Examining Gender, Race and Body image in a Virtual World

In this in class exercise, I explored Second Life in different avatars.

I explored and teleported around various worlds in this avatar for a while.

While I was exploring I was able to chat/ socialize with different people/avatars.

I was surprise about how there were so many different people who actually meet through the virtual world. 

At first I was a white female. I went around some worlds and other avatars actually came up to me and started to chat.

I changed my avatar into a white male and I still had some conversation going on.

Lastly, I change my avatar to an african american female, and I did not get much feedback.

I am not sure whether it was the avatars or the different worlds I was in when chatting.

But the change in my avatar appearance seemed to have affected when I was socializing.

This is a screenshot of my avatar in the virtual world. There were some other avatars here.

I met an avatar and he started to chat with me. 

We did not chatting and I found out that he was from the Netherlands.

I teleported to another world where there were a lot of people. 

Tried mingling.

I changed my avatar into a white male and chatted some people.

Went to another world and used the mini map to navigate people.

This club had an active chat room.

I changed my avatar into a black female.

I tried chatting different people but I was ignored alot.

I tried editing the shape of my avatar.

Went to another world but was still ignored alot.