn’t real world politics, with its infinite nuances and dizzying cast of characters, enough?
August 7th, 2007 at 23:21
I guess some people say the same about blogs!