My Thesis is Done

Finally my thesis is done and I am officially a Master of Communication.
Whatever that is supposed to mean.
But my research is uploaded and all is well in the world of my career at Kansas State. The real world may have some more problems though. I have returned from EGS and I am coming down from the Alps and settling into the Green Mountains -
here is the abstract -

This thesis examines the production of identity within post web 2.0 virtual communities. Second Life, the community which this study focuses on, is a growing home of educational institutions. To better understand the process of constructing identity and community in the hyper-mediated future, this thesis grapples with the complicated process of creating oneself through analyzing the avatar as self and the home as community. Identity appears to continue to be both a liberating and constraining force, and creating oneself is not as simple as buying a new skin. Through a self-reflexive post-colonial virtual ethnographic exploration of the thesis writers experiences in the virtual world, light will be shed on the ways that identity is being shaped in relation to race and gender.

As far as Second Life, I'm taking a bit of a break because it gets a bit addictive, but I am reading over a paper Samuel Weber one of my profs at school is writing about this general subject.

But I would like to do more with it in the near future - I really like the interactive Islands - Walking through history - with real recorded audio and such things - good stuff-

peace - love -justice -
entering the real world for a bit....