Peggy Sheehy on Body Image

Peggy Sheehy speaks as her avatar, Maggie Marat, about exploring identity in virtual spaces.

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Children's and Young People's Digital Literacies in Virtual Online Spaces Conference
19 June 2010 on Infolit iSchool, Second Life
Chaired by: Sheila Yoshikawa/ Sheila Webber
Funded by the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC).

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Maggie Marat (Peggy Sheehy outside SL), "I'm not good at Math but my avatar is".
http://web.mac.com/peggysheehy/MetaVersEd_/Welcome.html

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ESRC Seminar series

This research seminar series has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which is the funding body for social science research in the United Kingdom.
Information on the whole series (including presentations from previous seminars) is at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/digital-literacies/index.htm
Information on the ESRC is at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Peggy Sheehy
• Maggie Marat
• Knowclue
• education
• Second Life
• virtual worlds
• virtual envirtonments
• MMORPG
• MUVE
• Sheila Yoshikawa
• avatar
• identity