Identity+Second+Life+References

References

Boon, S., & Sinclair, C. (2009). A world I don't inhabit: Disquiet and identity in Second Life and Facebook. //Educational Media International, 46//(2), 99-110. doi:10.1080/09523980902933565

Brookey, R. A., & Cannon, K. L. (2009, June). Sex lives in Second Life. //Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26//(2), 145-164. doi:10.1080/‌15295030902860260

Shelton, Ashleigh K. (2010). Defining the lines between virtual and real world purchases: Second Life sells, but who’s buying?. //Computers in Human Behavior, 26//(6), 1223-1227. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.03.019

Spicoli, Susi. (2006, September 10). Introduction to Second Life (historical view) [Video file]. Retrieved from  [].

My research started off not as well as expected. I started off with many keywords using the quotations to find exactly what I was looking for. I realized that my search was actually too specific. I started to get rid of some of the words I thought did not matter as much in my search. I actually received no hits the first time I searched. I kept deleting words and still had zero hits. I decided to delete an entire row of information and received about 25 results. I made sure that I searched only scholarly results and found that there were many great articles. I found exactly what I was looking for but realized that keywords should not be too specific. I made sure that the words I were searching were actual words that related closely to my topic.

Keywords: Identity or character or self and "role playing" or virtual or 3D or "3 Dimensional" and "Second Life" or SL

My search was quite simple. I went to the Ebsco webite and typed in "identity and second life." The article I used was one of the first to come up. I read it and found it very interesting. When citing my sources correctly in APA, I went to Towson's library website and clicked "citing sources." I went to electronic sources and got the proper format on how to cite the article. I found this article to be successful because it was thorough and it was considered a scholarly article. It had a lot of information about Second Life and was good for someone like me who had no idea about what Second Life was before I read the article. I was very comfortable with the process and will probably use Ebsco again in other classes for any research papers.

I started my search using the words, "ident* and second life." I found that the first few results did not seem to be what I was looking for. I tried another search using the terms, " ident* or virtual ident* and virtual world or role playing." This search gave me very specific results closely related to my topic. Just to be sure that I didn't miss anything, I tried a third search. I used the terms, "identity or 'virtual ident*' and 'second life' or 'virtual world' or 'role play'." This did not improve my results. The article that I used was found in first options of the second and third search.