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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. Charlie Nesson , Founder Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, also reflects on the Clay Shirkey post and the description of the "one time look virus." avies' to stand around and chat. D) is to going.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. I think there are people who say “yes, there are people who have said I’ve changed my avatar green…&# One of the things with Dean’s campaign initially was that they had huge amounts of online activism but had problems turning that into real life work.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., to automate fast-food restaurants).

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