Article+Links

=Article Links:=


 * Bibliography Page. Has lots of great links to articles on identity and culture**

http://fragment.nl/resources/online_articles.html


 * Chandler**, Daniel (1998) Bibiography page. Has some interesting links on culture and identity.**Bibiography Link: Culture and Identity**[[Article Links|http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/biblio.html

environments** Stephen Webb
 * Avatarculture: Narrative, power and identity in virtual world

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[] Examined cross cultural engagement in Second Life, focusing on intercultural literacy Found participants used their avatar's appearance to construct shifting cultural identities (findings on page 110) []**
 * Diehl, W. C. and Prins, E. (2008). Unintended outcomes in second life: Intercultural literacy and cultural identity in a virtual world. Language and Intercultural Communication 8/2: 101-118**.
 * Douglass Laura. 2007.Contemplative Online Learning Environments. Journal of Education.

This article suggests the following regarding the creation of identity in a VLE
 * **online** students do not need a set **identity**. Students can fashion themselves as anyone because there is no physical reality for them to be tied to. Students may develop entirely false **identity**, or multiple identities. Students can develop profiles with pictures of their current self, or from five years earlier when they were younger and lighter. This dilemma has not yet been reported in higher education, but has certainly been looked at as socio-cultural phenomena in **online** community and chat rooms.
 * The question of **identity** in the **online** classroom raises similar issues for the traditional classroom: do we pressure students to create a specific **identity** for the classroom? Do we encourage a single visible **identity**, while encouraging other aspects of self to stay invisible? Acknowledging that students may have multiple identities, and inviting them to share those that are most relevant to the course work may be positive for both **online** and traditional classrooms.