{"id":28,"date":"2006-10-07T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-01-20T18:20:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T23:20:45","slug":"stand-up-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/2006\/10\/07\/stand-up-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Up in Second Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticpenguin.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/10\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stand Up!&#8221; was the first public campaign that I&#8217;ve encountered in SL that takes an RL campaign, extending it into SL. Going to Midnight City one day to look for some hair (what a weird expression), a huge sign was floating over the huge fountain. (This fountain always reminds me of the sitcom &#8220;Friends&#8221; but somehow it is very intimidating, which keeps me away from sitting on its edge. Usually, I always like to splash water up in fountains, but certainly not this one.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 450px;height: 331px\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticpenguin.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/10\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sign was offering white wrist bands as a symbol of the global fight against poverty. On Oct. 15-16, clicking on the sign will apparently count towards an attempt for a Guinness World Record. Stand Up&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standagainstpoverty.org\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a> has more details on the campaign against poverty. I believe these kinds of campaigns are examples of offline elements entering SL and that interaction between offline and online makes SL just more than a place for 3D dating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stand Up!&#8221; was the first public campaign that I&#8217;ve encountered in SL that takes an RL campaign, extending it into SL. Going to Midnight City one day to look for some hair (what a weird expression), a huge sign was floating over the huge fountain. (This fountain always reminds me of the sitcom &#8220;Friends&#8221; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662],"tags":[4286,698,4285],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-worlds","tag-cyber-activism","tag-second-life","tag-stand-up"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yvettewohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}