Searching, shopping, sightseeing: literacies in virtual lives
Venue: Infolit iSchool
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/149/171/21/
Thursday 18 March, UK time 8pm, Second Life Time: 1:00pm (see http://tinyurl.com/y8ghoer for times elsewhere)
This is an official event in the ESRC Festival of Social Science (ESRC is the UK’s funding council for social science research) – the only Festival event being held in SL!
Researchers in information and digital literacies Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL) and Dr Julia Davies (DrJoolz Smythe in SL) will talk about their research, with the emphasis on drawing out advice on more virtually literate approaches to everyday SL.
The session will be chaired by Professor Jackie Marsh, Head of Department in The School of Education, Sheffield University, UK (Jackie Darkstone in SL).
