Law in Second Life and other online games
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In Dutch: Radio-interviews/reportages over Recht en MMORPG/Second
Life
- 3 Okotber 2006, Radio 1
reportage over Recht & Virtuele werelden
- 14 november 2006, Radio
5 interview over Recht & Virtuele werelden (samen met Marc
Schuilenburg)
- 25 november 2006, Radio
2 interview (Cappucino) Recht in de virtuele wereld
- 16 maart 2007, Wereldomroep
reportage over de wetteloosheid in
Second Life.
Classes in Second Life
After a class on online
dispute resolution (the first in VU University NL in Second
Life) on March 20 2007 a second class followed on May 1, 2007 about
international online contracting with Michael Deturbide (Dalhousie
University, Canada).
Impressions
from first class (on online dispute resolution) in Second
Life, March 20 2007, see also the Second
Life/MMORPG-page
On March 1 the Vrije Universiteit opened its virtual office, VU
University NL, in Second Life.
On March 22, 2007 I had the pleasure to be the first to lecture in the
virtual class room with a small group of app. 10 students.
The class was on 'Online Dispute Resolution', and lasted 90 minutes.
After a short introduction on the topic, we had discussions on e.g.,
enforcebility of rules (in the context of conflict prevention)
in virtual worlds such as the internet.
The transcript (with some parts missing) is in Dutch and can be found here
Some observations:
- Most students were on time, but I will give more precise
instructions in the future (some people had some difficulties to get to
the class room);
- It is also a good idea to share a list of place to teleport to
(if any), I did not and lost two attendees with the first teleport;
- I had prepared some text to cut/past into the chat, this is of
course quicker than typing (I might introduce voice in the future).
- The discussion became lively, with three or more students typing
at the same time. Advantage is that the discussion can evolve quick,
but it can be hard to structure the discussion.
- After a procedural interruption where I indicated that even in
dispute resolution with only 2 parties in case of chatthe discussion
can get mixed up, for a while students were looking if others were
typing and the discussion became more structured;\
- Maybe I will give turn, using my avatar to point to people, to
monitor the discussion but probably only if the discussion gets to
heated
- I left a message at an ingame Dispute resolution provider that I
would be at his office the next day with a law class, but he was not
there. In future classes I would like to involve both people I know IRL
(and are expert on the topic I am lecturing on), and ingame characters
that are relevant for the topic of the class
Any comment, suggestions are welcome, please send an e-mail
May 1, 2007 -
the international online contracting class I
gave with Michael Deturbide (Dalhousie University, Canada)
