Mark Warner Holds Event in Virtual World
September 1st, 2006
He seems to be the first candidate to hold an event in an online virtual community, in this case Second Life. A full-on town hall will follow in the Fall. Gimmicky? Yep. But I bet it’ll gin up some attention — already, a CNN team was covering it.
Update: Hotline On Call was there and has a nice write-up of an event that “might be mockable, but it’s path-breakingly mockable.” Money quote: “Then, suddenly, Warner turned gray, and then transformed on stage into a nude, buxom woman and flew off.” Now THAT’S political theatre, kids!
– cpd
Entry Filed under: Elections, Virtual Worlds
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1. rikomatic | September 4th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
I was at the event, took quite a bit of video too. Mark Warner’s avatar did not tranform ” into a nude, buxom woman” as you quote.
There’s a lot more interesting potential to using virtual worlds for political organizing and politicking. Choosing the cheap shot shows a lack of understanding of how virtual worlds are going to be a growing aspect of e-politics.
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