UNCP in Second Life: New Media Center for the Study of Journalism and Mass Communication

New Media Center for the study of journalism and mass communication on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in the virtual world Second Life
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UNCP's virtual world campus includes an academic facility for the study of journalism and mass communication – the New Media Center.

Situated on the university's campus in the Dotoorak region of the southern continent mainland of the 3D virtual-reality Internet world Second Life, the New Media Center is designed to function as a pedagogical space with a wide array of mass media communications technologies at hand.

It's about the study of the new forms of 21st century digital media that bring together journalists, broadcasters, public relations professionals, educators, business persons, scientists, technology purveyors, and practitioners of the arts for human expression, communication, teaching and learning, and social interaction.

New Media is the convergence of Internet-mediated communications technologies via digital computers. In addition to 21st century electronic media forms, it includes the use of content from old media – books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television – in the new online environment.

Students and faculty meeting, working and studying in the virtual media center can be dispersed anywhere in the real world.

The New Media Center building is outfitted with:

• media players
• RL news feeds and tickers
• Twitter board
• social media links
• news media equipment
• reporter's tools
• conference and work tables with chairs
• computers with Internet, Web and email connections
• TV and live-video screens for streams of programs entering Second Life from real life broadcasters and other sources
• shared media, parcel media and prim media
• text, voice and video communication via Internet email and Skype telephone
• the latest presentation technologies and equipment
• quality voice chat for audible conversations in addition to the standard keyboarding
• informative documentation
• journalism, mass communication and new media textbooks
• great flexibility for quick changes of room setups for activities
• sandbox nearby for quick builds as well as more extensive construction projects
• free stylish clothing and other necessities for persons new to Second Life

SLURL is short for Second Life URL, a Web address. SLURL's are direct links from the Web to locations inside Second Life. The SLURL for the UNCP New Media Center is:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dotoorak/35/47/251

The UNCP sandbox – the Newbie Convenience Center & Rest Station – is at this SLURL:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Myungsimbogam/37/212/60

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• Second Life: PG vs. Mature »
  
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