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Using Social Image Sets to Explore Virtual Embodiment in Second Life® as Indicators of Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Learning

Using Social Image Sets to Explore Virtual Embodiment in Second Life® as Indicators of Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Learning

Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 32
ISBN13: 9781522575283|ISBN10: 1522575286|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587491|EISBN13: 9781522575290
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7528-3.ch007
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Shalin Hai-Jew. "Using Social Image Sets to Explore Virtual Embodiment in Second Life® as Indicators of Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Learning." Methods for Analyzing and Leveraging Online Learning Data, IGI Global, 2019, pp.135-166. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7528-3.ch007

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S. Hai-Jew (2019). Using Social Image Sets to Explore Virtual Embodiment in Second Life® as Indicators of Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Learning. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7528-3.ch007

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Shalin Hai-Jew. "Using Social Image Sets to Explore Virtual Embodiment in Second Life® as Indicators of Formal, Nonformal, and Informal Learning." In Methods for Analyzing and Leveraging Online Learning Data. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7528-3.ch007

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Abstract

Capturing Second Life® imagery sets from Yahoo's Flickr and Google Images enables indirect and backwards analysis (in a decontextualized way) to better understand the role of SL in people's virtual self-identities and online practices. Through manual bottom-up coding, based on grounded theory, such analyses can provide empirical-based understandings of how people are using SL for formal, nonformal, and informal learning. This chapter involves a review of the literature and then a light and iterated analysis of 1,550 randomly batch-downloaded screenshots from SL (including stills from machinima) to explore the potential of social image analysis to make inferences about human learning in SL in the present.

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