UK Debate

In a debate organized by Ren Reynolds in the UK, the top themes were as follows:

- Identity

- Privacy / Security

- Violence / Obscenity

- Money / e-Currency

- Pervasive / always-on

Identity was seen as a possible frame that encompasses other issues.

Among the other topics brought up and discussed were:

- Profiling

- - Data ownership

- - Reputation and self-regulation

- - Digital Literacy

- - VW’s as part of an on-line / off-line self together with mySpace and numerous other sites

- Virtual Worlds as non-regulated zones

- Bullying

- VW’s as a ‘warped mirror’ of the physical

- - VW’s as a site where pre-existing issues are given primacy or an altered focus

- - VW’s as body spaces

- The potential of co-presence