Creativity and New Media

Second Life displays a mashup of two different types of medias, social media and virtual reality. By combining both these things, this allows for the user to communicate with other users in a "realistic" approach. Shown here, is an avatar I created with Second Life. It allows me to interact with other individuals anywhere across the globe, visit places that I have never been, and allows me to become something that I can't in the real world.

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