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So then we are settled! Some hybrid of the community based question!

Let's use this page to house our research ideas and beginning research model. It's midterms and this is a huge portion of our grade. I think we really need to start defining what we would like to address in this project.

Possible beginning ideas:
 * Virtual Economy and its place within the 3 step process of shock in the real world (as in how would a virtual economy shock effect the real world).
 * Second Life as a model for Free Culture (ability to capture content/make copies of content without permission).
 * Comparison of community building and anarchy within Fight Club and Second Life. **I personally like the idea of concentrating our research on something community related. Specifically (and I will have a post with some of my observations on this sometime soon) I have noticed two very different //types// of communities in SL: Those centered around friendship, roleplaying, chatting and such - and then those centered around selling goods, making money, etc. Might be something we can look at more in depth, such as how different communities develop in SL. ~LM //I also think this would be a great research topic. We could possibly work in the idea that modern American society has kind of lost its sense of community (like __Bowling Alone__) and the possibilty that SL has replaced conventional, face to face community for many Americans. --Clem//**
 * Political Appeals and their effectiveness within a virtual world.
 * Isolation and enclosure - the effects of those left outside SL communities on the SL world and the effects of the SL communities on themselves - would use Fight Club as a launching point.
 * Isonomia, Hierarchy, and Anarchy in Second Life - how do groups in second life choose their leadership (if any)?
 * Anything else kids?