A New path of liberation : choosing to be disabled on Second Life

dc.contributor.author	Barry, Jamela	eng
dc.date.issued	2010	eng
dc.description.abstract	Virtual worlds are often seen as places where people can escape to because they take away real-life challenges, allowing people to achieve solidarity. Second Life empowers its disabled users through creating an atmosphere that allows them to interact with people similar to themselves. Second Life is full of communities that offer support, items, training and many other extras for people with disabilities. These communities do not discriminate or judge their members based on the visibility of their impairment.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Artifacts ; issue 04 (2010)	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6961	eng
dc.language	English	eng
dc.publisher	Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia	eng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity	University of Missouri-Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of English	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Artifacts ; issue 04 (2010)	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.source.uri	http://cwp.missouri.edu/artifacts/?p=85	eng
dc.subject	computer generated worlds	eng
dc.subject	virtual support communities	eng
dc.subject	avatars with disabilities	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Second Life (Game)	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	People with disabilities	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Avatars (Computer graphics)	eng
dc.title	A New path of liberation : choosing to be disabled on Second Life	eng
dc.type	Article	eng