Communicating isn’t easy, but he’s found a way to connect through Second Life. UC Irvine anthropology professor Tom Boellstorff studied LaScala and hundreds of other disabled players in his ...

Most "Second Life" players do not take their virtual jobs seriously, and business-minded characters want to work for themselves, not for somebody else. "The players are going to do exactly that ...

The study led by doctoral student Nick Yee at Stanford University found that male "avatars," or three-dimensional representations of Second Life players, stood on average 7.7 feet away from each ...